CLICK HERE to download Mariah on the Delilah show! (Please don't directly link to the file)

New Voice Message
Mariah: Hey lambs, I am calling you from Korea, just wanted to say hello and let you know that we're all out here right now, tonight we have some wonderful guests here and we're getting ready for the release of "Charmbracelet", and I am sitting here looking at Trey Lorenz, looking at Mary Ann, we got Tikah (?) , Melanie "Melodious" Daniels, and also Jerry Blair, president of MonarC records, do you wanna say something Jerry?
Jerry: Hi everybody, Jerry Blair, MonarC Music, very excited about "Charmbracelet" coming out.
Mariah: *laugh* I don't know what kind of accent... Oh Louise just walked in the room too, but first we have a very special guest and he goes by the name of...
Trey: BIG NASTY, that's right y'all, make sure you go get your "Charmbracelet" record and make sure you listen for the bonus "Return of the nasty nasty". *Everyone laughing*
Mariah: Anyway, it's been really fun meeting all the fans out here, these guys are making me laugh, meeting all the fans out here, everywhere we've been everybody's been so cool and so nice and I just wanna say "I love you much" and tonight some nice Korean fans said to me, what did they say? "We love you, we appreciate you and we enjoy you!" And it was really nice, and they ran up to Big Nasty and asked him for his autograph and all those things so we just wanna say "Thank you much, we love you and we'll talk to you soon!" Bye Bye!

CLICK HERE to download the new message! (Please don't directly link to the file)

TTR Worldwide Update

Last but not least, a Billboard update from Jessica:

"Mariah Carey's "Through The Rain" continues it's up-and-down performance on the Billboard charts this week (December 7, 2002). Sadly "Irresistible (West Side Connection)" (as well as "Through The Rain") drops off the the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart."

"Through The Rain"
Adult Contemporary:
This Week - #19
Last Week - #19
Two Weeks Ago - #17 (Peak Position)
Weeks on Chart - 8 Weeks

Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles:
This Week - #16 (New Peak Position)
Last Week - #24
Two Weeks Ago - #22
Weeks on Chart - 6 Weeks

Mariah On Swedish TV
StarMariah on the official board writes: "There will be a big interview with Mariah in the swedish channel tv4. It will be shown in the show called "DunkaDunka" and will be aired 00.20" (Sunday night)

More "Charmbracelet" Ads!
Check out the lovely ads below made by Mario:

More Pictures From Korea
Here are lots of new pictures of Mariah in Korea, thanks to mariahkorea, MCKorea & Marcin:

Pictures Moved To Gallery 2.

Great UK "Charmbracelet" Review
Below is a review of 'Charmbracelet' by the UK's Daily Mail reviewer Adrian Thrills (Thanks lyrikaltac from the official board)

The rags to riches story of Mariah Carey turned sour last year when the New Yorker suffered a nervous breakdown and then witnessed the high-profile flop of her movie, 'Glitter', and the collapse of her record deal with EMI - the latter blow, admittedly, softened by a 23 million pay-off.

On Charmbracelet, the first release on her own MonarC label, Mariah has something to prove. Recorded in Italy - where Carey wrote songs in her apartment by day and sang them in a nearby studio by night - it is the work of a performer with a bee in her bonnet.

Making the most of her stupendous, multi-octave voice - one which ranges from a breathless whisper to a soulful scream - Mariah sings, with feeling, on how she ' felt inferior inside ' before, ultimately, ' making it through the the rain '.

Working within a less poppy, less sample-orientated framework than J-Lo, Carey incorporates contemporarey Hip-Hop and mellow R&B influences with seamless ease.

The interplay between her high-pitched vocals and the interjections of rappers Jay-Z and Ice Cube is sometimes stunning. Of all the divas, she has achieved the most potent blend of the street and the stage.

It is to Carey's credit, too, that her self-produced numbers, such as 'My Saving Grace', stand up well to 'Through The Rain' and 'Yours', ballads crafted by soul masters Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Confidence restored, Mariah comes across as a re-energised woman in control of her artistic destiny.

Carey Eager To Start A Fresh Chapter
By LARRY FLICK
December 07, 2002

NEW YORK - The media might want to tag Mariah Carey's imminent Charmbracelet as her bid for a pop comeback, but the artist begs to differ.

"To compare a studio recording with a soundtrack recording isn't fair," she says, referring to 2001's Glitter, the Virgin album that accompanied the motion-picture box-office disappointment of the same name. With Nielsen SoundScan registering stateside sales of 557,000, it is the first Carey-related set to miss the million-selling mark. Carey's previous studio collection, the 2000 Columbia release Rainbow, sold 2.9 million copies in the U.S.

"But it's cool," she adds. "I'm used to dealing with people who will manipulate facts and situations in order to create juicy copy and meet deadlines."

