Arista album discography: Later years, pre-RCA Music Group

In 2000, Arista celebrated its 25th year as a record company. The year was marked both by joy and misfortune: both involved Clive Davis. The joy came in the fact that he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. The misfortune came via L.A. Reid: BMG put him in the seat long-occupied by Davis at the end of the year. Not one to give up so easily, he started J Records, an independent label with financial backing from Arista parent Bertelsmann Music Group. BMG would buy a majority stake in J Records in 2002, and Davis would become president and CEO of the larger RCA Music Group.

Reid appointed two stablemates at the LaFace label to Arista: TLC and Usher.

Usher's first effort for Arista, All About U, was intended for release on October 31, 2000, but was delayed numerous times, following the leak of several tracks onto Napster. Usher subsequently recorded new tracks and released the album under the new title, 8701, which is derived from Usher singing for the first time in his local church in 1987 and the album's release date of 2001. Two hits from the album - "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad" stayed on the top of the pop charts for four and fives weeks, respectively.

It also released what turned out to be the only released album of TLC's most notable member, Lisa Lopes. She spent much of her free time after the conclusion of TLC's first headlining tour, the FanMail Tour, recording her debut solo album, Supernova. It includes a song titled "A New Star is Born", which is dedicated to her late father. Other tracks covered personal issues, including her relationship with NFL football player Andre Rison. In 1994, before the start of Rison's fifth and final season with the Falcons, Lopes infamously burned down Rison's Atlanta mansion, resulting in the loss of all his possessions. Among the album's 13 tracks was also a posthumous duet with Tupac Shakur that was assembled from the large cache of unreleased recordings done prior to his murder in 1996. Initially scheduled for release on a date to coincide with the 11th anniversary of her grandfather's death, Arista Records decided to delay and then cancel the American release. The album was eventually released in August 2001 in various foreign countries. If you import this CD from Japan, it includes a bonus track called "Friends", which would later be sampled for "Give It to Me While It's Hot" on TLC's fourth album 3D.

As far as new acts were concerned, Adema's self titled was certified gold and sold over 1 million copies worldwide. The major singles from the album were "The Way You Like It" and "Giving In". In contrast, the nu metal group's signage to Arista must've been an odd activity for R&B titan L.A. Reid.

Hailing from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, P!nk followed up her urban-influenced debut Can't Take Me Home with her sophomore Arista debut Missundaztood, birthplace of the global chart-topper "Get the Party Started" and hit singles "Don't Let Me Get Me" and "Just Like a Pill", all of which reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album's final single was "Family Portrait", a vulnerable R&B anthem that Pink wrote about her parents' separation. That song became a worldwide Top 20 hit, peaking at #18 on the Hot 100.

Going back to the Clive Davis days, Whitney Houston's rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" was re-released after 9/11, with the proceeds donated to the New York Firefighters 9/11 Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Fraternal Order of Police. The song peaked at No. 6 this time on the US Hot 100, topping its previous position. Some stations that chose to continue signing off at night (yes there are some that still do so) played this rendition of the anthem.

L.A. Reid went to Canada to recruit his next act: Avril Lavinge, who signed an Arista contract right before she turned 18! For a year after signing a record deal with Arista, Lavigne struggled due to conflicts in musical direction. She relocated to Los Angeles, California, and recorded there, her earlier materials for the album; the kind of sound to which the label was not amenable. She was paired to the production team The Matrix, who understood her vision for the album. The biggest pop debut of 2002, it was certified 6× Platinum in the United States. It was released to generally positive reviews, although Lavigne's songwriting (particularly on the song "Complicated") received some criticism. It also did extremely well in Canada, receiving a diamond certification from the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association), as well as reaching multi-platinum in many countries around the world, including the UK in which she became the youngest female solo artist to have a number-one album in the region.

Whitney Houston's new album Just Whitney debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200, and number three of Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, with sales of 205,147 copies in the first week, not only beating her previous high first-week sales of 177,284 units with the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack but also logged her highest debut sales out of her SoundScan-era solo albums. The album received mixed reviews from music critics; it spawned four official singles―with three; "Whatchulookinat", "Love That Man" and "Try It on My Own" peaking at number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart. "Try It on My Own" also peaked at number 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary singles. Since its release, Just Whitney... has gone on to sell/ship more than 2 million units worldwide and has also earned Platinum certification in the U.S. and Switzerland and Gold in France, Brazil and other countries. However, Reid lost focus when it came to promoting her and other established Arista acts as the three singles all hit the lower end of the pop charts here in America.

Toni Braxton, another LaFace export to Arista, recorded the album More Than a Woman and it bombed right away - its first single, "Hit the Freeway", failed at radio and peaked at number 86 on the Hot 100 while the two singles, that followed ("A Better Man", "Lies, Lies, Lies") were scrapped, failed to make a dent and missed the Hot 100 completely.

Also, Cee-Lo Green debuted with the critically hailed Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections and Boyz II Men (Full Circle) were signed well after their prime. However, Reid was spending so much money at Arista that it wound up not making it back at all.

After the formation of the joint venture of BMG and Sony Music Entertainment (the former CBS Records) in 2004, Reid was let go. Arista, always an independently managed front line label at BMG, was merged with J Records in August 2005 and began operating under the newly formed RCA Music Group—of which Davis had become CEO, and thus again became in control of Arista. The Arista label continued to be used for new releases, although heavily scaled back, while its reissues are released through Sony Music's Legacy Recordings. Also, as a result of the Sony-BMG merger, Arista once again became related to Columbia Pictures, which is fully owned by the Sony Corporation of America (through Sony Pictures Entertainment) - who would buy out BMG's share in 2008.

During the summer of 2011, the RCA Music Group underwent a restructuring that saw the elimination of the Arista name later on that year, along with sister labels Jive and J. RCA Records started releasing all RCA Music Group releases under RCA Records. Arista Nashville continued to operate through Sony Music Nashville and was not affected by the closing of Arista Records.

Arista Records France was founded in September 2012, making it the last active remnant of the label. Also, Andy Grammer's album Magazines or Novels was released in the UK in October 2015 under the Arista Records name.

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