'MARIAH' TO BE R&B/HIP-HOP
08/10/02 10:46 a.m.
Singer Mariah Carey, who has kept a low profile since signing a new recording deal with the Def Jam label, won't stay silent much longer. The crazy like a fox Carey was originally scheduled to release her next album in next spring. Sources close to the songbird tell us that Carey has wrapped up recording the album, and will have it in the stores for an early December rush-release. The same source also informs us that the first single from the album, titled Mariah, will hit the streets in early September. Contrary to what you've read elsewhere, Mariah will be up-tempo and hip-hop, and not a return to adult ballads... The new album is produced by Irv Gotti, who also did the honors for recent hit albums by Ashanti and Ja Rule.
Source|mariahbuzz.com
MARIAH WINS BILLBOARD AWARD
08/10/02 10:44 a.m.
Mariah's hit 'Loverboy' feat. Da Brat and Ludacris won MC the Top R&B/hip-hop single, sales @ last nights 2002 Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards @ Miami's Billboardlive.
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ISLAND/DEF JAM DELAYING MARIAH CAREY RELEASE
08/10/02 12:52 a.m.
The Mirror reports Island/Def Jam are delaying the release of Mariah Carey's new album to December, hoping the delay will "allow fans to forget the disastrous time she had of it last year when she had a nervous breakdown and was dropped from Virgin Records." The tabloid's 3AM girls say, "Sadly for the singer, no one is ever likely to forget the cinematic flop that was 'Glitter'." [Note. If anything the album is being release early.. not delayed]
Source|Popdirt.com
MARIAH CARRIES ON
08/10/02 12:50 a.m.
After being bought out by Virgin in January, you'd think Mariah Carey would want to retreat to an island. And that's exactly what she's done. Post-meltdown, Carey hightailed it to Capri, Italy, where she bagan working on a new CD even before she had a new record deal. In May, she inked a $20 million, three-album contract with Def Jam, and now the Capri sessions are in high gear, with A-list vets and Carey co-producing. R&B gurus Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have helped craft five tracks, while hip-hop heavyweights Jermaine Dupri and Irv Gotti have also stopped by. "It really hasn't been different this time than it was before, except that it's been a little more relaxed," reports Jam, who also worked on Rainbow and Glitter. "She's relieved to be back in the studio. She's very rested. Her voice sounds wonderful." And will this still-untitled disc, due Dec. 10 (The first single drops in September), improve on Glitter's bitter reception? "I feel good about its chances, sales-wise," says Jam. "We never get involved with projects to fail." Did we mention he worked on Glitter?
Source|mariahbuzz.com
NEW CANDIDS
08/10/02 12:49 a.m.
Mariah has added some cool candid photos of her & friends in Capri for us to look at. Picture include Jay-Z, Trey & friend Simona who Mariah sang at the wedding for. To read the Captions, head over to Mariah's Official Site
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MARIAH CAREY RETURNS
08/10/02 12:46 a.m.
[Note: Translated from French to English, hence bad grammer.]
The fans of the diva will be certainly delighted by learn that their preferred singer will leave her new album in December. Its career with beautiful fixed since a few months, Mariah Carey not being put much on this new opus. Small recall of the facts: its film Glitter and the album of same made flops, it suffered from two depressions last year, it was made return of to Virgin, it lost her father and Eminem broke to them idylle being born in addition. But with a new contract signed at Def Jam records and the assistance of the rappor Irv Gotti, Mariah is back. According to the The New York Post, the singer counts well that her new album will hit the shelves December 10. A first single could even be born the next month
Source|mariahbuzz.com
BEHIND THE MUSIC: BOYZ II MEN
08/10/02 12:45 a.m.
Sun 8.25,11:00 AM. From having no water or heat in their childhood homes to having the longest-running #1 single in music history, Boyz II Men brought New Jack Swing to ...
Featured Artists: Mariah Carey, Babyface, Bell Biv Devoe, Boyz II Men, New Edition
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MARIAH PULLED IN SOME BIG HITTERS
08/10/02 12:42 a.m.
Mariah Carey�s musical career has taken a battering over the past year but despite the recent death of her father she�s expected to have a new single on her own MonarC Music label thro Island Def Jam by late September. 20 tracks have been recorded so far and the album is expected to have a US release on 10 December. Carey is working on tracks on the Isle of Capri and said, via her official web site, �I just wanted to thank you all so much for sending condolences for my father and to let you know that as always I'm thinking about you and I'm here and everything's going really well with the album". She�s pulled in some big hitters to help with the album including Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, with whom she started work in May in Miami, while production duties have fallen to Jim Wright, Irv Gotti and Jermaine Dupri.
Source|mariahbuzz.com
Site Suff
08/09/02 10:08 a.m.
Hey lambs well just wanted to say that i am back in the site is going to be run smoothly from now on.There is a new layout that i hope you like.Also all the news for august 2002 as been put in the archive(you can find that at the bottom of this page).More news on the way,so bye bye now.
Posted By. April
WISE GIRLS' HBO PAY PREMIERE DEAL
08/09/02 10:07 a.m.
HBO and Lions Gate Entertainment (AMEX and TSE: LGF) announced today an extension to their multi-year output deal to air Lions Gate's theatrical releases on the premium cable channels HBO and Cinemax.
The deal continues to encompass Lions Gate's full roster of feature films. Recent commercial and critical hits from Lions Gate include MONSTER'S BALL, which earned an historic Best Actress Academy Award for Halle Berry, the provocative box office hit "O," the psychological thriller FRAILTY and Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee AMORES PERROS.
Lions Gate has also recently concluded two pay premiere deals with HBO for LIBERTY STANDS STILL, starring Wesley Snipes and Linda Fiorentino, and WISE GIRLS, starring musical superstar Mariah Carey.
Posted By. April Mariahbuzz.com
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
08/02/02 6:10p.m.
Mariah's new album is set for release, at this point, for December 2002 - with an IO (initial output) of 1.2 million in the US. This could easily be pushed back but, for now, we're looking at a very, very awesome Christmas present. Expect the first single to drop even earlier - around October.
Other news, in a NETWORK magazine interview, Daniel Beddingfield, the singer/writer(?) of the song "Gotta Get Through This" says that he is writing a song for Mariah, at the request of IDJ (Island/Def Jam Posted By. Melynnda Mariahbuzz.com
Mariah's Own Label: MonarC Records
08/1/02 9;12 a.m. Previous reports suggested Mariah's new label under Universal/Island Def Jam records would be titled, 'Monarch Records'. MariahBuzz has revealed that the official name is in fact, MonarC Records - with the M & C in capitals and the rest in lower case. Expect the label to be officially launched within the next couple of months along with the first single (September/October) from the upcoming album(December)
Posted By. Melynnda Mariahbuzz.com
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