What an airhead. So many idiotic statements made in that reply that going down the list to debunk them all would be too time consuming, so I’ll just summarize...

1. No singers overall earnings is depended upon single sales, so you bringing up her net worth was pointless. Mariah (like most singers) makes her money from dates, publishing, contracts, bonuses, how many various points she can negotiate having on on her albums, endorsements, appearances and investments, etc., etc. No matter what her singles sell for, they won’t make or break her cumulative income. Do you get that? Following me so far? Or do I need to stamp it out for you in large crayons? Her chart manipulation wasn’t about making (or losing) money; she had money coming in from other areas. Instead it was about branding, marketing, and plain ol’ greed that comes with being able to horde as many #1 singles as possible for her and Sony’s own ego/vanity.

2. Google search “Mariah Carey, 49¢ cent singles” and there will be pages of articles and archived discussions going back 20 years or more -- stretching far beyond “Loverboy” -- that ponder how that woman’s team regularly and repetitively used this stunt to manipulate and/or undermine the charts in her favor. This is not some obscure urban legend like you’re in here trying to imply it is. Again, this has been a topic that has shadowed her for all of her career, damn near. Why? Because it’s true. So, seriously, save the fabricated spiel about your mothers spending habits at Tower Records because it means nothing. It’s funny how every Mariah fan wants to play dumb when it comes to this long-discussed topic, and pretend that they paid a grip for her music.

3. Who in the hell said I was a Madonna fan, you clown you? Is this what you do? When you get backed into a corner and proven stupid, your only rebuttal becomes to accuse the person you lost the argument to of being the fan of a rival singer in an attempt to invalidate their comment, divert and soothe your frayed nerves, because you couldn’t otherwise do it with facts...and no, that silly-sounding and totally imaginary conversation you claim to have had with your mother about her imaginary Tower Records receipts don’t work (who the hell actually remembers what they spent on a single 20 years ago? Fail. Try again, Corky.) What a copout. Wimp. Fuck outta here with that bullshit. Even if I were a Madonna fan (which I’m not) and hated Mariah because of it, that wouldn’t negate the **fact** that a boatload of Mariah’s number one/top 5 singles came by way of them selling for less than a bag of Doritos...and had crap like “Thank God I Found You” actually sold for 1.99+, it wouldn’t have come anywhere near the summit.