Mariah Carey: Official Topic

[rakesh]

Billboard Hot 100 55th Anniversary By The Numbers

 

This week, Billboard observed the 55th anniversary of the Hot 100 Singles Chart by reviewing major milestones of the chart's history.

 

Below, see Mariah's statistics.

 

Top 100 Artists: #5

 

Most No. 1's By Artist: #2 (18 #1's)

 

Most Top 10 Hits By Artist #5 (27 Top 10 hits)

 

Most Weeks at No. 1 By Artist: #1 (79 weeks at #1)

 

Most Weeks at #1 By Song:

16 One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men

14 I Gotta Feeling The Black Eyed Peas

14 We Belong Together - Mariah Carey

14 Candle In The Wind 1997 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight - Elton John

14 Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)- Los Del Rio

14 I'll Make Love To You - Boyz II Men

14 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston]

13 The Boy Is Mine - Brandy & Monica

13 End Of The Road - Boyz II Men

12 Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas

12 Yeah! - Usher feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris

12 Lose Yourself - Eminem

12 Smooth - Santana feat. Rob Thomas

 

All-Time Top 100 Songs

11. "We Belong Together"

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 14 weeks (2005)

 

34. "One Sweet Day"

Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 16 weeks (1995)

Edited August 4, 2013 at 09:04 PM by rakesh

[Ray]

www.ukmix.org

 

Is a message board for all kind of artists, but they have one of the best Mariah threads.

They've also got a thread about Celine.

For anyone who loves to talk about music, it's a perfect message board.

[Prima_Donna1]

www.ukmix.org

 

Is a message board for all kind of artists, but they have one of the best Mariah threads.

They've also got a thread about Celine.

For anyone who loves to talk about music, it's a perfect message board.

I have been there and not a bad forum. Thanks for the info Ray!

[rakesh]

Track list revealed for Mariah's new album

 

http://mcarchives.com/images/leeg.gif Making the rounds of insider music forums across the net, is a rumoured track list for superstar Mariah Carey's upcoming The Art Of Letting Go. Previously delayed from July, the album is now expected to be released in November of 2013. The rumoured list includes many past high-profile collaborators as well as some exciting new ones that she's never worked with before...

 

The list of songs of the new album "The Art Of Letting Go"

01. Make It Look Good / Produced by Jermaine Dupri

02. #Beautiful (Feat. Miguel) / Produced by Miguel + Mariah + Happy Perez

03. You're Mine / Produced by The-Dream

04. You Don't Know What / Produced by Jermaine Dupri

05. Hope Street / Produced by The-Dream

06. Lullaby of Birdland - Interlude / Produced by Big Jim Wright

07. The Art of Letting Go / Produced by Jermaine Dupri

08. I Can't Love U (Feat. R. Kelly) / Produced by Darkchild

09. Mr. Operator / Produced by Mike WiLL Made It

10. Hurricane / Produced by Hit-Boy

11. This Cannot Be Love / Produced by Big Jim Wright

12. I'll Still Be Around (Feat. Stevie Wonder) / Produced by Walter Afanasieff

13. Heart / Produced by Big Jim Wright

14. Save The Day / Produced by Bryan Michael Cox

 

 

 

 

i hope to God this is true coz i just JUMPED when i saw Stevie Wonder's & Walter Afanasieff's name :w00t: !!!!

[rakesh]

Mariah Recalls Scarring Spit Attack Evoked By Butler Scene

 

Mariah Carey wasn't about to close her eyes to the past when discussing racism and the making of "Lee Daniels' The Butler" during a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Monday, also attended by Oprah Winfrey and the much of the film's ensemble cast. Carey recalled she was riding on a Long Island school bus when a student spit on her when she was a child because of the color of her skin. And the foul memory came flooding back while she was making "The Butler."

 

In the movie, Carey plays the mother of Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), a character based on the White House Butler Eugene Allen, who served presidents for 34 years and retired in 1986. In the early scene of the sweeping period drama about America's tumultuous racial past as seen through the butler's eyes, a dissolute plantation owner's son rapes Mariah's Georgia sharecropper. Immediately afterwards, the rapist shoots her husband dead in front of their son, Cecil, who has goaded his father to protest the violence against his mother.

 

As traumatic as Mariah's scene and its aftermath is, what apparently disturbed the singer/actress most was the recreation of the Woolworth's Lunch Counter sit-in located in North Carolina in 1960. In that emotional moment in the struggle for racial equality, a white woman spits on a black college student (Yaya Alafia) simply for asking to be served at the whites-only counter.

