JULY 19, 2007
"Hello! I know I haven't called you since 1802. Actually, I haven't called anyone. I've been really, really busy and when I do get free time, I'm on vocal rest so I can like get back in the studio for 20 billion hours. So everybody's mad at me but whatever (laughs). I did get a couple of days of vacation in Capri which was a stone groove and I was happy 'cause I haven't been there since I was recording the Mimi record like three years ago. So that was nice for me..." Read this one & more messages from Mariah!

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The "Ringle" re-issue of "All I Want For Christmas" was scheduled to take place today, i.e. 27 November 2007, in the USA. According to Amazon, the release date has not been set.

Source: Mariah Connection

INTERNATIONAL CHARTS UPDATE

France

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The first seasonal hit to arrive is perhaps inevitably "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey which leaps to Number 46. The track has been one of the biggest online sellers since sales began to be tracked properly two years ago, selling in such quantities last year that it would have been a Top 10 hit had it been eligible at the time. With the shackles of physical release removed, the track appears on the singles chart for the first time since its original 1994 release and it seems almost inevitable it will sell in even greater quantities over the next four weeks. Brace yourselves, this is just the first of many.

Source: Yahoo Launch UK

CANADA/USA: iTUNES NEWS
Mariah’s classic Christmas album "Merry Christmas" and tracks off the release are beginning to take off on iTunes USA & Canada’s daily charts:

USA
Top 100 Songs of the Day
13. All I Want For Christmas Is You

Top 100 Albums of the Day
18. Merry Christmas

Top Holiday Albums Chart
3. Merry Christmas

Top Holiday Songs
1. All I Want For Christmas Is You
18. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
71. O’Holy Night
72. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town

CANADA
Top 100 Songs of the Day
11. All I Want For Christmas Is You

Top 100 Albums of the Day
32. Merry Christmas

Top Holiday Albums Chart
9. Merry Christmas

Top Holiday Songs
1. All I Want For Christmas Is You
24. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
49. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
63. O’Holy Night

Source: Mariah Connection Canada

After re-entering the Official UK R&B Chart last week, "Merry Christmas" climbs seven places to #33.

Source: February Sky

United Kingdon
Official UK Music DVD Chart
22. The Adventures of Mim (new entry)

Official UK Singles Chart Top 75
46. All I Want For Christmas Is You

Ireland
Official Irish Top 50 Singles Chart
34. All I Want For Christmas Is You

Source: February Sky

Female pop stars who attain the attributes of goddesses - emblematic names, signature fragrances, the floating hair of Botticelli’s "Venus " - tend to share a few qualities.

They are athletic vocalists, usually with multi-octave ranges, who can hold a note longer than most magicians can stay submerged in water. Their signature songs blend romantic axioms with the more current language of self-help. Their music is frequently dismissed as banal, yet often helps regular folk contemplate profundities, at weddings or funerals, or when a baby is born.

These traits link Whitney to Mariah to Shania to Celine to Faith to Beyoncé to Christina to Alicia, although each has her own strengths and quirks. But something subtler also connects them. Musically, they’re border jumpers. On the surface, they epitomize pop banality, but they regularly defy their home genres, blithely disregarding musical rules that hem in more admired (and usually male) pop practitioners. Whitney Houston set the template for this role by turning a country hit, Dolly Parton’s "I Will Always Love You," into a smash that redefined crossover R&B.

The mainstream’s pop goddesses also blur lines on the level of identity. Many are biracial. Celine Dion is bilingual. All pop stars are mandated to continually remodel themselves, but few do so as dramatically as Mariah Carey, who fled innocence (and Tommy Mottola) to become hip-hop’s super-sexy honey. Christina Aguilera’s been a teen sweetie, a sex radical and a retro vamp. Beyoncé, one suspects, hasn’t even begun to show us her thousand faces.

She’s hardly known outside the music industry, yet Amanda Ghost is increasingly seen as Britain’s most influential songwriter.

In the summer of 2005, James Blunt’s irritatingly catchy ballad, "You’re Beautiful", went stratospheric. It topped the charts in Britain, the US and Canada and became the first song by a British artist ever to climb to the top of the Latin American Top 40. Blunt went on to collect two Ivor Novello awards the following year.

Then word leaked out that the creative hand behind his crooning, forlorn vocals actually belonged to one Amanda Ghost, a British singer-songwriter who was at the start of her own burgeoning performing career when she co-wrote the tune.

The requests soon started flooding in. Could she write a single for the latest American Idol winner? No problem. How about a couple of songs for Whitney Houston’s comeback album, collaborating with Mariah Carey, and acting as a sort of taste consultant for Liam Howlett on The Prodigy’s upcoming release? It’s a deal. Ghost has been busy on all of the above in the past 18 months, and has even found time to help her best friend, Boy George, revive his career after an eight-year hiatus and numerous scandals, not to mention marrying a television producer and giving birth to their daughter.

Source: The Independent

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Source: February Sky