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What About Frank changed their name to The Parlor Mob before they were dropped from Atlantic. They have since signed with Roadrunner.

Monmouth County, NJ! Recognize!

Blood Brothers aren't a band anymore, so that cancels out the need for a label.

I'm assuming Shaggy falls into the Radiohead/White Stripes/Alkaline Trio category...right?

It breaks my heart to see Clipse struggling with their labels over and over again. Hell Hath No Fury was a great, GREAT album.

Paris Hilton gets dropped but Tila Tequila still has a label???

WHERE IS THE JUSTICE IN THIS CRAZY WORLD???

It took him 8 years since his last Gold record and a life sentence for living up to his name, but C-Murder finally got himself out of that pesky major-label deal.

@slowburn: Clipse mutually broke off their record deal with Jive, I think, because of all the problems surrounding the release of Hell Hath No Fury. I am pretty certain they have their own record label now (Re-Up Records) that has a major label distribution deal with someone, though I don't know who.

Airbourne is also on Roadrunner now.

@walkmasterflex: They're still distributing through Jive.

Mutual or not, it's sad to watch them having so much trouble and weak sales. They're fantastic.

Yeah, this list can't be anywhere near comprehensive (although I'm still really glad Hollywood Insider put it together). The casualties of the EMI/Capitol/Virgin shakeups alone would probably be a longer list, but probably most of the acts dropped, as with most of the acts signed in the first place, are people you never heard of and never got to release an album.

Dammit, that Amerie record is great and more people deserve to hear it. At least in three years she'll probably wind up putting out something good on Dap-Tone.

Since technically not all of these are "dropped", as in the bigwigs kicked 'em to the curb, it's a little hard to draw any conclusions from this list. It's more just "Artists who are no longer with their former labels" right? Moby & Warhols, for example, were they booted or are they just looking for new contracts? Cause even if their actual sales are disappointing those licensing fees have got to be pretty lucrative, no?

Yeah, Fischerspooner are releasing their stuff elsewhere- their latest single is out on Kitsuné.

Liz- dear Liz- is doing the score for Swingtown and working on record #6. I hope she gets picked up soon.

Bo Bice formed his own record label and recorded a fantastic album called "See the Light" in his own recording studio -- all his own orignal songs! The CD is a Walmart exclusive, downloads are available online everywhere. His music video "Witness" was #1 on VH1 Top 20 Countdown for three weeks, and he's putting together a tour now. So Bo is a Freebird, doing alright for himself!!

That was really thoughtful of Bo Bice to conveniently release his album at the same place his fanbase goes to buy spray cheese and stirrup stretch pants.

I think it's pretty clear that Nine Inch Nails chose not to renew with a major label. Had the label been able to gain Trent's cooperation, I bet NIN would be resigned. Not so much a dropped artist, then.

The most confusing thing about this list is that it Goldie was just dropped from a Major Label. I would have thought that that would have happened right after turning in the masters for SaturnzReturn.