Mariah Carey stops traffic in Times Square
Island Def Jam recording artist and songwriter Mariah Carey has decided to kick-off the release of her upcoming new album, The Emancipation Of Mimi, with her historic return to live performance - and only one location in America is worthy of hosting the premiere event: Times Square in Manhattan.
The countdown is on - leading up to Tuesday, April 12th, the album's in-store release date. ABC Television's Good Morning America will inaugurate its live outdoor concert season that day, when Mariah takes the stage on the street outside the show's studio. GMA will close down 44th Street to all vehicular traffic between 6th Avenue and Broadway, and only Mariah's hordes of fans will be able to access the performance area.
With Times Square as the stage's backdrop, Mariah will perform five songs on GMA between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. (EST). A once-in-a-lifetime event, which is being hailed as "The Return Of The Voice", the event is expected to draw thousands of spectators. Among the songs Mariah will perform are We Belong Together, the brand new single from the album, and It's Like That, the album's first single pick. Both tracks were written by Mariah and co-produced by her with Jermaine Dupri for the new album. We Belong Together is scheduled to impact at Pop radio this Monday, March 28th.
The Emancipation Of Mimi, Mariah's 10th studio album, is the long-awaited follow-up to 2002's RIAA platinum Charmbracelet, her IDJ debut, which hit #2 R&B and #3 Pop, and contained the #1 Dance Music hit, Through the Rain. The new album finds Mariah's broad range of musical talents on full display, as every one of its 14 songs bears her signature as writer and co-producer.
Carey continues to work with today's top R&B and hip-hop producers, such as The Neptunes, whose distinctive production is heard on two tracks: To The Floor (featuring Nelly) and Say Somethin' (featuring Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams). The other featured guest is Twista, who shows up on One And Only.
We Belong Together and It's Like That are among four songs written by Mariah and co-produced by Mariah and Jermaine Dupri, along with Get Your Number and Shake It Off. Fellow IDJ artist Kanye West collaborates with Mariah on Stay the Night. Other tracks find her working with Scram Jones (Your Girl), Young Genius (Joyride), and James Poyser (Mine Again).
Three tracks are co-written and co-produced by Mariah and James "Big Jim" Wright (of Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis' Flyte Tyme Productions), including I Wish You Knew, Circles, and Fly Like A Bird.
Mariah Carey is an award-winning superstar, producer and songwriter with cumulative total sales of her albums, singles and long-form videos in excess of 75-times platinum in the U.S. alone and 150 million worldwide, making her the top-selling female artist in history. With a record 15 #1 singles, two Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, Billboard magazine's Artist of the Decade Award, and the World Music Award as World's Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium - Mariah Carey's ongoing career remains an unparalleled success story in the history of contemporary popular music. (MariahCarey.com)
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