In reply to Michael.

Don't even try to deny it. I don't know if all of her singles were sold for .49, but I do know that a significant number of them were. I remember seeing Mariah single displays on record store counters that had big, red 49cent stickers placed right on the middle of the cassette/cd jackets. Cashiers would use them as an upsale. If you weren't necessarily a fan of hers, but thought the song was ok enough, then you might go ahead and throw her cheaply priced single on top of whatever else you were buying. Her fans kill me trying to fake amnesia about this. Everyone old enough to remember Mariah's first run at Sony knows that she was NOTORIOUS for this and that her discounted singles used to be a huge talking about about her in the 90's.