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* In the late 1990s, country singer John Berry was supposed to put out ''Crazy for This Girl'', but curtailed it a few weeks into its first single's run because he was having vocal cord troubles. After he healed up, he recorded ''Better Than a Biscuit'', but exited his contract a week before it was supposed to be released.
* Montgomery Gentry had this happen at the end of their tenure with Columbia in the late 2000s. They were supposed to do an album called ''Freedom'', whose lead-off single was "Oughta Be More Songs About That". After the single failed, the label decided instead to release an EP, whose lead single was "While You're Still Young". But after ''that'' failed, the EP was shelved and they left the label.
* Jessica Andrews was slated to release her fourth album for DreamWorks in 2005. Its singles went nowhere, and the closure of the label left her high and dry. She moved to Disney-owned Lyric Street Records and released a song titled "Everything", which also underperformed… and then got screwed over again when Lyric Street closed.
* Jamie O'Neal had a hard time following up her first album, ''Shiver''. "Every Little Thing" was supposed to be on an album titled ''On My Way to You'', slated for a 2003 release but it flopped and she left Mercury Records in favor of Capitol. The change of label got three hits off ''Brave'' between 2004 and 2006, but "God Don't Make Mistakes" went nowhere, as did two singles released in 2008-09 on a small indie label.
* Rebecca Lynn Howard had not one, not two, but ''three'' unreleased albums. The first was ''Laughter & Tears'', which had two singles in "What a Shame" and "I Need a Vacation", and was never released due to underperformance of both singles. She then moved to Arista and released two cuts that also went nowhere (they would've been on an album called ''Alive and Well''), then a song called "Soon" for a never-finished album on Show Dog-Universal Music. She ''finally'' put out ''No Rules'' on Saguaro Road in 2008.
* Montgomery Gentry had this happen at the end of their tenure with Columbia in the late 2000s. They were supposed to do an album called ''Freedom'', whose lead-off single was "Oughta Be More Songs About That". After the single failed, the label decided instead to release an EP, whose lead single was "While You're Still Young". But after ''that'' failed, the EP was shelved and they left the label.
* Jessica Andrews was slated to release her fourth album for DreamWorks in 2005. Its singles went nowhere, and the closure of the label left her high and dry. She moved to Disney-owned Lyric Street Records and released a song titled "Everything", which also underperformed… and then got screwed over again when Lyric Street closed.
* Jamie O'Neal had a hard time following up her first album, ''Shiver''. "Every Little Thing" was supposed to be on an album titled ''On My Way to You'', slated for a 2003 release but it flopped and she left Mercury Records in favor of Capitol. The change of label got three hits off ''Brave'' between 2004 and 2006, but "God Don't Make Mistakes" went nowhere, as did two singles released in 2008-09 on a small indie label.
* Rebecca Lynn Howard had not one, not two, but ''three'' unreleased albums. The first was ''Laughter & Tears'', which had two singles in "What a Shame" and "I Need a Vacation", and was never released due to underperformance of both singles. She then moved to Arista and released two cuts that also went nowhere (they would've been on an album called ''Alive and Well''), then a song called "Soon" for a never-finished album on Show Dog-Universal Music. She ''finally'' put out ''No Rules'' on Saguaro Road in 2008.
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* James Wesley, a CountryMusic artist. He signed with Warner Bros. in 1999 and put out two singles under his real name of James Prosser, but the corresponding album was apparently scrapped. In 2010, he signed with Broken Bow Records, charting five singles between then and 2013. Although the second and third singles were Top 40 hits ("Real" at #22 and "Didn't I" at #24), the album still failed to see release.
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* Sky Ferreira has been signed to Capitol Records since 2008, and ''still'' hasn't released an album. Keep in mind that her debut set has been delayed at least three times; its original release date was January 2011, with additional planned releases in 2012 and 2013 that proved to be nonstarters. While she ''has'' released two EPs and a couple of singles over the five year period, nothing she's put out has made much of an impact, and she's basically coasting on blog hype and random modeling gigs to keep her name out there.
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* Music/{{Vocaloid}} [=CV04=]. Fans rejoiced when they learned that it was the fourth product in Crypton Future Media's "Character Vocal" series. Fans rejoiced further when it was announced that he would be a ''male'' voice instead of a female one. The few fans that heard the demos rejoiced ''[[OverlyLongGag even further]]'' when it was implied that [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Yuuki]] [[BlackButler Kaji]] would supply the voice. The fans were incredibly annoyed when they realized that he was taking so dang ''long'' to be released and that they don't even know his real name. It's been about three years since his existence was made known and still nothing. And don't go searching for those demos either, they're long gone. Worse still, it's been announced that Vocaloid3 will be released this September and the CV series is in Vocaloid2. Unless [=CV04=] is released soon or released with Vocaloid3, he may stay this way forever.
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* CountryMusic artist Jo Dee Messina was supposed to have released an album titled ''Unmistakable'' in 2008. After two chart singles (one of which was withdrawn because Messina apparently didn't like it), the album finally got pushed back further and further. By 2010, it was announced that it had mushroomed into a trilogy of albums, the first of which (''Unmistakable: Love'') was released in April 2010 with little fanfare. The other two were be released in November to even less fanfare and no singles.
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* CountryMusic artist Jo Dee Messina was supposed to have released an album titled ''Unmistakable'' in 2008. After two chart singles (one of which was withdrawn because Messina apparently didn't like it), the album finally got pushed back further and further. By 2010, it was announced that it had mushroomed into a trilogy of albums, the first of which (''Unmistakable: Love'') was released in April 2010 with little fanfare. The other two were be released in November to even less fanfare and no singles.
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** {{Jojo}}'s got her third album stuck in so much development hell she sued her record company and then proceeded to delay it to the "right time". She ended up releasing 2 mix-tapes ("Can't Take That Away From Me" and "Agape") because she does want to give her fans things and cares. All I Want Is Everything (the third album mentioned) was later retitled as "Jumping Trains" andthen was retitled again and now has an rnb edge.
