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** Turned up to eleven in mid-2011: they sued him for turning in the final tracks for ''Emotional Traffic'' (the last album in his contract) ''too soon'' because they thought it was a "transparent attempt" to get out of his record deal. [http://www.billboard.com/news/tim-mcgraw-files-countersuit-against-record-1005199312.story#/news/tim-mcgraw-files-countersuit-against-record-1005199312.story He countersued.] And won. And once ''Emotional Traffic'' is out, he's [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|free to go to another label]].
** LeAnn Rimes got hit with this in 2010 when her proposed covers album ''Lady & Gentlemen''. After its lead-off single tanked, Curb tried to salvage it by releasing not one, but two non-cover songs. Both flopped, but [[Averted Trope|she got the album out in 2011, with the non-covers relegated to bonus tracks]].
** Curb was completely unable to market or promote their small cache of alternative country artists, as artists in that genre are concerned less with singles for country radio (which rarely plays them) and more with albums. This is especially shown with their handling of [[Hank Williams III]]. Notably, Curb refused to release not [[wikipedia:Hillbilly Joker|one]], [[wikipedia:Straight to Hell
* Lyric Street Records was also guilty of this to a lesser extent, pretty much ignoring any act not named [[Rascal Flatts]]. They also shed a huge amount of artists in 2004 (including Rushlow, Sonya Isaacs, Kevin Denney, Brian McComas, Deric Ruttan and Sawyer Brown, all of whom were only one or two singles into an album — in all but Rushlow and McComas' cases, the albums didn't even get released). They also had entire acts whom they didn't promote ''at all'', including Lisa Shaffer, Ragsdale and The Parks.
* MCA Records kicked William Lee Golden out of [[The Oak Ridge Boys]] in the late 1980s because they wanted the band to appeal to a younger audience, and they didn't think they could do that with someone whose beard reached his stomach. He was replaced by Steve Sanders, and Golden later rejoined.
* [[The Mars Volta]] sort of dealt with this on ''Frances The Mute'': They weren't expressly forbidden to make the "Cassandra Gemini" suite one [[Epic Rocking|thirty minute track]], but ''were'' told that if they did, they'd only be paid for an EP, since the album would only have five tracks (despite the fact that it was 76 minutes long). Thus, the CD version of the album has the piece separated into 8 tracks, with track breaks that don't even correspond with the five subtitles given on the tracklisting. The version sold by iTunes and other online retailers still has it formatted as one track though, as does the vinyl version of the album.
** Similarly, some long songs on [[King Crimson]]'s earlier albums have "sub-headings" in their titles; for example, "The Court of the Crimson King including The Return of the Fire Witch and The Dance of the Puppets". According to Robert Fripp:
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* [[Nellie Mc Kay]] suffered from executive meddling with her first record label. She wanted to record a double album, but the label insisted on a shorter release. She was eventually allowed to record a double album provided she fronted her own money for the production. She has since started her own record label.
* Avex, [[Ayumi Hamasaki]]'s record company, tried to force her to release a greatest hits album, which she felt was premature. They also played up the supposed rivalry between Ayu and [[Utada Hikaru]], in the interest of sales, which Ayu denied vehemently. She was none too pleased with the entire situation, as evidenced by her iconic choice of album art for [http://eneabba.net/ayu/disco/albums/04.A_Best.htm A BEST].
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