American Idol’s Jessica Sanchez: Debut Album Release Date “Probably in October”

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Those of you anxiously waiting the announcement of Jessica Sanchez’s record deal can stop fretting! The American Idol runner-up confirmed she is working on an album, and even spilled a tentative release date to the LA Examiner during last week’s Idol tour junket.

“We’ve been talking about the release date,” revealed Jessica about the album. And it will be “probably sometime in October.”

“Just been working on that,” Jennifer said about whether she’s begun work on her debut. “Listened to a couple of songs that we might cut soon…definitely be working on that while on tour.”

Jessica is not looking to collaborate with any producers/songwriters in particular. “Anybody who presents me with a good song,” she explained. “It could be a no name, somebody that’s never wrote a song before, and wrote an amazing song–a hit. And I’ll grab it!”

Watch Jessica’s interview below.

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  • Anonymous

    At least we know that she will release an album.

    I think the debate between “striking while the iron is hot” (e.g. Jordin) or “making it polished with time” (e.g. Casey James, Haley) is an interesting one, but I think that it would take a good SONG – may it be from a quick write or a long process – to really see long term success for Jessica. Some songs sting if they are released early (This Time) or the other way around (No Air) while some that are long term can be the same, so the key here is to find good songwriters to bring her a hit song. The likes of Haley can still reach long term success with time as her song I think is still charting in the HAC(?) so we can’t shut her down yet.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XY62PETGTXO3FFQXX45UKQ2O7M Steph

    Bo Bice? Nah. I’d say more like Allison Iraheta. Jessica will likely be Allison’d — the young girl with a voice the label has no clue what to do with. Allison’s debut was a complete disaster and she’s yet to recover (career wise) from it.

    And we all remember when Kat McPhee was going to be an urban music princess. That didn’t turn out well either.

    Interscope had better watch what they’re doing or Jessica’s launch could wind up being yet another Idol debacle.

  • Mateja Praznik

     Well, these days pretty much all Idol releases are debacles. I have little faith in 19R and their associated labels. They just don’t put enough effort and money into Idol albums and how no vision how to achieve commercial success.

  • Anonymous

    I think Jessica is in better career shape than Allison or Kat. She could do the r&b/pop songs that are popular and she’s a teen. That’s a good thing in Pop these days. However, the franchise needs to come up with a hit Pop single for her similiar to No Air for Jordin.  Let’s see if they can do it.

  • http://twitter.com/cocoloids Franco Carlo Buendia

    I just wish she’d do a collaboration with a popular artist like Bruno Mars or Nicki Minaj or someone, and I hope she gets with a catchy tune so that she could sell. Wishin her all the best.

  • alterego

    I’d say more like Allison Iraheta. Jessica will likely be Allison’d — the young girl with a voice the label has no clue what to do with. Allison’s debut was a complete disaster and she’s yet to recover (career wise) from it.

    Allison was also known to having a boring personality who wasn’t able to connect with her music.

    In as far as album sales of 2nd place finishers, Jessica is more along the lines of Diana DeGarmo, Justin Guarini.

    My take: the girl who will be the most successful will be Skylar.  I also think that Elise will have a long term career.

  • OffLeash

    If we look at Jimmy’s record with the Idols he personally signed so far, namely Pia and Haley, he’s kept them in the genre they performed on Idol. Same for the ones he shipped off to Mercury-Nashville, but those were a no brainer.
    We’ll see if Jimmy’s strategy changes with Jessica. It’s possible it will because if they’re in it to cash in on Idols fresh off the show like many of us believe, he’s also aware of how low her post Idol sales are. BTW, is it officially an album, not an EP she’s recording?

    As for the official label announcements, still nothing about P2′s deal. If they still don’t announce it this week, now that P2 is talking to the press again, I wonder if it means Jimmy and P2 aren’t agreeing yet on the direction of his album. We’ll see what this week brings, but they seem to be taking their sweet time, although I don’t remember when they announced the deals last year.

