Complex sentence: He wanted "Prodigal Son" as the lead single but Jive refused and released "U Don't Know Me" as the first single from the album, but it failed to chart, and the music video received little airplay on major music video channels.
Split into simpler sentences: He wanted "Prodigal Son" as the lead single but Jive refused and released "U Don't Know Me" as the first single. It failed to chart, and the music video received little airplay on major music video channels.