The Mariah Carey Thread

[bondingo]

I already had it bookmarked weeks ago

Originally Posted by bondingo

I already had it bookmarked weeks ago

lol it's my home page.

Mariah sang on GMA this morning, and it had some interesting results. Her backing track messed up during the first verse of "Touch My Body", and she got really pissed. Then it started messing up again during the end and she started singing "Stop singing my part, baby" but she was totally professional about it. Her perfs of "I'm That Chick" and "Bye, Bye" were amazing though. Here's the link that has pictures and the 3 videos:

http://community.livejournal.com/ohn...ead=2735278205

[LEOyumi]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL at the performance!
Best TMB performance ever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEnr5EKEjbw

Video of the Empire State Building being lit up for MC. According to Mariah Daily, E=MC^2 should also take #1 this week. With 45.86% of the total counted, Mariah has 98,239. I can't do math, but that's 200k in the second week, right? Sorry Ashlee, lol.

[Kaiouforever]

I guess Ashlee's outta their outta their heads. LOL SORRY XD

Anyway, congrats to Mariah! This album is starting to grow on me, albeit a little slowly...I'm starting to enjoy more and more tracks, and I'm happily surprised at the debut of Bye Bye on the Hot 100

Originally Posted by Kaiouforever

I guess Ashlee's outta their outta their heads. LOL SORRY XD

Anyway, congrats to Mariah! This album is starting to grow on me, albeit a little slowly...I'm starting to enjoy more and more tracks, and I'm happily surprised at the debut of Bye Bye on the Hot 100

Me too. #23 is a huge debut, I'm shocked.

[TITANIC]

WHO: International superstar Mariah Carey, the #1 most successful female recording artist of all time, with more than 160 million sales world­wide -- who recently earned her 18th #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Touch My Body," surpassing Elvis Presley's long-standing chart record of 17 #1's.

WHAT: A lighting ceremony at the Empire State Building, where Mariah will flip the light switch on a scale model of the Empire State Building. The Empire State Building will be lit in pink, lavender and white all weekend to celebrate the album color motif of Mariah's new album E=MC2, which enters at #1 on the Billboard chart this week with the biggest first week Soundscan total of her career, 463,000 units.

great news and congratulation
i thought madonna is the most succesful female artist

Originally Posted by riozz

great news and congratulation
i thought madonna is the most succesful female artist

It's debatable. But Mariah is definitely the most successful in the United States.

[TITANIC]

Ohh IC...

what about E=MC2?
i think this album not very success like EOM

Tentative sales for this week are 175,899, with Mariah coming in at #1 again. Congrats, MC

Originally Posted by Halla

Mariah is the most popular in the US, but she lost a lot of popularity especially in Europe on butterfly to charmbracelet, until she made a huge comeback with EOM. she didn't do that well in the US either with butterfly to charmbracelet, her career in the US was going downhill until EOM.

Actually, Mariah maintained her popularity in the States until 2001, because Butterfly and Rainbow were both very popular and successful albums. They both did over 10 million worldwide, and they both had two #1 singles. But I think I was wrong, Mariah isn't the biggest-selling female artist in the States. She surpassed Madonna with TEOM in 2005, but she is still slightly behind Barbara Streisand. Maybe she can take her over with E=MC2!

[Halla]

Originally Posted by dddaiyamondo

Actually, Mariah maintained her popularity in the States until 2001, because Butterfly and Rainbow were both very popular and successful albums.

true, each mariah album has sold several millions. but she was losing steam fast before EOM turned it around. her drops in sales are way bigger than just the general decrease in album sales in the industry.

butterfly sold only half of what the previous studio album sold, there was a notable drop in sales from butterfly to rainbow (especially on worldwide sales). and her career hit a low point on charmbracelet (didn't even chart in the top ten other than in Japan & US) which only sold like a 1/4 what the previous studio album sold. I'm leaving out glitter lol

Originally Posted by Halla

butterfly sold only half of what the previous studio album sold, there was a notable drop in sales from butterfly to rainbow (especially on worldwide sales). and her career hit a low point on charmbracelet (didn't even chart in the top ten other than in Japan & US) which only sold like a 1/4 what the previous studio album sold. I'm leaving out glitter lol

True, but I think the biggest drop was from Rainbow to Glitter. Her popularity took such a nosedive. But E=MC2 should pass Glitter's total sales sometime soon I'm guessing by the end of next month!

Mimi finally left a new voicemail mail to her fans at her official site (CLICK HERE to listen to it). Here's a transcript:

Rachel: Heyyyy!

Mariah: [screaming] Celebratory moment!

Rachel: Eighteen!

Mariah: Okay, it's MC, or whatever you want to call me dahling, and Ray-Ray, click in Shawntae and May-May but they're not here right now, so it's us. They just left. It's 2:45AM unless they're lying to me about my clock to try and get me places earlier [laughs]. Basically I'm pretty much an hour late everywhere I go!

Alright but this is a thank you message, and we gotta say thank you, thank you! Because we haven't even spoken this whole time 'cause I didn't wanna call and be like "Oh, OK, I just wanna get as many people to buy the record and make it go #1" and that is so not the "sit'ation" because you guys know that, c'mon Ray Ray, how much do I love them?

Rachel: She loves you guys, she does. You guys just don't know.

Mariah: You know I do, and the fact of the matter is you're absolute smash hit wonders, and I know you've been hearing me talk about it on the radio...

Rachel: A few of them know!

Mariah: A few of them know. I think all the ones who really, really, really matter -- which is everybody -- but the ones that we really know, they know that we love them. So anyway, we love you, this is your night! The pink yet lavender Empire State Building was kind of a stone groove smash hit wonder. So anyway, we can't thank you enough. I love ya, appreciate ya, and enjoy ya and will chat to you later! You got a two minute and twenty second message, it's gonna chopped up in half, but whatever! We love you! Buh bye!

Such a diva.

I heard the album today. It's pretty good, nowhere near as good as TEOM though. Does anyone know where I could get scans/promos of that alum and E=MC2?

[Northerner]

*points to message transcript*

I love her and her constant use of the phrase "pink yet lavender."

[Nu-NRG]

I'm def digging E=MC2 over TEOM any given day

I LOVE migrate is so damn catchy
its been stuck in my head for days now

Looks like we were wrong, MC sold 182k this week, not 176k :

Despite a 61% decline in sales, Mariah Carey's Island Def Jam set "E=MC2" remains atop The Billboard 200 for a second straight week. The album, the diva's sixth No. 1, moved 182,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. British singer Leona Lewis' "Spirit" (Syco/J) follows suit, staying put at No. 2 in its second week with 96,000 and a 1% sales increase.

MC will be on the View soon!:

Mariah will be joining the ladies of The View on Monday, May 5 and the official Mariah Carey fan club, Honey B. Fly is giving one lucky member and a guest a chance to attend the show. Mariah will be performing new music from her # 1 album E=MC², so don't miss this opportunity for a chance to see her live! Log on to MariahCarey.com for contest details.

The show tapes on May 5, but will air on Friday, May 9. The View studio is located at 320 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.

[Cyria]

Now I'm reading that Mariah got married to Nick Cannon and that a family member of his has confirmed it. I really thought she'd have a big princess-y wedding if she ever married again, not a surprise wedding in the Bahamas.