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* ounced back in 2006, hasn't had any other info released since, but ''supposedly'' it's still being worked on.
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** {{Jojo}}'s got her third album stuck in so much development hell she sued her record company and then proceeded to delay it to the "right time". She ended up releasing 2 mix-tapes ("Can't Take That Away From Me" and "Agape") because she does want to give her fans things and cares. All I Want Is Everything (the third album mentioned) was later retitled as "Jumping Trains" andthen and then was retitled again and now has an rnb edge.
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*ounced Nas' collab with DJ Premier, announced back in 2006, hasn't had any other info released since, but ''supposedly'' it's still being worked on.
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* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} has been teasing a new album since 2003. While long absences aren't uncommon for the band (for instance after 1991's ''The Mix'' they basically went missing for nearly a decade), the fact that in the time since their last album founding member Florian Schneider quit leaves this new album's fate uncertain.
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* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} has been teasing a new album since 2003. While long absences aren't uncommon for the band (for instance after 1991's ''The Mix'' they basically went missing for nearly a decade), the fact that in the time since their last album founding member Florian Schneider quit leaves this new album's fate uncertain.uncertain.
* Despite the success of the BlueOysterCult and their solid record of acclaimed albums, it ''still'' took the best part of twenty years for band Svengali Sandy Pearlman to get his pet project, ''Imaginos'', off the ground. Even though individual tracks had appeared on the band's early LP's and were sound and well received, delays and stalling and indifference from record companies meant it was 1988 before Pearlman's supernatural concept LP saw the light of day. By then, only the TwoOysterCult were left - two of the original lineup - and the record was scratchily completed by a gaggle of hopefuls and disinterested studio session musicians. It was not a hit and to this day, the new tracks from the album are never performed on stage.
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* Despite the success of the BlueOysterCult and their solid record of acclaimed albums, it ''still'' took the best part of twenty years for band Svengali Sandy Pearlman to get his pet project, ''Imaginos'', off the ground. Even though individual tracks had appeared on the band's early LP's and were sound and well received, delays and stalling and indifference from record companies meant it was 1988 before Pearlman's supernatural concept LP saw the light of day. By then, only the TwoOysterCult were left - two of the original lineup - and the record was scratchily completed by a gaggle of hopefuls and disinterested studio session musicians. It was not a hit and to this day, the new tracks from the album are never performed on stage.
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** {{Jojo}}'s got her third album stuck in so much development hell she sued her record company and then proceeded to delay it to the "right time". She ended up releasing a mix-tape ("Can't Take That Away From Me") because she does want to give her fans things and cares. All I Want Is Everything (the third album mentioned) was later retitled as "Jumping Trains" and is now expected to be released on June 16th 2012.
* Nas' collab with DJ Premier, announced back in 2006, hasn't had any other info released since, but ''supposedly'' it's still being worked on.
* Nas' collab with DJ Premier, announced back in 2006, hasn't had any other info released since, but ''supposedly'' it's still being worked on.
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** {{Jojo}}'s got her third album stuck in so much development hell she sued her record company and then proceeded to delay it to the "right time". She ended up releasing a mix-tape 2 mix-tapes ("Can't Take That Away From Me") Me" and "Agape") because she does want to give her fans things and cares. All I Want Is Everything (the third album mentioned) was later retitled as "Jumping Trains" andthen was retitled again and is now expected to be released on June 16th 2012.
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* [[{{Garbage}} Shirley Manson's]] solo album. She eventually completed one, but her label denied to release it for not being commercial enough. She admits that said album even had a funeral for it.
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* [[{{Garbage}} Shirley Manson's]] solo album. She eventually completed one, but her label denied to release it for not being commercial enough. She admits that said album even had a funeral for it.it.
* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} has been teasing a new album since 2003. While long absences aren't uncommon for the band (for instance after 1991's ''The Mix'' they basically went missing for nearly a decade), the fact that in the time since their last album founding member Florian Schneider quit leaves this new album's fate uncertain.
* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} has been teasing a new album since 2003. While long absences aren't uncommon for the band (for instance after 1991's ''The Mix'' they basically went missing for nearly a decade), the fact that in the time since their last album founding member Florian Schneider quit leaves this new album's fate uncertain.
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* One of the most inexplicable is probably LilJon's ''Crunk Rock'', which began production in 2006 (anybody remember "Snap Yo Fingers"?) as a grandiose rock-rap crossover album. One label change, four years and an entirely new set of material later, it finally came out... and nobody cared.
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* One of the most inexplicable is probably LilJon's ''Crunk Rock'', which began production in 2006 (anybody remember "Snap Yo Fingers"?) as a grandiose rock-rap crossover album. One label change, four years and an entirely new set of material later, it finally came out... and nobody cared.out under the title "Rebirth"
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* Mike Shinoda of LinkinPark fame started a solo rap project known as Fort Minor during the band's break between records in 2005 and fans have never missed a moment to inquire about a second album. Mike has said would return to Fort Minor. Someday. (Though at this point one wonders if he was being honest as he is infamous for playing TrollingCreator with the fans and teasing them...)
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* Mike Shinoda of LinkinPark fame started a solo rap project known as Fort Minor during the band's break between records in 2005 and fans have never missed a moment to inquire about a second album. Mike has said he would return to Fort Minor. Someday. (Though at this point one wonders if he was being honest as he is infamous for playing TrollingCreator with the fans and teasing them...)
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** Frontman Chester Bennington's solo group Dead by Sunrise released one album back into 2007, much like Mike, he has expressed interest in doing more solo work but for the time being is focusing all of his energy into Linkin Park.
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** Frontman Chester Bennington's solo group Dead by Sunrise released one album back into in 2007, much like Mike, he has expressed interest in doing more solo work but for the time being is focusing all of his energy into Linkin Park.
