Foxnews.com’s Roger Friedman today says he thinks the story in the NY Daily News yesterday that Mariah Carey is in danger of being dropped by Virgin is ‘laughable.’ Friedman says, “In the history of the record industry there has yet to be a case of a big-name star with a multi-million dollar contract who was ‘fired’ from their label because of poor sales.”
And for how Mariah got out of her record deal with Sony so easily, he hears that it was legal pressure from Carey after Jennifer Lopez ripped off the music loop from the Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra’s ‘Firecracker.’ Read more.