Barbra Streisand administered a terrible butt kicking to fellow singer, Mariah Carey, on the pop charts, when her CD “Love Is The Answer” debuted at #1, pushing the latter down to #3 with her news release, "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel." Ouch.
First Whitney Houston beat her, now Barbra Streisand. It certainly doesn’t make up for all the records she’s robbed both women of in the Guinness World Book through fraud, but it is a start.
Paramore, Mariah Carey Lose #1 Spot To Barbra Streisand
Oct 7 2009 12:34 PM EDT - Paramore's Brand New Eyes debuts just behind Babs and beats Mimi's latest on the Billboard Albums chart.
Paramore shouldn't feel too bad that they were just barely beat out for a #1 debut by one of pop's all-time classic divas while beating out a mega-selling modern one — and notching their best first week ever in the process.
Though the band's third album, Brand New Eyes, will bow at #2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week, after selling 175,000 copies, they can rest easy knowing that they were just a nose behind legend Barbra Streisand, whose album of jazz standards, Love Is the Answer, snagged the top spot with sales of 180,000. The feat, Babs' ninth #1 album, gives her at least one top debut in each of the past five decades.
The news was not as good for Mariah Carey, whose Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (168,000) sold considerably less in its first week than her last album, E=MC2 (463,000), according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan...
Hits Daily Double has announced, the band Paramore, extended their lead for the number one spot on the Billboard charts next week, besting Mariah Carey "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel" by 30,000 copies.
Carey's latest flop is reminiscent of the career tanking bomb that was "Glitter" spawning the song "Never Too Far"
Currently, Paramore, who has done work for the "Twilight" movie soundtrack, is projected to sell 190,000 copies for the week. Carey is projected to sell 160,000. Her last CD "E=MC2" sold more than double that amount during its first week of release.
The new numbers are reminiscent of the flop that was her 2001 "Glitter" album, which sold 110,000 copies in the first week of release and sent her to the psych ward after a suicide attempt.
Contrary to what some might think, her falling sales, has nothing to do with her turning 40 soon. People aren’t supporting Carey for other reasons.
The lackluster, unoriginal "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel" has bred imperfect sales, making it one of her worst selling albums to date.
Looks like Mariah is joining Madonna on the musical scrap heap, as the latter is on track to sell between 60-67,000 copies this week.
Mariah Carey drunk as a skunk over flatlined career
Mariah Carey's latest effort, the album entitled "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel" is not selling well. First the Eminem fiasco, the Foreigner fail and now this.
"Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel" is currently positioned to place at #2 on the Billboard Charts next week, with sales of 160,000 to 170,000 copies, her lowest in nearly a decade.
When one factors in the usually inevitable, second week percentage drop in sales, "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel" is firmly on track to be turkey. Thanksgiving has come early. The exposure she gained from the Oprah Winfrey Show was for naught.
In other news, Carey was pictured staggering out of a restaurant drunk, due to the bad news. Back to the "Glitter" days, then.
Considering her past history in trying to take her life, someone should put her on suicide watch...again. Really, to take one's music career seriously enough, to the point of suicide attempts, is crazy.
Pop thief Madonna also bombed very badly with the release of her spectacularly stinky Greatest Hits album, which is on track to sell a paltry 67,000 copies. Never mind the Eagles sold 28,000,000 of their Greatest Hits CD.
Madonna is over. She hasn't had a hit album in America in over a decade. Hence, her trying to pimp out her preteen daughter in a sexually charged video, to no avail, as she is the spitting image of her and the world is tired of all things Madonna.
Barbara Streisand isn't faring too badly with her latest effort that received virtually no real promotion. It is on track to sell 160,000 copies.
Whitney Houston
However, it looks like this round of the battle of the Sopranos goes to Whitney Houston. Though her sales were not spectacular, Houston sold 300,000 copies during the first week of release, with a 70% decline in the second week.
Disclaimer: the term soprano is loosely applied to Madonna as she cannot sing for anything.
