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Post by Leigh on May 20, 2015 10:20:03 GMT -5
As much as I like Touch My Body and it did reach #1, I would have liked to have seen IBLULT as the lead single for the album. With the exposure that any lead single would have received purely because it followed TEOM, I think IBLYLT would have reached #1 and appealed to the fans that perhaps she had lost along the way; it sounds like a more classic Mariah lead single.
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Post by The Upper Hand on May 20, 2015 10:20:33 GMT -5
What are sales looking like for the #1 collection? 15-20k IMO :/
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Post by Heart Shaped Box on May 20, 2015 10:55:31 GMT -5
She just announced new Vegas dates for February of next year.
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Post by Dreams on May 20, 2015 11:21:36 GMT -5
What are sales looking like for the #1 collection? Not much. Looks like it's gonna miss the top 20. On the other hand, it looks like it could make the top 10 in the UK, so that's something I guess. I wasn't expecting big things given that this is essentially a(nother) compilation. Mariah and her team have done a fantastic job promoting it as much as they could though. I wish they had released a better single to push it. That's my only beef with this whole release. Great promo, great video all wasted on "Infinity". The new songs on the previous 1#'s are all GEMS compared to this. "Infinity" has officially replaced "Did I Do That?" in my book, and so holds the dubious honor of being my least favorite song she has ever done. Not bad for someone who has made 400 or so songs, but... There's no other Mariah song I literally hate; I turn it off as soon as she finishes "Vision Of Love" now on her live performances of VOL/"Infinity".
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Post by Leigh on May 20, 2015 11:24:46 GMT -5
"Infinity" has officially replaced "Did I Do That?" in my book, and so holds the dubious honor of being my least favorite song she has ever done. To The Floor held, and still holds, that honour for me. Hearing Infinity live has actually made the song grow on me a little.
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Post by Tea-why on May 20, 2015 11:38:08 GMT -5
What are sales looking like for the #1 collection? Not much. Looks like it's gonna miss the top 20. On the other hand, it looks like it could make the top 10 in the UK, so that's something I guess. I wasn't expecting big things given that this is essentially a(nother) compilation. Mariah and her team have done a fantastic job promoting it as much as they could though. I wish they had released a better single to push it. That's my only beef with this whole release. Great promo, great video all wasted on "Infinity". The new songs on the previous 1#'s are all GEMS compared to this. "Infinity" has officially replaced "Did I Do That?" in my book, and so holds the dubious honor of being my least favorite song she has ever done. Not bad for someone who has made 400 or so songs, but... There's no other Mariah song I literally hate; I turn it off as soon as she finishes "Vision Of Love" now on her live performances of VOL/"Infinity". I agree with this. I do like "Infinity", but I wish a stronger new song would have been used to promote this album since a lot of promotion is being done for it. But other than that, I'm excited to have this collection.
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Post by MiniMusic on May 20, 2015 11:38:54 GMT -5
I can't with the hate for Infinity AND Did I Do That.... These are my JAMS
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Post by Tea-why on May 20, 2015 11:43:35 GMT -5
Does anyone know if the songs were remastered at all for this collection? I was wondering that myself. In the booklet it says the album was "Mastered by" someone, but I don't know if that’s' the same as being re-mastered as they are mostly previously released songs? I don't really notice a difference in the sound, myself. But I'm not really sure.
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Post by kmbgs on May 20, 2015 11:45:02 GMT -5
I love DIDT. OK maybe I don't love it, but I would have to say my least fav song is one of the 8 or so on Charmbracelet that I physically cannot listen to bc the whispering is just too much to handle.
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Post by divasummer on May 20, 2015 11:51:19 GMT -5
Mariah did do a great job on Kimmel. She's always a lot more relaxed when she's performing in front of just her fans. "Vision Of Love" was great!!!!
