QuoteIn 2001, Virgin Records signed Mariah Carey to one of the biggest contracts in record-industry history ? a five-album deal that guaranteed her an estimated $100 million. At the time the contract was signed, Mariah was on top of the world. Other than The Beatles, no other artist had put out more number one Billboard Hot 100 singles. It was the kind of contract only a diva could negotiate. She was paid $21 million right out of the gate with no strings attached at all. She didn't even have to put out an album to keep that paycheck.
Unfortunately, this deal did not turn out well. After Mariah's career took a dramatic slide, Virgin made an insane decision. They weren't going to wait it out and cross their fingers that her career would recover. Nope. The decision was that Virgin would pay Mariah to go away. And not a little bit of money. Virgin wrote a check for $28 MILLION just to make Mariah go away. When it was all said and done Mariah was essentially paid $49 million for a single failed album. But she ended up having the last laugh?
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Glitter, Carey's first and only album with the label, sold only 3 million copies worldwide. Her film debut touting the same title had been delayed and downsized after Carey suffered a well-publicized nervous breakdown. The film opened on September 11, 2001 ? a day when the whole world's attention was on decidedly more important matters. Rumors began to swirl that the label was looking to cut its losses on their investment in Carey.
EMI Group, Virgin's parent company, had been searching for ways to cut costs after a bleak year. In September 2001, it was projected that if things continued on the path they were on, profits would drop 20 percent. EMI's stock had lost over a third of its value over the previous year, highlighting concerns of declining album sales and competition from music download sites. EMI Group had just announced the hiring of new chairman and chief executive of recorded music, Alain Levy, who was set on writing off the loss before the end of the fiscal year that March. Levy, who was hired with strict instructions to cut costs, proceeded to fire Nancy Berry, the Virgin exec who initially signed the deal with Carey, as well as Paul Conroy, the head of Virgin. Levy cited the pair's excessive salaries and lifestyles as reasons for their release.
The monstrous deal with Carey wasn't totally without peer at the time. R.E.M. received the same amount from Warner Brothers for five records in 2006, and Whitney Houston received $100 million from Arista Records for six albums in 2001. But at a time of dwindling CD sales and the battle over pirated music, the label felt they couldn't sustain such lucrative contracts.
Virgin insisted the split was nothing personal against the singer. However, the loss couldn't have come at a worse time for Carey, who had been making regular appearances in the gossip columns since the 1997 deterioration of her marriage to Tommy Mottola, the former head of Sony Music who had discovered the then 18-year-old Carey when she was a backup singer for Brenda Starr. Having gotten his hands on Carey's demo at an industry party, Mottola listened to the tape on his way home from the event. So impressed by the singer's vocals, he had his driver turn around so he could return to the party and set up a meeting with Carey. Three days later he offered her $50,000 and the promise that he would make her the biggest pop star in the world ? on the condition that she got rid of her business partner, who also happened to be her boyfriend.
Carey and Mottola wed in 1993, but the relationship was nothing short of abusive. Carey described her marriage to the controlling and manipulative record exec as a "private hell." The couple divorced after a four-year union. Now free of her dominating relationship with Mottola, Carey was still under contract with Sony. She began to insist that Sony was taking too much money from her efforts, and publicly feuded with the label over choice of singles. Another split was imminent.
Enter: Virgin Records' blockbuster offer. In addition to millions of dollars, the deal also granted Carey full creative control ? a nice change of pace from Sony's overbearing style. But the timing proved unfortunate. Several cases of erratic behavior by the singer were reported soon after the deal was inked. During a July 2001 interview on MTV's "Total Request Live," Carey asked host Carson Daly to kidnap her before spouting a tirade about therapy. Her behavior prompted Daly to announce, "Ladies and gentlemen, Mariah Carey has lost her mind." Citing "extreme exhaustion," the singer checked herself into a Connecticut rehab facility days later. Consequently, the label delayed the release of her film, Glitter, and the soundtrack that accompanied it, dampening any hype around the project. It didn't help that when Glitter was finally released in the fall, the critics absolutely hated it. Audiences were less than enthusiastic, too, causing Glitter to become her worst performing album up to that point. Virgin quickly ended its relationship with Mariah Carey.
Some have questioned whether Virgin was too hasty in its severing of ties with the singer. To be sure, the early 2000s were some of the worst years of the singer's career, despite a new contract with Island Records worth $24 million. But it was Island that eventually benefited from her return to the top of the charts in 2005 with the hugely successful album, The Emancipation of Mimi which sold 12 million copies worldwide. Her next album, 2008's E=MC? sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and her 2009 album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel sold 3 million copies worldwide.
Today Mariah's career is as strong as ever. So in the end? it probably would have been best for Virgin Records to wait this out a bit?
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/virgin-records-paid-mariah-carey-millions-go-away/
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Get RICH
She owns the Glitter masters now
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Glitter sold 3 million worldwide and she really act like that album never happened. :dead:
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
yea i remember this ....Glitter was a cute album tho
Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 12:02:33 PM
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
!!!! :uhh: :dead:
Glitter is a decent album
Glitter was a great album and the movie was good too.
