The label was quick to support Ciara, but the campaign took off to a rocky start: Her lead (“buzz”) single with 2 Chainz, “Sweat,” stalled upon arrival. The album utterly tanked on the charts, barely limping onto the Billboard Top 200 at #44, largely due to her label LaFace’s refusal to fund the project.Īs a result, she pleaded for release from her label in a candid letter on Facebook, eventually allowing her to jump ship and sign with LA Reid‘s Epic Records - the man who originally signed her to LaFace. Trouble first began to brew for Ciara immediately following the release of her last record, 2010’s Basic Instinct. Accidental album leaks by her own team.īut now, over a year later, the album is finally seeing the light of day - albeit with a new name, the vastly less SEO-friendly Ciara, and a refocused sound. In retrospect, One Woman Army would have made for a more fitting title for Ciara’s fifth studio album, considering the R&B-pop princess endured such a long and complicated uphill battle: Delays. Last June, Ciara held a listening party in New York for her upcoming album, One Woman Army, due in October of 2012.
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