In common with the increasingly competative world of record sales, her company decided she was not selling sufficient qualtities, and terminated her contract. This is no uncommon, and can occasionally backfire -as happened with Everything By The Girl who enjoyed massive chart success with 'Missing', their final single for their label at the time. More often than not, another label will pick up the option on an artist, although in Mel C's case, she may have elected to retire - she obviously doesn't need the money,