After almost 3 and a half months, Mariah Carey’s ‘Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel’ has finally been certified gold by the RIAA. The record has shipped over 500k units in the US, earning the distinction of being Carey’s 15th gold LP in that country. ‘Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel’ was released on September 29th, 2009.
This news could not have come at a better time. Already being slated as the worst-selling studio album in Carey’s 20 year career, despite receiving better critical reviews than all of her albums in the last decade, many people were wondering if the album would ever receive a certification at all. It’s such a shame that far less impressive records (*hint hint*) are out-pacing the ‘Memoirs’ LP on the charts while its sales continue to decrease with each passing week (despite achieving higher charts positions). Hopefully her ‘Angels Advocate’ tour would encourage interest in the project because at this rate, it is highly unlikely that she will reach platinum status.
CONGRATULATION MARIAHHH!
L.O.V.E! :))
Shut up Trent, be a man and say Rihanna when thats what you mean, if this site is a rihanna hate site so be it at least do it the right way and make it so we know. LOL @ you never saying mariah is flopping yet saying rihanna is when shes already platinum
She’s over
I agree HAHAHA she can’t really go anywhere from here i mean she keeps trying to act younger with the music and didn’t do well apart from the emancipation and then she tried going old school (i wanna know what love is) and stays flopping.
Lol @ constant rihanna jives the writers of this site are completely and utterly obsessed (see what i did thete lol). But seriously I see what ohdear is saying, we were all under the impression Trent was the butch one and Sam the femme one but at least Sam tells us its Rihanna he’s talking about in his posts, the hell are these “hint hint” things haha
Well done Mariah. This just proves she can STILL sell a album. I really pray we get more albums from this woman in the future.
At least they didn’t “certify” it Platinum like Rihanna did when her actual sales were just 500k.
Mariah’s album sucks and that’s the reason why it’s not selling. Her fan base is waning and the biggest reason is she’s basically alienating her older fans – people who actually BUY albums, with songs like the ones on her album.
CARL i said balding not spalding, I NEVER ANSWER WHEN A REFEREE’S CALLING!
is she now going to get her platinum certification like rihanna??? i mean she does qualify… she has almost sold 500k units so the think just like RIAA certfied rihanna platinum, they can do the same for mariahhhh…
and she has that release on the way and i am sure just rihanna, she will be platinum by year end…so where is that platinum certification????
She can “still” sell albums? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! Gotta be joke of the century!!! people no longer buy albums like they used to – that’s true, but selling GOLD in almost 3 months is definitely NOT something that should be celebrated. look at the trend here. next time she own even reach Gold…unless she gives us a SOLID album.
first and foremost Congrats MiMi…… 2nd Trent you need to go kill yourself….all this hate will come back to haunt you…………… have you ever heard of a thing called Karma. Yes its opinionated writing, but if you ever want to be a real hournalist and have articles such as the ones posted on Thatgrapejuice.net……then you arent looking to have a lucrative career because most, if not all, of your articles bash/put down/slander Rihannas name. That good writing job you plan on getting one day will be gone because even with your focus on other artists, you always tend to come right back to Rihanna who is laughing all the wway to the bank and is getting promotion after promotion when ever you mention her…. So good luck with working for TGJ for the rest of the sites life….while Sam moves along and does smething more than just blog. Sam you need some new writers
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She never gets the memo, love the joke tho “hint hint”!!!!! but seriously maybe she should go platinum too cuz she is a better singer than “hint hint” lol you guys are too funny sometimes!!!!!!
ps to all of you “hint hint” is not an actual artist nor did anybody explicity insinuate any artist so why is everyone so defensive huh??? i know, maybe they do know an artist who just certified platinum and is not great or they secretly agree with you guys!!hint hint….lol, too funny you guys should work for tbs!!!!
FLOP 2.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS FOLLOWS GLITTER 1.0 AND 5150 1.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Both of these certs are jokes. MOIA hasn’t even sold 410k copies and Rihanna is barely at 500k although Rihanna has a very good chance of selling 1mil here and overseas.Mariah doesn’t have a market overseas which is sad- pretty soon she will be just a US artist and folks just not feeling her – she did all that promo overseas and hasn’t sold even 400k there …I will be suprise if this re-release seall 200k
Congatulations Mariah! We should support REAL talent anyway.
Toya, my darling, Carey’s song “I Want to Know What Love Is” is #1 in Brazil for 12 weeks so far. The same song was top 3 in Japan, top 10 in France and top 20 in Europe.
You are just a sad envious cow who will burn in hell very soon.
Mariah is popular worldwide. She sold 200 million records. Ypou are a stupid ugly c***
YOU WILL NEVER BE MARIAH CAREY!! ENVIOUS S***.
F*** YOU COW TOYA. Carey rocks.