In my opinion I used to always look forward to Mariah's covers. Though lately they have been a little lacking. "One More Try" kind of sounded a little cheap and some of her vocals could have used a little touching up. I also think she could have redone some of her vocals for "Do You Know Where Your Going To" "I Want To Know What Love Is" started out Amazing in my opinion but got a little to busy by the end of the song. I've also never got the hype over "The Beautiful One". I've always found it to be a little boring. For the most part I usually love Mariah's covers but I agree she should wait a little longer to do a full album of them.
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Post by Albie on May 20, 2015 11:52:44 GMT -5
Disney Queen! She looks flawless. :'(
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Post by jenglisbe on May 20, 2015 12:03:58 GMT -5
My top two Mariah songs are on the list: Anytime You Need A Friend and Butterfly. Both vocal masterpieces, IMO. They would fit so beautifully in her #1's list. I completely agree. I'm always so surprised when I see that AYNAF missed the Top 10 in the US. I was only 11 at the time in the UK (and not yet a huge fan...), but I was SO aware of that song at the time. It definitely belongs with her numbers 1s in my opinion and would sit nicely alongside Hero as a two-song break from the love-themed songs. "AYNAF" peaked as low as it did because it was the 4th single from a huge album; millions of people had the album by that point, so there was no need to buy the single. It was a bigger hit than its Hot 100 peak suggests.
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Post by fantasticbaby on May 20, 2015 12:07:20 GMT -5
She pours us each a glass. We’re in a suite at Las Vegas’s Caesars Palace where she will be performing her chart-topping hits in a reported £40 million two-year deal. With more than 200 million record sales she’s the bestselling singer/songwriter on the planet. link
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Post by fantasticbaby on May 20, 2015 12:08:21 GMT -5
She pours us each a glass. We’re in a suite at Las Vegas’s Caesars Palace where she will be performing her chart-topping hits in a reported £40 million two-year deal. With more than 200 million record sales she’s the bestselling singer/songwriter on the planet. linkSuch a huge contract :o
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Post by Leigh on May 20, 2015 12:11:46 GMT -5
"AYNAF" peaked as low as it did because it was the 4th single from a huge album; millions of people had the album by that point, so there was no need to buy the single. It was a bigger hit than its Hot 100 peak suggests. I'm definitely not surprised about its peak in the context of it being the fourth single and Music Box album sales being so huge...I guess it is how Mariah described it on Jimmy Kimmel this week - as a young kid I just thought all my favourite songs were number 1! So when I see AYNAF's peak, it always catches me by surprise.
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on May 20, 2015 13:03:53 GMT -5
Great article.
TIME Review: Mariah Carey Collects All of Her Hits on #1 to InfinityThe album provides a reminder of just how thoroughly she dominated the 1990s
If Stephen Hawking can use multiverse theory—the concept that there are infinite parallel universes existing alongside ours — to comfort a One Direction fan upset over Zayn Malik’s departure from the band, then it seems fair to invoke that theory to imagine a realm where “Infinity” is Mariah Carey’s latest chart-topping single. Unfortunately, we’re stuck reckoning with the realities of this one for now, and reality is a place where “Infinity” landed with a thud in the bottom fifth of the Hot 100 upon its release, just the most recent in a string of singles that have failed to recapture the glory of Carey’s insane commercial peak.
It’s a peak that’s currently being celebrated across several mediums, even as it seems more distant than ever. There are oral histories covering the tenth anniversary of the song that launched her mid-career renaissance a decade ago; a Las Vegas residency lasting until the end of July designed to celebrate her greatest hits; and an updated version of #1’s, her 1998 compilation of her biggest (and only her biggest) hits to match. Carey already had 13 #1 hits to her name at that point; in the near-two decades since, she’s added another 5, all of which are collected on #1 to Infinity. As a document of commercial dominance, it’s comprehensive by definition; as a career-spanning encapsulation of a complicated, constantly shifting grand dame, it can’t help but fall short, and its omissions—whether they just missed the top spot or hopelessly flopped—tell just as interesting a story as its tracklist.
