Carey On
Carey On SOUND BITES Weep no more for Mariah Carey. Less than four months since Virgin dropped her from its roster after just one album and nine months under contract, paying her $28 million not to make any more records for the label, she´s landed another deal. She signed Wednesday with Universal Music Group´s Island Def Jam, home of her pals Ja Rule and Jay-Z. Terms of the new deal were not disclosed, though the Hollywood Reporter quotes insiders who say the deal gives Carey $20 million for three albums with an option for a fourth. That fee is what she was to earn for each album under her multi-disc Virgin contract, but after her breakdown from ´´exhaustion´´ last year and the subsequent flops of the ´´Glitter´´ CD and movie, Virgin decided to cut its losses. Making up for the more modest fee of the Island deal, UMG is giving Carey her own label to run. Overseeing day-to-day operations at the yet-unnamed label will be Jerry Blair, an executive who worked closely with Carey during her decade under contract at Sony. Carey had already started recording new music a couple weeks ago, she said in a recent message on her website. ´´The record she´s working on is going to be a real wide-appeal record,´´ Blair told the Associated Press. ´´There´s no artist who is as successful a global artist. There is no artist that has as wide range of commercial appeal.´´ Her film career may be another matter. After the disastrous ´´Glitter,´´ Carey got some good notices when ´´Wisegirls´´ (in which she and Mira Sorvino play waitresses at a mob-run eatery) screened at January´s Sundance Film Festival, but that film is bypassing theaters and going straight to HBO this fall, Blair told AP. The singer was said to be entertaining bids from other major labels, including Elektra and J Records. UMG, however, is considered to be the largest of the multinational music companies, and it promised Carey ´´multi-platform integration´´ across parent company Vivendi Universal´s worldwide print, TV, film, and online outlets, according to a statement Carey´s publicist released Wednesday. ´´I´m incredibly happy,´´ Carey says in the statement. ´´It´s a tremendous and unprecedented opportunity to be working in tandem with [UMG´s top execs]. They have collectively helped redefine pop music and I am excited to be part of their family.´´... Source: Entertainment Weekly http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,236355~4~0~mariahcareygetsher,00.html *Thanks to MariahDaily
Carey On SOUND BITES Weep no more for Mariah Carey. Less than four months since Virgin dropped her from its roster after just one album and nine months under contract, paying her $28 million not to make any more records for the label, she´s landed another deal. She signed Wednesday with Universal Music Group´s Island Def Jam, home of her pals Ja Rule and Jay-Z. Terms of the new deal were not disclosed, though the Hollywood Reporter quotes insiders who say the deal gives Carey $20 million for three albums with an option for a fourth. That fee is what she was to earn for each album under her multi-disc Virgin contract, but after her breakdown from ´´exhaustion´´ last year and the subsequent flops of the ´´Glitter´´ CD and movie, Virgin decided to cut its losses. Making up for the more modest fee of the Island deal, UMG is giving Carey her own label to run. Overseeing day-to-day operations at the yet-unnamed label will be Jerry Blair, an executive who worked closely with Carey during her decade under contract at Sony. Carey had already started recording new music a couple weeks ago, she said in a recent message on her website. ´´The record she´s working on is going to be a real wide-appeal record,´´ Blair told the Associated Press. ´´There´s no artist who is as successful a global artist. There is no artist that has as wide range of commercial appeal.´´ Her film career may be another matter. After the disastrous ´´Glitter,´´ Carey got some good notices when ´´Wisegirls´´ (in which she and Mira Sorvino play waitresses at a mob-run eatery) screened at January´s Sundance Film Festival, but that film is bypassing theaters and going straight to HBO this fall, Blair told AP. The singer was said to be entertaining bids from other major labels, including Elektra and J Records. UMG, however, is considered to be the largest of the multinational music companies, and it promised Carey ´´multi-platform integration´´ across parent company Vivendi Universal´s worldwide print, TV, film, and online outlets, according to a statement Carey´s publicist released Wednesday. ´´I´m incredibly happy,´´ Carey says in the statement. ´´It´s a tremendous and unprecedented opportunity to be working in tandem with [UMG´s top execs]. They have collectively helped redefine pop music and I am excited to be part of their family.´´... Source: Entertainment Weekly http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,236355~4~0~mariahcareygetsher,00.html *Thanks to MariahDaily