Carey does agree that Charmbracelet-the first offering from her new Island Def Jam-distributed Monarc label (due Tuesday [3] in the U.S. and Monday [2] internationally)-marks the start of a fresh chapter, following a period of personal and professional problems.

A ROCKY ROAD
Last fall, the artist was hospitalized for extreme exhaustion, which was followed by a much-publicized split with Virgin in a reported $28 million contract buyout by parent company EMI Recorded Music. It was a one-two punch that Carey says provided invaluable life lessons.

"First of all, I learned that if people see that you're willing to work at an inhuman pace, they will push you until you fall down," she says. "I've always been scrappy and willing to do whatever it takes to make things happen. That's still the case, within reason. But last year, I learned that [I] eventually have to face the fact that I'm not a machine. I'm a human being with emotions and a threshold for exhaustion and pain, just like everyone else. I pushed myself hard, and I worked until I hit the wall."

As for her brief alliance with Virgin-which resulted only in the aforementioned soundtrack-the singer describes it as a "well-intentioned mistake. Sometimes, I find that my mind is still set in the ways of a young girl who didn't have money," she says. "When you have the mind-set and you're in a situation where crazy money is being thrown at you, sometimes you just grab it. Well, never again for me. I will never make a snap decision for money again."

She now views her move from Columbia, where she racked up 15 No. 1 hits on The Billboard Hot 100, to Virgin as being "too quick," despite a strong relationship with then-label president Nancy Berry. "We tried to prepare for the release of a soundtrack in four weeks at a time when the label was going through internal changes," she says. "It wasn't terribly realistic, but we tried our best to make it work."

In retrospect, Carey believes the rocky road of the past year has not only made her stronger but also gave her the inspiration to form Monarc with industry veteran Jerry Blair.

Unlike her now-defunct Columbia imprint, Crave, she terms her new label as "something I truly want to do. I loved the artists I worked with at Crave, but this is a more organic scenario for me."

back to basics
While the media dined on the details of Carey's trials and tribulations, the artist concentrated on "getting some much-needed rest" and revisiting her original intention in life-making music.

"I started writing and recording the songs that would later go on this album before I had a deal," she says. "I needed to be absorbed in the process of making music purely for the sake of expressing myself for a while. There were no deadlines, no pressures. I made music as a means of centering myself after all of the drama I'd endured. I found incredible inner peace and clarity in the creation of these songs."

The artist's rejuvenated spirit can be felt throughout Charmbracelet, a 15-song opus that is best-described as classic Carey. She produced the set with longtime collaborators Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Randy Jackson, and Jermaine Dupri, as well as up-and-comers 7 Aurelius, Just Black, Dre & Vidal, and Damizza. Joining the artist on various tracks are Jay-Z, Kelly Price, Joe, Ice Cube, and Mack 10, among others.

The set shows Carey combining richly textured pop ballads with earthy, R&B-inflected hip-hop, sewing them together with well-drawn lyrics whose themes dart between romance and self-empowerment.

"This is the album that Mariah needed to make," says Lyor Cohen, chairman/CEO of the Island Def Jam Music Group (IDJMG). "It speaks of her immeasurable strength and versatility as an artist."

For Carey, it was simply a matter of capturing the events and passions of her life on tape. "Each song represents a moment in time," she says. "Of course, some stories are more obvious than others."

The delicate "Sunflowers for Alfred Roy" is a mournful elegy for Carey's father, who died earlier this year. It's a song that she says she sang only once. "What you hear on the album is the only time I ever sang it straight through. It was too emotional an experience to revisit. I can't even listen to it in front of other people."

More uplifting are two of Carey's favorites: "Subtle Invitation," with its smooth, swing-jazz inflections, and the gospel-flavored "My Saving Grace." "These are songs that just brought me such joy to sing," she says. "They're not punched in a million times. It's just me in front of the mike, performing from the heart."

There also is a complex, string-laden revision of Def Leppard's "Bringin' on the Heartbreak," which the singer says is an example of her musical diversity. "I love going from showing my Minnie Riperton influences to hip-hop to rock. It's all me. For 'Heartbreak,' it was fun to go back to a song that I loved singing when I was in school. I think we bring some fresh elements to it."

marketing mariah
With the songs of Charmbracelet in place, Carey says she has dived head-first into the promotion process, to the delight of Cohen.

"She understands that we're in a time when artists and labels must remain focused and diligent," he says. "There are no guarantees for success. We're not just competing with other music acts, we're competing with videogames, movies-all forms of entertainment. It's important to be competitive, and that includes making a record that you can get everyone excited about, from top to bottom."

For the first step in introducing the project, Carey hosted fans at an album-listening event that was taped for an MTV special that will air Tuesday (3).

"She's got such a loving fan base," Cohen says. "We wanted them to have some sense of ownership of her and her music. That was important to Mariah."

