Mariah Carey Plans to Tour in 2010 :
Even though its not official yet, Mariah Carey does have plans to tour in 2010. Sources say a tour schedule of concert dates will be released by Mariah Carey soon. Please check back for updated Mariah Carey Tour Dates.

Mariah Carey lands New Year's Eve concert at Madison Square Garden :
On the heels of the "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" release in September, Mariah Carey has made only four public concert appeances. On New Year's Eve, at the very least, she'll have made five.

Fans may want to stretch out their typing and clicking hands: the diva will be taking the stage on Dec. 31 at New York's Madison Square Garden, with tickets going on pre-sale on Monday (Nov. 9) and general onsale on Nov. 14. Only those paying members of the fanclub will have access to presale; no word yet how expensive tickets in general will be.

Carey has announced no other openers, though a release said she will be playing plenty of material form "Memoirs."

Mariah peformed four times at The Pearl at the Palms in Las Vegas earlier this fall, twice in September and twice in October. While she has not been traditionally known as a touring artist, it'd be interesting to see if performing more often would have helped sales of "Memoirs," which suffered in the sales department as far as Carey's album output goes. She was beaten out in the first sales week by Barbra Streisand and Paramore.

In other Mariah Carey news, the singer also has a role in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," the film out today. You can buy your tickets here. Check out photos of her and other stars like Will Smith at the "Precious" premiere here. The soundtrack to Precious is already available online and will be released on CD on Nov. 23; Carey is not included on the soundtrack, though other stars like Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah are.  ... Source ...

Mariah Carey aims to starts off 2010 Tour with a bang concert in Atlantic City :
Heaven knows Mariah Carey hasn't had a perfectly angelic life, especially during the page one breakup of her marriage to record mogul Tommy Mottola in the '90s. But the lady is nothing if not a survivor.
Just listen to the 13 tracks of her new album, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel," an open-hearted look at relationships. You may not have been a Carey fan before - for many, she's an acquired taste - but in this CD, the richness of her talent can't be questioned.

And she's starting off 2010 with a bang. On Jan. 2, Carey will perform in the Event Center at the Borgata in Atlantic City at 8 p.m. However, the diva doesn't come cheaply. Tickets are $165-$235.

Each song on the CD "is like an intimate conversation or entry in a private diary," Carey says. "A lot of the songs reflect specific, different times in my life. Others were inspired by movies, events that happened to me or the stories of friends who told me about experiences they'd gone through."
With just a few exceptions, Carey wrote and produced the entire album in collaboration with the Dream and Tricky Stewart. "In my opinion, Tricky is one of the most underrated major producers out there," she says.
"Memoirs" concludes with a gospel rendition of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is." We don't know as of this writing if Carey's show will include a version of the stirring gospel choir that accompanies her on the recording, but even if she doesn't, just hearing Carey's solo should send thrills up the spine. Not a bad way to start a new decade. ... Source ...

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Mariah Carey To Make History With First Digital and Mobile Concert :
Grammy Award-winning singer and actress Mariah Carey will be making history Saturday, October 10, 2009 despite that her album “Memoirs Of An imperfect Angel” didn’t make #1 on the Billboard Charts. Mariah Carey will be the first concert to simulcast to internet enabled mobile phones and other electronic digital devices for her performance “Mariah Carey Live In Las Vegas.”

The concert will be presented by GDE Partners at www.iviago.com in association with Mariah Carey’s label home, Island Def Jam Group.

To catch the concert, virtual tickets will have to be purchased at $9.99 and can be obtained by texting the message Mariah to 313131 or by visiting Mariah Carey’s official site, Facebook or Myspace by clicking the link “Mariah Carey Live In Las Vegas” or by visiting iviago.com.

Once you purchase your ticket for the “Mariah Carey Live In Las Vegas” you’ll be able to stream the concert on October 10th and view it at that time or save it later for a one-time viewing. The concert will have the ability to be paused and also continued at a later time, but the down-side is that it cannot be rewound or replayed once the ticket buyer has viewed it.
In addition, on October 20, downloadable video clips of Mariah Carey’s Las Vegas concert which was recorded September 11 and September 12 from her exclusive concerts at Palms Resort in Las Vegas will be made available through select mobile phone carriers around the globe. The video clips will also include Mariah’s two concerts from October 9 and 10 and will be sixty minutes long.
On October 24th, the digital broadcast will be available in HD (high definition) and will be made available via Iviago’s virtual global stage which will broadcast to over 200 countries in partnership with over 200 partners (mobile and digital) which includes iClips and iTunes.
If you’re interested in catching a preview, a 60-sec preview is available at www.iviago.com for those interested in knowing more about the “Mariah Carey Live In Las Vegas” or those looking to purchase virtual tickets.