  • Garrett Clayman

    they released Kat McPhee’s album after Christmas and it sales were not up to par. every album since then has been released in the holiday season

  • fuzzywuzzy

    “(Has there ever been a really really great radio song on one of these
    quick-out-of-the-box Idol debut albums? I can’t think of one, but the
    overall gloom of it may be clouding my thinking…)…. ”

    If you don’t count the “coronation single” from earlier Idols, then “Miss Independent” from Kelly’s debut album was a great radio hit:

    “Miss Independent” performed strongly on the Billboard charts, and managed to peak at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. Moreover, the single came out at the time that the Billboard Hot 100 airplay was changing to include fewer top-40 stations, and more R&B and rhythmic
    stations. The single also did not have a commercial release on vinyl or
    CD-single forms to give it a boost on the charts. The single was
    released as a digital download. It charted and peaked at number two on
    the first ever digital download chart in July 2003.[4] The song was a smash on top-40 radio formats, and peaked at number one for six weeks on Top 40 Mainstream and an equal six weeks on the Top 40 Tracks

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Independent_%28Kelly_Clarkson_song%29

  • http://twitter.com/MissGolightly22 No Thanks

     Not sure what’s up with P2 and Jessica’s deal announcements.  The last time it took this long to get an announcement was Season 6.  The rumor was, they had a super hard time trying to find a label for Jordin within the Sony family until Jive stepped in (who was barely connected to Sony).

    We didn’t get her announcement until AUGUST.  And only after they announced her they announced Blake’s deal.

    So I don’t know what’s holding up P2′s deal.  Maybe they’re trying to find the right label for him within the Universal family?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PVEFG2TOUIXSROKUSO2O2DOWWE Taylor

    If we look at Jimmy’s record with the Idols he personally signed so far, namely Pia and Haley, he’s kept them in the genre they performed on Idol.

    Not really. Pia did a straight Pop song, which wasn’t anything like the big Diva ballads that she did on AI. Haley leaned more towards her jazz sound, wrote most of her songs and has a collab with B.O.B on her album.  

  • Anonymous

    So I don’t know what’s holding up P2′s deal. Maybe they’re trying to find the right label for him within the Universal family?

    Well, for branding purposes, Island/Mercury would make the most sense. 

    But it’s a different label group than Interscope/Geffen, and this would not be the first time that the label group that sponsored the show hung on to the artists regardless of the sense behind it (see: Crystal Bowersox going to Jive under RCA/Jive instead of Columbia). 

    I suspect that he’s staying on Interscope and they are waiting for Home to go gold so that they can put that in the press release (maybe they figure the tour will boost sales so that it gets there in a couple of weeks?). And of course, Sanchez should get her release out immediately after.

  • OffLeash

    Pia’s single sounds more like a Celine Dion “pop” song to me. And Haley did plenty of jazzy performances on Idol. Her album sound was no surprise to me.

  • OffLeash

    I suspect that he’s staying on Interscope and they are waiting for Home to go gold so that they can put that in the press release (maybe they figure the tour will boost sales so that it gets there in a couple of weeks?).

    I hadn’t thought of that. It would make sense. I think “Home”‘s total sales could be close to 470k this week, so we’re getting there.

  • Trina

     

    Has there ever been a really really great radio song on one of these quick-out-of-the-box Idol debut albums? I can’t think of one, but the
    overall gloom of it may be clouding my thinking.

    IMO “Tattoo” was a great song, perfect for Jordin’s age at the time, and ended up being a smash that eventually propelled more radio hits for Jordin. I’d also say Jesus Take The Wheel was a really good, well written song.

  • Anonymous

    I guess I was thinking if it took Jessica awhile to have a hit single, then there would be distance between her AI run and whatever success she might have.  But you’re probably right. Since she came in 2nd she is probably well known enough that she will be referred to as an AI runner-up for quite sometime.

  • http://twitter.com/cyrilandrea Cyril Mista

    ”
    clearly there aren’t tons of people clamoring for her album.  ” I don’t think so “Jessica Sanchez Debut Album” just trended WW 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002622916703 Aeronwy Elf

    Shouldn’t her album be out by now since it’s November? She said it will be out sometimes in October and I checkec I-tunes yesterday. She is going to be the most successful artist in the world.

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