Mariah Carey: Official Topic

[Nikosn17]

What are those numbers, Niko?

 

The Airplay for today.

Edited August 22, 2009 at 06:23 PM by Nikosn17

[LuisMa]

Do you know how it works? I have seen it in another forum, where juliobrasil posts it all the time, but I think it's fan-made, as Mediabase doesn't have a cumulative audience base, as does Nielsen BDS.

[Nikosn17]

idk I see this at Pulse and other boards.

[LuisMa]

Yeah, I have too. I dunno whether it's 100% accurate, but Mariah is doing great.

[ThisTime]

http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/insideradi...ear=y&dpt=n

 

On the Top 40 she's only at 25

But she'll easily be towards the top 10 within the next couple weeks.

[LuisMa]

Yes, but I believe the chart Niko presented before takes data from all panels: CHR, Rhythmic, Hot AC, AC, Rock, Active Rock, Alternative, Urban, Urban AC and Country. Then she's ranked higher because of the different spins she has, but the chart has to be fanmade, as there's no official Mediabase all-encompassing chart that I know of.

[Thomas]

That "Forever" advertisement is awful! They made her look like a zombie or some kind of ghoul. Who gave the OK to that?!

[Lymon]

That "Forever" advertisement is awful! They made her look like a zombie or some kind of ghoul. Who gave the OK to that?!

 

I love the artistry for the picture, but i'm not fond of the picture itself. I agree. I love the picture for Ultra Pink.

[Nikosn17]

Great week for Obsessed in terms of Airplay... already #5 at Rhythmic (Touch My Body peaked at #3) and it's already #8 on Airplay

 

#8 on Airplay already and tomorrow will be at #7

 

MEDIABASE

 

1. BLACK EYED PEAS - I Gotta Feeling = 123.191 (+ 0.727) =

2. TAYLOR SWIFT - You Belong With Me = 121.674 (- 0.367) =

3. DRAKE - Best I Ever Had = 111.895 (- 0.706) =

4. KERI HILSON - Knock You Down = 108.392 (- 1.046) =

5. KINGS OF LEON - Use Somebody = 84.732 (+ 1.055) =

6. JAY SEAN - Down f/ Lil Wayne = 68.585 (+ 1.807) =

7. KATY PERRY - Waking Up In Vegas = 65.904 (- 0.819) =

8. MARIAH CAREY - Obsessed = 64.585 (+ 1.360) ▲

9. PITBULL - Hotel Room Service = 63.551 (+ 0.026) ▼

10. MARIO - Break Up f/Gucci Mane = 60.595 (+ 0.296)

 

 

BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 50

 

Obsessed is at #11 this week (last week it was #13), with digital sales 71,812 (-2% compared to last week)

 

Here's how Hot 100 Airplay ended up before recurrents were removed:

 

No. 1 - Black Eyed Peas (+4.1 million)

No. 2 - Taylor Swift (+1.0 million)

No. 5 - Kings Of Leon (+6.1 million)

No. 6 - Jay Sean / Lil Wayne (+13.0 million)

No. 8 - Pitbull (+3.0 million)

No. 9 - Mariah Carey (+7.6 million)

No. 10 - Mario (+2.7 million)

 

So yeah very good but It'll most likely be at #11 this week as well.

[rakesh]

OBSESSED Airplay & Sales Update WE 8/25/09

Digital Sales:

Hot Digital Songs: #11 (Last week: #13)

Downloads this week: 71,812 (-2%)

Total downloads: 526,749

 

Singles Sales:

Hot Singles Sales (Walmart): #1 (Last week: #1)

Sales this week: 5,298 (-36%)

Total sales: 14,667

 

Airplay: (Nielsen BDS)

Hot 100 Airplay: #9 (Last week: #12)

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: #12 (Last week #15)

Audience impressions this week: +7.6 million

 

Mediabase

"Obsessed" has registered 64.585 million audience impressions with 11447 spins (Rhythmic - 5391, Pop - 3094, Urban - 2625, Urban A/C - 245, Hot A/C - 39, A/C - 9, Alternative - 2, MTV - 6, MTV2 - 3, BET - 8, VH1 - 11, Fuse - 14).

 

All Access

CHR/Top 40: #23 (Last Week: #26)

+441 spins, 14.186 million impressions

 

Rhythmic: #5 (Last Week: #6)

+289 spins, 31.975 million impressions

 

Urban: #9 (Last Week: #12)

+159 spins, 15.491 million impressions

 

Urban A/C: #31 (Last Week: #25)

-12 spins, 0.885 million impressions

[rakesh]

Mariah has been nominated for the "Best International Act" in this year's Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards.

Best International Act

Akon

Beyonce

Ciara

Drake

Eminem

Jay-Z

Kanye West

Keri Hilson

Lady Gaga

Mariah Carey

 

 

 

The 14th MOBO Awards will be staged at the SECC Arena in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday, September 30th.

[LuisMa]

Very detailed info, rakesh. Thanks.

 

The CD single is doing great.

