“I’m at Central Park getting ready for Oprah, can’t wait for Nick to get home. KKLB! (to Nick) ”
She has just finished performing/ interviewing on Oprah, and details will be out soon, so check mariahdaily for updates on what She performed and what She told Oprah. She was reported to be performing one song, and talking to Oprah about Her new album and married life, but I’m hoping She performs more than one!

Mariah Carey  LIVE IN VEGAS
Mariah performed 2 of Her 4 planned live shows in Las Vegas last weekend (Friday and Saturday 11/12 September). Check the FB group or Mariahdaily for pics from the show. She looked gorgeous, and Her reviews were mostly glowing.
The Las Vegas Weekly wrote (in part):
“…her voice, put to work on new songs like the emotional ballad “Angels Cry” and guilty pleasure oldies like “Always Be My Baby,” sounded just as clear as it always has. You better believe that she can still hit those high notes, belt out the lower ones and do work all over her five-octave range.”
For more reviews and pics (including fan reviews), check Mariahdaily. Youtube also has audioclips of fan recordings of live performances from the concert. I Want to Know… sounds AMAZING live!!!

I WANT TO KNOW… ON US CHARTS
Billboard magazine:
“Mariah Carey reaches back for her 49th career entry on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, as “I Want to Know What Love Is” arrives as the list’s Hot Shot Debut at No. 64. Foreigner’s original version of the ballad reached No. 85 on the chart, and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, in 1985.
The second single from “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” due Sept. 29, adds to the singer’s catalog of covers. Carey peaked at No. 11 on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with her update of the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” in 1992. In 1994, her remake with Luther Vandross of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross’ “Endless Love” reached No. 7 on the chart. In 1999, Carey rose to No. 3 on R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with her take on “I Still Believe,” originally a No. 13 Hot 100 hit by her former employer, Brenda K. Starr.”

OBSESSED ON BILLBOARD CHARTS
Obsessed drops 1 spot to #8 on the US Hot 100 chart, but is still growing healthily at US radio stations, so expect it to rise again in the next few weeks!
Billboard Hot 100: #8 (Last week: #7)
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay: #6 (Last week: #7)
Billboard Pop 100 Songs: #15 (Last week: #18)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: #12 (Last week #14)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: #12 (Last week #14)
Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play Songs: #2 (Last week #3)
Billboard Lala.com: #4 (Last week: #4)
Billboard Yahoo Video: #2 (Last week: #1)
Billboard Hot Digital Songs: #10 (Last week: #10)
Billboard Hot Singles Sales (Walmart): #2 (Last week: #2)

MC ON LOCAL CHARTS
Obsessed:
- Holds at #1 on GHFM in Cape Town
- Drops to #2 on East Coast Radio in Durban (after 1 week at #1)

I Want to Know…:
Debuts at #30 on Global Hot Hits on East Coast Radio in Durban!

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MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL – OUT 29 SEPTEMBER 2009

1. “Betcha Gon’ Know” (Prologue)
2. “Obsessed” (Mariah Carey, The-Dream, Tricky Stewart)
3. “H.A.T.E.U.”
4. “Candy Bling”
5. “Ribbon”
6. “Inseparable”
7. “Standing O”
8. “It’s a Wrap”
9. “Up Out My Face”
10. “Up Out My Face” (Reprise)
11. “More than Just Friends”
12. “The Impossible”
13. “The Impossible” (Reprise)
14. “Angel” (Prelude)
15. “Angels Cry”
16. “Languishing” (Interlude)
17. “I Want to Know What Love Is” (Mick Jones, Mariah Carey, Tricky Stewart)

It’s the first “real” single from her new album following the summer release of the witty “Obsessed,” which is also included on “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.” The album and the single hit the world on Sept. 29th.

I heard the Foreigner song yesterday along with all of “Memoirs” and let me tell you: Mariah’s got a hit on her hands along the lines of “Emancipation of Mimi “The hour-long CD is ballad-centric. Written and produced with The Dream and Tricky (I know, but these are their stage names), “Memoirs” boasts a lot of singles. Starting with the Foreigner song is a canny move in these uncertain times. By the time its run is over, a new generation will think “I Want to Know What Love Is” is a Mariah Carey song.

Mick Jones, who wrote it, should start picking out some nice new cars thanks to Carey. The money should come rolling in quickly.

The other songs on the album – these are the titles, although the running order is still being finalized: “Betcha,” “Obsessed,” “H.A.T.E.U.,” “Candy Bling,” “Ribbon,” “Standing O’s.,” “Impossible,” “It’s a Wrap,” “Inseparable,” “Up Out My Face,” “More than Just Friends,” and “Angels Cry.”

Several of these are radio ready. “Angels Cry” is an honest-to-god ballad a la “Vision of Love,” and should be a gigantic success. “Standing O’s” also has potential, as do “H.A.T.E.U.” – which stands for “having a typical emotional upset” – and “Inseparable.”