Fueled by Ramen Punk-Rockers Hold the Edge Over Diva in One-Day Returns
September 30, 2009 - Brand New Eyes, the third studio album from the band, fronted by lead vocalist Hayley Williams, takes an early lead in the race with a one-day sales total that projects to 180-190k for the week.
That gives them the edge over Island/IDJ diva Mariah Carey’s Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, which is now on target for 160-170k. With a question as to how front-loaded those sales for Paramore are, Carey could close the edge if she has a brisk weekend.
Those two are among the five top debuts next week, all registering in six-figures, including Columbia legend Barbra Streisand’s Love is the Answer (150-160k), Hollywood rockers Breaking Benjamin (140-150k) and Virgin/EMI’s retooled grunge gods Alice in Chains (130-140k).
Columbia Nashville country darling Miranda Lambert’s Revolution heads the other newcomers, with a total approaching 65-75k.
WB Material Gal Madonna’s Celebration greatest hits album is in the 60-70k range, as is Interscope goth-punks AFI’s Crash Love...
Mariah Carey's getting up to her old, desperate tricks again. She has stolen a song called "In The Club" by an international group named 2NE1 and renamed it "Standing O" for her forthcoming, already faltering album "Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel."
Since the beginning of her career, Carey has been sued by many people for stealing copyrights. She was sued for stealing music by veteran artists such as Earth, Wind and Fire and The Emotions. She was also sued by several song writers, producers and newer artists.
Thus far, Carey has stolen several of her hits such as "Hero" "Emotions" "Make It Happen" "Can't Let Go" "Thank God I Found You" and a few of the tracks from her last tepid album "E=MC2."
She was even heard on a work tape in the studio, subpoenaed by the court in one of the infringement cases, telling her producer to add something to the song she was recording that she wished to discreetly steal from a preexisting George Michael hit tune.
Mariah Carey wearing a red string Kabbalah bracelet on her right hand, signifying the thieving Hollywood cult fronted by Madonna
She previously stole the perfume "M" from my preexisting Copyrighted Catalog, which was originally named "Incensed" after an accompanying song I wrote for it. I've also found preexisting copyrighted lyrics from the Copyrighted Catalog strewn throughout her last album "E=MC2." That was fraud, grand theft larceny and criminal copyright infringement. An industry of thieves, indeed.
Beyonce and Jay-Z
She gained illegal access to the Catalog through her label (which Jay-Z was apart of as an executive, having received an illegal copy from his wife, Sony artist, Beyonce, following the federally acknowledge, despicable industry crime of illegally passing around copyrights not your own).
Sadly, Mariah Carey's career has not been based on merit. Her ex-husband, former Sony C.E.O., Tommy Mottola, who signed her to a record deal at age 18, began an illicit sexual affair with her, whilst married to his wife of 20-years, who he had two preteen boys with at the time.
Mariah Carey and Tommy Mottola
Mottola rigged Mariah's career to great extremes, using massive amounts of payola and bribery, to get her songs in constant rotation on the radio and on TV, overstocked in record stores worldwide, with each copy counting towards her sales, even if it was not purchased by consumers.
The RIAA domestically counts the number of album and singles shipped, not sold, in awarding gold, platinum and diamond certifications. This fraud consistently sent her to the top of the charts, but not on merit.
Mottola pocketed the lion's share of the money, whilst Career was given the false appearance of having the most successful female recording career of all time.
The truth is Whitney Houston, Barbara Streisand and Patti Page are the most successful female artists of all time, on different levels, based on number one singles, number one albums, domestic sales and international sales.
Whitney Houston
Due to artists like Mariah Carey, Madonna and Jay-Z, who've all been outed employing chart rigging scams, payola and fraud at retail outlets to inflate the number of records sold, the history books and Guinness World Records, have been severely tainted.
The Guinness World Records have unintentionally been rendered inaccurate, where the three aforementioned artists make undeserved appearances in said books, due to fraud.
Don't laugh, as Jay-Z, an rapper busted by Soundscan for paying retailers to run each of his CDs through the register three times to inflate his sales, has now inconceivably surpassed, Elvis Presley, a real artist, for the most number one albums in history by a solo act, which is despicable.
