Name artists who have had five successive flops and kept their record deal.

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Thanks to @zeal for the inspiration.

I’ll go first.

The National.

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ooh these are usually a “bands you like” thread, this is a novel twist

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Define flop? Arguably REM from ‘Up’ onwards.

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Van Morrison.

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While I do enjoy Up a lot you could easily describe it as a flop, along with the four subsequent albums. They didn’t make another though so maybe they don’t count.

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Nailed it. Close the thread.

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Neil Young.

Bob Dylan.

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It’s off the back of Morrissey having a cancel culture moan, so feel free to interpret however you see fit.

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I’m assuming we’re talking about critical flops, I can’t see any band surviving successive commercial flops e.g. not my cup of tea but I can’t remember the last good review I saw for a Metallica album but they still sells shedloads.

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Neil only got five released on Geffen and was then let go. DENIED in that case, probably true for his later albums on Reprise.

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Hardwired got good reviews didn’t it?

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Bowie

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I’ll come back to you when the new Cure album is released…

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Prince
Morrissey

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Ringo Starr.

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Keeps switching labels. He’s not managed 4 on the same label yet.

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This is a really interesting one. First four albums went nowhere commercially. Hit his imperial phase then, didn’t make a duffer until Lovesexy but his albums still sold well up until Come. Almost everything after that was self-released or in one-off deals with labels. I’m going to not count this even though he comes incredibly close.

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The National - eh?

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Just done 5 in a row on Universal, so good shout :+1:

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You calling Lovesexy a duffer?

:thinking:

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