Aww. I guess her label wasn't impressed with what she had recorded for her third album and decided to "part ways".

Oh well. C'est la vie and another label for ms Donaghy!

This was to be expected. 'Her' sound isn't too far removed from other acts but her label marketed her all wrong.

Can't say I'm sad to her about it.

What took them so long?
This isn't surprising to me, unlike Mutya where I never expected her to be dropped after two Top 10 singles and a Gold certified album.

Plus there's the whole thing that Mutya's album was basically shit.

It's been said before but Ghosts' failure is perhaps the biggest Popinjustice of all time, and I do hope Siobhan doesn't throw in the towel and swan back into a chorus line somewhere. I sense she's got this massive pop album in her somewhere and just needed to get an Odd album out of her system - though the odder moments are my favourite on Ghosts, so I would follow this woman into war either path she takes (bar Rent).

It's a shame, but then I've not been too impressed with Parlophone lately...

Unsurprised in the slightest but I'm hoping that the indie labels will be sensible and sign her to a good contract without too much worry about her sales. "Ghosts" has only gotten better and better as I've listened to it, and I sense that she still does have incredible untapped potential as a pop artist… it's a shame she hasn't sold, because her album was brilliant.

It's a shame she doesn't have the same capital to trade on as Tracey Thorn, who's also signed with EMI and whose album I think of as vaguely similar to Siobhan's- Out of the Woods did slightly better than Ghosts with no promotion (a clause Thorn stipulated in her contract) and Tracey's going to be kept on by EMI because of her success with Everything but the Girl. But that's neither here nor there.

In any event I really don't think of this as much of a setback. I'm sure she'll be picked up sooner rather than later and I'm hopeful that the label that she chooses to sign with are going to be more supportive of her than Parlophone. Perhaps Bella Union?

Least surprising news ever.

I like Siobhan, I like her a lot. Her music is good but is never going to have mass appeal, and Parlophone are screwed anyway. It was just never going to happen.

The fact she seems to be more enthusiastic and productive about DJ'ing and performing on stage was a slight hint as to where her future lies.

She could just go the route of Charlotte Hatherley and set up her own company and just put out her music that way.

Oh, meh! I'm upset about her being dropped because she is such a ground-breaking artist that she really doesn't deserve it but I'm not upset about her being dropped from Parlophone. It's all very well being signed to a major record company but it's pointless if they don't do her any good, which they didn't. I'm sure she will have other offers - I just hope she accepts them, doesn't give it up (no pun intended) and that album #3 isn't too many years away.

This was inevitable, and sincerely is a shame.

I don't see why Siobhan could never be a commercial success - as people have mentioned, some of the moodier tracks on Ghosts would have been perfect for soundtracks and there's no reason why radio wouldn't pick up on a track like Goldfish. There's definitely a market for Siobhan - she's just yet to find it.

Out of curiosity, how much did they both sell?

Exactly. I can understand that it was the opportunity of a lifetime, but still, when you got an album out you should work on that first and then move on to other projects. After the singles flopped it seemed like she totally gave up on this project and lost any faith in it, instead of working hard to get at least some minimum reward.
Promo is a big part of anything, especially nowadays. You can't just drop an album and think it'll sell based on good reviews and word-of-mouth.

Does look a bit like that doesn't it? Sorry.

Poor Siobhan.  I still listen to the majority of Ghosts all the time and it ranks up there as one of my most favourite albums.  It truly deserved better but if the label are only going to invest i one poster on the london tube then she can surely do better.  But yes, she also needs to tour and publicise her own work more.  I think she knew this was coming though and so shouldn't stop the work that she's doing on her 3rd album (i hope!)

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I knew this was going to happen, but it makes me feel really sad to read about it anyway. Siobhan is my favorite singer right now, I still listen to Ghosts and Revolution In Me a lot. I just hope she gets a new label, and release a thrid CD. I hope is not the end of her musical career, she has so much to offer.

It's quite funny to see how the talented Sugababes (by that i mean Siobhan and Mutya) get dropped form their labels, but the Sugababes keep selling records. I have to say I'm enjoying Girls, it's way better than About You Know. Still, you can't compare that to anything on Ghosts.