Because A Lot Of You Have Been Asking
Filed under: Personally Perez
Yes, we are thrilled that Leona Lewis is doing so well in America.
She has a #1 song with Bleeding Love and we can say….."We called it way back in 2006!"
Leona's success is also very bittersweet for us because, as many of you have noticed, we haven't been writing about her. Nor will we mention her any time soon.
We also have several other artists that are "dead to us." They include: Tori Amos, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, The Gossip, Adele, Lil' Mama, Pink, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Whitney Houston and more. These are some of our favorite musicians. It really, truly pains us not to talk about them. But, it is something we HAVE to do!
Why????
Because Zomba, which is owned by Sony BMG, is suing us and we had a lightbulb go off recently: we can't support any artist signed to Sony BMG.
Why should we help the company suing us make money???? Especially when their lawsuit is personal!
Sony BMG, and their labels Zomba and Jive, are suing us for streaming several songs that turned out to be by Britney Spears.
When these songs first leaked, there was a lot of doubt as to whether they were Britney or a fake. Plus, we never made any music downloadable.
Every time we saw a take-down notice from the R.I.A.A., we complied immediately. By the way, no one at Sony BMG ever contacted us about Britney.
Also, every song we posted - not knowing if it was or wasn't an authentic Spears song - had already been all over the internet and fansites, yet PerezHilton.com is the only entity being sued by Sony BMG.
That's just not right! And, what's even worse are the outrageous demands Sony BMG are making in order to get them to settle this lawsuit and have this case dropped. We don't wanna get into specifics, as this hasn't all been resolved yet.
Sony BMG may win this battle, but at the end of the day we will be the ones laughing.
We KNOW that our support can help their artists, some of our favorites, immensely. We hope alienating us was worth it for Sony BMG!
Every other label out there wants to have us as a friend. It really makes us question the business practices of Sony BMG that they would rather have Perez as an enemy.
Their loss!
And, though we may never write about Leona again, we still love her. Always will. Same for Xtina. And J Lo. And Adele. And Ditto.
Our heart is sad.
[Image via WENN.]
Shouldn't that mean you boycott Zomba artists, not Sony BMG artists???
Re: white power –
and youre white trash so it sucks to be you too. whats your point? no one wants to be like you either. id rather be black or chinese than white trash. happy to be a spic tho
Re: Tony Leake – WOW. IT REALLY AMAZES ME HOW MUCH PEOPLE HATE SOMEONE, AND TO ACT REALLY GROWN UP…HOW THEY POST IT ON YOUR WEBPAGE…FUNNY…..LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE ELSE NEEDS TO GROW UP. PEREZ…MET YOU IN AUSTIN. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU DO!
Ok…im sorry but as im reading some of your comments, WTF! some of you who feel the need to bash perez, umm HELLO, you are on his website…which in my book, YOU ARE SUPPORTING HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GROW THE HELL UP PEOPLE….
Thanks Perez for everything!
SOLIDARITY with Perez!!
Italy loves you!
there's a banner promoting her on the next page???
BULLSHIT ! ! ! !
We all told you not to post the songs, but you did because you wanted to harm Britney, so stop this BS that you won't report other acts.
So are you going to slag off Madonna's new video because JT is in it ?
Opps you fucked up again !
To all the people on here dissing Perez why the F*#k u on his website!
Piss off & get a life! No one cares what you say!
Leona Lewis ROCKS! but i totally understand that we wont be seeing her on here anymore!
Hmmm….in other words…time for a new gossip source. No celeb juice=no perezhilton.com
JUST TO LET YOU WHITE PEOPLE KNOW LEONA LEWIS,MARIAH CAREY,RIHANNA, CORRINE BAILEY RAE, HALLE BERRY THEY ARE ALL BLACK I KNOW YOU ALL WANT THEM TO BE WHITE, BUT JUST REMEMBER THE NEXT TIME YALL USE THE N WORD REMEMBER SOME OF THE ARTIST YOU LISTEN TO ARE AFRICAN AMERICAN. NO HARD FEEKINGS JUST SAYING GOD BLESS go OBAMA!
I'm usually indifferent about 'Perez and just get on here because I'm bored. However, it really is ridiculous that you are being sued. You actually helped her album sales and like you said…never made them available to download. They're really hurting themselves in the long run by going after you. There are so many artists that I now support after hearing them on your site. Have they not checked the iTunes sales the day after you post something? I may not agree with everything you say…but I definitely like a lot of the same music.
WTF is with these people who post comments that have nothing to do with the fucking article …Holy shit..the shit about obama and hilary, artists who put curling irons up their twat WTF is wrong with american people…. As for Perez I hope you win
You rock 
Karma Sucks doesn't it perez? You bagged Britney now you're losing her! AND OTHERS!
I quit buying ANYTHING Sony after their screwed up root kit feature on their cd`s! Pompous assholes think they can fuck up YOUR computer!
Love you perez, but maybe you should think about getting blanket licenses so this doesn't happen
DOES THIS MEAN NO MORE BRITNEY EITHER? …THIS SITE ISNT WORTH READING IF BRITNEY'S NOT ON IT…
ACTUALLY, THIS IS PROBABLY KARMA GETTING BACK ATCHA FOR BEING SO IMMENSELY DISRESPECTFUL TO ARTISTS (ESPECIALLY BRITNEY).
im horny.
Does this mean britney as well then? coz we havent had BS news for days…thats wot got me hooked on Perezhilton.com!!!