Popdirt.com - Mariah Carey Set Up For Failure (#21084)

Anonymous writes "OK, there is so much hoopla going around about Mariah Carey's 'The Remixes' which hit stores Tuesday October 14th. It was obvious before they even hit shells that this CD had no chance to make its mark. First of all, Sony did not do one bit of promotion in the United States whatsoever. How can a label, even her old label, do that? It's just hurting the cd and makes less money for Sony. The only logical explanantion would be they want the CD to fail so they can say that Mariah had another bomb. Which really doesn't matter because it is only a Remix album. Not only is Sony showing no support for this album, but neither are the record stores. It took me 3 stores to find the album. Most stores didn't even get it in. The one I found it at was in the mall and they only had 5 copies on the floor and me and my friend bought 2 so there were only 3 left. They had Clay Aiken plastered all over the place and well you know all the reviews he got that were posted on here. My other friend said that target and Walmart by him didn't even recieve it and finally he had to go to another Target and he found it in the Mariah Carey section, not even the New Release section. I know alot of people are gonna make comments but the fact is a CD cannot do well with no promotion and no CD's to sell. And finally, Sony sent an email to all her fans asking if we would like to buy the CD through them and you may get an autographed copy while supplies last. Well, a majority of people that ordered the CD last week have yet to recieve it and if you check your order it still says in progress. Most of the people have not even been billed yet. Two people had the money taken out of their checking account to only find it put back in yesterday. It seems as though Sony doesn't want to include those sales in this weeks numbers. Sony has been contacted numerous times and has not given one response yet. It's really sad."


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