What's Gone Wrong for Chlöe Bailey? (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In a preview of the latest episode of Pop Pantheon: All Access, Louie and Russ discuss the rollout for Chlöe Bailey's debut solo album, In Pieces, which debuted last week at #119 on the Billboard 200 selling just ten thousand copies. What happened? Why didn't Chlöe- who'd previously has success with her sister as part of Chlöe & Halle, was supported by a major label and co-signed by Beyoncé and is clearly a gifted and ambitious vocalist, writer and performer- connect as a solo artist? And what does this tell us about the state of pop stardom more broadly in 2023?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louis here, just dropping a little preview of our latest Patreon episode |
| 0:04.7 | in which Russ and I dig into what has happened with Chloe Bailey's solo career. |
| 0:10.3 | As many of you know, Chloe of Chloe and Halley fame has recently, for the last year or so, |
| 0:16.4 | been trying to roll out a solo album. |
| 0:18.8 | She has dropped numerous singles that have ultimately been scrapped from the album. |
| 0:22.8 | And this week, her album debuted at number 119, selling just 10,000 copies, a huge |
| 0:29.6 | underperformance for a record that was this anticipated from an established act who had the |
| 0:33.4 | support of Beyonce, a major label, a lot of promo, et cetera, et cetera. And I have a lot of |
| 0:40.9 | thoughts rattling around in the old Noggin about what went wrong here and how this particular |
| 0:46.6 | rollout and mode of pop stardom that Chloe is practicing might be out of date and is connected |
| 0:51.7 | to the struggles of other pop aspirants who are trying to get |
| 0:54.5 | careers off the ground. So this is a story about Chloe. This is a story about how pop stardom is functioning |
| 0:58.8 | more broadly right now and how she fits into that. And it was such a good convo. I really, |
| 1:04.2 | really enjoyed getting to work all of this out on Mike. So I wanted to include a little snippet |
| 1:10.2 | of it here. If you're a Pop Pantheon all access |
| 1:12.7 | subscriber, go listen to the whole 80 minute episode on our Pop Pantheon all access feed. And if you're not and you like this preview and you want to hear the rest of this episode plus tons of other bonus content, get access to our Discord, get access to the guest list at Gorgeous, Gorgeous, etc, etc. |
| 1:07.6 | You can subscribe at patreon.com |
| 1:09.6 | slash pop pantheon |
| 1:10.7 | or hit the link |
| 1:11.7 | in the show notes of this episode |
| 1:12.7 | and... get access to the guest list at gorgeous gorgeous, etc., etc. You can subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon |
| 1:29.3 | or hit the link in the show notes of this episode |
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