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Mariah Carey: Early Career Success 1990-1999
Her career began in with the release of her debut album in 1990, when she was just twenty years old. She became a commercial success almost overnight, and the album produced four huge #1 hit singles: "Vision Of Love," "Someday," "Love Takes Time," and "I Don't Want To Cry". Carey's second album,
Emotions, was released in the fall of 1991 and its first single, the title track, also was an American #1 hit. This song gave Carey the record of being the only musician or band ever to have had their first five singles all hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in America.
Emotions had several other top five singles, such as "If It's Over," "Can't Let Go," and "Make It Happen".
In 1992, Carey perfomed all her hits on MTV Unplugged, as well as a new song, a cover of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There". It, too, rose quickly to the top of America's pop charts.
Carey's next studio album,
Music Box, was released in 1993 and spawned the hits "Anytime You Need A Friend," "Never Forget You," and the hugely popular number one songs "Hero" and "Dreamlover". These songs, and Carey's duet with Luther Vandross of Diana Ross' "Endless Love," made Carey one of the most-played musicians on the radio in 1993 and 1994. During the Christmas season of 1994, Carey released the album Merry Christmas, and had a perennial hit with her original holiday song, "All I Want For Christmas Is You".
In 1995, Carey released
Daydream. She became the first female solo-artist ever to have an album debut at #1. This album and her previous studio album, Music Box, would eventually go on to sell over 20 million copies each worldwide, making them Carey's two most popular albums. Daydream's first single, "Fantasy," was one of her biggest hits ever. It got heavy play on urban radio, thanks to a remix which featured a rhyme by the Wu-Tang Clan's Old Dirty Bastard. This also marked the start of a new trend for Carey's singles. She realized that she had a higher potential at having massive crossover hits if she employed the use of various genre-specific remixes for each single.
Daydream's second and third singles, "One Sweet Day," a duet with Boyz II Men, and "Always Be My Baby," respectively, were arguably even bigger hits than "Fantasy". "One Sweet Day" spent 16 consecutive weeks at #1 in the US, beating the original record of 14 held by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You". It still holds the record for the longest consecutive stay at #1 in the US. "Always Be My Baby" received huge airplay from pop, adult contemporary, and adult top 40 radio, and its urban remix which featured rhymes by Da Brat and a more soulful sounding chorus, sung by R&B group Xscape got huge airplay on urban, rap, and R&B radio stations. "Forever," and "Open Arms" were the last singles off of the album, did not make #1 but were still top 10 hit's in America.
Carey's 1997 album,
Butterfly Carey's second consecutive album debut at #1, saw her continuing to move in an R&B/hip hop direction. The first single, "Honey" was huge a number one hit and featured a remix with rappers Puff Daddy, The Lox, and Mase. It was also her 3rd single to debut at #1 on the Hot 100. Its video, filmed shortly after her divorce from Tommy Mottola, VP of Sony Records, displayed a much more sexual and sultry Carey than any previous video. Other singles and videos off the album included "Butterfly;" "The Roof;" "Breakdown," a duet with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony featuring Carey singing in a style similar to the way the Bone Thugs rap; and the #1 hit "My All".
In 1998, Carey released the album
#1s, a collection of all her American number one singles up to that point. It also included the new singles "When You Believe," a duet with Whitney Houston which featured in the DreamWorks animated film The Prince of Egypt; "Sweetheart," a hip-hoppy duet with Jermaine Dupri; "I Still Believe," a cover of the '80s song by Brenda K. Starr; and "Whenever You Call," a duet with popular R&B singer Brian McKnight.
During the late summer of 1999, Carey began promoting her upcoming album,
Rainbow by releasing a single and video for "Heartbreaker". "Heartbreaker" made it to #8 on the Billboard airplay charts and was Carey's fourteenth #1 on the Hot 100, thanks to a commercially available single, which sold over 270,000 copies in its first week alone. The single went on to achieve gold status.
"Heartbreaker" featured a popular music video which got heavy airplay on MTV's TRL. With a cost of over $2.5 million, the video is Carey's most expensive to date and one of the top 5 most expensive music videos in history. A video was also filmed for a remix to "Heartbreaker", which was much more hip-hop oriented than the original, featuring a sample of Snoop Dogg's "Ain't No Fun" and guest raps by Missy Elliott and Da Brat. The remix video, which has cameo appearances by Brat, Elliott, and Snoop, also became popular on TRL. Combined, both versions of "Heartbreaker" spent 65 days on TRL and become the first and only TRL-"retired" video.
