Lessee if I can make this story so simple even i can understand it…
1. American Idol has a contract with Sony Music to release Idol winners albums.
2. Sometimes (Kelly, Carrie) it worked, sometimes (Hicks, Kris Allen) it didn’t.
3. There were two Simon’s at AI -Fuller and Cowell. Or public/business side.
4. And cowell has left to make the US version of UK smash hit “The X Factor”.
5. Cowell is signing with Sony.
6. Fuller? he has to find another label for idol.
7. The smart money has him signing with Universal where his buddy Lucian Grainge has just been made CEO.
Hope that clears everything up. Please feel free to go about your life.