Def Jam’s L.A. Reid – who previewed the CD for the first time yesterday with a clutch of staffers – is playing with the order, to get it right. But he really can’t go wrong. Carey’s album, is, as they used to say, “what the kids want.” Plus, it’s got stuff for the slightly older crowd. I loved the doo-woppy “It’s a Wrap.” And the Foreigner track is so powerful, it’s going to be everywhere. Good news, too: no more songs about Eminem. One was plenty.

So, by the end of September we’ll have new CDs from Whitney and from Mariah. They’re each top notch and different from each other enough that their fans should want them both. Maybe we’ll see a return to record stores (we have but a few in Manhattan now) and diva duels on radio if programmers are smart.

Source: Roger Friedman – Showbiz411

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CONFIRMED: MEMOIRS… DELAYED TO 29 SEPTEMBER
Mariah is putting the finishing touches on her newest album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, and all of her TV and promo appearances have been shifted to coincide with the new release date of September 29th.
Source: MariahCarey.com

OBSESSED HOLDS STEADY AT #14 ON BB HOT 100
Below, find Mariah’s chart positions in Billboard magazine issue dated August 22, 2009.
Billboard Hot 100: #14 (Last week: #14)
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay: #17 (Last week: #22)
Billboard Pop 100 Airplay: #44 (Last week: #49)
Billboard Mainstream Top 40: #35 (Last week #39)
Billboard Rhythmic Top 40: #7 (Last week: #8)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: #17 (Last week #15)
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: #17 (Last week #15)
Billboard Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop: #14 (Last week: #14)
Billboard Hot Adult R&B Airplay: #25 (Last week: #25)
Billboard Hot Dance Airplay: #13 (Last week #25)
Billboard Hot Videoclip Tracks: #1 (Last week #1)
Billboard Yahoo Video: #1 (Last week: #2)
Billboard AOL Radio: #14 (Debut)
Billboard Lala.com: #7 (Last week: #10)
Billboard iLike Libraries: Most Added: #@2 (Debut)
Billboard Hot Digital Tracks: #13 (Last week: #16)
Billboard Hot Digital Songs: #12 (Last week: #12)
Billboard Hot Singles Sales: #1 (Debut)

MARIAH 13TH IN POLL OF TOP MUSICIANS OF ALL AGES
Ask people of various ages about their favorite music and what do you get? Perhaps more common ground between the generations than you’d expect. A Pew Research Center survey found the Beatles high on the list of every age group and other acts from the 1960s and 1970s popular among people too young to have known them when they performed. Among those younger than 30, Michael Jackson was the No. 1 pick. For those 30-49, the Eagles won out. People 50-64 picked the Beatles – the winners overall. For those 65 and older, Frank Sinatra can’t be beat.
Top 20 acts in the poll:
1. Beatles; 2. Eagles; 3. Johnny Cash; 4. Michael Jackson; 5. Elvis Presley; 6. Rolling Stones; 7. Aretha Franklin; 8. Frank Sinatra; 9. Carrie Underwood; 10. Garth Brooks; 11. Jimi Hendrix; 12. Bruce Springsteen; 13. Mariah Carey; 14. Bob Dylan; 15. Jefferson Airplane; 16. Nirvana; 17. Madonna; 18. Coldplay; 19. Kanye West; 20. Grateful Dead
Source: Pew Research Center | Associated Press

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“That movie was released on September 11th, 2001 – could there be a worse day for that movie to come out? I don’t think so,” she said. “I don’t even know that many people even saw the movie so I don’t think it’s the worst thing ever done.

“Glitter was a learning experience and I wouldn’t do it again if you paid me. But I didn’t have representation or anyone to tell me: ‘What you need is a great director’.”

Carey, 39, recently played down her reputation as a diva — insisting she is simply misunderstood.

“I have been through a lot that’s made me stronger,” she said. “They say: whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. So I’ve been through that kind of stuff a few times.

“A lot of people have very different opinions about me and it’s difficult to face them and to deal with them and to go on and to say: no, actually you’re wrong. I am this, I am not that.”

”It’s a very special occasion,” Cannon told the crowd at Moon Nightclub, where he was DJ-ing. The couple was greeted with a four-foot cake, then Cannon showed a video of their nuptials.

”This is the most amazing person in the world,” Cannon said. “I dedicate my life to her daily, and together this union is gonna last forever. She is my rock.”

A teary Carey replied: “I have the best man in the whole wide world.”

No bump was spotted, so their trips to the IVF clinic may have been just a rumor.

Carey is the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was named the best selling female artist of the millennium by the 2000 World Music Awards, after selling 200 million albums.

She also has the most No. 1 singles for a solo artist in the United States, so any album featuring Carey’s best love songs can’t be a bad album. It’s impossible – unless Carey’s high octave, window shattering voice and huge choruses aren’t your thing.

Although Carey has already produced two greatest hits albums, including # 1s and Greatest Hits, Mariah: The Ballads is simply a collection of Carey’s most popular love songs, the ballads. The album features songs Carey sang early in her career from her time at Columbia Records, while excluding her more recent music with her current label, Island Records.

While her current music is mostly R&B, The Ballads features Carey’s early days in pop, showing off her softer side and focusing on her vocals.

