Parted ways with Columbia Records

By the early 2010s, Five for Fighting’s “commercial success was in the rearview” and Ondrasik was not able to “reclaim his pop star status” from the 2000s. Five for Fighting and Columbia Records parted ways in 2010 after ten years. In a later Tedx Talk about songwriting, Ondrasik revealed that he was “dropped” from Columbia after one of his singles, ” Slice “, turned out not to be a hit. He even wondered whether he was “done” with the music industry. However, Wind-up Records signed Five for Fighting and re-released the Slice album.