Speech Debelle To Quit Record Label
Published Wednesday, 25th November, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Speech Debelle is unhappy with her record label Big Dada, so plans to quit the company.
The rapper - who started the year off as an unknown - won this year's lucrative Mercury Music Prize for her debut album 'Speech Therapy'.
But according to Debelle, the label didn't distribute enough CDs to record shops at the time of the awards, meaning she sold less copies.
Having already sold 3,000 copies before the event, she has since sold just 10,000 in total.
"The Mercury Prize was on Tuesday, and on Friday there were no more physical albums in the shops," Speech explained
"So, on the Mercury weekend, which would have been my biggest selling weekend, people couldn't get it. I wasn't disappointed that it didn't sell well, I was disappointed in the people I was working with."
"I wasn't on a big label and the machine wasn't there. So even though the album won the Mercury, it was still only able to do what the label was capable of doing, which just means that I'm more prepared for next time."
Speech Debelle added that she has already had interest from other record labels.
