{"id":2144192,"date":"2025-11-09T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2144192"},"modified":"2025-11-09T08:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:49:04","slug":"top-10-record-labels-that-destroyed-their-own-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/top-10-record-labels-that-destroyed-their-own-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Record Labels That Destroyed Their Own Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mKj6QNtvZxM?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Behind the hits and fame lies a darker side of the music industry&#8230; Join us as we explore record labels that sabotaged their own artists&#8217; careers! Our countdown features music legends from Prince to Kesha, whose creative visions were stifled, contracts exploited, and careers derailed by the very companies meant to support them. From Virgin Records&#8217; interference with XTC, to JoJo&#8217;s decade-long limbo with Blackground, to TLC&#8217;s bankruptcy despite generating millions, these stories reveal the music industry&#8217;s darkest practices. Some artists changed their names to break free, while others tragically lost their lives to the pressure. Did we miss any terrible label-artist fallouts? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Become a channel member to get access to special perks:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCaWd5_7JhbQBe4dknZhsHJg\/join<\/p>\n<p>Play our Daily Point Battles to earn MojoPoints and qualify for CASH BATTLES! Check it out: WatchMojo.com\/play<\/p>\n<p>Have your idea become a video!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/wmojo.com\/suggest<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for more great content!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/wmojo.com\/watchmojo-subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Visit our shop for awesome merch!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/shop.watchmojo.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Your trusted authority for Top 10 lists, reviews, tips and tricks, biographies, origins, and entertainment news<\/p>\n<p>#Music #RecordLabels ##TLC #FionaApple #JoJo #Exploitation #MusicIndustry #Artists #Contracts #Controversy<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mKj6QNtvZxM\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the hits and fame lies a darker side of the music industry&#8230; Join us as we explore record labels that sabotaged their own artists&#8217; careers! Our countdown features music legends from Prince to Kesha, whose creative visions were stifled, contracts exploited, and careers derailed by the very companies meant to support them. From Virgin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2144193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762678143_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144194,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144192\/revisions\/2144194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}