 

"That actually happened to me," Carey said on Monday. "I know people would be in shock and not really want to believe or accept that, but it did. ... That right there, that was almost the deepest thing to me in the movie because I know what she went through — and it happened to be a bus as well. It was a school bus."

 

Winfrey: "Where somebody spit on you?"

 

Carey: "Yeah. In the face and in the same way."

 

The daughter of a white Irish American mother and an African American/Venezuelan father that raised her in "safe" suburban Long Island, Carey, 43, still didn't grow up protected from racial bias. The song lyrics for "Close My Eyes" echo this experience: "I left the worst unsaid; Let it all dissipate; And I try to forget."

 

In the past, Carey has discussed the fact that her mother Patricia's family disowned her for marrying a man of color in 1960. It was a rejection that Mariah felt very deeply. The racial tensions also had a negative impact on her parents's marriage and they divorced when Mariah was three.

 

In fact, Mariah and her mother Patricia appeared on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" last year in an episode that addressed being biracial in America. On the show, Mariah talks about her personal struggles with growing up biracial and penning poetry about her conflicted feelings as early as the third grade.

 

On the show, Carey told Oprah, "One of the first memories I have is when I was in kindergarten or nursery school they asked us to draw a picture of our family and so I was drawing everybody and I got to my father and I started to make him brown. And, they were like, the kindergarten teachers are often young, and the two women were standing behind me giggling. And I turned around, self-conscious, and asked, 'why are your laughing?' And they said, 'you're doing that wrong. Why are you making your father the wrong color?' And I said, 'No, that’s the color that he is.' They made me feel like something was wrong with me, that it was a bizarre freakish thing."

 

To quote Mariah's theme song, "They can say; anything they want to say; try to bring me down" – but spitting tries even a budding diva's sense of inner peace.

 

Source: Yahoo! Movies

 

 

 

ok; in this article there is a portion that i highlighted in bold ...what does that part mean? does it mean that Mariah's character is going to get raped in the movie?? coz i sure would not want to see THAT !!!! i can stand horror, mild gore & considerable amount of violence in movies; but NOT rape scenes!!!!! ...especially not MARIAH!!!! well... she's only acting but then again ...

Edited August 8, 2013 at 01:31 AM by rakesh

[Prima_Donna1]

Track list revealed for Mariah's new album

 

http://mcarchives.com/images/leeg.gif Making the rounds of insider music forums across the net, is a rumoured track list for superstar Mariah Carey's upcoming The Art Of Letting Go. Previously delayed from July, the album is now expected to be released in November of 2013. The rumoured list includes many past high-profile collaborators as well as some exciting new ones that she's never worked with before...

 

The list of songs of the new album "The Art Of Letting Go"

01. Make It Look Good / Produced by Jermaine Dupri

02. #Beautiful (Feat. Miguel) / Produced by Miguel + Mariah + Happy Perez

03. You're Mine / Produced by The-Dream

04. You Don't Know What / Produced by Jermaine Dupri

05. Hope Street / Produced by The-Dream

06. Lullaby of Birdland - Interlude / Produced by Big Jim Wright

07. The Art of Letting Go / Produced by Jermaine Dupri

08. I Can't Love U (Feat. R. Kelly) / Produced by Darkchild

09. Mr. Operator / Produced by Mike WiLL Made It

10. Hurricane / Produced by Hit-Boy

11. This Cannot Be Love / Produced by Big Jim Wright

12. I'll Still Be Around (Feat. Stevie Wonder) / Produced by Walter Afanasieff

13. Heart / Produced by Big Jim Wright

14. Save The Day / Produced by Bryan Michael Cox

 

 

 

 

i hope to God this is true coz i just JUMPED when i saw Stevie Wonder's & Walter Afanasieff's name :w00t: !!!!

Wow that review of the album sounds good. Yea I hope that song with Walter is true! That would be great. About the movie yea I hope she doesn't get raped in it either but let's see what happens.

[Davey84]

Ok, I know that this isn't the topic for it, but the new Dutch tv guide featured Mariah:

 

 

and since Mariah has never been my favourite singer, and I have a bit of a hate/dislike relationship with her... I decided to alter it a bit...

 

 

 

don't hate me

[J-Man]

^

 

Now that's a cover!

