Sky Ferreira removed from Capitol Records’ website

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Sky Ferreira‘s name and portrait has been removed from the official Capitol Records artist roster on their website.The Los Angeles-born singer-songwriter has been in a battle with the music label for years and had previously addressed the struggles she’s facing with putting out new music and her reputation as a “difficult” artist.On Tuesday, November 7, Ferreira’s fans noticed that the singer was no longer represented as part of the artist roster on Capitol Records’ website (per Variety).

The news comes two months after fans flew a “Free Sky Ferreira” banner over the label’s head office building in Los Angeles as a form of protest against them and as an attempt to free the musician from her contract with Capitol.A post shared by Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira)Back in August, fans reportedly bought a billboard in Times Square to share a photo of the singer with the message “Free Sky Ferreira”, claiming that her music had been “held hostage” by her label Capitol Records “for almost a decade.”The singer responded to the billboard and messages by posting a photo of it to her Instagram stories with the caption “It’s True”, confirming that her label is keeping her from releasing new music, especially her follow-up to her 2013 debut ‘Night Time, My Time’.She took to Instagram on January 14 to share a snippet of new music alongside the caption: “I want to put this out”.

Posting on her story, she shared a clip of her performing the unreleased track during a soundcheck back in 2019. “Look at the date,” she wrote in the accompanying caption. “I tried to put out this song forever ago.