People just say its bad because of the timing and her "breakdown".
Say what you want, but Mariah came back quick and shut the haters the fuck up because they thought she was over.
Wishful thinking, haters. :dead:
Quote from: .betterwiseup on October 13, 2016, 12:06:01 PM
Glitter was a great album and the movie was good too.
People just say its bad because of the timing and her "breakdown".
!!!!!!!!!
Exactly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpwBelwOLiA
One of her best vocals ever. :stressed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYpsHBhhcBI
BITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 12:02:33 PM
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Has nothing to do with disliking mariah carey. I loathe tamar and think she had the best R&B album last yr. It just wasnt good :dead:
Alot of the songs were corny AF! Those few ballads were nice tho
And glitter was a TERRIBLE movie :dead:
Glitter>>>>
KI @ It selling 3 million. I thought it was a flop back then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFaWYVdDF2I
ACKKKKKKKK
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Has nothing to do with disliking mariah carey. I loathe tamar and think she had the best R&B album last yr. It just wasnt good :dead:
Alot of the songs were corny AF! Those few ballads were nice tho
You think most of her music is corny in general though. :dead:
The movie was SHIT, but the album was good.
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Has nothing to do with disliking mariah carey. I loathe tamar and think she had the best R&B album last yr. It just wasnt good :dead:
Alot of the songs were corny AF! Those few ballads were nice tho
Okie dokie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z7Q_cm1Tc0
WOO jesus.
Quote from: D.I.E.G.O. on October 13, 2016, 12:07:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpwBelwOLiA
One of her best vocals ever. :stressed:
Yea, this, never too far, and like 1 or 2 more
Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 12:11:46 PM
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Has nothing to do with disliking mariah carey. I loathe tamar and think she had the best R&B album last yr. It just wasnt good :dead:
Alot of the songs were corny AF! Those few ballads were nice tho
Okie dokie.
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Wept years in silence
And whispered wishes you'd materialize
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Has nothing to do with disliking mariah carey. I loathe tamar and think she had the best R&B album last yr. It just wasnt good :dead:
Alot of the songs were corny AF! Those few ballads were nice tho
You think most of her music is corny in general though. :dead:
True but there are a couple that are nice and i have no probably admitting that. Emancipation, i actually liked charm bracelet, i don't like butterfly really but i didn't think the album was corny. But yea, glitter was terribly corny and the movie wasn't near good. Not hard to see why they thought her career was finished
Quote from: Baphomet. on October 13, 2016, 12:11:58 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z7Q_cm1Tc0
WOO jesus.
:gorlonfire: :gorlonfire: :gorlonfire:
Fucking COO then bitch
Yea, reflections is why i bought that damn album :hmph:
Beautiful song tho
Quote from: Baphomet. on October 13, 2016, 12:11:58 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z7Q_cm1Tc0
WOO jesus.
:flamebroiled: :gorlonfire:
Quote from: D.I.E.G.O. on October 13, 2016, 12:11:16 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFaWYVdDF2I
ACKKKKKKKK
:gorlonfire: :gorlonfire:
Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 12:11:46 PM
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Has nothing to do with disliking mariah carey. I loathe tamar and think she had the best R&B album last yr. It just wasnt good :dead:
Alot of the songs were corny AF! Those few ballads were nice tho
Okie dokie.
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:omgwatshappening:
I swear I know you. It's partly why I always harass you
:plzstop: :plzstop:
I did like one song from Clit tho...or one she performed in the movie. Can't remember which one tho.
I like "Glitter".
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Has nothing to do with disliking mariah carey. I loathe tamar and think she had the best R&B album last yr. It just wasnt good :dead:
Alot of the songs were corny AF! Those few ballads were nice tho
Okie dokie.
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JUST MY TAKE ON THINGS!
boy stfu
Quote from: Kurama on October 13, 2016, 12:21:12 PM
I did like one song from Clit
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not clit
Quote from: Kurama on October 13, 2016, 12:21:12 PM
I did like one song from Clit
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This had to have been recorded in 1997/98 because this long note :( :(
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Has nothing to do with disliking mariah carey. I loathe tamar and think she had the best R&B album last yr. It just wasnt good :dead:
Alot of the songs were corny AF! Those few ballads were nice tho
Okie dokie.
sdDS<MDSM<DS
:omgwatshappening:
I swear I know you. It's partly why I always harass you
:plzstop: :plzstop:
Hey bae. ❤
You've ever been to Maryland? Maybe we might seen each other in passing lolz
Quote from: Jonovan on October 13, 2016, 12:30:51 PM
This had to have been recorded in 1997/98 because this long note :( :(
literally I have CHILLS. my god.
Her voice >
Im not joking. Im actually shaking.
Quote from: Jonovan on October 13, 2016, 12:30:51 PM
This had to have been recorded in 1997/98 because this long note :( :(
:stressed: This VOCAL
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Quote from: Lazarus on October 13, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
Glitter is a decent album. Just bad timing.
