tavellafic

1) Jive is out to make money. They will only support a tour to the extent that it leads to them making money -- and they aren't going to let another artist determine whether they make that money.

2) Justified isn't going to sell that many more records. By January, it will likely have sold 90 percent of what it will ever sell. While I think some people have been naive in denying Justin's scheduling affecting JC, the idea that Jive would hold off releasing a new album to protect a year and a half old, mostly played out album seems freakish.

3) The tours wouldn't cost that much anyway. Assuming a club tour is modeled on the show after the show, there was zero props, just the band, instruments, amps and Justin. And the most optimistic scenarios for JC's tour have suggested a theater level tour. Again, not something requiring a giant upfront capital investment. Jive is not a small label and they have more than two artists, you don't think they have the cash to manage a club and a theater tour at the same time?

4) If, bizarrely, this is somehow true, I can see Justin simply going 'Don't lay your issues with releasing JC's record on me.' And I think he'd be correct. His job is to promote his album, not to finance Jive's release of JC's album. And I am saying this as a person mostly favoring JC side of things.