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"Touch My Body" Named Newsday's Song of the Week
Song of the Week
It's nice to have Mariah Carey doing what she does best. Her new single "Touch My Body" (Island Def Jam) is in that "We Belong Together" sweet spot, a midtempo R&B ballad that lets MC show off her vocal abilities, but not too much. Crafted by Carey, with help from The-Dream and C. "Tricky" Stewart, "Body" has just enough street-wise touches to sound current and just enough balladry to make a bid for timelessness. It's probably the best opening single she's had since "Heartbreaker" introduced "Rainbow" in 1999, which is a good sign for her much-anticipated "E=MC²" album, due in April.

This congratulatory message from All Access to Island Def Jam appears on the site's Net News!

MEDIABASE and ALL ACCESS send out congratulations to STEVE BARTELS, ERIK OLESEN, BENNY POUGH, SHARON LEPERE, RICK SACKHEIM and the entire ISLAND DEF JAM MUSIC GROUP team as MARIAH CAREY grabs a record 223 monitored adds this week for her new single "Touch My Body."

This is the largest add week for any song since the system began combining projected adds with auto-adds in 2006. The previous record was held by INTERSCOPE's MAROON 5 with 177 in APRIL, 2007 with "Makes Me Wonder."

Source: MariahDaily