Jay-Z has not even sold half the number of records he is fraudulently claiming and thus did not truly go to number one on the charts each time he claimed, yet has taken the world record from actual musicians, such as Elvis Presley and separately, challenging the Beatles' world book record, who've respectively sold a few hundred million records.
Jay-Z
What a farce! It is such a disgrace. And just take a look at the garbage Jay-Z puts out, trying to pass it off as something legitimate. It's not even real music.
The aforementioned three artists have robbed other musical acts such as Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin and Barbara Streisand, of various musical feats in the history books, through sheer fraud and bribery.
It is my hope that one day the Guinness World Books will be corrected to reflect the truth. Something tells me it will be.
Jay-Z Surpasses Elvis for Most No. 1 Albums on Billboard
September 17, 2009 ...Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 has topped the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart in its debut week selling 475,000 copies...
The latest No. 1 from Jay-Z will also make him surpass Elvis Presley for having the most No. 1 albums. Jay-Z's previous release American Gangster, released November 6th, 2007, hit No. 1 making him tie with the King having the most No. 1 albums in Billboard history.
However, Jay-Z may have passed Elvis but he will need to release 8 more No. 1 albums in order to be the real king of No. 1's, The Beatles having 19 No. 1 albums.
Footage has surfaced online of Michael Jackson’s last performance, filmed before he died, which reveals the singer at his absolute skinniest, frailest and palest. He did not look like he was in a good place, as he appeared conflicted, unsure and troubled.
However, his voice was as lovely as ever, take note Mariah Carey. Jackson's dance moves were still there as well, but he seemed somewhat restrained and deliberately careful, as he mechanically moved through the dance sequence, as if trying to protect himself from injury and keep it all together.
Side Bar: I’m sorry, I have to go there. Some of Michael’s moves looked a little, how do you say it, delicate. Did you catch that swish at 0:10 and that shimmy at 0:34 (grin). I'm just teasing.
Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon and Oprah Winfrey (Bauer Griffin)
Oprah Winfrey has been interviewing every pop personality in a bid for stronger ratings, due to her decline in viewership. Next, Oprah Winfrey will interview Oprah Winfrey.
Mariah Carey performing in Las Vegas to a small audience, due to poor ticket sales
I caught a clip of Oprah Winfrey interviewing Mariah Carey and it was much less interesting than the Whitney Houston piece last week. Carey gave her usual, run of the mill, juvenile interview.
Girl to Mariah: No, girl, no, that outfit is all wrong!
Her performance was not much better. Carey whispered and cracked her way through the Foreigner classic “I Wanna Know What Love Is.” It was an appalling choice, ill-suited to her struggling voice. Words were missing unintentionally, as her voice gave out.
Recently, I wrote about the depletion of singer Mariah Carey's voice and asked why Whitney Houston, who did a significant amount of illicit drugs, still sings better than Carey does, in spite of her narcotics usage.
Over the last week, Houston did a series of performances to support her new CD and the wear and tear on her voice, from years of drug abuse showed.
Actually, it was evident on the record and a song she released last year, as Houston now sounds like she is in a silo of some sort. It is due to poor production on the new album and years of drug abuse. However, her vocals were still strong and she can still sing.
Whitney Houston in the 80s
British pop singer, George Michael, one of the biggest voices of the 1980's, had a similar problem, where it was reported, doctors informed him, the cocaine use was burning his vocal cords to a crisp.
A still from George Michael's "Careless Whisper" video
Michael, who had found success as a soulful pop singer and songwriter, penning such megahits as "Careless Whisper" and "Faith" did not take the news well.
Celine Dion
Other singers, such as Celine Dion, had vocal trouble as well. The Canadian singer, enjoyed a massive string of hits, but something went wrong on stage one day and her voice disappeared. Scary. Her physician instructed her not to speak for two weeks and her voice came back.
I just realized something, all of the above mentioned singers are Sony artists (Carey spent most of her career on Sony).
Mariah Carey in the early 1990s
For years, since her voice began going south, Carey has obsessively filled hotel rooms with humidifiers, which is clearly a bid at saving her voice.