The program will also feature an interview with John Norris and a live-performance segment. On the same day, Carey will be the subject of an hour-long interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Other TV elements of the marketing include a BET special and appearances on Dateline, Total Request Live, and Larry King Live. Also, an autograph-signing appearance Dec. 11 at the Mall of America in Minneapolis will be captured live on Today.

"The idea is to selectively choose television/media appearances," says Julie Greenwald, president of Island Records/executive VP of IDJMG. "We don't want to book her everywhere and anywhere, but rather in special places where she'll reach the widest possible audience."

Beyond TV in the States, Carey is devoting considerable time to international marketing. She recently completed a month-long trek through Europe, hitting what Greenwald describes as "every major television and radio outlet possible." She will revisit Europe in early 2003.

single activity
Charmbracelet is preceded by the single "Through the Rain," which went to radio the first week of September, several weeks ahead of its originally planned shipment. Greenwald says, "We were forced to jump on it early, due to a leak."

Since then, the track has built a solid audience at top 40 radio, where it received 1,213 spins on 127 stations for the week of Nov. 11, according to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.

Unlike previous Carey singles, "Through the Rain" will not be issued commercially. Instead, Greenwald says the track is available via digital download on sites that include pressplay.com and rhapsody .com. "It's an excellent way of putting the single out there for people to have without distracting from the album, which we feel so strongly about."

In addition to "Through the Rain," Island Def Jam also served Carey's hip-hop base by issuing a promo-only 12-inch pressing of the set's rhythm-rooted cuts "Boy (I Need You)," "Irresistible," and "You Got Me" to hip-hop radio specialists and club DJs.

Hitting the road
For Carey, who is managed by Louise McNally in New York, the ultimate element in promoting Charmbracelet will be a tour, tentatively planned to start in the spring.

"I've been dying to sing these songs live," she says. "It will be exciting to hear them come to life in a new way."

Most of all, it will be a moment of victory for the singer, who notes that "it's nice to be in a happy, serene place" after her recent life and career challenges. Still, Carey acknowledges that some of her strongest music has followed difficult times.

"I could not have written this album, which I truly love, without having gone through those hard times. That was the case with my first album, and Butterfly, and a few of my other albums. Sometimes, the greatest art comes from pain. It would be nice to not have to go through that, but I'm growing to accept that life is full of bumps in the road. The gratifying part is when you can come out on the other side tougher and wiser-and with some great songs."

Sources:
Jessica, Billboard.

Miriam sent me two pictures she took when Mariah visited Holland:

All The Info About MC Visiting Brazil
* Mariah will be recording an EXCLUSIVE showcase to a tv show called "Fantástico" (from the GLOBO TV Network). This tv show is one of the most popular tv shows in Brazil and it´s shown every sunday night.

* Only a few selected people will be able to attend to the showcase recording. There will be a list with names and id numbers on it. Tickets are available through one of Mariah´s Brazilian fan clubs: Mariah Connection. All the lambs have to do is go to mariahconnection.com and fill out the pop up form

* The showcase will be recorded on December 4th at around 7 PM in a place that will be announced by tomorrow night.

* Mariah will be singing three songs during the showcase: Heartbreaker, I Only Wanted and TTR.

* Universal ask the lambs that will be going to the showcase to please...memorize the lyrics so that we can all sing along with mariah :-)

* Another confirmed appearence is a concert that will also be recorded to the Globo TV Network. Everyone can take part on this one. All the lambs gotta do is buy the ticket. IT´S NOT A MARIAH CONCERT. There will be many artists on it and Mariah will be one of them. Tickets can be found at "Shopping Via Parque" (Barra da Tijuca - Rio de Janeiro) or they can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com.br

* No cameras are allowed inside the showcase

Mariah On "The Fridge", BET & TRL
Mariah dropped to #3 on "The Fridge" today on MTV Europe. Please continue to vote for her!
Please vote for Mariah on TRL - It's important that she's high on the chart this week as the CD's released!
Last but not least - Please vote on BET as well - You can call 1-800-617-LIVE between 5:30 and 6:00 PM, lets get her on the chart at least on DEC. 2nd & 3rd!

While you're voting, vote for TTR on the Argentinian chart here! (Thanks Tomas).

Mariah Carey Reflects on 'TRL' Appearance
NEW YORK (AP) - What was the big deal? That's what Mariah Carey wondered after her spontaneous striptease on MTV's "Total Request Live" caused such a stir last year.

The singer talks about the July 2001 incident, and the subsequent emotional breakdown that landed her in a hospital, in "Mariah Carey: Shining Through the Rain," which airs at 9 p.m. EST Tuesday on MTV.

"The drama, the saga of the 'TRL,'" Carey recalls. "Like we were doing 'Dateline' and suddenly I went into like a striptease burlesque show. I'm like, it's 'TRL,' I thought you were supposed to feel at home and do stupid stuff."

