Jackson blames label for album flops

Janet Jackson has blamed her old record label for disappointing sales of her last two albums.

The US singer's 20 Y.O. and Damita Jo LPs failed to rack up the usual million-selling sales figures that she had achieved in the past, and Jackson believes that their relative failure was due to the poor organisation of her old label Virgin.

She told Billboard: "Not to badmouth Virgin, 'cause it was my family for a very long time, but they kind of just lost touch.

"To only have support of the urban department and for [those two albums] to sell what they did, there's a lot to say for that."

Talking about working with Island Def Jam records on her forthcoming Discipline album, she said: "[At Island] they all come together, and one department knows what the other department is doing. You need that to really move forward. It's teamwork, and that's what Virgin lost."

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