Let’s start with the 18 songs that made the cut by hitting the top of Billboard’s Hot 100. If you needed a reminder of just how thoroughly Mariah Carey dominated the 1990s, or a refresher on the staggering force of the numbers she’s put up throughout her career, #1 to Infinity will do just fine. Carey still has the most #1 singles of any solo artist in history, and she’s second all-time behind The Beatles. Looking at the various artists scattered below her, it’s hard to see how anyone could pose a serious threat to those designations in this era of chart fragmentation save maybe Rihanna, who has 13 to her name. Eleven of Carey’s 18 #1s were released between 1990 and 1995, an astounding hit rate over a period that now constitutes just 20% of her recording career. Put this way, it’s easy to understand why Carey may not be particularly fond of this strict, numbers-based framing of her career. Imagine someone was releasing a collection of the greatest moments in your adult life—perhaps the time spanning ages 20 and 70. Now imagine over 60% of those moments came from your 20s. Perhaps you would feel like the bulk of your life—years where you were more mature and thoughtful, where you did many things worthy of recognition — was not being given the credit it deserved. (I know I would.) Time, like pop, can be cruel.
Regardless, #1 to Infinity highlights the sheer athleticism and skill that propelled Carey’s early work. She took very simple songs—both in terms of arrangements and theme—rooted in pop, gospel, and R&B and turned them into feats of strength, granting them dynamism and drama with a voice that juggled power, clarity, and agility with ease. “Vision of Love” doubled as a mission statement and a sizzle reel; “Emotions” was a giddy gallop that captured the dizzying rush of infatuation with stunning leaps between Carey’s low end and whistle register. As the decade continued, she took greater control of her career amid personal turmoil, embracing hip-hop and soul and becoming a more gifted interpreter and songwriter. Where once she would blow through songs with sheer strength, she learned to grasp their curves, to save her heavy ammunition for the biggest possible moments. And when the industry (and many of her fans) had left her for commercially near-dead, she came with one of the biggest hits of her career, one colored by hard-earned wisdom and experience.
Here in 2015, we’re as far away from “We Belong Together” as that song was from “Fantasy,” and that lost decade is the root of this compilation’s greatest tragedy. Judging by its stringent standards, the great majority of the fine work Carey’s done in the last decade might as well not exist. This is the consequence of having your career defined by the idea of “dominance”: anything less is open to, and even invites, ridicule. That’s been the story of Carey’s last ten years: attempts to recapture her phenomenal success treated as increasingly desperate and sad, diva behavior predicated on reputation met with greater scrutiny and laughter, a voice slowly being eroded by time and exertion picked open and apart by on-lookers hungry for disaster porn.
Yet the albums Carey has released in the last decade are her most satisfying by a wide margin. They’re personal, creatively vibrant, and funny as hell (mostly intentionally), the work of an artist comfortable in her own skin and voice and enthusiastic about the music she makes and loves. She’s become an impressive storyteller, a musical historian excavating frothy disco and lithe funk, and a voice reporting from the frontiers of new love, fading love and motherhood. This version of Carey is partially reflected in the hits that made the cut here, at least, like the aforementioned genuine heartbreak of “We Belong Together” and the dexterity and relaxed silliness of “Touch My Body.” It’s also present in “Infinity,” not a hit in this universe but an excellent example of what Carey can do now. It manages to balance a caustic hilarity with a chorus that’s quite wrenching; it mixes French, Fritos, and the Kermit sipping tea meme with ease. More than anything, it’s performed with the confidence and panache of someone who knows how it feels to be on top of the world, even if she’ll never reach those heights again.
Carey is gutting through weeks of performance and promotion right now, and there’s plenty of schadenfreude to be had. There are notes she can’t hit without the help of backing singers and tracks, demands that are outlandish at best, silhouettes that can’t quite match the ones she sports on her contemporary album covers. That’s all part of the game, and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise. But even on its own, #1 to Infinity is a reminder of the incredible skill and performance that enabled all of this pageantry in the first place. As a jumping off point, it’s a window into two and a half decades of high caliber pop music that’s only gotten better with age.time.com/3889989/review-mariah-carey-new-album-1-to-infinity/
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Post by The Northern Star⭐ on May 20, 2015 13:24:07 GMT -5
Does anyone have the MSG 1995 Concert in audio form?
