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The Official Mariah Carey thread
Topic Started: Dec 31 2007, 06:24 PM (23,715 Views)
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Just to be shallow for a sec, here's Mimi today showing some major weight loss! She looks fantastic!

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so the asian leg of her tour has kicked off and she's apparently miming throughout the entire show, nail those pre recorded vocals, bitch

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I don't know, I heard some pretty shocking vocals from the Japan shows. It seems she was either having a very bad day, or her voice has deteriorated terribly.
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In the United States, the new album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 albums chart with sales of 58,000 copies.
It is her 17th top-ten album in the US, but became her lowest opening for a non holiday studio album since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.[115] In its second week of sales, the album dropped to number 18 on the chart, selling 16,090 copies, bringing the total to 75,000 copies.[116] In its third week of sales, the album dropped to number 43 on the chart, selling 8,000 copies, bringing the total to 83,000 copies.[117] The album remained on the Billboard 200 for a total of eight weeks before completely dropping off the chart, the shortest chart run for any of Carey's studio albums; as of August 2014, it has sold 103,000 copies in the United States cumulatively.[118]
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100k that's shocking

That's 1% of her sales at her peak (daydream / music box)

Her core fan base has dissappeared
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her image has alienated the vast majority of casual fans. a diva of her stature should at least be able to gather sales numbers close to those achieved by celine these days. her commercial decline is pretty astonishing, to say the least.
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OMG :grin:

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Oh. My. GOD!!!
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At least she's wearing underpants.
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SHE SIMPLY DOES NOT HAVE THE BODY OR THE AGE TO CARRY OFF LOOKS LIKE THAT.
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OMG :grin:

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It's official: Mariah Carey is taking over Sin City!

The "Obsessed" singer got teary-eyed as she confirmed her residency at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas Thursday. "I'm going to do my first ever residency in Vegas at Caesars. This is a special event for me," Carey said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. "And again, I have to hope that the fans will enjoy this cause I'm gonna be performing, which was kind of inspired by my album Number 1's, and this is now the updated version with 18 of them. Hopefully other people will enjoy this. I've never done this before."

"Some of these songs I'm like, 'Really? I'm gonna do this again? OK,'" Carey admitted.

Ellen DeGeneres revealed that five-time Grammy Award winner will perform smashes like "We Belong Together," "Visions of Love," "Emotions," "Fantasy," "Dream Lover," and "One Sweet Day," and the diva announced that she will also perform "Don't Forget About Us" and "Touch My Body," among other hits.

"It's a new chapter for me, and I'm so excited," Carey said.

"As a consummate songwriter, producer and internationally-renowned performer with a remarkable string of number one hits, Mariah brings a unique presence to Las Vegas that speaks to so many fans across the globe," John Nelson, Sr. Vice President of AEG Live, Las Vegas, told E! News in a statement. "AEG Live and Caesars Palace are honored to be part of this collaboration and proudly welcome Mariah to her new residence at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, home of the greatest entertainers in the world."

The residency begins on May 6, 2015. Tickets to the first 18 performances in 2015 are on-sale now:

May: 6, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24

July 8, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26
In celebration of Mariah's groundbreaking record, and in tandem with the concert series, Mariah is working on a new edition of her worldwide best-selling album #1's. Set to include all 18 of her number one hits, along with newly recorded music, the album will be released later this year.
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Eh, this seems like a horrendous idea. Anyone can do decently well in Vegas, i.e. Britney and Toni Braxton, but Toni can still sing and Britney's show at least has some flash for the Vegas crowd. Mariah already struggles with ticket sales when she's actually touring, and has no redeeming qualities as a live act.
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It's true. She can't sing live and she's not a performer. There's really no reason to see her live.
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Only two of her recent tour dates were reported to Billboard BoxScore, and they weren't pretty. At the Sydney Entertainment Center in Sydney she only sold 7,523 tickets and at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne she only sold 5,744 tickets. Both venues hold over 15,000 for concerts.
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Mariah Carey Set To Make 'Epic' Return To Sony Music

Fresh from confirmation that the star has signed a lucrative Las Vegas residency deal, reliable Carey source Roger Friedman over at Showbiz 411 has revealed that the songbird is looking to return to her Sony Music nest. This time with L.A Reid's Epic Records.

