We know we’ve been beating the Amerie drum around these parts for a long while, but watching an album that has commercial potential (thanks to Amerie’s name recognition, at least) get the short shrift from its label is an aggravating experience, especially when that album is available on import via methods both legal and illegal, which has to cannibalize sales the longer the album is delayed. 21 release date stands, and the album isn’t be pushed back to sometime after the first anniversary of “Take Control”‘s debut. Kelly, is finally coming out next month? The delays are somewhat boggling to us, if only because Because I Love It will have, for all intents and purposes, been out for three months by the time it gets an official release in the United States–that is, if the Aug. Maybe.ĭid Amerie lose a video game tournament with her labelmate Kelly Rowland, whose own long-delayed album, Ms. Mid-May – Album is released in the UK, Germany, Japan, and pretty much anywhere else that isn’t the USĪugust 21 – Album is released in the US. March 23 – Amerie releases “Gotta Work” via MySpace 1ĭecember 2006 – Blow Up-inspired “Take Control” video is released Late October 2006 – Amerie releases the mixtape Because I Love It Vol. Early October 2006 – “Take Control” leaks
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