Do you know the reason Trent or Sam won’t outright say that they think Rated R sucks? Because they know full well it doesn’t and that they’ll be made a laughing stock. It’s by far the best R&B album of 2009 (okay, maybe aside from Alicia), and this is coming from a massive Mariah fan. Her album is good but Rated R is incredible. And That Grape Juice know it! How laughable. Just give credit where it’s due for christ’s sake.
of course it’s been SHIPPED 500k… and it’s not even close to selling 500k
NEXT TRACK
love me some mimi, so i’m glad it got certified
this was one of my favorite albums of the year
Mariah is a shame to all fatty girls in the world! She will never admit that she’s a fatty. Besides this s*** memoir is horrible. Poor whooriah 500k(lol) . In the past Mariah was the best copy of the one and only Whitney Houston.
THE CONSTANT SLANDER REGARDING RIHANNA IN THE SITE IS REALLY SAD. SHE’S N OT EVEN THE TOPIC OF THE POST AND YET THEY STILL THROW SHADE BECAUSE HER FANSS GO OUT AND BUY HER RECORD LOL THATS STRAIGHT HATING . LIK E ALL JOKES ASIDE THATS NOTHING BUT HATE AND ITS VERY UPSETTING BECAUSE THEY ARE RELENTLESS. EVERYDAY ALL DAY YOU CAN EXPECT TO HERE SOMETHING BAD ABOUT RIHANNA. DAM U ARE ALL GROWN ..RELAX BECAUSE THAT RIHANNA REIGN AINT NEVERRRR GON LET UP LMAO.. JUST UNDERSTNAD THAT AND BE DONE….DAM U MAKING EM MAD OVER HERE RIH.. JUSS LIKE SHIE’S SHITTING ON MARIAH WITH SALES, BEYONCE’S NEXT!!! GET THAT RIH
Sales are almost an exact representation of how good an Album is…
With that being said, Her Album is HORRIBLE, & I thought E=MC2 was Bad, this is twice as bad. Not a descent song in sight. SO Memoirs Flopped Hard, Its not even Gold in the US Saleswise, Thats a major Flop. At least Chris had a reason for flopping. For Artist like Letoya Luckett they have No Excuse for selling less than Solange Knowles whom does underground alternative Neo-Soul Music.
You make Premeture Music you get premature sales & this Remix LP will flop even more. LMFAO, The Dream is Fing Mariah up big time FLOP
The album isnt selling because everyone with half a brain and wandering morality has learned how easy it is to DOWNLOAD the cd instead of buy it.
DUH
Regardless, the CD is good, just needs more uptempo songs on it. Im looking forward to the remix LP. Im sure I will enjoy it, regardless of how it does on the charts.
Rihanna is hot! Rated r is one of the best albuns now
Rated R is nt R& B………its pop…Rihanna has never released an R & B record in her entire career-pple nad the media just like to categorise black singers under R & B even though their music is nt…..thts all!
Three months later the album sells gold thats still pretty good tho. Its not platinum but atleast she went gold. Im hopingly that the album sells picks up after this tour Mariah is really doing what she needs to push this album which Im not mad but one does wonder if she’s gonna work herself into oblivion.
Jolie Music of the Sun was rnb/reggae and easily her best album to date imo (thats just because i’m not into her new pop sound)
This was a great album, many of you all just haven’t listened to the whole thing. It is not as pop as her other’s, in fact, it isn’t a pop album at all. Her heart was always in R&B anyway, and she finally got the chance to do a wholely R&B record, and I actually prefer it over her previous 2. 2009 was just an awful year for music in general, and with the laziness of people who refuse to go out an purchase albums only adds to the fire. She is now back to being the underdog, which makes me like her even more now. But at least she has made enough money in her 20 year career to sit down if she wants. I think she is realizing that she isn’t 21 years old anymore, but she can still make good music here.
Whitney’s worldwide sales for I Look To You is officially 2 million now, and around 1 million shipments at 950k in actual sales. So it’s not like age is a factor. Mariah and Whitney came out around the same time.
Memoirs isn’t just a flop. It represents the end of Mariah the COMMERCIAL artist. She can no longer sell albums because she has alienated her old fans who used to buy her albums. Mariah is more like Rihanna now.
You people are so stupid!!!! Sales has nothing to do with how well a ablum is put together!!! I have Memoirs and Love every song on it!!!!!! Its a great album, plus Mariah Carey is one of the Few artist left who can actually sing!!!!!!!! She has sold over 200 million records so saying this one didn’t do as well yet on paper doesn’t mean any thing!!!!!Agin who would take time out of their lives to write negative comments about a album they don’t care for???????LMAOLMAOLMAO……Where they do that at!! Just bumb I tell you!!
lol mariah carey- FAILURE!
This dumb, fat, dissy, fake tittied, ugly, old b**** is done! The album has tanked hard. LOL! 3 months to go gold! Bwahhhaaaaaa!
congratulations mariah…well here we go again the haters comes again! mariah have the most beautiful voice in the world and notthing compares to her,..she’s incredible she’s the queen of all queens…
Mariah tries to cover up her Memoirs of Perfect Flop by releasing a remix album. Enough of this garbage. Take a rest, your formula and talets has come to end.
Sagigng Angel and Fat, drunk, and ugly is the same pathetic animal. Go listen to your flopped cow CUNTdonna or CUNTney or CUNThanna. You suck you animal. Mariah sold more than you ever will do.