Mariah Carey Biography and Info :

With a stunning seven-octave voice that she put through stratospheric gymnastics, Mariah Carey became an overnight star. Her vocal prowess and range drew comparisons to Minnie Riperton and Yma Sumac, but most often to her contemporary Whitney Houston. Yet unlike Houston, Carey cowrote or coproduced her own gospel-inflected, dance-pop songs and ardent ballads. These have found immense popularity: Carey is the best-selling female artist of all time, with more than 140 million albums and singles sold worldwide. She was the only artist to have scored a #1 hit in every year of the '90s, and (at this writing) has had more #1 hits for more weeks at #1 than any other artist in history. In October 1999 she surpassed the Beatles' long-running record of 59 weeks at #1.

Carey was born to a black Venezuelan aeronautics engineer father and an Irish-American opera singer mother who also worked as a voice coach. The couple divorced when Mariah was three, and she moved with her mother to successive towns in suburban Long Island, New York. At 17 she moved to New York City and pursued a career in music while supporting herself as the self-professed “world’s worst waitress.”

Carey befriended keyboardist Ben Margulies, with whom she began writing songs, and landed backup singing jobs. One, with minor late-’80s dance-music singer Brenda K. Starr, proved crucial when Starr met Columbia Records chief Tommy Mottola at a party and gave him a demo tape of Carey’s songs. Mottola reportedly played the tape in his car on his way home, and doubled back to the party to seek out Carey. He signed her and made her career development a top priority. Carey’s debut album (#4, 1990) yielded #1 hit singles in “Vision of Love” (1990), “Love Takes Time” (1990), “Someday” (1991), and “I Don’t Wanna Cry” (1991), and brought her Grammy Awards in 1991 for Best New Artist and Best Female Vocalist. Emotions (#1, 1991) continued Carey’s roll, with such hits as the title track (#1, 1991), “Can’t Let Go” (#2, 1991), and “Make It Happen” (#5, 1992). Unplugged produced a hit cover of the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” (#1, 1992), which also led to a solo recording deal for Trey Lorenz, the backup singer featured on the single with Carey.

In June 1993 Carey married Mottola, a man 20 years her senior. She then released Music Box (#1, 1993), which promptly yielded the #1 hits “Dreamlover” and “Hero.” In fall 1993 she embarked on her first concert tour, for which she received mixed reviews. Her 1994 Christmas album spawned the hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

Carey achieved a milestone with the 1995 release of Daydream, which debuted at #1. The first single, “Fantasy,” debuted at the top as well. With Daydream, Carey became the first female artist in history to have three albums that each sold more than 8 million copies. The second single, “One Sweet Day,” a duet with the Philadelphia R&B vocal group Boyz II Men, also hit #1, holding the spot for a record-setting 16 weeks. A third single, “Always Be My Baby,” followed suit, completing the hat trick.

Carey and Mottola divorced in 1997. She released Butterfly (#1, 1997), which asserted a stronger hip-hop flavor and yielded the #1 hits “Honey” (with rappers Ma$e and the Lox) and “My All.” #1’s collected Carey’s 13 chart-topping singles, with four new tracks, including “When You Believe” (from The Prince of Egypt), a duet with Whitney Houston.

The 1999 release of the multiplatinum Rainbow (#2, 2000), which produced a #1 single in “Heartbreaker,” capped a decade in which Carey was its biggest-selling female artist. Musically, the singer continued to embrace hip-hop elements, emphasizing samples and inviting such rap stars as Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Da Brat, and Snoop Dogg to make guest vocal appearances. In early 2001 Carey signed a multirecord, multimillion-dollar deal with Virgin. It was announced her first Virgin release would be the soundtrack to the film All That Glitters, in which Carey played the lead.

After a decade of enormous commercial success and high-profile relationships, Carey began to show signs of emotional and psychological fatigue. She announced in late 2001 that she was retreating from public appearances. Charmbracelet, released in 2003, petered and fizzled in the eyes of many critics, failing to provide any indications of new inspiration since her hiatus. However The Emancipation of Mimi (2005) garnered several Grammy Awards, including Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best R&B Song for “We Belong Together.”from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
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