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Burke leaves Syco for RCA
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 14 June 2011
Former ‘X-Factor’ winner Alexandra Burke has reportedly switched allegiances within the Sony Music empire to RCA Records, away from Simon Cowell’s Syco.
Apparently it was already planned to make Burke’s second album a combined Syco/RCA release (in much the same way last year’s X man Matt Cardle is working with both the Syco and Columbia Records teams), but now Team Syco have seemingly stepped back from the Burke project completely, presumably to concentrate their efforts on rigging ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and screwing over Cheryl Cole.
We know all this for certain (well, not the concentrating on rigging ‘BGT’ and screwing over Cole bit, which we made up for hilarious comedy effect, have you stopped laughing yet? I mean the bit about Burke not working with Syco anymore. I’m glad this very long bracketed bit has cleared that up for you), because of that all important spokesperson on these matters: Alexandra’s brother David.
He apparently tweeted: “Really happy Alexandra has officially moved RCA records for new album era. Fingers crossed for progression and improved efficiency. I’d like to thank Syco for the part they played until this point, but pastures new was required for potential progression going forward”.
UPDATE 14 Jun 13.00: According to Burke’s publicist, the singer’s second album will be released as a joint venture between Syco and RCA, as originally planned.
