Miley Cyrus’s recording career is now officially in free fall.
Her new album, “Bass Persuades,” is a flop. It’s at number 15 now on iTunes, and number 60 on amazon.
If “Bass Persuades” finishes at number 1 for last week, it will be a squeaker. It’s more likely number 2, with less than 60,000 in sales.
This is a blow for Miley because the album is good, and should have done better. But she did not promotion for it. Why wasn’t she on the MTV VMAs last night singing one of the songs? Better yet, why didn’t she do the Dolly Parton tribute? Instead, it was Kacey Musgraves who stepped in.
Miley left Columbia/RCA Records, where she’d been for eons, and moved to Atlantic Records to give “Bass Persuades” a new lease on life. That didn’t work out, and I’m hearing she may move again. She may have to.
Her last album, “Something Beautiful,” which wasn’t as good and didn’t have potential hit singles, did even worse. For that album, Miley entertained private guests at a small recital at the Chateau Marmont. For “Bass Persuades,” she didn’t seem to do anything. She was nowhere to be found on TV last week.
What a shame. There are some good songs on the new album. If someone had worked them, they might have had a life. But no one was persuaded, it wasn’t even all about the bass, and now it’s over.
