Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins accepts the blame for his solo record not doing well.
“When my 3rd solo album of 2019 ‘COTILLIONS’ was being prepped for release, and by a team that didn’t really care much that I was releasing a solo album when The Smashing Pumpkins was once more 3/4th’s whole and gaining new ground, I was asked what name I wanted to release it under: Billy Corgan or WPC/William Patrick Corgan,” the singer wrote on Instagram.
He continued, “I chose the latter, and when the album quickly sank without a trace I was blamed because ‘no one knows who William Patrick Corgan is.’ And so until recent times, if you went to ‘Billy Corgan’ on a streaming service, you would not find ‘Cotillions’ because according to them Billy and William are different people.”
“So be it. Therefore I’m happy to report I am once more the same person, and that these two beautiful solo albums can live side by side as digital neighbors. And hopefully, soon ‘TheFutureEmbrace’ can join them in a spare lot and a Streamliner trailer,” Corgan lastly said.
“There is a reason I trust you, the people who support me day in and day out, to decide whether or not my efforts are worthy. We live in a different world now, where an artist can speak directly to you without the filter of mass media shaping your heart and opinions before you’ve even had a chance to decide whether this music speaks to you. And this is absolutely an album from my heart,” the vocalist wrote on Instagram while announcing his album in 2019.
The songs on the album were reportedly written in 2017 during a month-long trip Corgan took across America. There was enough material for a 17-track double album.
After ‘Cotillions,’ Corgan hasn’t released a new solo album yet. Still, he dropped his thirteenth record with Smashing Pumpkins, ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’ on August 2, 2024. He will be touring with the band in South America in November.
Photo Credit: Billy Corgan – Instagram