Hailed by many as her best LP since ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’, Mariah Carey’s new album ‘Me.I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse’ scored a solid ten in the court of public opinion upon its release today, much to the delight-no doubt- to the singer and her camp.
Unfortunately, if first week sales predictions for the album are anything to go by, that is where the good news stops and starts. For, in what’s likely to see her current management team blamed for mishandling the project, the release is set to open with worryingly low numbers, marking a career worst for the ‘Beautiful’ belter.
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Set to mark her lowest first week sales pulled by a traditional Mimi release, ‘Chanteuse‘ is now on course to debut within the 65-70k figure come next week.
Worrying to say the very least, ‘Elusive’s sales are now set to cower in the face of the 436,000 units moved by 2008’s ‘E=MC2’ and the 168,000 copies shifted by ‘Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel’ in their respective release weeks.Ironic, considering neither received the warm critical reception afforded to the new LP.
With Lana Del Rey’s ‘Born To Die’ going on to scan 1 million copies after debuting with 77k, here’s hoping ‘Chanteuse’ follows a similar path if it does do as predicted.
For, while some of the star’s fans have convinced themselves that “sales don’t matter this time around“, the funds spent on making the LP happen sing to a very different tune, with Mariah’s stock as a commercial stock set to plummet if things don’t turn around for her in the week following this one.
Put simply, it’ll take a Larry Rudolph-sized miracle to rescue Carey’s seemingly sinking sales ship before radio programmers, critics and the general public decide to pull their support for the release everybody believes nobody else cares about.
So, let us know…