[Nikosn17]

Andddd ''Obsessed'' remains at #11 at Billboard Hot 100.

[Nikosn17]

I WANNA KNOW WHAT LOVE IS will premier TOMORROW on EUROPEAN RADIOS !

 

:w00t:

 

Meanwhile Obsessed is the #1 greatest gainer on airplay today, matching TMB's peak at Rhythmic and moving up to #7 on the overall airplay. :clap:

[Lymon]

Can't wait!!! :clap:

[LuisMa]

I WANNA KNOW WHAT LOVE IS will premier TOMORROW on EUROPEAN RADIOS !

 

 

Meanwhile Obsessed is the #1 greatest gainer on airplay today, matching TMB's peak at Rhythmic and moving up to #7 on the overall airplay.

 

OMG

 

How exciting.

[Lymon]

http://www.limelinx.com/files/54d08306a06f...e2a654667871993

 

10 second snippet. So disappointed. I can't believe she turned it into a ballad with a beat!!!!!!!!!!

Edited August 27, 2009 at 06:37 PM by Lymon

[LuisMa]

http://www.limelinx.com/files/54d08306a06f...e2a654667871993

 

10 second snippet. So disappointed. I can't believe she turned it into a ballad with a beat!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Don't like it, I hope the entire song is better than that preview.

[Nikosn17]

Calm down That's the first chorus. But yeah I'm annoyed with the ballad with a beat thing Edited August 27, 2009 at 06:51 PM by Nikosn17

[LuisMa]

Calm down That's the first chorus. But yeah I'm annoyed with the ballad with a beat thing

 

:taz: :beam:

 

[LuisMa]

There's a Mariah note on Billboard.com:

 

Kristine W. notches her 14th No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play Songs chart with "Be Alright." The pop/dance diva has an incredible track record on the tally -- 14 out of her 15 chart entries have hit the top. Kristine W. is now tied with Mariah Carey for the third-most Club No. 1s among women. In the lead is Madonna with 39 while Janet Jackson is in second-place with 18.

[rakesh]

http://www.limelinx.com/files/54d08306a06f...e2a654667871993

 

10 second snippet. So disappointed. I can't believe she turned it into a ballad with a beat!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Don't like it, I hope the entire song is better than that preview.

 

 

 

 

i didnt like it either . i hope the full version is better. i was never sure bout "I Want To Know What Love Is" being the next/first-real [ whatever...] single. i'm not sure Mariah wanted it either; i hav a feeling that she wanted to go with "Hate You". i heard of snippet of "Hate You" on youtube and it was amazing ...hmmphhhhh

[rakesh]

Billboard: "Obsessed" Holds Steady at #11 on Hot 100

Below, find Mariah's chart positions in Billboard magazine issue dated September 5, 2009.

"Obsessed"

Billboard Hot 100: #11 (Last week: #11)

Billboard Hot 100 Airplay: #9 (Last week: #12)

Billboard Pop 100 Airplay: #24 (Last week: #26)

Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: #12 (Last week #15)

Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: #12 (Last week #15)

Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play Songs: #18 (Last week #30)

Billboard Lala.com: #2 (Last week: #5)

Billboard Yahoo Video: #2 (Last week: #2)

Billboard Hot Digital Songs: #11 (Last week: #13)

Downloads this week: 71,812 (-2%)

Total downloads: 526,749

Billboard Hot Singles Sales (Walmart): #1 (Last week: #1)

Sales this week: 5,298 (-36%)

Total sales: 14,667

 

 

Holding the No. 11 spot once again this week is Mariah Carey's "Obsessed," which also becomes Carey's record-extending 23rd top 10 on Hot 100 Airplay.

[rakesh]

Amazon Reviews Memoirs

 

Imperfections are in the eye of the beholder. You can see them as flaws, or as the very qualities that make us human -- and that make us strive to be better people in search of a perfection that we know we can never fully achieve. In the thirteen songs on her spellbinding new album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, Mariah Carey explores those aspects of our shared humanity with a rare depth, honesty and open-heartedness. It's one of the strongest statements in her long, distinguished career.

 

The subject of Memoirs is love at all its stages in our lives. Experiencing it for the first time. Losing it. Remembering its most painful moments, and also its times of greatest innocence and joy. Yearning for it. Learning from it. Growing as a result of its profound power. Finding it again and being grateful for so great a gift. And, finally, being humbled, filled with wonder and elevated by love's mysterious ways. In that sense and more, Memoirs is a full, immensely satisfying journey.

 

"Each song is like an intimate conversation or entry in a private diary," Carey says about the album. "A lot of the songs reflect specific, different times in my life. Others were inspired by movies, actual events that happened to me, or the stories of friends who told me about experiences that they've gone through." With just one exception, Carey wrote and produced the entire album in collaboration with The-Dream and Tricky Stewart. The trio clearly shared an inspired sense of what Memoirs should be. Sinuous grooves and instantly memorable melodies flow from track to track, while the wit and intimacy of the lyrics create the feel of one friend talking to another. As well-defined as each song is, Memoirs plays with the beauty and consistency of a classic, start-to-finish album.

