Mariah tweeted around 2pm SA time on Friday:

“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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Foreigner’s Mick Jones can start ordering caviar and Champagne again: Mariah Carey is releasing her own gospel-tinged version of his masterwork song, “I Want to Know What Love Is.”

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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Mariah Carey says her infamously bad movie debut Glitter failed because of 9/11. The singer — who stars in new movie Precious – says her semi-biographical film was destined to bomb at the box office as it was released on exactly the same day as the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center eight years ago.

“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.”

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A very smiley Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon celebrated one year of wedded bliss Thursday at the Palms Casino Resort in Vegas.

”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.

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Transcribed from The Billboard Book of Number Two Singles, 2000 Edition, by Christopher Feldman, here are the facts about Mariah’s number two hit song, Endless Love.

Luther Vandross had a particular knack for finding duet partners. His duet with Dionne Warwick, “How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye,” gave him his first Top 30 pop hit. His duet with Janet Jackson, “The Best Things In Life Are Free,” gave him his fourth Top 10 pop hit, and his duet with Mariah Carey gave him his biggest hit ever.

Remaking a song that had already been definitively recorded by another artist might have seemed like a strange move for Luther, but by 1994, after more than a decade in the music business, he’d begun to see that it might not be as strange as it seemed. As he noted in a Time-Life documentary about the history of rock ‘n’ roll, “In the 1990s, we’ve had time to look and inspect and analyze everything and be influenced by everything. There isn’t a whole lot of pioneering going on right at this minute. The pioneering went on earlier.”

Sony Records President Tommy Mottola suggested that Vandross record Songs, an album of cover versions. Featuring Luther’s versions of songs like Stephen Stills’ “Love The One You’re With,” Heatwave’s “Always And Forever,” and Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly,” the album was shaping up to be a major career accomplishment. To give the album a bigger boost, Mottola’s wife, Mariah Carey, came up with the idea to remake “Endless Love” as a duet with her. Lionel Richie and Diana Ross had originally recorded “Endless Love” in 1981, and the song spent nine weeks at #1. Although Luther’s album was already set to contain one Lionel Riche composition, “Hello,” it was obvious that having the most-popular female singer on the Sony label singing on the album would be a benefit.

“Endless Love” debuted on September 10, 1994 at #31, a better start than the original version had had. The next week the Vandross/Carey duet jumped to #6 and seemed a shoo-in for #1. Unfortunately the song didn’t have much staying power. After a single week at #2, it was replaced by Sheryl Crow’s “All I Wanna Do” and started falling off the charts. Still, the song became Luther Vandross’ biggest pop hit ever and gave Lionel Richie his first top 10 as a songwriter in seven years. For Mariah, it started a string of six straight Top 2 singles that ended surprisingly thanks to another superstar duet, her #15 collaboration with Whitney Houston from The Prince Of Egypt soundtrack, “When You Believe.”

In the album’s liner notes Luther himself extended his thanks to those who came before him and provided the material so close to his heart: “To the artists who did the original versions of these songs: Dionne, Aretha, Diana & The Supremes, Roberta, Stephen, Diana & Lionel, Barbra, Whitney, Heatwave, The Friends Of Distinction, MdFadden & Whitehead, and ‘Man Of La Mancha.’ Thank you for the pioneering. I love you guys.”

Note: If you haven’t had the chance to check out the inside stories Behind Mariah’s Number One Singles, click on the link to start reading now!

Source: MariahDailyJournal

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PAUL McCartney and Mariah Carey – or some combination thereof – might appear on this season’s “American Idol,” which premières Tuesday.The superstars’ names are the ones most prominently mentioned to grace the “Idol” stage at some point – and “Idol” executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz isn’t squelching the talk.

“Nothing’s locked,” she told the Associated Press about McCartney. “We’ve had discussions with him over the years.

“It’s always a matter of making it work.”

“Idol” judge Randy Jackson is a friend of Carey – and he says he and Mariah have “tossed it around a bit” about her appearing on the show.

No one would take this kind of talk seriously if reclusive rocker Prince hadn’t materialized unannounced on last season’s finale – shocking a Hollywood audience and viewers with an electrifying performance. Now, it seems like the show can attract the biggest music superstar. And who wouldn’t want to appear on TV’s biggest show?

“The fact we can get Prince is a real tribute to the show . . . [now] who knows who we can get?” said Frot-Coutaz. Sales is at the bottom of it. CD sales are seriously down again this year and TV is the way now to move records. Leona Lewis, the winner of “Idol” judge Simon Cowell’s British show, “The X Factor,” is also rumored to be making an appearance on “Idol” this season.

Her version of the “Idol” theme “A Moment Like This,” topped the British charts late last year.

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