I enjoyed her work up to the butterfly album but less so since and i haven't bought a studio album from her since,

It was crazy how huge Mariah was in the US in the beginning compared to the UK

 

Her US success is amazing. She was #1 in the decade-end chart for both the 90's and the 00's. I think she is a great pop star though and I wish she could still get hits. I know Ariana Grande is supposed to be the new version of her, and I sort of like her but it's not the same.

 

Oh absolutely her popularity was insane in the US back then. She certainly didn’t do too badly in the UK either but it pales in comparison to her success back home. It must be another Madonna/Kylie situation to see her new music flopping now over there.

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Also randomly Mariah Carey's version of 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' appearing at #93, had to check to see if that was a new release that I had missed but it is just a track that was on her 1994 Christmas album, just never charted before even in the midweeks. Guess it might drop out again by the end of the week though like Leona/Ne-Yo and Britney did last week (incidentally neither of those have reappeared in this week's midweek update, the order of the Christmas songs seems to be fluctuating quite a bit from week to week).

Mariah's 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was one of only two songs she sang in her Xmas special 2021 on Apple TV so it may be seeing a new peak in relevance from this? It also got its own segment on Gogglebox on Friday so it might fade away... but I'm not sure what effects Gogglebox usually has on the midweeks, hahah.

Oh absolutely her popularity was insane in the US back then. She certainly didn’t do too badly in the UK either but it pales in comparison to her success back home. It must be another Madonna/Kylie situation to see her new music flopping now over there.

Are you implying that Kylie flopped with her recent #1 album?

I loved Mariah during the 90s but once she changed labels and went more RnB, I lost interest rapidly. She just doesn’t use her voice properly anymore. Ariana Grande is nothing compared to Mariah in the 90s.

of course her voice changed, like it happens to every human being in this planet :)

Mariah's 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was one of only two songs she sang in her Xmas special 2021 on Apple TV so it may be seeing a new peak in relevance from this? It also got its own segment on Gogglebox on Friday so it might fade away... but I'm not sure what effects Gogglebox usually has on the midweeks, hahah.

 

Gem seem to be playing it as much as AIWFCIY which must be helping.

Oh absolutely her popularity was insane in the US back then. She certainly didn’t do too badly in the UK either but it pales in comparison to her success back home. It must be another Madonna/Kylie situation to see her new music flopping now over there.

 

As a huge Madonna fan, it really annoyed me at the time that Madonna started not doing so well at just the time Mariah Carey became absolutely huge in the US. I think this probably led to me disliking Mariah. I genuinely can't stand her music now and just avoid her as much as possible (apart from AIWFCIY) which is a lot easier now she's not so successful as well :rolleyes:

 

I know what you mean though. I found it so odd when Madonna missed the Hot 100 in the US for the first time with Hollywood, and when Kylie's singles started peaking outside the Top 40 in the UK, I was like :wacko: WHAT???

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Until very recently, Mariah conspicously failed to get a no.1 in the UK with an original song of hers - I think she referred to that once or twice in interviews.

Are you implying that Kylie flopped with her recent #1 album?

 

Exactly. Kylie has had no1 albums in 2018, 2019 and 2020. There's few artists that can touch that.

Until very recently, Mariah conspicously failed to get a no.1 in the UK with an original song of hers - I think she referred to that once or twice in interviews.

 

Until last year it was an interesting fact that despite her many many US #1s, neither of her UK #1s were actually among them. Without You peaked at #3 and they were spared her and Westlife's butchering of Against All Odds been released as a single. :lol:

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by Jingle Bell Dot

Are you implying that Kylie flopped with her recent #1 album?

 

I more meant in terms of the singles market. Kylie and Madonna both spent over twenty years gaining Top 10 after Top 10 and writing themselves into chart history. The fact that since the 2010s they have consistently failed to see the same levels of commercial success. It must have been the same tide turning shock in the US when Mariah started failing on Billboard given she had that same status over there. She never really achieved that stardom in the UK despite been successful.

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by Jingle Bell Dot

Exactly. Kylie has had no1 albums in 2018, 2019 and 2020. There's few artists that can touch that.

Not to detract from her success, but that's not really surprising given the fan base she has built and the current album market. Her relevance on the singles chart is long gone however.

It was crazy how huge Mariah was in the US in the beginning compared to the UK

 

The Americans love a voice!

I more meant in terms of the singles market. Kylie and Madonna both spent over twenty years gaining Top 10 after Top 10 and writing themselves into chart history. The fact that since the 2010s they have consistently failed to see the same levels of commercial success must be the same tide turning shock in the US when Mariah started failing on Billboard given she had that same status over there. She never really achieved that stardom in the UK despite been successful.

 

This so much! It’s bizarre how they spent the 80’s 90’s and 00’s constantly getting top 10 after top 10 then in the 10’s onwards they had such a u turn!? What is their last top 10? All the lovers and Celebration? It was so sudden too I really never saw it coming was so surprised… although Madonna deserved it for the trash she released from MDNA!

Wasn’t it the decline of the physical market that did it for them? And once streaming was in Game over.

Looking on the Ed Sheeran webstore there appear to have been copies of the CD signed by Elton. Anyone know when they were made available?

Looking on the Ed Sheeran webstore there appear to have been copies of the CD signed by Elton. Anyone know when they were made available?

 

About a week or so ago and they literally sold out in under 5 minutes.

About a week or so ago and they literally sold out in under 5 minutes.

 

where were they announced? I normally spot things like that. Oh well, still managed to get one of the Ed ones.