 

"My main goal was to work with people I could collaborate with without it seeming redundant or stale," Carey says. "In my opinion Tricky is one of the most underrated major producers out there right now. I really enjoyed collaborating with him. And I especially liked writing with The-Dream, basically because we both love having fun with lyrics and melodies, and we're also capable of getting more serious on deeper songs. There is a particular sense of freedom I feel when we write together -- even though I make him stay in the studio all night until he is ready to kill me! LOL!"

 

Memoirs' first single is the hard-hitting "Obsessed," which is accompanied by a video directed by Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour trilogy) in which Carey plays both the glamorous star and her stalker fan. Like the video, the song's lyrics combine devastating putdowns ("Last man on the Earth still couldn't get this") with humor ("See right through you like you're bathin' in Windex"). The no-nonsense "Up Out My Face" captures a similar caustic mood, dismissing a former lover with the send-off, "When I break, I break, boy." "It's a Wrap" delivers a similar message about the end of an affair: "When it's gone, it's gone." "Standing O," with its irresistible chorus, sardonically applauds a faithless ex for his signature achievement: "You played the one that loved you the most." "Betcha Gon' Know" foresees karmic revenge for a wayward lover, but, once again, the clever lyrics ("Oprah Winfrey whole segment for real, for real / 20/20 Barbara Walters for real, for real") encourage a smile amid the pain.

 

The ballad "H.A.T.E.U.," meanwhile, finds the singer seeing life in the wake of a breakup and longing for the moment when loss and regret transform into a cleansing anger. But the title of the song doesn't necessarily stand for what you think it might. "H.A.T.E.U. is the first song I wrote for the album," Carey says, "and it stands for Having A Typical Emotional Upset."

 

Always a brilliant technical singer with an extraordinary vocal range, Carey rises to new heights on that track. "I sing a recurring melody in the upper register of my voice; it's not an ad-lib, but an integral part of the song's hook," she says. "That's not something I've done before, and when listening back to it, it reminded me of how Minnie Riperton used her upper register on her hit song `Lovin' You.' I thought how ironic that her song was called `Lovin' You' and my song is called, 'H.A.T.E.U.' - and both use that upper `whistle register' as a major part of the melody. So it's sort of an homage to Minnie Riperton, a tribute to her since she has been so influential in my singing style."

 

On a tender note, the wistful "Candy Bling" beautifully evokes the blissful realm of young love ("Anklets, name plates that you gave to me/Sweet tarts, ring pops had that candy bling/And you were my world"), while "Inseparable" aches for a love that went wrong for reasons that seem impossible to comprehend. "More Than Just Friends" floats off into a fantasy of what a casual relationship might become ("Permanently paint me in your picture like Picasso/Love me down till I hit the top of my soprano!"). "Ribbon" and "The Impossible" swoon with happiness and thankfulness over redemptive love that has returned to make life rich again. "You did the impossible," Carey sings. "You rescued my love."

 

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel ends with a spectacularly powerful gospel rendition of Foreigner's gorgeous ballad, "I Want to Know What Love Is." Carey's voice soars into the heavens as a soul-stirring choir makes it clear that the search for love is the closest that any human being ever gets to the divine.

 

Which brings us back to the angel of the album's title. "I had written a song called 'Imperfect,'" Carey says, "but it didn't make it onto the album. The lyrics of that song address the fact that the world puts so much pressure on us -- especially on women -- to be perfect and look a certain way, and that is impossible because nobody is perfect. Only God is perfect. I know I've tried to be a good person, but I am definitely no angel!"

 

"But after I put this album together and decided to name it Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel," she concludes, "I remembered that the Minnie Riperton album that contained 'Lovin' You' was called Perfect Angel. So I felt in so many ways that it was meant to be."

Source: Amazon | Luke

[LuisMa]

I'm so because the Top 10 seems to be so crowded nowadays. Pitbull and Cobra Starship are both still above Mariah in sales and airplay, and the faltering Keri Hilson is not faltering enought to make Mariah step forward. I think next week she'll be at 11 again.

[Lymon]

Full song is out

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?0yzmhn2gjv4

 

I LOVE IT!!! Way better than the snippet!!! The belting from 2:50 onwards is so incredible!

[Nikosn17]

OMG I'm dying. THAT WAS AMAZING !

[dj4celine]

After I woke up and was doing the dishes, Sebbie comes over and tell me that the 2nd single has leaked and I'm like "Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight". He gave me the link and downloaded it and fcuk its gorgeous

[celinefanonline]

i like it it's very very good

love it

but again the first chorus is usual the whispery voice lol

[LuisMa]

I'm confuzzled.

 

I love Foreigner and Tina Arena, but never liked "I Want To Know What Love Is."

 

But now I think Mariah did a great job. The only part I did not like was the first whispery chorus, but the rest is excellent. Don't know if I'll love it like past Mariah songs, but at least I'm not disappointed.