Including some of what are considered to be the best ballads of all time, Mariah: The Ballads is an album any one can enjoy – not only the Carey aficionados. Carey’s best are all there from “Without You” to “My All” to “Always Be My Baby.”

The album also has Carey’s famous duets that diversify the album, including “One Sweet Day” with Boyz II Men, “I’ll Be There” with Trey Lorenz, “Endless Love” with Luther Vandross, “When You Believe” with Whitney Houston and “How Much” with Usher.

The first single on the album is, of course, “Hero,” one of Carey’s signature songs from her fourth album, The Music Box.

Starting the greatest hits album – after Mariah’s nearly 20 years in music with the ups and downs of her career and the public displays of her worst breakups – “Hero” can be taken as a symbol of Carey’s own inner strength, her ability to rise beyond discouragements, and still produce good music.

source: The Good 5 Cent Cigar

If you’ve been musically trained you know that octaves are arranged C D E F G A B and then C’. There are 8 octaves on the piano and to count octaves you start with the lowest note and count to the same note in the next octave until you get the range. Now in order for Mariah to sing all eight octaves she’d have to be able to sing several notes lower than what any man can which is impossible even for someone with her range. The lowest most men can sing is a G2 while there are those like Viktor Wichniakov (a male opera singer) who can sing C2 (C1 in European standard). Mariah’s lowest note she ever sung was C3 at the end of My All, and the beginning of Emotions, and You’re So Cold–not A2 or D3 like some people keep saying.

A singer’s true range is measured by the number of notes they can actually SING–not necessarily HIT. You see, in actuality Mariah can only sing up to D7. The E7 she hit on Emotions (album version), the F7 she hit on All in Your Mind, and the G7 she hit in 2 live versions of Emotions were all done when she was either congested or sick. You see in order to access what is called the flageolet register the vocal cords are held closely together and a high pitched sound moves up into the sinus cavities. When a singer is sick or congested the vocal cords become swollen making it easier to access this range but it can throw a singer off a little when this happens. This explains why none of Mariah’s songs with the exception of Emotions, and All In Your Mind have been written to go higher than D7. Mariah herself has said that she’s hit notes she can no longer do. If you’ve ever heard the clip of Mariah singing All In Your Mind acapella you’ll notice she can’t go higher than D7. You can find that clip by going here

You’ll also find a clip of Mariah singing her G7 and a G7# (it was unintentional because it didn’t match the melody) But I doubt some of the accuracy of what the author has written about Mariah’s range. That’s why I’m telling the information now so that nobody will get confused. Now if you have been paying attention Mariah’s range (C3 to D7) is 4 octaves and 1 note.

Next Mariah has 2 top vocal registers she can use. One is called the “Whistle Voice” and the other is called “Super Head Voice”. Contrary to popular belief whistle voice can be used by both females AND males. That’s right–MEN can do it too. The only reason hardly anybody uses it is because the voice can be hard to control since the sound is moving into the nasal cavity and so it sounds soft and has a low volume. Super head voice on the other hand has a higher volume and a sharper sound and it doesn’t really move up in the sinus cavities. It DOES take a little more effort than whistle voice but it’s easier to control. It also sounds higher than whistle voice but it’s the EXACT same range–whistle voice has a lower volume because the tone of the voice is airy while super head voice isn’t.

And guys CAN sing as high as women. And woman CAN learn to sing as low as men (alto’s are most likely able to do this). The lower your is the wider you can develop your range with practice. If you’ve heard of Adam Lopez then you probably know he can sing D7 using super head voice. Technically he doesn’t hold the record for highest note ever because Betty Wright also uses super head voice and when she appeared on Making the Band II (when she was teaching Sara how to control her voice) she sang Eb7 which is higher than D7 by a semitone so if anybody holds the record for singing the highest note ever it’s neither Mariah or Adam it’s Betty Wright. Mariah could HIT those notes when she was sick but she couldn’t hold them because THE NOTES IN THE 7TH OCTAVE ARE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO ACTUALLY SING. I don’t expect many people to know this but this is the reason why no opera has ever been written in the 7th octave.

In conclusion I would also like to say that it IS possible to have a range wider than Mariah (Mariah fans don’t hate me for this because I’m a fan of her too) I have a range wider than Mariah (since I’m a baritone) I can sing down to a Bb1 and up to a G6 or higher) But neither Whitney Houston or Christina Aguilera have a wider range. Whitney has a 3 octave range (C3 to C6–she did C6 on How Will I Know) and Christina has close to a 3 and a half octave range (E3 to G6#–the note she sang on The Christmas Song was D6 in super head voice).

source: Pop Dirt, 18 August 2004

A source tells the New York Daily News, “Jerry stood by Mariah through her breakdown (in 2001). He believed in her when other people lost faith.

“(After the success of Mimi) she wanted to distance herself from anybody who saw her in those dark times.”

Blair claims Carey owes him a percentage of her record and tour profits.

The source adds, “She hasn’t paid him in two years. He had to call in lawyers.”

Blair is now working with Carey’s ex-husband, music mogul Tommy Mottola at his Casablanca Records label.