On this day in music history: September 11, 2001 – “Glitter”, the eighth album by Mariah Carey is released. Produced by Mariah Carey, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, James “Big Jim” Wright, DJ Clue, Duro, Clark Kent, Damizza, Rick James, and Walter Afanasieff, it is recorded at Various Studios from Late 2000 – Mid 2001. The eighth release by the superstar singer also serves as the soundtrack to her first starring film role. The album is also her first after leaving longtime label Columbia Records for a highly lucrative five album contract with Virgin Records reported to be worth over $100 million. The record features Carey collaborating with number of artists and producers which include Da Brat, DJ Clue, Rick James, Cameo, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and singer Eric Benet. While doing promotion for the soundtrack and film prior to their release, Carey is suffering from physical and mental exhaustion which results in a bizarre incident on MTV’s “TRL” with host Carson Daly where Carey appears wearing an oversized T-shirt, pushing an ice cream cart and handing out ice cream bars to the crowd. She will top the appearance off by doing a striptease right on live television. Other strange incidents will occur in the following days at an autograph signing at a New York City Tower Records, and when she posts odd messages on her official website which are quickly taken down. Shortly after this, the release date for the album is changed from its original date of August 21st to September 11th. During the interim period, Carey is checked into a hospital for a nervous breakdown. When they are finally released, both the film and soundtrack will be met with mixed to highly negative reviews from critics and fans, compounded by the misfortune of the album being released on the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Spinning off two singles including “Loverboy” (#2 Pop) and “Never Too Far” (non-charting), the soundtrack will sell 116,000 copies (her last Columbia album “Rainbow” sold 323,000 in its first week) in its first week, making it the poorest first week sales of her career. The poor performance of the soundtrack, the film and all of the negative publicity generated by Carey breakdown will cause the singer and Virgin Records to part ways. The label will pay the singer $28 million to end her contract with the company. “Glitter” will peak in its debut chart position of #7 on the Billboard Top 200 and is certified Platinum by the RIAA.
Poor Mariah.
Poor?
She got $28 Million to shut her mouth, poor Mariah, my Nabisco cookie eating ass.
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