[Javito]

So she's again with Walter Afanasieff? That's good news! Can't wait to listen how her new album sounds too.

[rakesh]

Ok, I know that this isn't the topic for it, but the new Dutch tv guide featured Mariah:

 

 

and since Mariah has never been my favourite singer, and I have a bit of a hate/dislike relationship with her... I decided to alter it a bit...

 

 

 

don't hate me

 

 

 

*&%#&%$&*^ !!!!!!

 

now im happy

[rakesh]

So she's again with Walter Afanasieff? That's good news! Can't wait to listen how her new album sounds too.

 

 

its not confirmed news!!! they havnt officially released the list yet.

[Bell]

ok; in this article there is a portion that i highlighted in bold ...what does that part mean? does it mean that Mariah's character is going to get raped in the movie?? coz i sure would not want to see THAT !!!! i can stand horror, mild gore & considerable amount of violence in movies; but NOT rape scenes!!!!! ...especially not MARIAH!!!! well... she's only acting but then again ...

Rape scenes are always more or less disturbing, I agree. However, that's reality. That's what happened to many women back then because they were considered slaves and their masters used them in every possible way. It is a fact and I think it actually needs to be shown in such a movie.

[Si J'etais Quelqu'un]

Track list revealed for Mariah's new album

 

http://mcarchives.com/images/leeg.gif Making the rounds of insider music forums across the net, is a rumoured track list for superstar Mariah Carey's upcoming The Art Of Letting Go. Previously delayed from July, the album is now expected to be released in November of 2013. The rumoured list includes many past high-profile collaborators as well as some exciting new ones that she's never worked with before...

 

The list of songs of the new album "The Art Of Letting Go"

01. Make It Look Good / Produced by Jermaine Dupri

02. #Beautiful (Feat. Miguel) / Produced by Miguel + Mariah + Happy Perez

03. You're Mine / Produced by The-Dream

04. You Don't Know What / Produced by Jermaine Dupri

05. Hope Street / Produced by The-Dream

06. Lullaby of Birdland - Interlude / Produced by Big Jim Wright

07. The Art of Letting Go / Produced by Jermaine Dupri

08. I Can't Love U (Feat. R. Kelly) / Produced by Darkchild

09. Mr. Operator / Produced by Mike WiLL Made It

10. Hurricane / Produced by Hit-Boy

11. This Cannot Be Love / Produced by Big Jim Wright

12. I'll Still Be Around (Feat. Stevie Wonder) / Produced by Walter Afanasieff

13. Heart / Produced by Big Jim Wright

14. Save The Day / Produced by Bryan Michael Cox

 

 

 

 

i hope to God this is true coz i just JUMPED when i saw Stevie Wonder's & Walter Afanasieff's name :w00t: !!!!

 

We'll see how much of this pans out. I remember stories about a "Hope Street" and I think it would be interesting if Bring It On Home didn't make the tracklisting, as she performed it for Obama and the recording of the song in the studio was featured in her 20/20 interview in January. I just see Jermaine's name now and I get a little nervous. They've made a few glorious songs together, and then a lot of thudding, microwaved midtempo nonsense imo.

 

As for The Dream, I loved the Memoirs album and to me, a Candy Bling is far more interesting than a Thanx 4 Nothin'. Big Jim Wright and Brian Michael Cox, I have no complaints. Darkchild, we'll just see what happens. The idea of Walter is fascinating to me. But back when Memoirs was being worked on, she hinted that she was working with a collaborator she hadn't done anything with in a long time, and I guess Walter's daughter claimed it was he, and then nothing came of it. I wish she had hung around with Marc Shaiman a bit more. Not to sound pretentious, but he seemed to remember something about Mariah that she'd forgotten about herself, when they worked on her second Christmas album, and further work together would have been nice.

[GoldenLeaf]

This reporter claims Beautiful is not a hit. I chewed her up and spat her out.

 

http://www.examiner....ut-a-hit-single

This article reflect nothing but the TRUTH. Not only Beautiful has been stalling for 2 weeks at #15 but it has been free-falling since then on the Billboard Hot 100 (Beautiful is currently at #60).

 

http://www.billboard.../hot-100?page=5

 

A payola deal with Clear Channel and a collaboration with a young black singer were not enough to transform Beautiful into a Hit. The reality is that Mariah is just way too old to compete with the youngsters like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.

