Singing Brit sensation Leona Lewis is preparing to release her now delayed album ‘Glassheart’. Amazon cited March 26th as the release date but that is also likely to change. Record executive Clive Davis is well known for signing the singer to J Records at the start of her career. He has now shared some deets about his involvement with the upcoming project. And also had some interesting things to say about her sophomore album, ‘Echo’ which was not successful in America, but still achieved respected momentum over in Europe.

He explained: “My current album project is Leona Lewis. I was asked by Simon to consider producing her with him when she first broke through with X Factor. He sent me all the reels of her performances on the show, and she has a very big strong range, so I agreed to undertake that.

I held a songwriters audition appraisal and had her fly over to sing three songs for them, which triggered ‘Better In Time’ and ‘Bleeding Love’. That album sold 9 million copies worldwide.

When it came to her second album- she co wrote about eight songs which I was very skeptical about, because you don’t become a writer just because you think it’d help you earn more from publishing and royalties.

Even though it didn’t sell well in the United States, outside of the States it did very well so now that we’re about to finish her third album-which I think is damn good and has hits- I’ve been talking to Will.I.Am, Ryan Tedder , Polo and we’re taking the old fashioned approach of coming up with hit songs and hit records”.

I hope he can put his money where his mouth is. And for starters, Will.i.am sucks. I just don’t get the hype with him at all.