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Post by SHOOTER on May 20, 2015 13:41:41 GMT -5
What are sales looking like for the #1 collection? Not much. Looks like it's gonna miss the top 20. On the other hand, it looks like it could make the top 10 in the UK, so that's something I guess. Projected to debut with 14-16k (16-18k SPS). #1s debuted at #4 with 221k (3.8m to date).
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Post by Relaxing Cup on May 20, 2015 14:06:21 GMT -5
What are sales looking like for the #1 collection? 15-20k IMO :/ thanks a lot, Active Aggressive
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 15:46:31 GMT -5
Have people ever made lists here of their top 10 post-90's (from Glitter-on) Mariah songs? I'll attempt mine:
(in no order)
#Beautiful You Don't Know What To Do Meteorite Dedicated For The Record We Belong Together All My Life Camouflage Stay The Night Circles
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Post by Active Aggressive on May 20, 2015 16:13:26 GMT -5
Buy me a copy and it will count, albeit inconsequentially, to her first week total! #problemsolved
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 16:55:59 GMT -5
Great article.
TIME Review: Mariah Carey Collects All of Her Hits on #1 to InfinityThe album provides a reminder of just how thoroughly she dominated the 1990s
If Stephen Hawking can use multiverse theory—the concept that there are infinite parallel universes existing alongside ours — to comfort a One Direction fan upset over Zayn Malik’s departure from the band, then it seems fair to invoke that theory to imagine a realm where “Infinity” is Mariah Carey’s latest chart-topping single. Unfortunately, we’re stuck reckoning with the realities of this one for now, and reality is a place where “Infinity” landed with a thud in the bottom fifth of the Hot 100 upon its release, just the most recent in a string of singles that have failed to recapture the glory of Carey’s insane commercial peak.
It’s a peak that’s currently being celebrated across several mediums, even as it seems more distant than ever. There are oral histories covering the tenth anniversary of the song that launched her mid-career renaissance a decade ago; a Las Vegas residency lasting until the end of July designed to celebrate her greatest hits; and an updated version of #1’s, her 1998 compilation of her biggest (and only her biggest) hits to match. Carey already had 13 #1 hits to her name at that point; in the near-two decades since, she’s added another 5, all of which are collected on #1 to Infinity. As a document of commercial dominance, it’s comprehensive by definition; as a career-spanning encapsulation of a complicated, constantly shifting grand dame, it can’t help but fall short, and its omissions—whether they just missed the top spot or hopelessly flopped—tell just as interesting a story as its tracklist.
Let’s start with the 18 songs that made the cut by hitting the top of Billboard’s Hot 100. If you needed a reminder of just how thoroughly Mariah Carey dominated the 1990s, or a refresher on the staggering force of the numbers she’s put up throughout her career, #1 to Infinity will do just fine. Carey still has the most #1 singles of any solo artist in history, and she’s second all-time behind The Beatles. Looking at the various artists scattered below her, it’s hard to see how anyone could pose a serious threat to those designations in this era of chart fragmentation save maybe Rihanna, who has 13 to her name. Eleven of Carey’s 18 #1s were released between 1990 and 1995, an astounding hit rate over a period that now constitutes just 20% of her recording career. Put this way, it’s easy to understand why Carey may not be particularly fond of this strict, numbers-based framing of her career. Imagine someone was releasing a collection of the greatest moments in your adult life—perhaps the time spanning ages 20 and 70. Now imagine over 60% of those moments came from your 20s. Perhaps you would feel like the bulk of your life—years where you were more mature and thoughtful, where you did many things worthy of recognition — was not being given the credit it deserved. (I know I would.) Time, like pop, can be cruel.
