In 2004, after the "Moodring" album, she ended up in a year-long litigation with management. In late 2005, Harrison made a transition within the Universal system from Interscope to Universal Motown. In 2007 her fourth studio album "Liberation" was accidentally released in Japan when the release date changed. At the time, she was with Motown/Universal; her lawyer advised that she not waste time and money taking the issue to court, so Harrison decided to go independent instead. At the advice of her mentors Prince and J. Prince in 2008, Harrison created an independent label called Planet 9. After parting ways with her major label Universal Motown, she decided to continue to make music but with a different business approach in mind. So Harrison, created her own label Planet 9, and did different types of deals. Furthermore, she was offered a non-exclusive deal with a Japanese based R&B label Manhattan Recordings after the leakage of her fourth studio album. Through that label and deal Harrison has released "Sugar & Spice" (2008), "Sugar & Spice: The Perfect Edition" (2009), and "K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple)" (2011) exclusively in Japan. Subsequently, she continues to release independent projects "With Love" (2014) "Sweet XVI" (2014), "Love Elevation Suite" (2015), and most recently "Smoove Jones" (2016) which received a grammy nomination for Best R&B Album. In honor of her twentieth anniversary, Mýa released her eighth independent project, "TKO (The Knock Out)" in April 2018.