To stand a chance of winning a copy of Mariah’s new album, Merry Christmas II You, answer this easy question:

What is the name of the #1 first single off Mariah’s new album?
Send your answer via email to MCLambsSA@gmail.com
If you’re selected as a winner, we will email you for your address details.

GET FIVE BONUS ENTRIES!
To get an immediate five bonus entries for the competition draw, post this link to the video of Mariah’s new #1 single, “Oh Santa!”, to your Facebook or Twitter profile, make a screen grab of your post, and email the picture to MCLambsSA@gmail.com (ask a friend/ colleague for help if you don’t know how to make a screen grab, or email us at MCLambsSA@gmail.com).

Here’s the video link – post away!
http://www.facebook.com/l/3f5f6ZF2mL4vq6uHBCjyTiKPXMg;www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vXryseOyo&feature=share

RULES:

• Only South African residents may enter.
• Competition closes 12 noon on Tuesday 30 November.
• One email entry and one screen grab entry (which will automatically count as five entries) will be accepted from a specific email account per day.
• Winners will be drawn from the correct entries & bonus screen grab entries, using an online random number generator.
• Cape Town winners will be required to collect the CD either in Cape Town CBD or at Century City/ Canal Walk.
• Winners in the rest of South Africa will receive their CDs via registered normal mail.

REQUEST “MERRY CHRISTMAS II YOU” ON SA RADIO!

Let’s turn the songs from MCIIY into the SA radio hits they deserve to be! You can help out by requesting from the stations below:

CCFM (Christian radio station, Cape Town)
SMS “please play Oh Come All Ye Faithful by Mariah & Patricia Carey or One Child by Mariah Carey” to 083 788 94 94), OR visit

http://www.facebook.com/l/3f5f6HUReVrC_BAHv3_5H2pgKYw;ccfm.org.za/go/index.php?id=117

Choose “Regarding Music”, and request “Oh Come All Ye Faithful/ Hallelujah Chorus” by Mariah & Patricia Carey and “One Child” by Mariah Carey.

Kfm/ 94.7 Highveld Stereo
SMS your vote to 32945 (SMS costs R1)
OR e-mail your vote to topeight@kfm.co.za
OR Vote online at http://www.facebook.com/l/3f5f6tsQ09v3mFEhkrjk_ImedSw;www.ryanseacrestonair.co.za/voting.asp
Scroll down to ENTER NOW, click and enter details (use 7800 or 7441 as post code if you don’t know one)
vote for OH SANTA – Mariah Carey

5fm

http://www.facebook.com/l/3f5f6mj0a7W0VgoJePnw_NPuwnQ;www.5fm.co.za/contact-us

Enter your name and email, select “Music” as your ‘regarding’ choice, and enter “OH SANTA! by Mariah Carey”.

TAKE40SA CHART (94.7 Highveld/ Kfm)

http://www.facebook.com/l/3f5f6eaW6KjaEeakZNYwyJBWSsg;www.take40sa.co.za/index_chartvoting.asp

Scroll to the bottom, and in the field marked “If your song’s not listed…”, enter “Mariah Carey Oh Santa!”, enter your details, and vote!

Goodhope FM

http://www.facebook.com/l/3f5f6Xl8mUEDUllZ-7S6EirsA-A;www.goodhopefm.co.za/contact/

Enter your details and write a short message requesting Oh Santa!

BayFM (Port Elizabeth)
Email studio@bayfm.co.za with a general request asking them to play Oh Santa! (perhaps dedicate it to someone).

PLEASE SEND US DETAILS FOR HOW TO VOTE FOR ANY OTHER RADIO OR TV STATIONS YOU LISTEN TO/WATCH!

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!
A reminder to all SA MC fans: keep inviting any of your South African friends who are or used to be fans, to the FB group. We need to get the numbers up high, in case She announces a tour. If/ when She announces a tour, we can approach local promoters and show them there is an audience eager to see Miss Mariah perform in SA! So we need to keep growing our numbers! Invite, invite, invite!!

(news from http://www.mariahjournal.com)

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One of Mariah’s favourite photographers, David LaChapelle, let slip to a UK journalist that he was getting his studio ready recently for Mariah, who was coming to do a “Christmas album photo shoot”. Although MC Herself has not confirmed this, David is a rather good source, so fans who want another Christmas album can probably start getting excited.

MARIAH STARTS SHOOTING NEW FILM ON 1 JUNE
Mariah will start work on Tyler Perry’s new film, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, in Atlanta on 1 June. Mariah is part of an ensemble female cast who’ll take small roles in the film, including Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni Rose and Macy Gray. For Colored Girls… is scheduled for release in the USA on 14 January 2011 (no SA date has been set yet, but since its a Tyler Perry film we shouldn’t have to wait too long after that!).

MARIAH & NICK TO RENEW VOWS ON SECOND WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
MC and hubby Nick Cannon are planning to renew their wedding vows again on 30 April, their second wedding anniversary. “I encourage everybody to do it. If you are happy and in love, celebrate it!” Nick says. His gift to MC will be “something very thoughtful and it has nothing to do with money.” He adds: “We are just trying to keep the romance alive. That’s all.”

MARIAH’S FRAGRANE NOMINATED FOR “FRAGRANCE OSCAR”
The Fragrance Foundation announced its finalists for the 2010 FiFi Awards (the “Oscars” of the fragrance industry) in a conference at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York last Friday, April 23. Mariah’s “Ultra Pink” received a nomination in the Women’s Popular Appeal category! The Fifi Awards Gala will be held in New York on 10 June.

OBSESSED WINS SONG-WRITING AWARD
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) hosted its 27th annual Pop Music Awards last week in Los Angeles, California, and Obsessed was was among the 50 songs awarded the “Most Performed Song” of 2009 title. C. “Tricky” Stewart, co-producer of Obsessed, was on hand to collect the award

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER RECORD…
Mariah thanked Her Brazilian fans in Portuguese on Wednesday, for continuing to keep Her hit cover version of I Want to Know What Love Is, at the top of the Brazilian radio charts, for an awe-inspiring 27th week. “Eu te amo! Obrigada!,” MC posted on Her Twitter page. “Brazil! #1 for 27 weeks!!!! That’s a new record for me! I can’t even know what to say,” she commented.

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!
A reminder to all MC fans: keep inviting any of your South African friends who are or used to be fans, to the FB group. We need to get the numbers up high, in case She announces a tour. If/ when She announces a tour, we can approach local promoters and show them there is an audience eager to see Miss Mariah perform in SA! So we need to keep growing our numbers! Invite, invite, invite!!

(news from www.mariahdaily.com and www.mcarchives.com)

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Thanks to Sieraaj Ahmed for remind me. Happy birthday wish to Mariah Carey from all your South African fans. We love you – and we wish you a super duper day! May all your dreams and wishes come true…

For all the fans make sure you have Mariah playing on repeat in your car, your PC, your mp3 player, hifi or whatever you use to listen to music. And wherever you can call a radio station and request Mariah.

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