She adds, "I'm not going to stop being me because people don't get me. The only thing I wish I had done is had a better camera angle."

The one-hour special features an interview with the 32-year-old Grammy winner, a performance of songs from her new album "Charmbracelet," which also comes out Tuesday, and a question-and-answer session with fans.

Source:
Yahoo! News / AP

Mariah Carey, 'Standing Again'
By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY
Mariah Carey is sitting in a midtown recording studio, trying to enjoy a moment's peace. But Jack, her constant companion of several years, won't stop harassing her. She has tried locking him out of the room, but still he persists, pressing against the door and grunting ominously.

Luckily for Carey, Jack is a dog, and not one of the human male variety. The doe-eyed Jack Russell terrier is generally well behaved, in fact, and the diva doesn't seem too bothered by his occasional tantrums. Recent experience has taught her that all true friends should be cherished, no matter how many legs they have.

"I've really, really learned the importance of having people around who love me for who I am, not because they see me as a celebrity or a meal ticket," says Carey, sipping soy milk. "And I've learned who those people are. I can't say that anyone I had believed in for a long time disappointed me. But there were some newer people on the scene recently, and when things got too hectic, they weren't there." (Related item: More than one diva finding radio stations are turning a deaf ear.)

She is alluding, of course, to what Queen Elizabeth would surely agree was Carey's own annus horribilus. It began in July 2001, when the singer spent two weeks in a private hospital after having what was described as a physical and emotional breakdown. The episode occurred at the worst possible moment: just as Carey was preparing to unleash her most ambitious project yet, a semi-autobiographical film called Glitter that she had conceived and starred in.

The movie garnered scathing reviews and tanked at the box office. An accompanying soundtrack album also proved a flop, especially for someone whose string of No. 1 singles and multiplatinum albums in the '90s had made her one of the best-selling artists of all time.

To add insult to injury, Carey was then dropped by EMI's Virgin Records, which had signed her to a contract worth a reported $80 million only months earlier.

The topper came when Carey's father was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and died last summer. "That put things into perspective," Carey says. "Sometimes you have to go through difficult stuff, either to learn a lesson or maybe reconnect with something that has slipped away a bit. But that's how life is. You may keep getting hit, but you have to just keep on standing up again."

And Carey, 32, wants it known that she is still standing. On Tuesday, she will release Charmbracelet, a CD that marks the beginning of both a new professional relationship and, Carey says, a new lease on life.

Charmbracelet is the first venture of Carey's own label, MonarC Music, which will be distributed through the Universal Music Group's Island Def Jam division. Universal signed Carey to an estimated $20 million deal in May, less than half a year after EMI gave her the boot with a settlement of nearly $30 million to supplement the more than $20 million she had already collected.

But Carey says her current arrangement was designed more to accommodate her health and sanity than her bank account. She says that after getting out of her original, long-standing contract with Sony Music — whose head honcho, Tommy Mottola, is Carey's ex-husband — she had limited time to bond with her new family at Virgin or to map out a workable strategy for promoting Glitter.

"I was with people who didn't really know me, and I had no personal assistant," she says. "I'd be doing interviews all day long, getting two hours of sleep a night, if that. I was burning the candle at both ends and in the middle, and it caught up with me."

Carey maintains that her hospitalization was caused by "a collapse from exhaustion" rather than the more complex psychological or chemical problems some rumors hinted at. "Yes, I was in a bad place emotionally, but anyone would be at that point of total physical depletion. I began seeing a therapist, and he told me, 'Look, you didn't have a nervous breakdown. It's a form of torture not to be allowed to sleep.' He said I had to start setting boundaries in life, to learn how to say no.

"It's taken some people a while to understand that, but now they do. I've actually made up contracts that people who work with me have to sign, so they know I must have lunch breaks and dinner breaks and five or six hours of sleep a night. For so long, I had been so busy taking care of everyone and everything else, including my career, that I forgot about me. But I've learned that there are certain lines that have to be drawn."

Carey's next challenge, however, might involve factors beyond her control. Pop radio isn't as friendly an environment for mature pop divas as it was back in the early-to-mid-'90s heyday of Carey and Celine Dion. The first single from Charmbracelet, Through the Rain, is an inspirational ballad in the vein of earlier Carey hits such as Hero, and thus represents a departure from the uptempo singles she has more recently used to introduce her increasingly hip-hop-driven CDs.

But if Rain was a bid to appeal to the slightly older fans who once made up her core audience, its success has been less than stunning. According to Airplay Monitor charts director Silvio Pietroluongo, it has fared less well since its September release than recent entries by artists such as Christina Aguilera and American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson — junior divas whose airy riffing and dramatic belting offer virtual facsimiles of Carey's distinctly ornate vocal style.