Mariah Carey trying to relive her old look from the beginning of her career
On the track "Like That" Carey brags about smoking marijuana stating, "Purple taking me higher" which was slang for getting high on weed. Drug use is not of help to her struggling voice.
Vocal changes sometimes happen, due to aging and at times, freak occurrences, but there's no need to speed it along with drug use.
In short, singers need to take care of their voices and not take it for granted. What you put into your body does have an effect. That goes for narcotics and cigarette smoking.
Crazy, psych ward graduate, Mariah Carey, did an awful remake of the 1984 gospel-styled, Foreigner classic "I Wanna Know What Love Is." Carey deliberately leaked the remake to the internet yesterday and it is awful. I knew she would destroy and ruin the song.
Mick Jones, the British lead singer of Foreigner, who coincidentally wrote the tune, did it a million times better. When one writes such an instant classic, it is best to deny remake requests. Right now, I'm trying to forget Carey's awful rendition, lest it ruin my memory of the song.
Carey's deteriorating voice is on dull display, showcasing the fall from the heights of pop stardom, it once occupied. Carey's voice, much like at Michael Jackson's memorial last month, is audibly cracking, whimpering and wobbling.
She had to apologize to audiences the next day, blaming her terrible performance on being emotional over Jackson's death. What's she going to blame it on this time - the death of the Foreigner classic she killed. She is to this song what Dr. Conrad Murray is to Michael Jackson - musical Propofol.
The 1998 remake of "I Wanna Know What Love Is" by Carey's then Sony labelmate, Tina Arena, is better than this version, though still not as good as the original.
If one is going to do a remake, one should ensure it is as good as or better than the original. Turning in sub-par remakes only angers audiences. If you are not going to bring something new to the table, other than your over-inflated ego, don't bother showing up.
How is it Sony's Whitney Houston smoked enough drugs to clear poppy fields in the Middle East, yet still sounds better than Carey, even with weak songs and few of which are unoriginal and devalued (i.e. Houston's new song "Salute").
What happened to Carey's voice. Something went haywire with it in the mid 90's and it never came back. It appears to be a natural occurrence, but one that transpired decades earlier than normal for a singer, if at all.
Mariah Carey previously stole her first perfume, turning what was a good, valuable copyrighted product, into devalued, harebrained, distasteful nonsense.
"Still" by Jennifer Lopez - Mariah Carey's ad campaign rips off the theme, dress, hairstyle (era) and sofa with buttons.
Now comes her third fragrance "Forever" and the campaign is a massive rip off of singer Jennifer Lopez's preexisting, years old perfume "Still."
Mariah “Karaoke” Carey, reeling from the failure of her current Eminem diss single “Obsessed” which was the lead off to her forthcoming album due in September, is going to enrage classic rock fans everywhere, by remaking the 1980’s Foreigner tune “I Wanna Know What Love Is.” I was listening to that song just the other day.
That tune is a classic, but watch Carey butcher and ruin it, with her now decimated, irritating voice, much like she did in the terrible remake of the Phil Collins mega-hit “Against All Odds.”
It’s a sad day when a man with less octaves than you allegedly have, sings his song a million times better than you.
It will serve as further proof Carey is not creative and relies on taking other people’s music or making sub par remakes of songs that were already huge hits, in bids at stopping her career from dying.
Side Bar: the tracks “Angels Cry” and “It’s A Wrap” are not Carey’s, though they’ve illegally ended up on her forthcoming CD. God doesn’t like ugly, Mariah and will not bless you for it.
Mariah Carey bets on nostalgia, covering Foreigner
August 18, 2009 | 12:40 pm - Perhaps realizing that the focus should be less on Mariah Carey's feud with Eminem and a bit more on the pop diva, more hints were dropped today about the singer's upcoming "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel." The ad-supported album, which was originally set for Aug. 25, is now due to be released Sept. 29.
The second single from Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" will apparently be a cover of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" (perhaps tackling "Don't Stop Believing" would have been a too-obvious choice of pandering).
The news was first reported by Roger Friedman, and his article has since been posted on Carey's official website.