Rainbows second single, "Thank God I Found You" became Carey's fifteenth #1 single on the Hot 100. The song was a duet with Joe and featured 98 Degrees singing background vocals on the chorus. The song didn't fare as well on the radio as Carey's earlier songs, but solid sales assured that the song became a chart hit. Like "Heartbreaker", following in the trend that Carey seemed to use at the time for each new single, a video for a remix of "Thank God I Found You"--which contained a sample from Keith Sweat's "Make It Last Forever" and featured Joe and Nas--was released.
The album's next two singles, "Crybaby" and "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)", were released almost simultaneously. "Crybaby", a hip-hop song which featured Snoop Dogg, was promoted to urban and hip-hop radio, while "Mariah's Theme", a ballad in the vein of "Hero", was promoted to top 40 and adult contemporary radio. Neither song really took off with any audience. Even with a commercial single release "Crybaby" only managed to peak at 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, Carey's lowest peaking single up to that point. This led to widespread speculation that Carey's career was in massive decline. To date,
Rainbow has sold over 3 million copies in America and another 6 million internationally.
Though her release singles are usually in the pop genre, she has also combined her talents with rap artists such as Lord Tariq, Peter Gunz, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Most of her recent singles have also been remixed as dance music, where she worked with DJs such as David Morales and Junior Vasquez.
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Published: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:07:06 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the articleMoviesYou Don't Mess With the Zohan
Starring:
Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Mariah Carey, Shelley Berman, Sayed
...
Review:
Given the missed opportunities for sharpening silliness with
satire, it's impossible not to mess with the Zohan. There's a risky
idea in the script cooked up by star Adam Sandler and his
co-writers, Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow: What if Sandler played a
Mossad commando named Zohan who fakes his death and comes to New
York to live his dream of making the world "silky smooth" by
cutting and styling hair? And what if the only job he could get was
working in a Brooklyn salon run by a Palestinian babe (Emmanuelle
Chriqui)?
It's the Middle East crisis played for laughs, and it gets a few
until the movie backs off its bolder notions. That's a shame,
because Sandler, buff, blow-dried and Borat-accented, is clearly
having a ball playing a Jewish superhero. Ditto John Turturro as
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Published: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:12:32 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the articleInternet"Hot Hot Sex" Video Removed from YouTube
After weeks of criticism from YouTube commenters, the creator of the popular fan-made "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" video finally pulled it offline. (It's still mirrored here.)
On March 7, YouTube administrators removed it from its #1 spot on the rankings while they investigated it. Apparently, no foul play was detected and it was reinstated. Stephen Hutcheon from the Sydney Morning Herald has more on the story, including a screenshot from the leaderboard on the day it was removed.
It's hard to get a sense of the scale, which roused suspicions in the first place. To put it in perspective, in the seven days from March 7-13, the CSS video gained 17 million new views. That's more views than this week's top 20 videos received, combined.
In one week, the CSS video got nearly as many views as the insanely huge Crank That (Souljah Boy) received in 7 months. It was six times as popular as Mariah Carey's new video, in half the time. More popular in a week than the all-time views for Amy Winehouse's "Rehab," Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" or Chris Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone."
Assuming YouTube's numbers are accurate, what was the mystery source of traffic? Now that the video is gone, I don't think we'll ever know. There have been a number of theories, but none of them really pan out.
Popular search terms like "hot sex" and "obama." Unlikely, since the video never ranked well with those queries. Searching for "sex" or "hot sex" didn't return the video anywhere in the top 100 results.
Social network embeds. It's still possible that there's a single source of traffic from an embedded video on an extraordinarily popular website on autoplay. If so, it's managed to evade YouTube's referral tracking, while still getting counted in views.
Leaderboard traffic. Once in the top 10, could traffic have snowballed from people clicking from the all-time most viewed page? No, since the video gained an additional 25 million views in the week it was removed from the leaderboard. Also, other videos in the top 5 only saw a small fraction of the growth.
Chinese users. Someone noted that Chinese users watch YouTube, but won't (or can't) sign in to rate/review/comment. Could they be coming from China?
Buzz from the iPod Touch ad. That might make sense in the days following the original commercial's release last October, but the video's growth was highest in the last two months.
Rajeev Kadam from Divinity Metrics, a company that provides video metrics for media companies, got in touch with me and provided these historical stats for the CSS video for the last five weeks. Here's a chart of that data, or you can see the spreadsheet.
Philip Rogosky asked Clarus Bartel why he removed the video. Clarus reminded Philip that he'd contemplated deleting it before, but his friends advised him to wait to see if it would reappear on the leaderboard, clearing his reputation. At that point, he decided to delete it only because of the critical comments he was receiving on his other videos.
Asked how he felt when he pressed "delete," Bartel responded, "Sad but relieved! If only I'd earned a buck or two or a job offer, I'd feel different today."
Published: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:22:41 GMT - Source: Waxy.Org - Read the article
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