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.