"(Rain) came out in a difficult period, when there were a lot of superstar releases," Pietroluongo says. "The song is still gaining about 150 to 200 spins a week at Top 40, but it's been sort of a crawl."

Island president Julie Greenwald remains optimistic about Rain's long-term potential and that of the follow-up single, The One, which features a rap refrain by frequent Carey collaborator Jermaine Dupri. "This new album is a great mix of uptempo and midtempo songs and ballads," Greenwald says dutifully. "Mariah is a multi-format artist, which is why she's been so successful for so many years. Glitter was the one exception, and that was different, because it was a soundtrack, a concept album."

The singer herself makes exactly the same argument, right down to the lingo: "The press shouldn't really have compared Glitter to another Mariah Carey album, because it's a soundtrack, a concept album with an '80s retro theme. Soundtracks aren't expected to (sell) like artists' other records." She also notes that the Glitter CD was released Sept. 11, 2001. "It came at the wrong time. But I still think there are some really good songs on that record."

Carey is more critical of the movie, though. "It started out as a concept with substance, but it ended up being geared to 10-year-olds. It lost a lot of grit. It was gritless, in fact. I kind of got in over my head." She was happier with her experience making Wisegirls, a character-based comedy that paired her with Mira Sorvino and earned good notices and a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival — though it landed on cable television, airing on Cinemax rather than gaining wide distribution in theaters.

Craig Marks, editor of music magazine Blender, would advise both Carey and her marketing team to use yesterday's disappointments to earn fresh sympathy. Marks says Carey's decision to tape a cathartic chat with Oprah Winfrey, which will air in December, "was super-smart. When Mariah went through her troubles last year, everybody enjoyed the spectacle. Now what she and her label and management need to do is get people to feel for what she's been through."

Reminding folks about Carey's artistic cachet wouldn't hurt, Marks adds.

"She's the most influential singer of the past 20 years. Almost every female artist under the age of 20 wants to sound like her, for better or worse. Also, Mariah writes her own songs — that's something not a lot of people have given her credit for."

On Charmbracelet, as in the past, Carey shares writing and production credits with some of the leading names in pop and R&B, among them Dupri and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. After the "crazy media frenzy" surrounding her collapse and Glitter's failure, she fled to Italy to work on the new songs. "It was a really healing experience," she says. "People were like, 'What? You're back working already?' But the creative work isn't the hard part; it's the business end that's hard."

By the time she accepted Universal's offer, after a bidding war that reportedly included Clive Davis' J Records and other labels, Carey had basically finished crafting Charmbracelet. The title refers to a favorite piece of jewelry for both her and her paternal grandmother, who had died a few years before Carey's father.

"My father got sick just as we were learning to understand each other more," says the singer, whose parents divorced when she was a child. "It was really intense, but it brought the family closer together. One cousin told me that my father's mother had also had a charm bracelet. She was a very spiritual person, and spirituality has always been a big theme in my music. Some of the songs that may seem like love songs on this album, like I'm singing about a guy, are actually more spiritual songs."

Granted, one new song, Clown, seems to take aim at someone who has spread rumors about an intimate relationship with Carey. Some have assumed that the song is directed at Eminem, who has suggested he dated the singer. But Carey dryly notes, "I've known a lot of clowns. I've known a circus full of them."

Carey stresses that her knowledge of Eminem was not carnal, however. "I can still count on less than five fingers the number of men I've gone there with. And believe me, he isn't one of them."

Asked whether there is someone special in her life right now, Carey, who was linked to baseball star Derek Jeter and Latin singer Luis Miguel after her split from Mottola, pauses.

"I have a lot of friends who are special to me," she finally says. "I'm not necessarily looking for some new guy to ride up on a horse and save my life. I'm the only person who can save my life, by having hope and faith. But friends — real friends, like the ones who supported me through all the drama and turmoil of last year — they mean a lot.

"They're the people who really matter."

Source:
USA Today

Below are scans from the paper, sent in by Vijay!

Mariah Jets Across Globe
Mariah has been working her way around the globe on a promotional tour in support of her latest release Charmbracelet. Her most recent trip has her in Japan where she shot part of her video for Charmbracelet's second single entitled The One, held a press conference with approximately 300 media representatives, made numerous TV appearances, attended fan events and hosted a Thanksgiving dinner with some of the local children in an effort to share a bit of American Culture and what Thanksgiving Day means to the United States. On November 30 she will arrive in Korea and on December 2 she makes her way to Brazil where she will appear on the Brazilian TV show Fantastico. Before returning to the U.S. Mariah will visit Mexico on December 6 and during her stay will appear on a telethon to benefit children with medical needs that will air on the Televisa network to a viewing audience of 100 million worldwide.

Source:
MariahCarey.com

TTR Best Wet Video?
VH1 Daily poll asks: "What's your favorite "wet" video from this year?"

