Bitter reality is hitting 2006 American Idol winner Taylor Hicks. Entertainment Weekly reports that the gray-haired singer has been dropped by his record label J Records, under which his eponymous major debut album was released back on December 12, 2006.
Hicks thus becomes the second former Idol winner to get pushed out from the company in the space of three weeks. Earlier, the label dismissed Idol's Season 2 champ Ruben Studdard after his third LP "The Return" turned out to post very slow sales numbers.
"Taylor is going to record his next album on his own," a label spokesperson told Entertainment Weekly. "He is no longer on the J Records roster."
Hicks, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, was crowned the fifth winner of American Idol show on May 24, 2006 with over 63.4 million votes cast in total. His self-titled debut record has sold about 700,000 copies to date.
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