Well she wanted some news - shame it has be bad news.

 

There's some controversy about a concert in Hong Kong being cancelled.

 

Were ticket sales that bad?

Are the promoters trying to screw Mariah out of money?

Or were Mariah's diva demands to blame?

 

I've found a few articles on this so we can have a balanced view on things.

I'll post them all now:

MARIAH CONCERT SHELVED AFTER ROW

 

Singer Mariah Carey's concert in Hong Kong has been shelved after a dispute between the star and promoters. The 36-year-old's manager has denied that it was cancelled due to poor ticket sales and "specific last-minute demands" from the star.

Benny Medina told the Associated Press that the gig was scrapped because promoters Concerts Asia failed to pay the singer her fee on time. He added that they are trying to stage the concert with another promoter. But Carey is planning to return to the US to work on a film and her next album, while Concerts Asia said on its website that an announcement will be made next week about refunds for ticket holders.

Mr Medina said that the date would have been honoured even if ticket sales had proved sluggish, adding that 8,000 tickets had been sold - double the figure claimed by the promoter.

"If there were only 10 people in this venue, and this particular promoter had fulfilled his contractual obligations, we would be there. Mariah Carey loves her fans in South-East Asia. He has defaulted several times, right up into the last 48 hours. Literally we tried to hang in there with this guy. There's no question that Mariah is excited to go back to Hong Kong in the very near future," he added.

The tour was the first since the release of Carey's Grammy-winning album The Emancipation of Mimi, which Mr Medina has called her most successful to date.

 

(BBC News)

 

MANAGER BLAMES PROMOTER FOR CONCERT CANCELLATION

 

Mariah Carey's manager is disputing claims by an Asian promoter that her concert was called off because of poor ticket sales and unreasonable demands. Manager Benny Medina says eight-thousand tickets were sold to her Hong Kong concert, not four-thousand, as promoter Concerts Asia claimed. Medina blames the cancellation on the tour promoter's failure to pay Carey.

Medina says the promoter has "defaulted several times, right up into the last 48 hours." Concerts Asia had said the Hong Kong date was canceled because of poor ticket sales and because Carey had made "wholly unreasonable" demands. Medina says Carey's team is talking to other promoters to see if the Hong Kong show can be completed with another promoter.

 

(Access Holywood)

MARIAH GONGED IN HONG KONG

 

Mariah Carey, performing "Emancipation of Mimi" concert in LA earlier this month, has been canceled in Hong Kong. Mariah Carey, you're no Babs. At least that's the opinion of a Hong Kong event promoter who said a concert set for tomorrow was called off because of disappointing ticket sales and the diva's outrageous demands.

"We have decided to cancel the event ... due to both the poor response of public ticket sales and also due to specific last-minute demands which we find wholly unreasonable," promoter One Events said in a statement yesterday. "She was making demands like Streisand," a music industry source told the Daily News. "She wanted special spring water, furniture, lighting and armed escorts. They told her: 'This is Hong Kong, not the U.S.,' and she said: 'I am not going on.' So they said: 'Fine.'"

But Carey's manager said the pop star pulled out because the promoter had failed to meet his financial commitments. Benny Medina of Handprint Entertainment said ticket sales were fine. He denied that the "Emancipation of Mimi" songstress had made any unusual requests.

"In these cases, the artist arrives in their tour bus, goes to a backstage room, performs and then leaves," Medina said. "This promoter is resorting to lies and attacks on Mariah when it's just a result of the fact he can't pay his bills."

 

(New York Daily News)

 

BLAME FLIES AFTER MARIAH HONG KONG CANCELLATION

 

Management and promoters of Mariah Carey's Oct. 28 gig in Hong Kong are blaming each other after the pop singer's show was canceled today (Oct. 26). The event's promoters, Hong Kong-based One Events, say the tour-concluding show was pulled due to poor ticket sales and blamed Carey's management, Los Angeles-based Handprint Entertainment, for making "unreasonable last-minute demands".

But Handprint co-owner Benny Medina claims to have pulled the plug after One Events allegedly defaulted on an advance. Medina says Handprint's contract with One Events stipulated that a percentage of production and star fees be paid in advance to guarantee the booking.

"Judging by the business model of this company and the way it does business - bearing in mind this money was still outstanding two days before the show - we felt the possibility of getting those fees was remote," Medina tells Billboard.com. "So we felt we had no alternative but to cancel the show."

"As promoters of the Mariah Carey Hong Kong concert we have decided to cancel the event effective immediately due to both the poor response of public ticket sales (approximately 4,000 normal tickets only despite a substantial advertising campaign, although a good response from corporate ticketing), and also due to specific last-minute demands which we find wholly unreasonable and not with the best interests of Hong Kong, us and also the fans," One Events said in a statement.

Medina wouldn't comment on how many tickets had been sold. Local newspapers were still running ads for seats today. Carey was to have played at the Tamar Site, a former naval base in the heart of downtown Hong Kong that occasionally hosts temporary stages for large-scale outdoor shows. With a capacity of 20,000, the venue has previously hosted such acts as the Rolling Stones.

Production crews had already begun building the stage when the cancellation was announced here by Carey's local label, Universal Music South East Asia. Refund details have yet to be announced, but Medina says One Events still owes him money. "The moneys owed were a combination of artists' fees and production fees," he says. "This was after we let the promoter know ... that we would give him more and more time to pay. But he missed the deadline each time."

In a statement released today by Universal Music South East Asia regional headquarters in Hong Kong, UMG International apologized to Carey's fans, blaming the cancellation on "unfulfilled contractual obligations by concert organizers".

"She deeply regrets the disappointment caused to them due to unforeseen circumstances beyond her control," the statement says. "For Mariah, this is particularly unfortunate given her recent sold-out, critically acclaimed tours of the United States and Japan."

 

(Billboard)

I don't know who - or what - to believe.

 

Hopefully this will be forgotten about soon. Mariah could do without any more bad press this decade - she's had more than enough already.

Edited November 2, 200618 yr by Tim

:lol: We will never know what is true and what is not, enless we see the ticket sales... but atleast we have some news :lol:

I'm bumping this is it's the only news in Mariah land and only the mods have read it.

:lol: I know, I hate no news... there'll be loads soon though. Perfume, DVD, New album etc :D

Saw something like this in my local paper. Very small article though. -_-

 

Surely you mean enough bad press don't you? :unsure: Anyway, once again the diva demands appear out in the open. Special spring water a problematic demand though? :blink: They have to be kidding. :rofl:

Surely you mean enough bad press don't you? :unsure:

Oops - I did. I've edited my post

Bad press is better than no press :P

Bad press is better than no press :P

Not necessarily. Look at Michael Jackson

:lol: I guess your right...

 

 

I seen a pic of Mariah in comet today advertising Sky TV :o

I don't know what happened in all honesty. If it was cancelled to low ticket sales surely Mariah's management would have just said that? :mellow:

Nooo they'd want to cover it up :lol:

If it was cancelled to low ticket sales surely Mariah's management would have just said that? :mellow:

 

Oh no. As Kalen said, they need the glorious comeback to stay looking glorious.

 

But I don't know what the story is here. Two groups of people saying completely opposite things. The truth will out - eventually.

Edited November 8, 200618 yr by Tim

I don't think we'll ever know :P