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* Mike Shinoda of LinkinPark fame started a solo rap project known as Fort Minor during the band's break between records in 2005 and fans have never missed a moment to inquire about a second album. Mike has said would return to Fort Minor. Someday. (Though at this point one wonders if he was being honest as he is infamous for playing TrollingCreator with the fans and teasing them...)
**Frontman Chester Bennington's solo group Dead by Sunrise released one album back into 2007, much like Mike, he has expressed interest in doing more solo work but for the time being is focusing all of his energy into Linkin Park.
**Frontman Chester Bennington's solo group Dead by Sunrise released one album back into 2007, much like Mike, he has expressed interest in doing more solo work but for the time being is focusing all of his energy into Linkin Park.
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* ''TheBeastieBoys''[='=] ''Hot Sauce Committee (Part 1)'', Part 2 of which was actually released. The album was originally scheduled for September 15, 2009, but was frequently delayed by MCA's health problems, resulting in his 2012 [[AuthorExistenceFailure death]]. (The songs that were scheduled for Part 1 ended up on Part 2, which was released in 2011.) The group managed to record again before MCA died, but it is not known if that material will ever be released.
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* ''TheBeastieBoys''[='=] ''Music/BeastieBoys''[='=] ''Hot Sauce Committee (Part 1)'', Part 2 of which was actually released. The album was originally scheduled for September 15, 2009, but was frequently delayed by MCA's health problems, resulting in his 2012 [[AuthorExistenceFailure death]]. (The songs that were scheduled for Part 1 ended up on Part 2, which was released in 2011.) The group managed to record again before MCA died, but it is not known if that material will ever be released.
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* ''Music/TheBeastieBoys''[='=] ''TheBeastieBoys''[='=] ''Hot Sauce Committee (Part 1)'', Part 2 of which was actually released. The album was originally scheduled for September 15, 2009, but was frequently delayed by MCA's health problems, resulting in his 2012 [[AuthorExistenceFailure death]]. (The songs that were scheduled for Part 1 ended up on Part 2, which was released in 2011.) The group managed to record again before MCA died, but it is not known if that material will ever be released.
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* ''TheBeastieBoys''[='=] ''Music/TheBeastieBoys''[='=] ''Hot Sauce Committee (Part 1)'', Part 2 of which was actually released. The album was originally scheduled for September 15, 2009, but was frequently delayed by MCA's health problems, resulting in his 2012 [[AuthorExistenceFailure death]]. (The songs that were scheduled for Part 1 ended up on Part 2, which was released in 2011.) The group managed to record again before MCA died, but it is not known if that material will ever be released.
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* Several songs HaydenPanettiere recorded during her time as a [[{{Disney}} Hollywood Records]] artist have been heard on Disney compilations and on soundtrack albums (as well as in her movies, such as ''TheDustFactory'' and ''TigerCruise''), and her first album was due to be released during her time on ''{{Series/Heroes}}''... but the release date was pushed back several times, and with her only (until ''{{Series/Nashville}}'') official single release (2008's "Wake Up Call") not having been a hit the album is unlikely to ever come out.
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* Several songs HaydenPanettiere recorded during her time as a [[{{Disney}} Hollywood Records]] artist have been heard on Disney compilations and on soundtrack albums (as well as in her movies, such as ''TheDustFactory'' and ''TigerCruise''), and her first album was due to be released during her time on ''{{Series/Heroes}}''... but the release date was pushed back several times, and with her only (until ''{{Series/Nashville}}'') official single release (2008's "Wake Up Call") not having been a hit the album is unlikely to ever come out.out.
* ''TheBeastieBoys'' ''Hot Sauce Committee (Part 1)'', Part 2 of which was actually released. The album was originally scheduled for September 15, 2009, but was frequently delayed by MCA's health problems, resulting in his 2012 death. (The songs that were scheduled for Part 1 ended up on Part 2, which was released in 2011.) The group managed to record again before MCA died, but it is not known if that material will ever be released.
* ''TheBeastieBoys'' ''Hot Sauce Committee (Part 1)'', Part 2 of which was actually released. The album was originally scheduled for September 15, 2009, but was frequently delayed by MCA's health problems, resulting in his 2012 death. (The songs that were scheduled for Part 1 ended up on Part 2, which was released in 2011.) The group managed to record again before MCA died, but it is not known if that material will ever be released.
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** How soon is yet to be seen. While the first half has been released, the second half is being delayed for unknown reasons until... '''2014!?'''
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* Music/MyBloodyValentine's last album was 1991's ''Loveless.'' They stayed together till 1997, took a 10 year hiatus, and got back in 2007 to announce that they were working on new studio material. It took till 2012 for three new songs to emerge and there still hasn't been a follow-up album.
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* Music/MyBloodyValentine's last album was 1991's ''Loveless.'' They stayed together till 1997, took a 10 year hiatus, and got back in 2007 to announce that they were working on new studio material. It took till 2012 for three new songs to emerge and there still hasn't been a follow-up album.the album was finally [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell released onto the band's website on 3 February 2013]].
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* DeltaGoodrem's fourth album has been in development since 2008. Her third album spent four years in development (04-07), both times are self inflicted "breaks" of sorts.
* ChristinaAguilera usually takes four years between albums.
* TheVeronicas recording company pushed back their third album 3 times now.
* ChristinaAguilera usually takes four years between albums.
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* DeltaGoodrem's fourth album DeltaGoodrem has been in development since 2008. this happen a lot, mostly by her own making, Her third self titled album spent four years in development (04-07), both (04-07), her fourth album (Child Of the Universe) took about 5 years, three rewrites and two break ups, to come out. Both times are self inflicted "breaks" development hells of sorts.
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* ChristinaAguilera usually takes four years betweenalbums.
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* Leona Lewis has had her album ''Glassheart'' pushed back by a year (Originally due November 11th now due November 12) by her recording company. Her first two albums ''Spirit'' and ''Echo'' didn't have this problem.