Click here to vote for "Through The Rain"! It's on the bottom right.
(Thanks Marisa)

TTR Worldwide Update
Thailand: Ballsath writes: "This week "TTR" moved up to # 9 on "GET 102.5 FM" (last week #14) and also moved up to # 10 on "Easy FM 105.5"(last week #13) after debuted in both charts last 3 weeks ago.This time "TTR" single cd are hard to find because of Ther are sold out in most of stores in Thailand. If other fan want to buy of exchange "TTR" Thai cd,please contact me at ballsath@hotmail.com and Next week on 2nd of December "Charmbracelet" ,a new Mariah album, will release in all stores in Thailand."

Norway: Mariah_Hero writes: "Mariah is finally on a Norwegian top20 list, unfortunately she is at the last spot #20. I was wondering if there is any lambs out there, who's interested in buying a copy. If you want that, please e -mail me at mariah_hero2002@yahoo.no. Click here to see the Norwegian chart."

Sweden: swedishmariahlover writes that Mariah entered the Swedish charts at #12.

Canada: S-Club writes that TTR debuted at #5 on the Canadian singles sales chart.

TTR Worldwide Update
Here are some really nice "Charmbracelet" wallpapers that Nik sent us:

Download First Clip - Where Mariah talks about the Eminem rumor and about being a diva!

Download Second Clip - Includes exclusive previews from the Oprah interview, Dateline interview, MTV "Shining Through The Rain" interview & performance of TTR & short clips from Mariah's visit to Italy & Japan.

Please do not directly link to the files and also note the file will be available for 24 hours only. Here are also 25 captures from the clips. Enjoy!

Sources:
Alyssa, Katelin, Marcin & Yahoo! News

Watch Mariah on Rove!
Matt made MPGs of Mariah's interview with Rove (Australia) that aired last night. I made these caps from it:

TTR Does Well on MTVE
Thanks Ugri for letting us know that "Through The Rain" is #4 at the US Top 20 countdown on MTV Europe!

Vote For MC
The British magazine Hello! has a poll asking: "Who do you think was the most attractive woman on our site last week?"
Click Here to vote for Mariah! (Thanks EaglesSteelers)

New TTR Promo
Universal Portugal gave the MC Portuguese Fanclub a new promo of TTR that includes the following tracks:
1. Through The Rain (Boris & Michi's Club Mix) - 7:09
2. Through The Rain (Full Intension Club Mix) - 9:15
3. Through The Rain (Boris & Michi's Through THe Dub Mix) - 5:54
4. Through The Rain (Full Intension Mix) - 7:15

Carey went straight to a second site, only to find several thousand more onlookers, and police again halted the action. At a third planned location, Carey was finally able to shoot some of the video. "The One" has been tapped as the second single from Carey's latest album, "Charmbracelet."

In Japan, the album debuted at No. 1 on Oricon Entertainment's pop charts. "Charmbracelet" is due Tuesday (Dec. 3) in North America; several of the album's tracks can be streamed through Carey's site. First single "Through the Rain" peaked earlier this month at No. 17 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.

Today, Carey met with reporters and talked about retreating to the tiny Italian island of Capri, where she went last year to relax after being hospitalized for an emotional breakdown. It turned out that the trip was hardly an idle vacation as she recorded all 15 songs for her new disc while there, an experience she said was therapeutic.

"I put all the things I had gone through into my music," Carey said. "In general, in my life, I'm in a really good, happy place."

Carey appeared relaxed and smiled broadly as she spoke about the sudden turn of fortune that led to her hospitalization. "I had worked myself very, very hard for many, many years and I never took a break," she said. "And last year, I had just become very, very exhausted and ended up just not really in a good place physically and emotionally."

Last year, she exited Sony Music and signed with Virgin in a much-hyped multi-album deal reported to be worth as much as $100 million. But with the commercial failure of her disc "Glitter" and the movie of the same name last year, EMI, Virgin's parent company, paid $28 million in January to void her contract.

In May, she signed with Island/Def Jam, under which she formed her own MonarC imprint. The move, she said, gave her the chance to draw on her experiences and work with other singers. It also gave her a chance to relax. "I learned a little more about how to work hard but also how to be healthy and take care of myself," she said.
-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y. & AP

Sources:
Xyraxel, Billboard

Impromptu Carey Shoot Prompts Police Warning
Police said Tuesday they have warned an official of a video production company for failing to obtain a permit for a video shoot with U.S. pop singer Mariah Carey in a busy part of Tokyo.

The 41-year-old official was issued with a verbal reprimand after the impromptu shoot took place at around 9:40 p.m. Monday outside Shibuya Station.

With several hundred people stopping to watch, the incident caused a commotion and a traffic jam.

