Jacko still wacko over Sony

Michael Jackson is continuing his campaign against his record label Sony. After driving through London on an open top bus bad mouthing the major, he spent this weekend outside the company’s New York HQ campaigning against the label and its boss Tommy Mottola. Jackson is bitter about the poor(ish) record sales of his last album ‘Invincible’ which he puts down to bad marketing rather than the quality of the music on the record. Holding a sign with the slogan ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ (bearing a picture of Michael as the Good, one of Mottola as the Ugly, and one of Mottola with devil horns added as the Bad) he told fans “Mottola is mean. He's a racist and he's very, very, very devilish.” Sony point out the album had a global marketing spend of $25 million and record sales of around 6 million. Jackson responded: "The record companies really, really do conspire against artists. They steal. They cheat. They do whatever they can, especially to the black artists." Ironically Jackson probably does have a case for saying some record labels treat their artists badly, though many industry insiders feel a “multi-millionaire past his artistic prime” isn’t the best person to lead an anti-majors mission. Neither Jackson or Sony have made any official announcement regarding the artists future with the label.