* VanessaAmorosi has dealt with recording company issues and getting someone behind her work twice. First with her ''Somewhere In The Real World'' album, which had trouble getting destributed and her album ''V'' which ran into production issues and had to be edited to become right with her recording company, after already having a single out.
* VanessaAmorosi has dealt with recording company issues and getting someone behind her work twice. First with her ''Somewhere In The Real World'' album, which had trouble getting destributed and her album ''V'' which ran into production issues and had to be edited to become right with her recording company, after already having a single out.
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* Leona Lewis has had her album ''Glassheart'' pushed back by a year (Originally due November 11th 2012 now due November 12) by her recording company. Her first two albums ''Spirit'' and ''Echo'' didn't have this problem.
* VanessaAmorosi has dealt with recording company issues and getting someone behind her work twice. First with her ''Somewhere In The Real World'' album, which had trouble gettingdestributed and her album ''V'' which ran into production issues and had to be edited to become right with her recording company, after already having a single out.destributed.
* VanessaAmorosi has dealt with recording company issues and getting someone behind her work twice. First with her ''Somewhere In The Real World'' album, which had trouble getting
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* Nicole Scherzinger's solo debut was to come out in 2008. However, work with the Pussycat Dolls and lousy single choices doomed it, and she's creating new material for an album that will allegedly be out...someday.
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* Nicole Scherzinger's solo debut was to come out in 2008. However, work with the Pussycat Dolls Music/PussycatDolls and lousy single choices doomed it, and she's creating new material for an album that will allegedly be out...someday.someday.
** It was finally released in 2010, but only in Europe. There is no US release date for ''Killer Love''.
** It was finally released in 2010, but only in Europe. There is no US release date for ''Killer Love''.
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* LimpBizkit's ''The Unquestionable Truth (Part 2)''
** It'sPart 2 was delayed then scrapped and Gold Cobra was recorded instead, now Part 2 has been scrapped, and is now being replaced resurrected with entirely new material, with the album being titled ''Gold Cobra''.plans to release it as an EP.
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* SkinnyPuppy's ''Handover'' album was planned to be released in 2009, but it fell into limbo when their label, SPV, went bankrupt. Now scheduled for a November 2011 release.
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** It's been scrapped, and is now being replaced with entirely new material, with the album being titled ''Gold Cobra''.
* Poe's third album.
* The career of Andrew Eldritch of TheSistersOfMercy fame: "We are working on an album, inter alia, but the matter of single releases is currently on hold..." and has been for thirteen years.
* Dr. Dre's third solo album, ''Detox.'' It is been in talks for most of the aughties, though the current state of hip hop makes the prospect much less exciting than when ''Chronic 2001'' came out. Dr. Dre has been promising Detox since 2000. Between the list of artists Dre said would be on the album and the lame acts he's signed to Aftermath over the years (acts who, according to many critics, already took up far too much of ''2001'') it's obvious what the holdup is: the man's become a perfectionist and can't decide who to work with.
** The only two artists he's been able to work with consistently are [[FiftyCent 50 Cent]] and {{Eminem}}, it seems unlikely that Detox will ever come out.
-->'''Eminem'''(from a song released in 2004): "Don't worry 'bout that Detox album, it's comin'! We gon' make Dre do it!"
** The album had two well-received promo singles in 2011; the second, "I Need a Doctor", hit the top 5 and has been nominated for a Grammy. So of course we get announcements that a) neither song will be on the album if it's ever finished, and b) Dre's going on a hiatus from music altogether.
** Not to mention "Helta Skelta" the LOOONG delayed collaboration between Dre and Ice Cube. We are also waiting for the "New" NWA album with Snoop Dogg replacing Eazy-E. Dre has a history of announcing albums and never delivering.
* Anthony Rapp released a single solo album, ''Look Around'', in 2000. After that, he claimed he was giving up solo work in favor of promoting his alternative/indie rock band Albinokid, and has promised they'll release an album since 2005. Several track listings have appeared on his MySpace, and he's mentioned songs he plans to include at the band's live performances, but the album hasn't appeared four years later. In fact, from lack of information on the band, it seems that they broke up.
* Wintersun's next album, ''Time'', is taking forever to be released, supposedly due to problems with the recording equipment. It slowly became a punchline akin to ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', although the band has performed new material (including a new 10-minute song) live. As of 2012, the band has said it's almost finished and has a release date, so expect to see this entry moved to SavedFromDevelopmentHell soon.
* E Nomine's next album. It was stated that it would be out by 2008 but as of September 2009 there has been no news of ''any'' band activity.
* MF DOOM's Swift & Changeable still hasn't seen the light of day after being announced a few years ago. (That's not even counting the countless records that [[ScrewedByTheNetwork got shelved by an uncaring or hostile label]], like Large Professor's The LP, KMD's Black Bastards or Jay Dee/J Dilla's Pay Jay, all of which have since either leaked or been reissued six or so years after being recorded.)
* The Black Star follow-up album.
* Nicole Scherzinger's solo debut was to come out in 2008. However, work with the Pussycat Dolls and lousy single choices doomed it, and she's creating new material for an album that will allegedly be out...someday.
* One of the most inexplicable is probably LilJon's ''Crunk Rock'', which began production in 2006 (anybody remember "Snap Yo Fingers"?) as a grandiose rock-rap crossover album. One label change, four years and an entirely new set of material later, it finally came out... and nobody cared.
* Lykathea Aflame's/Lykathé's unnamed album (despite claims that it was at least 90% finished. News has also surfaced that drummer Tomás Corn has been forced to quit playing due to foot problems, leaving the album's fate up in the air).
* Anthrax's ''Worship Music'' has been languishing for a good while, mostly due to the band's recent inability to keep a vocalist for more than a couple of years; since their last album they've had John Bush, then Joey Belladonna, then Dan Nelson, John Bush again, Joey Belladonna again...should be Dan Nelson's turn again next.
