In reply to JT.

It´s more like Mariah does everything in her albums, or is totally involved. Almost none of the others do it. So yeah it´s true that her label usually announces a date and she feels like it´s not still perfect. But she can do it. She did it with her last Xmas album. Only a few months and done. And I know she recorded even in October, but the album was out by the frist week of November. She can do it and she could say she has the album made, but she feels music, and she feels like creating all the time. Of course, marketing also matters, and it´s possible they decided to do all this upcoming promo in July, and deal with the album release in August.