After her car passed the crowded Hachiko exit, Carey, 32, reportedly told her staff that she wanted to shoot there. The company has submitted a written apology over the 15-minute shoot.

Japanese pop singer Hiromi Go caused a similar stir in August 1999 by holding an impromptu live show at a Shibuya intersection, standing atop a trailer.

Source:
The Japan Times

Mariah Carey Says Took Refuge on Isolated Italian Island After Breakdown To work
Tue Nov 26,11:02 AM ET
TOKYO - After being hospitalized for an emotional breakdown last year, Mariah Carey flew to the tiny Italian island of Capri for a much-needed break.

It was hardly an idle vacation.

Within five months, the 32-year-old multi-platinum diva had nursed herself back to health — and recorded all 15 songs for her new disc, "Charm Bracelet." The experience, she said, was therapeutic.

"I put all the things I had gone through into my music," Carey told reporters Tuesday in Tokyo. "In general, in my life, I'm in a really good, happy place."

If the disc's first-week sales in Japan are any indication, Carey's career may on the rebound, too.

Despite her poor-selling album "Glitter" last year, Carey's 12th album has been at No. 1 on Oricon Entertainment's pop charts in Japan since its debut last week. Her appearances in Tokyo have been mobbed by thousands of screaming Japanese.

Carey, who arrived in Japan on Monday to film her second video, "The One," appeared relaxed and smiled broadly as she spoke about the sudden turn of fortune that led to her hospitalization in August last year.

"I had worked myself very very hard for many many years and I never took a break," she said. "And last year, I had just become very very exhausted and ended up just not really in a good place physically and emotionally."

Carey didn't say what caused her breakdown, though it came months after she left Sony Music following her divorce from Sony Music president, Tommy Mottola. As president of Columbia, Mottola had guided her career.

Last year, she signed with Virgin in a much-hyped multi-album deal reported to be worth as much as US$100 million. But with the commercial failure of her disc "Glitter" and the movie of the same name last year, EMI, Virgin's parent company, paid US$28 million in January to void her contract.

In May, she signed with the Island/Def Jam label. The move, she said, gave her the chance to draw on her experiences and work with other singers. Mostly, though, she discovered how to relax.

"I learned a little more about how to work hard but also how to be healthy and take care of myself," she said.

Source:
Yahoo! News / Associated Press

TRL Update
Through The Rain was still at #6 today. Keep voting!

Pictures will later move to Gallery 1.
Pictures 1-2: - From "The One" video shoot (Thanks MariahCarey.com)

Picture 3: - Taken at a Japanese press conference (Thanks Diva-Mariah)

Mariah To Visit Brazil
Mariah Carey will arive in Brazil on December 2nd at around 4 PM to the promotional tour of her upcoming album "Charmbracelet". Mariah Connection Fan Club is gonna have some tickets for the showcase.

Sources:
Universal Brazil, Mariah Connection - Check for details about the tickets.

Mariah On AOL
Mariah's Amazing ''Grace''
Be among the first to hear Mariah Carey's stunning new song, ''My Saving Grace,'' from her forthcoming 'Charmbracelet' CD.

Get ready for Mariahvision.

Mariah Carey, ready to step back into the media spotlight following a highly publicized "rest" period last year, will kick off a round of smallscreen appearances next week to pump up interest in her new album, "Charmbracelet."

The singer, last seen in the movie flop "Glitter," will turn up Dec. 3 on the syndicated talk show "Oprah" and that night on NBC's "Dateline."

Carey taped "Oprah" last Thursday and spent time with NBC's Matt Lauer last week.

Her sit-down with Lauer will air first on "Dateline" and then on the Dec. 10 edition of "Today." Carey will conclude her NBC run on the Dec. 11 edition of "Today," with a live performance from the Mall of America in Minneapolis.

But the media train won't stop there. Carey also will appear on ABC's "The View" Dec. 17.

"The View" visit is ironic in that just before her July 2001 meltdown, Carey had agreed to an exclusive sit-down with ABC's Barbara Walters — executive producer of "The View."

Then Carey had what was reported as a physical and emotional breakdown, being rushed to a hospital emergency room after her mother called 911. She later was taken to Silver Hill in Connecticut, a rehabilitation facility that specializes in mental illness and addiction.

The illness forced cancelation of an appearance on MTV and a delay in the release of "Glitter."

But "Glitter" — both the film and the CD of the same name — bombed and Carey changed record labels.

At the time of Carey's troubles, Walters said she would do the interview whenever the singer-actress was ready to speak again.

However, brass at her new record label, Island Records, decided to go with Oprah Winfrey's daytime talker as Carey's coming-out party, leaving Walters to wait until she appears on "The View."

"They wanted 'Oprah' first," said Carey's spokeswoman. "There was a new label, new decision."

In launching a television campaign, Carey becomes the latest musical artist to turn to the medium to sell a new record.