** [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell Fear not, it is finally being released in September 2011...]] With Joey Belladonna on vocals. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzDmgn-G2FM The first single (provided through the link) sounds pretty damn good too!]]
* Indie band [[HavalinaRailCo Havalina]] announced their sixth album, ''Pacific'', in 2004. The recording got delayed because the bassist wanted to add the percussion of a library cart being hit, and it took months for him to arrange to record this (the library wouldn't let him borrow the cart). Then the bassist left, and Matt Wignall found a new bassist, renamed the band to Matt Death & The New Intellectuals, rerecorded two songs, and tweaked the track list of the album (renamed to ''Death on the Pacific''). Matt Wignall has said that the album is finished, and that he plans to release it as a free download. That was back in 2008...
* Tapeworm. The super-band was headed by Trent Reznor as a side-project to NineInchNails. Lineup was made of musicians from A Perfect Circle and others bands in the same "music genre"... Nothing resulted. Except a song that A Perfect Circle played live once and used in their last album (The song being "Passive"). More info [[http://www.ninwiki.com/Tapeworm here]].
* BoneThugsNHarmony's ''Uni5:The World's Enemy'' album. It went through a frustrating amount of delays and pushbacks. Originally scheduled for a 09 release but was perpetually pushed back to May of 2010.
* The music industry is notorious when it comes to shelving or stalling albums by female pop artists. [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunately]], female pop artists have the least creative control. Usually they have to fight over artistic direction and their own [[HotterAndSexier public image and style]], thus sending their albums to development hell territory.
** This is especially true for female Pop, R&B, and Rap artists, Adina Howard being among the most known examples. Her '97-'98 ''Fantasy Island'' record was shelved because she wanted to do more than just sexually explicit songs. It was eventually bootlegged and released to the streets. Funnily, the album was still rather overtly sexual, leading people to wonder just how much sexier her label wanted the album to be.
** Female rap group Da 5 Footaz ''Lifetime'' album never saw the light of day either, despite press kits being available. Their album was suppose to have been released as far back as '''[='96=]'''. It has since been released underground via bootleg.
** Charli Baltimore's record is in perpetual DevelopmentHell.
** {{Jojo}}'s got her third album stuck in so much development hell she sued her record company and then proceeded to delay it to the "right time". She ended up releasing a mix-tape ("Can't Take That Away From Me") because she does want to give her fans things and cares. All I Want Is Everything (the third album mentioned) was later retitled as "Jumping Trains" and is now expected to be released on June 16th 2012.
* SkinnyPuppy's ''Handover'' album was planned to be released in 2009, but it fell into limbo when their label, SPV, went bankrupt. Now scheduled for a November 2011 release.
* Nas' collab with DJ Premier, announced back in 2006, hasn't had any other info released since, but ''supposedly'' it's still being worked on.
* CountryMusic artist Jo Dee Messina was supposed to have released an album titled ''Unmistakable'' in 2008. After two chart singles (one of which was withdrawn because Messina apparently didn't like it), the album finally got pushed back further and further. By 2010, it was announced that it had mushroomed into a trilogy of albums, the first of which (''Unmistakable: Love'') was released in April 2010 with little fanfare. The other two were be released in November to even less fanfare and no singles.
* [=LeAnn=] Rimes' cover album ''Lady & Gentlemen''. First announced in 2009; first single (a cover of John Anderson's "Swingin'") stalled at the bottom of the charts. The announced release date came and went. [=LeAnn=] tweeted that the album would see release later in 2010 with a bonus re-recording of her debut single "Blue". A non-cover single ("Crazy Women") dropped in 2011 but fell out of the 40 in the blink of an eye. Finally in mid-2011, ''another'' new single ("Give", also not a cover) cracked the charts and the album was finally released in 2011. Incidentally, Rimes and Messina are on the same label (Curb Records, a longtime house of ExecutiveMeddling).
* And a more extreme example from Curb is Amy Dalley, who put out ''seven'' singles between 2003 and 2007, but despite getting as high as #23 ("Men Don't Change"), none were deemed successful enough for an album launch. Most country music labels are satisfied if a new artist even breaks Top 40...
* Deltron 3030's (Del the Funky Homosapien, Kid Koala and Dan the Automator, all contributors to the Music/{{Gorillaz}}) second album was announced around 2006. We're still waiting. Considering they put out a compilation in less than a month, we're waiting too long.
* [=LaToya=] Jackson's ''Startin' Over'' began its production on November 2001, has had some singles released, but has no date for hitting shelves yet.
* TheKovenant's ''Aria Galactica'' has been in limbo since 2003. Sort of the ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' of music.
* Music/GunsNRoses' album ''Chinese Democracy'' [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell finally came out]] after ''fifteen years'' in DevelopmentHell. Reactions ranged from positive to [[BrokenBase middling]]. And yes, it's BannedInChina.
* The follow up to Australian plunderphonics collective The Avalanches' debut album ''Since I Left You'' has been in development hell for nearly a decade. Every so often, a member of the band claims its done and they're just clearing the samples (this being important, since they're a plunderphonics group that means almost ''all'' of their music is samples), but then nothing in heard for a few years. The latest estimation is late 2011/early 2012.
* MyVitriol are another famous example. Their 2001 debut ''Finelines'' faced no success in the US due to ExecutiveMeddling which caused exhausting touring that put them into a 4-year hiatus. Then they got back together and started recording and then scrapped an album's worth of material (except four tracks that appeared on an EP) after lukewarm fan reception. Since then the follow-up has left fans waiting over 10 years. The band has had no word on when or if the album will ever be completed.