Regardless, #1 to Infinity highlights the sheer athleticism and skill that propelled Carey’s early work. She took very simple songs—both in terms of arrangements and theme—rooted in pop, gospel, and R&B and turned them into feats of strength, granting them dynamism and drama with a voice that juggled power, clarity, and agility with ease. “Vision of Love” doubled as a mission statement and a sizzle reel; “Emotions” was a giddy gallop that captured the dizzying rush of infatuation with stunning leaps between Carey’s low end and whistle register. As the decade continued, she took greater control of her career amid personal turmoil, embracing hip-hop and soul and becoming a more gifted interpreter and songwriter. Where once she would blow through songs with sheer strength, she learned to grasp their curves, to save her heavy ammunition for the biggest possible moments. And when the industry (and many of her fans) had left her for commercially near-dead, she came with one of the biggest hits of her career, one colored by hard-earned wisdom and experience.
Here in 2015, we’re as far away from “We Belong Together” as that song was from “Fantasy,” and that lost decade is the root of this compilation’s greatest tragedy. Judging by its stringent standards, the great majority of the fine work Carey’s done in the last decade might as well not exist. This is the consequence of having your career defined by the idea of “dominance”: anything less is open to, and even invites, ridicule. That’s been the story of Carey’s last ten years: attempts to recapture her phenomenal success treated as increasingly desperate and sad, diva behavior predicated on reputation met with greater scrutiny and laughter, a voice slowly being eroded by time and exertion picked open and apart by on-lookers hungry for disaster porn.
Yet the albums Carey has released in the last decade are her most satisfying by a wide margin. They’re personal, creatively vibrant, and funny as hell (mostly intentionally), the work of an artist comfortable in her own skin and voice and enthusiastic about the music she makes and loves. She’s become an impressive storyteller, a musical historian excavating frothy disco and lithe funk, and a voice reporting from the frontiers of new love, fading love and motherhood. This version of Carey is partially reflected in the hits that made the cut here, at least, like the aforementioned genuine heartbreak of “We Belong Together” and the dexterity and relaxed silliness of “Touch My Body.” It’s also present in “Infinity,” not a hit in this universe but an excellent example of what Carey can do now. It manages to balance a caustic hilarity with a chorus that’s quite wrenching; it mixes French, Fritos, and the Kermit sipping tea meme with ease. More than anything, it’s performed with the confidence and panache of someone who knows how it feels to be on top of the world, even if she’ll never reach those heights again.
Carey is gutting through weeks of performance and promotion right now, and there’s plenty of schadenfreude to be had. There are notes she can’t hit without the help of backing singers and tracks, demands that are outlandish at best, silhouettes that can’t quite match the ones she sports on her contemporary album covers. That’s all part of the game, and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise. But even on its own, #1 to Infinity is a reminder of the incredible skill and performance that enabled all of this pageantry in the first place. As a jumping off point, it’s a window into two and a half decades of high caliber pop music that’s only gotten better with age.time.com/3889989/review-mariah-carey-new-album-1-to-infinity/ I love that she gets this kind of acclaim finally, for material that got mediocre reviews at best upon initial release. This release and all the promo that's going with it is helping to further cement her legacy.
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Post by MFM29 on May 20, 2015 22:17:01 GMT -5
I can't believe I'm seeing Mariah wearing basic t-shirt and jeans
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Post by jenglisbe on May 20, 2015 22:18:27 GMT -5
Ooh, loved this! Some highlights:
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Post by Relaxing Cup on May 20, 2015 22:24:14 GMT -5
She looks hot in t shirt and jeans, and so does her hair.
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Post by Heart Shaped Box on May 20, 2015 22:38:17 GMT -5
Are those fucking 5 inch stilettos she's walking in at Disneyland?
My queen.
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Post by MFM29 on May 20, 2015 22:40:57 GMT -5
she looks so innocent and happy riding Dumbo
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 0:37:07 GMT -5
She looks 20 pounds lighter in that jeans and tee pic! Work that late 90s and early 2000s casual look she had. Damn the woman doesn't age even her voice right now sounds like her rainbow days!
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Post by Albie on May 21, 2015 1:12:33 GMT -5
She looks hot in t shirt and jeans, and so does her hair. Haha I know right? Her hair is on point!
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Post by JamaicaFunk² on May 21, 2015 9:21:54 GMT -5
Have you all heard some of her vocals from last night? Some serious wow moments.
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