Last summer, Bruce Springsteen, used appearances on "Today," ABC's "Nightline" and MTV to launch his latest, "The Rising." In the first week, he sold more than 525,000 copies.

Source:
NY Daily News

Police Fume After Mariah Carey Video Shoot Causes Chaos
Tuesday, November 26, 2002 at 18:00 JST
TOKYO — Police have issued a warning to an official of a video production company for failing to acquire a permit for a video shooting session with U.S. pop singer Mariah Carey in a busy Tokyo square, the police said Tuesday.

The police said they gave the verbal reprimand to the 41-year-old production firm official after the impromptu shooting session took place at around 9:40 p.m. Monday in the Shibuya district, causing a commotion and traffic jam, with several hundred people stopping to look.

Earlier in the day, Japanese fans went crazy when they heard the superstar was in town and flocked to the first location of the video shoot for her next single, "The One," which was to take place in downtown Tokyo.

According to Carey's web site, between 10,000 to 15,000 excited fans waited in the rain hours before Carey was scheduled to arrive, forcing the police to shut down the location due to the enormous crowd. The songstress went directly to a second location where thousands of fans were already waiting to catch a glimpse of their favorite star.

The police had to shut down this location as well due to the huge crowd forcing Carey to move to the third location in Shibuya where she was finally able to shoot some of the video.

According to the police, the 32-year-old singer suddenly told the staff, after her car passed by the crowded Hachiko exit of Shibuya Station, that she wanted to shoot there. The filming lasted about 15 minutes, the police said.

The company has submitted a written apology, the police said.

In a similar case, Japanese pop singer Hiromi Go caused a commotion in August 1999 by holding an impromptu live show at an intersection in Shibuya, where he performed atop a trailer, attracting more than 1,000 people.

Papers were sent to the prosecutors on those in charge of the event, including a producer of a record company.

Carey's latest CD, "Charmbracelet," released Nov 20 in Japan, shot straight to #1 this week. (Compiled from wire reports)

Source:
Japan Today Japan News

More Pictures From Japan

Picture 1: U.S. pop singer Mariah Carey poses for photographers during a press conference in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2002. She is in Tokyo to promote her new album, "Charm Bracelet." (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) (Thanks DivaMC.de / Yahoo Germany)

Picture 2: From "The One" video shoot (Thanks MariahCarey.com).

Pictures 3-7: Singer Mariah Carey attends a photo call to promote her new album "Charmbracelet" November 26, 2002 in Tokyo, Japan. (Thanks Getty Images)

MC On Lifetime's Intimate Portrait?
Jae was watching Lifetime and they were showing people of future interviews for the show Intimate Portrait and they showed a picture of Mariah!
Hopefully we'll find out more about that soon.

More "Charmbracelet" Ads
Ajay sent us more ads he did to promote "Charmbracelet". So start printing them and using them!

Last Chance To Vote For Us
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Sources:
Carlos, Mini & Ru Paul's Official Site - Thank You!

Mariah Carey Has Wild Video Shoot Experience In Japan
11/25/02, 6 p.m. ET) -- Mariah Carey was in Tokyo on Monday (November 25) to shoot the video for her next single, "The One," which is taken from her new album, Charmbracelet, due out next Tuesday (December 3) in the U.S. The video is being directed by Joseph Kahn (U2, Eminem (news - web sites)).

The first location of the video shoot was to be Tokyo's City Center. However, nearly 15,000 fans showed up at the site hours before Carey arrived, forcing the Tokyo police to shut down the location due to the huge turnout, according to her official website (monarc.com).

Carey was quickly ushered to a second shooting location that was also promptly closed down by police after large crowds showed up hoping to catch a glimpse of the singer. Before the end of the day, Carey was able to shoot a portion of the music video at a third location in Tokyo.

Charmbracelet will be released on Carey's label, MonarC Music, and distributed via Island Records in the U.S. The album was released in Japan on November 20, and it debuted at Number One on the album chart this week in that country.
-- Jason Gelman, New York

Source:
Yahoo! News / Launch

A Few Mariah Mentions on VIBE
Jennifer found the following Mariah bits on the new 'Vibe' issue that just came out with Jay-Z on the cover (for the month of January 2003):
On page 47 there is a Mariah Carey -Charmbracelet Ad which her face covers the whole page and it mentions ...
The new album featuring "Through the Rain", "Yours", and "The One". 12/03/02. It shows the picture of the cover of the album! she looks pretty as always.

Also on page 101 they have an article on Lyor Cohen, the CEO of Island Def Jam and here is a quote from the 3 page article...
"Cohen upped his status further last year when he signed Mariah Carey shortly after her dismissal from Virgin Records and the EMI Group. But she may also prove to be the biggest challenge of his career.
Carey suffered an emotional breakdown as her moview Glitter and its soundtr