* LindsayLohan's third album ''SpiritInTheDark'' was first announced back in 2008, the single "Bossy" was released and was very successful on the dance charts, but production was halted as Lindsay had decided it wasn't feasible for her to work on both her acting and singing career at the same time, numerous release dates were announced but nothing ultimately came of them due to Lindsay's own inability to decide when to work on the album, though several tracks have been leaked on to the internet over the years. It's unknown just how far along in production "Spirit" is, the album getting released depends on Lindsay getting around to finishing it, when that'll ever happen is anybody's guess.
* DeltaGoodrem's fourth album has been in development since 2008. Her third album spent four years in development (04-07), both times are self inflicted "breaks" of sorts.
* ChristinaAguilera usually takes four years between albums.
* TheVeronicas recording company pushed back their third album 3 times now.
* After the release of TheBeachBoys critically acclaimed ''Pet Sounds'', Brian Wilson immediately went to work on ''Smile'', an album that he planned to be his magnum opus. Public interest in the album quickly rose with the preview single "Good Vibrations" in the fall of 1966, but Wilson's good fortune quickly took a turn for the worse due to a combination of a drug induced breakdown and his band-mates unenthusiastic response to the project. By May of 1967, Wilson shelved the project, more or less ending his role as the main creative force in the group. Meanwhile, the album would remain untouched for the next 37 years before Wilson decided to give it another shot. ''Smile'' was finally released as a solo album in 2004, with surprisingly positive reviews. In 2011, Capital Records released ''The Smile Sessions'', which includes a reconstructed version of the album using The Beach Boys' original recordings.
* Forest For The Trees' debut (and [[OneBookAuthor only]]) album took four years to be completed, due to Karl Stephenson having a nervous breakdown. The interesting thing is how much the final result seemed like a more world-music-influenced ''[[Music/{{Beck}} Odelay]]''; Stephenson, who produced and co-wrote several songs on Music/{{Beck}}'s ''Mellow Gold'' including "Loser", had actually started working on this material when Beck was still a relative unknown, so who knows how the album might have been received had it come out a few years before ''Odelay''...
* Leona Lewis has had her album ''Glassheart'' pushed back by a year (Originally due November 11th now due November 12) by her recording company. Her first two albums ''Spirit'' and ''Echo'' didn't have this problem.
* VanessaAmorosi has dealt with recording company issues and getting someone behind her work twice. First with her ''Somewhere In The Real World'' album, which had trouble getting destributed and her album ''V'' which ran into production issues and had to be edited to become right with her recording company, after already having a single out.
* The line-up of VanHalen which featured Gary Cherone of {{Extreme}} imploded after the critical and commercial failure of their sole studio album, ''Van Halen 3''. Eddie Van Halen would go through drug and alcohol addictions, survive tongue cancer (he apparently still smokes cigarettes) and a divorce to longtime wife [[OneDayAtATime Valerie]] [[HotInCleveland Bertinelli]]. A reunion tour in 2004 with Sammy Hagar followed, on the heels of a two-disc anthology with two new "Van Hagar" recordings (similar to the failed reunion in 1996 with David Lee Roth for GreatestHitsAlbum ''Best Of Vol. 1'', but the Roth reunion never happened), but Eddie's re-emerging alcoholism led to poor performances and Sammy's second departure, this time taking founding bassist Michael Anthony with him to form {{Chickenfoot}}. Eddie would sober up, rehire David Lee Roth, and begin a world tour with Eddie's son Wolfgang replacing Anthony. ''A Different Kind Of Truth'', Van Halen's first new album in fifteen years, and its first with Roth since ''1984'', would be released to commercial and critical success in 2012.
* Music/MyBloodyValentine's last album was 1991's ''Loveless.'' They stayed together till 1997, took a 10 year hiatus, and got back in 2007 to announce that they were working on new studio material. It took till 2012 for three new songs to emerge and there still hasn't been a follow-up album.
* Several songs HaydenPanettiere recorded during her time as a [[{{Disney}} Hollywood Records]] artist have been heard on Disney compilations and on soundtrack albums (as well as in her movies, such as ''TheDustFactory'' and ''TigerCruise''), and her first album was due to be released during her time on ''{{Series/Heroes}}''... but the release date was pushed back several times, and with her only official single release (2008's "Wake Up Call") not having been a hit the album is unlikely to ever come out.
** It's been scrapped, and is now being replaced with entirely new material, with the album being titled ''Gold Cobra''.
* Poe's third album.
* The career of Andrew Eldritch of TheSistersOfMercy fame: "We are working on an album, inter alia, but the matter of single releases is currently on hold..." and has been for thirteen years.
* Dr. Dre's third solo album, ''Detox.'' It is been in talks for most of the aughties, though the current state of hip hop makes the prospect much less exciting than when ''Chronic 2001'' came out. Dr. Dre has been promising Detox since 2000. Between the list of artists Dre said would be on the album and the lame acts he's signed to Aftermath over the years (acts who, according to many critics, already took up far too much of ''2001'') it's obvious what the holdup is: the man's become a perfectionist and can't decide who to work with.
** The only two artists he's been able to work with consistently are [[FiftyCent 50 Cent]] and {{Eminem}}, it seems unlikely that Detox will ever come out.
-->'''Eminem'''(from a song released in 2004): "Don't worry 'bout that Detox album, it's comin'! We gon' make Dre do it!"
** The album had two well-received promo singles in 2011; the second, "I Need a Doctor", hit the top 5 and has been nominated for a Grammy. So of course we get announcements that a) neither song will be on the album if it's ever finished, and b) Dre's going on a hiatus from music altogether.
** Not to mention "Helta Skelta" the LOOONG delayed collaboration between Dre and Ice Cube. We are also waiting for the "New" NWA album with Snoop Dogg replacing Eazy-E. Dre has a history of announcing albums and never delivering.
* Anthony Rapp released a single solo album, ''Look Around'', in 2000. After that, he claimed he was giving up solo work in favor of promoting his alternative/indie rock band Albinokid, and has promised they'll release an album since 2005. Several track listings have appeared on his MySpace, and he's mentioned songs he plans to include at the band's live performances, but the album hasn't appeared four years later. In fact, from lack of information on the band, it seems that they broke up.