Is actually terrible but there are a couple decent songs
Oh boy you just don't like Mariah period :dead:
Has nothing to do with disliking mariah carey. I loathe tamar and think she had the best R&B album last yr. It just wasnt good :dead:
Alot of the songs were corny AF! Those few ballads were nice tho
Okie dokie.
smmskdkdkzkx
JUST MY TAKE ON THINGS!
boy stfu
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But yea Jon' this was definitely recorded during those years.
This clarity is crystal clear and there is MUCH more power in her voice here.
Quote from: Jonovan on October 13, 2016, 12:30:51 PM
This had to have been recorded in 1997/98 because this long note :( :(
had to come back :plzstop: :'( :stressed:
Brenda K. Starr
Played a critical role in the jump-start of ha career
:stressed:
:'(
:stressed:
Quote from: R on October 13, 2016, 04:21:52 PM
Brenda K. Starr
Played a critical role in the jump-start of ha career
:stressed:
I Still Believe>>
I really used this era. Glitter is my mess. Alber and Movie.
Quote from: D.I.E.G.O. on October 13, 2016, 12:08:45 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYpsHBhhcBI
BITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
:gorlonfire:
This was my shit!
As a Mariah stan at that time, Glitter was a TERRIBLE album. That's when she lost me. Never listened to a Mariah album after that.
Quote from: Shuji Shuriken on October 13, 2016, 05:25:26 PM
As a Mariah stan at that time, Glitter was a TERRIBLE album. That's when she lost me. Never listened to a Mariah album after that.
Oh wow, not even emancipation
Quote from: Shuji Shuriken on October 13, 2016, 05:25:26 PM
As a Mariah stan at that time, Glitter was a TERRIBLE album. That's when she lost me. Never listened to a Mariah album after that.
:udontlookok:
Emancipation and E=MC are really good to me
Quote from: Shuji Shuriken on October 13, 2016, 05:25:26 PM
As a Mariah stan at that time, Glitter was a TERRIBLE album. That's when she lost me. Never listened to a Mariah album after that.
you were no fan hun.
Quote from: Baphomet. on October 13, 2016, 05:27:41 PM
Quote from: Shuji Shuriken on October 13, 2016, 05:25:26 PM
As a Mariah stan at that time, Glitter was a TERRIBLE album. That's when she lost me. Never listened to a Mariah album after that.
you were no fan hun.
A stan always listens and purchases, no matter how mad they get.
:dead:
Quote from: R on October 13, 2016, 05:46:46 PM
A stan always listens and purchases, no matter how mad they get.
:dead:
Not really.
Quote from: R on October 13, 2016, 05:46:46 PM
A stan always listens and purchases, no matter how mad they get.
:dead:
Nah. I will say that I didnt purchase "X" from Chris. But I purchased the next mess.
I dont believe in buying what i dont like. But I will listen to see.
It depends on the artist. I'm a lamb so I own all of Mariah's mess
Quote from: Baphomet. on October 13, 2016, 05:49:35 PM
Quote from: R on October 13, 2016, 05:46:46 PM
A stan always listens and purchases, no matter how mad they get.
:dead:
Nah. I will say that I didnt purchase "X" from Chris. But I purchased the next mess.
I dont believe in buying what i dont like. But I will listen to see.
Oh, interesting. Everyone has their own experience.
I honestly can't ever imagine not purchasing a Brandy record.
I would purchase a record of her just doing runs... before even hearing it.
But that's just me.
For me, choosing which records I'd support, I'd call myself a causal fan.
That's how I am with Mariah.
I love her music.
But as a causal fan, I only buy what really GETS me.
And her 2005 album was the last one I purchased, cause it slayed.
You didn't use Memoirs, Me I Am or E=MC
[youtube autoplay=1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMUXSDYlXt4[/youtube]
:receipts:
Your biggest "flop" selling 3 million WW is a slay
:dead:
I heard her singles on the radio. That's enough for me to make a judgement. I HATED how her voice changed. Butterfly and Daydream were iconic albums. I grew up idolizing those albums. I just couldn't take. Hearing stuff like We Belong Together on the radio broke my heart. That's not the Mariah I knew and wanted. Guess I was stuck in the past.
Well her voice did change, no denying that. I was conflicted because i thought she sounded good and the material was good but she couldn't perform live........like AT ALL. So i just couldn't wholeheartedly root for her. Every performance from the emancipation era is complete and utter foolery.
I think Glitter would have had a better reception if it was an MTV movie.
Quote from: Baphomet. on October 13, 2016, 04:15:27 PM
Quote from: Jonovan on October 13, 2016, 12:30:51 PM
This had to have been recorded in 1997/98 because this long note :( :(
had to come back :plzstop: :'( :stressed:
Singggggggggggg
:plzstop:
'Never Too Far' is one of my fav Mariah songs ever
Quote from: Real on October 14, 2016, 10:02:04 AM
'Never Too Far' is one of my fav Mariah songs ever
It should've definitely been a hit for her.
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Quote from: Real on October 14, 2016, 10:02:04 AM
'Never Too Far' is one of my fav Mariah songs ever
I agree. I never got to check out the movie or the soundtrack. Might do that now
It should've definitely been a hit for her.