This isn't the first time Carey has covered an '80s ballad -- see her take on "I Still Believe" above. The latter gave Carey yet another top 10 hit, a status that has thus far eluded her "Obsessed."...
After the dismal showing of her lead off single, the Eminem mocking track "Obsessed" Mariah Carey has returned to the recording studio, with her tail between her legs. Carey was clearly knocked for six, after suffering a musical thrashing from her one time lover, Detroit rapper, Eminem.
She has pushed back her album's release date, which is a tell-tale sign of trouble. Labels usually push up album release dates when the lead single does well.
Eminem
When the single is tanking, they push it back, delaying the inevitable defeat on the charts, by trying to rework the project and add new material.
Side Bar: I'm still wondering why crazy Mariah thought she could handle an musical onslaught by a viper-tongued rapper.
Mariah Carey returns to studio, delays album again
Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:11pm EDT - NEW YORK (Billboard) - Originally scheduled for an August 25th release date and then September 15th, Mariah Carey's upcoming 12th studio album, has been delayed yet again.
"Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" will now arrive two weeks later on September 29th. A source at her Def Jam label said the singer needs to return to the studio to record additional songs.
Carey has also pulled out of a string of appearances surrounding the album's release, including "VH1 Storytellers," the "Today" Show concert series, the MTV Video Music Awards and her Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony.
The album's first single, "Obsessed," reached No. 11 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart...
Eminem and Mariah Carey feud for real says 50 cent
...Now it is being claimed that the whole feud between Carey and Eminem is a contrived set-up to promote their new albums but associates of Eminem deny this to be the case.
'Eminem doesn't mess with fans like that. This is real as can be, he has a statement to make and he is going to make it in ways some might not like' rapper and associate of Eminem, 50 Cent was reported as saying.
Originally posted Saturday August 15, 2009 11:55 AM EDT - Reports that Mariah Carey has rescheduled several upcoming appearances has left many fans wondering if something might be wrong with the singer.
Carey, 40, had been tentatively set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Aug. 25, perform on Today Aug. 28, and also tape an episode of VH1's Storytellers.
But the singer's publicist Cindi Berger tells PEOPLE there is no reason for concern: "These dates have been postponed and not cancelled," she said Friday.
A source says the singer is completing her new album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, the release of which has been pushed to Sept. 29...
Pop singer, Mariah Carey, is running for cover, as her career has started tanking again and in a massive way. Instead of celebrating her pending 40th birthday with dignity and grace, she has opted for an overly youthful, street album that does not suit her.
Eminem
Not to mention, she took verbal shots at acerbic rapper, Eminem, who let her have it with a counter-diss track titled "The Warning" which humiliated her all over the internet.
Miley Cyrus
Her current project has turned into an absolute fiasco, where everything that could go wrong has, much to her chagrin. Her big planned performance on the Today Show, has now been replaced by one featuring another MC, popular teen singer, Miley Cyrus (stay off that stripper pole, girl).
To be frank, Carey's new single stinks and her voice is even more depleted than the last go round. But she's not the only one in trouble.
Whitney Houston
Sony singer, the talented Whitney Houston, is in a bit of a pickle as well, as her producers have done a subpar job with her current record, wasting her talent and time. But leave it to the vile head of Sony, Howard Stringer, to let something like this happen.
Man-donna
Then, there's the only female singer in the bunch of imminent forthcoming releases who can't sing, Madonna, coming back with more stupid sounding trash that's sure to tank her greatest hits record.
It's official, mainstream music is toast.
Mariah Carey Calls Out, Miley Cyrus Fills In at TODAY Show
Originally planned for Friday, August 28 and anticipated by fans around the world for weeks, including those who entered to receive tickets from NBC, the gig was called off late Wednesday.
In an email sent to parties confirmed to attend and those on a waiting list, NBC producers did not provide a reason for Carey's cancellation but instead confirmed actress/entertainer Miley Cyrus as a fill in.
"The previously announced Mariah Carey performance on Friday, August 28th has been canceled. This date will now feature a performance by MILEY CYRUS," NBC confirmed...