* Wintersun's next album, ''Time'', is taking forever to be released, supposedly due to problems with the recording equipment. It slowly became a punchline akin to ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', although the band has performed new material (including a new 10-minute song) live. As of 2012, the band has said it's almost finished and has a release date, so expect to see this entry moved to SavedFromDevelopmentHell soon.
* E Nomine's next album. It was stated that it would be out by 2008 but as of September 2009 there has been no news of ''any'' band activity.
* MF DOOM's Swift & Changeable still hasn't seen the light of day after being announced a few years ago. (That's not even counting the countless records that [[ScrewedByTheNetwork got shelved by an uncaring or hostile label]], like Large Professor's The LP, KMD's Black Bastards or Jay Dee/J Dilla's Pay Jay, all of which have since either leaked or been reissued six or so years after being recorded.)
* The Black Star follow-up album.
* Nicole Scherzinger's solo debut was to come out in 2008. However, work with the Pussycat Dolls and lousy single choices doomed it, and she's creating new material for an album that will allegedly be out...someday.
* One of the most inexplicable is probably LilJon's ''Crunk Rock'', which began production in 2006 (anybody remember "Snap Yo Fingers"?) as a grandiose rock-rap crossover album. One label change, four years and an entirely new set of material later, it finally came out... and nobody cared.
* Lykathea Aflame's/Lykathé's unnamed album (despite claims that it was at least 90% finished. News has also surfaced that drummer Tomás Corn has been forced to quit playing due to foot problems, leaving the album's fate up in the air).
* Anthrax's ''Worship Music'' has been languishing for a good while, mostly due to the band's recent inability to keep a vocalist for more than a couple of years; since their last album they've had John Bush, then Joey Belladonna, then Dan Nelson, John Bush again, Joey Belladonna again...should be Dan Nelson's turn again next.
** [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell Fear not, it is finally being released in September 2011...]] With Joey Belladonna on vocals. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzDmgn-G2FM The first single (provided through the link) sounds pretty damn good too!]]
* Indie band [[HavalinaRailCo Havalina]] announced their sixth album, ''Pacific'', in 2004. The recording got delayed because the bassist wanted to add the percussion of a library cart being hit, and it took months for him to arrange to record this (the library wouldn't let him borrow the cart). Then the bassist left, and Matt Wignall found a new bassist, renamed the band to Matt Death & The New Intellectuals, rerecorded two songs, and tweaked the track list of the album (renamed to ''Death on the Pacific''). Matt Wignall has said that the album is finished, and that he plans to release it as a free download. That was back in 2008...
* Tapeworm. The super-band was headed by Trent Reznor as a side-project to NineInchNails. Lineup was made of musicians from A Perfect Circle and others bands in the same "music genre"... Nothing resulted. Except a song that A Perfect Circle played live once and used in their last album (The song being "Passive"). More info [[http://www.ninwiki.com/Tapeworm here]].
* BoneThugsNHarmony's ''Uni5:The World's Enemy'' album. It went through a frustrating amount of delays and pushbacks. Originally scheduled for a 09 release but was perpetually pushed back to May of 2010.
* The music industry is notorious when it comes to shelving or stalling albums by female pop artists. [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunately]], female pop artists have the least creative control. Usually they have to fight over artistic direction and their own [[HotterAndSexier public image and style]], thus sending their albums to development hell territory.
** This is especially true for female Pop, R&B, and Rap artists, Adina Howard being among the most known examples. Her '97-'98 ''Fantasy Island'' record was shelved because she wanted to do more than just sexually explicit songs. It was eventually bootlegged and released to the streets. Funnily, the album was still rather overtly sexual, leading people to wonder just how much sexier her label wanted the album to be.
** Female rap group Da 5 Footaz ''Lifetime'' album never saw the light of day either, despite press kits being available. Their album was suppose to have been released as far back as '''[='96=]'''. It has since been released underground via bootleg.
** Charli Baltimore's record is in perpetual DevelopmentHell.
** {{Jojo}}'s got her third album stuck in so much development hell she sued her record company and then proceeded to delay it to the "right time". She ended up releasing a mix-tape ("Can't Take That Away From Me") because she does want to give her fans things and cares. All I Want Is Everything (the third album mentioned) was later retitled as "Jumping Trains" and is now expected to be released on June 16th 2012.
* SkinnyPuppy's ''Handover'' album was planned to be released in 2009, but it fell into limbo when their label, SPV, went bankrupt. Now scheduled for a November 2011 release.
* Nas' collab with DJ Premier, announced back in 2006, hasn't had any other info released since, but ''supposedly'' it's still being worked on.
* CountryMusic artist Jo Dee Messina was supposed to have released an album titled ''Unmistakable'' in 2008. After two chart singles (one of which was withdrawn because Messina apparently didn't like it), the album finally got pushed back further and further. By 2010, it was announced that it had mushroomed into a trilogy of albums, the first of which (''Unmistakable: Love'') was released in April 2010 with little fanfare. The other two were be released in November to even less fanfare and no singles.
* [=LeAnn=] Rimes' cover album ''Lady & Gentlemen''. First announced in 2009; first single (a cover of John Anderson's "Swingin'") stalled at the bottom of the charts. The announced release date came and went. [=LeAnn=] tweeted that the album would see release later in 2010 with a bonus re-recording of her debut single "Blue". A non-cover single ("Crazy Women") dropped in 2011 but fell out of the 40 in the blink of an eye. Finally in mid-2011, ''another'' new single ("Give", also not a cover) cracked the charts and the album was finally released in 2011. Incidentally, Rimes and Messina are on the same label (Curb Records, a longtime house of ExecutiveMeddling).
* And a more extreme example from Curb is Amy Dalley, who put out ''seven'' singles between 2003 and 2007, but despite getting as high as #23 ("Men Don't Change"), none were deemed successful enough for an album launch. Most country music labels are satisfied if a new artist even breaks Top 40...