As at writing, Friedman claims Carey's return to Sony is a "done deal". He went as far as to add:

"I’m told that Carey dined last week in L.A. with Reid and Epic’s new Marketing/PR whiz Laura Swanson, who worked for Reid and Carey at Def Jam previously. “The band is getting back together,” joked an insider. It’s a done deal.

http://thatgrapejuice.net/2015/01/report-mariah-carey-make-epic-return-sony-music/
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Isn't Sony hemorrhaging enough money at this point?
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if mariah agrees in toning down her image and, more importantly, settling with the kind of adult contemporary pop that made her popular in the first place, there might still be room for her as a successful recording act. her glory days conquering the hot100 have been over for quite a while but that's not to say she's a spent force. at least not yet.
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Yeah, she's still a very famous star with a big career behind her. Anyone can be rejuvenated, even Mimi!
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The Inside Story of How Mariah Carey and L.A. Reid Reunited (at a Fraction of Her Former $80 Million Deal)

Just months shy of the 10-year anniversary of The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey and Antonio "L.A." Reid are prepping another kind of comeback. According to multiple sources, the 45-year-old singer is returning to Sony Music through Epic Records, where Reid has served as chairman since 2011.

A nearly finalized multi-album deal would see Carey's first new material through the label since 1999's Rainbow, beginning with a greatest-hits set to coincide with her upcoming residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Dubbed "#1's," the concert series booked by Creative Artists Agency begins May 6 and will include all 18 of Carey's Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers, from 1990's "Vision of Love" to 2008's "Touch My Body." (An Epic representative declined to comment.)

Although Carey left Sony on tumultuous terms -- she signed a four-album, $80 million deal with EMI's Virgin Records in 2000, eager to distance herself from ex-husband and former Sony Music head Tommy Mottola -- there are plenty of reasons why rejoining makes sense now. Doug Morris, current chairman/CEO of Sony Music, brought Carey to Island Def Jam in 2003 when he was running Universal Music Group. Reid, then head of Island Def Jam, oversaw her Mimi-powered 2005 comeback. Joey Arbagey, a collaborator of Carey's during the making of the six-times platinum Mimi, is now executive vp A&R at Epic. And of course there is her massive Sony catalog: Carey's seven studio releases, a live EP and four hits packages have sold a combined 43.9 million albums, according to Nielsen Music, including the septuple-platinum Music Box and Daydream. Her output for UMG, which spanned six albums, has sold just 9.7 million by comparison.

But while Carey's legacy is undisputed, her recent stumbles have not gone unnoticed. For starters, her thrice-delayed album Me...I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse through Def Jam failed to deliver a top 10 Hot 100 hit (Miguel duet "#Beautiful" peaked at No. 15 in 2013) and posted her lowest sales to date, with 117,000 sold. She went through a series of managers, too, including longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri, producer Randy Jackson and former Def Jam executive Kevin Liles, whom she most recently retained as a consultant.

According to an insider privy to terms of Carey's new contract, her recent turmoil, which includes a pending divorce from husband of six years Nick Cannon, scared away most other suitors. "Sony's was the only deal on the table, and it came in far lower than she expected." How low? Carey "was asking for a $3 million advance; she didn't get it." (Carey is represented by attorney Donald Passman, who didn't return Billboard's request for comment.)

Still, even critics concede that the best place for the diva to try again is with Reid, who's not only of her generation, in that his star rose during the '90s, but has of late been on a hot streak, notching hits by Meghan Trainor (eight weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100), Bobby Shmurda and Fifth Harmony. Carey also ended 2014 on a positive note, selling out a six-night residency at New York's Beacon Theatre for a series of Christmas concerts that grossed a combined $1.5 million in Billboard Boxscore receipts. That turnout should help build buzz for her upcoming Vegas stint, where she'll follow in the footsteps of Celine Dion, Elton John, Cher, Bette Midler and Shania Twain to become the latest draw to the 4,300-capacity theater.

Says Elvis Duran, morning host for New York radio station Z100: "There wasn't tremendous support for her last album, but there is always a run for residencies with a buzz. Mariah and Vegas make tons of sense."

This article first appeared in the Feb. 7 issue of Billboard.
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