To me this is the best album she has delivered for many years! As an album it's much better than Emancipation that just had too many fillers. There's not one song on this album that I skip. It's got emotions and really speaks to me and how I'm feeling nowadays...
I Stay In Love is a future classic! It moves me to tears everytime... I hope she releases it as a single.

Right now I’m still skipping over ... Side Effects. I might give Side Effects a try since everyone seems to love it. Maybe there’s something in it for me.

I knew there was something about the title I Wish You Well... that’s what Wendy always tells those poor souls who call up for advice. Especially those with dramatic situations where the person is in too deep to be saved. “I wish you well.”

There is not one song I skip on Emancipation. Even though some tracks are weaker than others I just love it and can easily play it all the way through.

Right now I’m still skipping over Cruise Control and Side Effects. I might give Side Effects a try since everyone seems to love it. Maybe there’s something in it for me.

I’m That Chick sounds so hot in the car. Definitely a summer groove.

I think I played I Wish You Well three times in a row yesterday. At first it was hard to find the melody but now I’m good with it and her performance is so heart-felt.

I think this album is more of a grower than an instant joyfest. A couple of my friends who weren’t into it either like it or are really beginning to feel it now.

E=MC2 is still the #1 album on iTunes and the Touch My Body music video back at #1!! I can't wait 4 the first week number sales of the album!!

JackieBlue said:

Yeah...it is hard for me to listen to the JD tracks seriously...

I hate when them lil girls say aybabybabyitwAWNend... so country
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I knew there was something about the title I Wish You Well... that’s what Wendy always tells those poor souls who call up for advice. Especially those with dramatic situations where the person is in too deep to be saved. “I wish you well.”

Early first-week sales estimates: 475,607 copies sold.
Final data from Soundscan to be released April 23.

VenusBlingBling said:

The only 1 I skip 9eventually deleted off my ipod) was ONe And only on Emancipation. Man that was a slammin album. ANd I will BET this album not sell as much as that one did. But even in sales, the music was much more real and had real instrumentation and Mariah stepped out of her boundry of just Protool slow jams and she used her vocals to the fore more than almost any other album since Emotions probably.

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Early first-week sales estimates: 475,607 copies sold.
Final data from Soundscan to be released April 23.

paisleypark4 said:

I'll keep my fingers crossed that it will sell as much, it deserves the same recognition. Of course there are cool, powerful and meaningful songs on Emancipation, but to me it was very uneven as an album. I could have done without songs like Say Somethin' and Get your number. They're cool but I grew tired of them rather quickly. This new one is more even and has that sound Mariah used to have. It sounds more fun, playful, contemplative, classy.

VenusBlingBling said:

I loooved Say Something. It reminded me of The Screams Of Passion. And I liked the sample of "Illusion" by Imagination on Get Your Number..even tho JD could have been totally left off the track all together. I tried to get through the JD tracks again and I just CANT

Mariah Debuts At No. 1 After Monster First Week

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Mariah Carey earns her sixth No. 1 on The Billboard 200 as her "E=MC2" bows on top. The Island Def Jam set moved 463,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, making it the diva's biggest sales week ever. It's also the highest sales week of the year, surpassing the 375,000 start of Jack Johnson's "Sleep Through the Static" in February.


Carey's last album, "The Emancipation of Mimi," also landed at No. 1 in its premiere week, moving 404,000. She is now tied with Madonna and Janet Jackson for the second most No. 1 albums among female artists. Only queen bee Barbra Streisand, with eight, is ahead of the pack. There's a good chance Madonna will add another No. 1 to her tally though, as her "Hard Candy" album drops next Tuesday (April 29).

Leona Lewis' Syco/J effort "Spirit" slips 1-2 with 95,000 units, a 54% sales decrease. Miley Cyrus' "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds Concert" Hollywood/Disney album vaults from No. 31 to a new peak of No. 3 with 47,000 -- a 162% gain. The set became available to all music sellers last week after having spent its first five weeks of release as a Wal-Mart exclusive.

New country group Lady Antebellum charges in at No. 4 on The Billboard 200 with its self-titled Capitol Nashville debut, shifting 43,000. Sales were fueled by the single "Love Don't Live Here," which sits at its current peak at No. 11 on the Hot Country Songs tally this week.

The multi-label "NOW 27" compilation slips 4-5 with 39,000 (-17%), as George Strait's "Troubadour" (MCA Nashville) falls 2-6 with 38,000 (-35%). The Fox/Razor & Tie soundtrack to "Alvin and the Chipmunks" likewise descends 6-7 with a 20% sales hit to 32,000. Another soundtrack, "Juno" (Rhino), climbs back into the top tier 46-8 in conjunction with the film's DVD release; the album moved 31,000 copies with a 162% sales increase.


With 30,000 and a 35% sales reduction, R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. set "Accelerate" falls 5-9. Taylor Swift's self-titled Big Machine set rounds out the top 10, ascending 13-10 with a 13% sales boost to 29,000.

After Carey, rock troupe Thrice has the next biggest debut this week at No. 17 with "The Alchemy Index, Vol. 3 & 4: Air & Earth" (Vagrant), selling 21,000 units. With only a few hundred fewer, Rush's double-disc Atlantic set "Snakes & Arrows: Live" starts right behind at No. 18, also with 21,000. Other debuts this week include metal outfit Children Of Bodom's "Blooddrunk" (Fontana/Universal, No. 22, 19,000), Nickelodeon duo the Naked Brothers Band's "I Don't Want to Go to School" (No. 23, 19,000) and Tristan Prettyman's "Hello" (Virgin, No. 27, 18,000).

Sales this week are up 1.9% from last week's sales at 7.5 million units. Sales are down 8.1% compared to the same week last year.

MC has the industry on locked down right down! No one, no one, except maybe Alicia Keys, (pun-intended) has the diverse fan base that Mariah has, combined with popularity and gorgeous looks. Besides Alicia Keys and maybe Beyonce, nah Beyonce is not on Mariah's level, not as far as hit records is concerned, MC has no competition @ all and she knows it.

There is not one song I skip on Emancipation. Even though some tracks are weaker than others I just love it and can easily play it all the way through.

Right now I’m still skipping over Cruise Control and Side Effects. I might give Side Effects a try since everyone seems to love it. Maybe there’s something in it for me.

I’m That Chick sounds so hot in the car. Definitely a summer groove.

I think I played I Wish You Well three times in a row yesterday. At first it was hard to find the melody but now I’m good with it and her performance is so heart-felt.

I think this album is more of a grower than an instant joyfest. A couple of my friends who weren’t into it either like it or are really beginning to feel it now.

^ the music business is DEAD.

^ the music business is DEAD.

Graycap23 said:

Why you saying that?