* Deltron 3030's (Del the Funky Homosapien, Kid Koala and Dan the Automator, all contributors to the Music/{{Gorillaz}}) second album was announced around 2006. We're still waiting. Considering they put out a compilation in less than a month, we're waiting too long.
* [=LaToya=] Jackson's ''Startin' Over'' began its production on November 2001, has had some singles released, but has no date for hitting shelves yet.
* TheKovenant's ''Aria Galactica'' has been in limbo since 2003. Sort of the ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' of music.
* Music/GunsNRoses' album ''Chinese Democracy'' [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell finally came out]] after ''fifteen years'' in DevelopmentHell. Reactions ranged from positive to [[BrokenBase middling]]. And yes, it's BannedInChina.
* The follow up to Australian plunderphonics collective The Avalanches' debut album ''Since I Left You'' has been in development hell for nearly a decade. Every so often, a member of the band claims its done and they're just clearing the samples (this being important, since they're a plunderphonics group that means almost ''all'' of their music is samples), but then nothing in heard for a few years. The latest estimation is late 2011/early 2012.
* MyVitriol are another famous example. Their 2001 debut ''Finelines'' faced no success in the US due to ExecutiveMeddling which caused exhausting touring that put them into a 4-year hiatus. Then they got back together and started recording and then scrapped an album's worth of material (except four tracks that appeared on an EP) after lukewarm fan reception. Since then the follow-up has left fans waiting over 10 years. The band has had no word on when or if the album will ever be completed.
* LindsayLohan's third album ''SpiritInTheDark'' was first announced back in 2008, the single "Bossy" was released and was very successful on the dance charts, but production was halted as Lindsay had decided it wasn't feasible for her to work on both her acting and singing career at the same time, numerous release dates were announced but nothing ultimately came of them due to Lindsay's own inability to decide when to work on the album, though several tracks have been leaked on to the internet over the years. It's unknown just how far along in production "Spirit" is, the album getting released depends on Lindsay getting around to finishing it, when that'll ever happen is anybody's guess.
* DeltaGoodrem's fourth album has been in development since 2008. Her third album spent four years in development (04-07), both times are self inflicted "breaks" of sorts.
* ChristinaAguilera usually takes four years between albums.
* TheVeronicas recording company pushed back their third album 3 times now.
* After the release of TheBeachBoys critically acclaimed ''Pet Sounds'', Brian Wilson immediately went to work on ''Smile'', an album that he planned to be his magnum opus. Public interest in the album quickly rose with the preview single "Good Vibrations" in the fall of 1966, but Wilson's good fortune quickly took a turn for the worse due to a combination of a drug induced breakdown and his band-mates unenthusiastic response to the project. By May of 1967, Wilson shelved the project, more or less ending his role as the main creative force in the group. Meanwhile, the album would remain untouched for the next 37 years before Wilson decided to give it another shot. ''Smile'' was finally released as a solo album in 2004, with surprisingly positive reviews. In 2011, Capital Records released ''The Smile Sessions'', which includes a reconstructed version of the album using The Beach Boys' original recordings.
* Forest For The Trees' debut (and [[OneBookAuthor only]]) album took four years to be completed, due to Karl Stephenson having a nervous breakdown. The interesting thing is how much the final result seemed like a more world-music-influenced ''[[Music/{{Beck}} Odelay]]''; Stephenson, who produced and co-wrote several songs on Music/{{Beck}}'s ''Mellow Gold'' including "Loser", had actually started working on this material when Beck was still a relative unknown, so who knows how the album might have been received had it come out a few years before ''Odelay''...
* Leona Lewis has had her album ''Glassheart'' pushed back by a year (Originally due November 11th now due November 12) by her recording company. Her first two albums ''Spirit'' and ''Echo'' didn't have this problem.
* VanessaAmorosi has dealt with recording company issues and getting someone behind her work twice. First with her ''Somewhere In The Real World'' album, which had trouble getting destributed and her album ''V'' which ran into production issues and had to be edited to become right with her recording company, after already having a single out.
* The line-up of VanHalen which featured Gary Cherone of {{Extreme}} imploded after the critical and commercial failure of their sole studio album, ''Van Halen 3''. Eddie Van Halen would go through drug and alcohol addictions, survive tongue cancer (he apparently still smokes cigarettes) and a divorce to longtime wife [[OneDayAtATime Valerie]] [[HotInCleveland Bertinelli]]. A reunion tour in 2004 with Sammy Hagar followed, on the heels of a two-disc anthology with two new "Van Hagar" recordings (similar to the failed reunion in 1996 with David Lee Roth for GreatestHitsAlbum ''Best Of Vol. 1'', but the Roth reunion never happened), but Eddie's re-emerging alcoholism led to poor performances and Sammy's second departure, this time taking founding bassist Michael Anthony with him to form {{Chickenfoot}}. Eddie would sober up, rehire David Lee Roth, and begin a world tour with Eddie's son Wolfgang replacing Anthony. ''A Different Kind Of Truth'', Van Halen's first new album in fifteen years, and its first with Roth since ''1984'', would be released to commercial and critical success in 2012.
* Music/MyBloodyValentine's last album was 1991's ''Loveless.'' They stayed together till 1997, took a 10 year hiatus, and got back in 2007 to announce that they were working on new studio material. It took till 2012 for three new songs to emerge and there still hasn't been a follow-up album.
* Several songs HaydenPanettiere recorded during her time as a [[{{Disney}} Hollywood Records]] artist have been heard on Disney compilations and on soundtrack albums (as well as in her movies, such as ''TheDustFactory'' and ''TigerCruise''), and her first album was due to be released during her time on ''{{Series/Heroes}}''... but the release date was pushed back several times, and with her only official single release (2008's "Wake Up Call") not having been a hit the album is unlikely to ever come out.