Edited August 9, 2013 at 06:10 PM by GoldenLeaf

[Si J'etais Quelqu'un]

This article reflect nothing but the TRUTH. Not only Beautiful has been stalling for 2 weeks at #15 but it has been free-falling since then on the Billboard Hot 100 (Beautiful is currently at #60).

 

http://www.billboard.../hot-100?page=5

 

A payola deal with Clear Channel and a collaboration with a young black singer were not enough to transform Beautiful into a Hit. The reality is that Mariah is just way too old to compete with the youngsters like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.

 

When that article was written, the song hadn't yet stalled, it had still been on an upward trajectory. Of course we know that it did end up in 15th place before declining, so I own that the song didn't do so well in the end, given the kickoff it had. And I'm disappointed that whatever promo value it had has now been wasted due to the delays with no new announcements in sight. But I thought the woman who wrote the article was premature and she was taking a little too much pleasure in reporting news.

[Ray]

www.ukmix.org

 

Is a message board for all kind of artists, but they have one of the best Mariah threads.

They've also got a thread about Celine.

For anyone who loves to talk about music, it's a perfect message board.

I have been there and not a bad forum. Thanks for the info Ray!

 

I think it's great they don't allow anyone to be nasty about other artists. And it's great to read what fans think about their favorite star.

I don't follow everyone of course, so it's great the fans post the latest news so I'm always up to date.

[Macaronie]

The only thing I donot like about #bootiful is her laughing and giggling like a Miley Cyrus. Otherwise I like the vintage sound of it.

[Macaronie]

Devej you child. You should be an artist.

 

I'll Still Be Around (Feat. Stevie Wonder

 

Original.

[Bell]

The only thing I donot like about #bootiful is her laughing and giggling

Me too. It kind of ruins the video for me.

[rakesh]

The only thing I donot like about #bootiful is her laughing and giggling like a Miley Cyrus. Otherwise I like the vintage sound of it.

 

 

i was ok with it until i saw that video !!!!

[rakesh]

slow news ; but i thought this was funny

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=O6NDB89qMaE

[PriscillaBarragan]

slow news ; but i thought this was funny

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=O6NDB89qMaE

 

Haha I thought this was funny too!

 

Has anyone seen The Butler yet? I know she plays a part in the movie but going to the movies is so expensive now so I haven't gotten around to it.

[Prima_Donna1]

 

 

Haha I thought this was funny too!

 

Has anyone seen The Butler yet? I know she plays a part in the movie but going to the movies is so expensive now so I haven't gotten around to it.

Haven't seen it but I am anxious to see how she will do in this movie.

[rakesh]

Haven't seen it but I am anxious to see how she will do in this movie.

 

ive read on imdb discussions thats she's on for like, 2 barely there scenes

[Prima_Donna1]

ive read on imdb discussions thats she's on for like, 2 barely there scenes

Thanks for the info.

[Bell]

I just saw trailer of 'The Butler' on a Bulgarian website. Really seems like a movie that I'd love.

[PriscillaBarragan]

Jermaine Dupri is Mariah's new manager now!

 

I'm not quite sure that's a good thing. Hopefully it is.

Edited October 7, 2013 at 11:05 PM by PriscillaBarragan

[PriscillaBarragan]

Also, I was on twitter and a lamb pointed out something which is probably not true but would be amazing. According to Mariah's The Art Of Letting Go wikipedia page (I know, I know) there's going to be a duet with Celine. It's probably not true, but one can dream right?

[zuv]

OH.MY.GOD

 

i'm addicted to "Almost Home"!!!!! ITs sooo good!

 

its been on repeat all day.

 

Im not a mariah fan, its the only song i have and MerryChristmas II you.

 

Any similar addicting song like this?? and im not a fan of her RNB ballads (which is i think pretty much what she sings i think)

[LuisMa]

OH.MY.GOD

 

i'm addicted to "Almost Home"!!!!! ITs sooo good!

 

its been on repeat all day.

 

Im not a mariah fan, its the only song i have and MerryChristmas II you.

 

Any similar addicting song like this?? and im not a fan of her RNB ballads (which is i think pretty much what she sings i think)

 

Bad boy once again

 

For me, an epic Mariah ballad is "Whenever You Call" and there are some amazing songs in her 90s albums that were not singles.

 

I also love LOVE "For The Record" and "I Wish You Well" but they are R&B-ish, the second one leaning to the gospel side.