That Christmas album that Mariah Carey has been going on about all year has finally gotten a release date, and will hit stores on November 10.

The album will reportedly contain six new songs, covers of some Xmas classics, and a new version of Carey’s iconic “All I Want For Christmas Is You”. The artwork for disc was already shot earlier this year with famed celebrity photographer David LaChapelle.

Mimi’s first holiday, Merry Christmas, was released in November of 1994, and went on to sell over 5 million copies in the United States alone, and 12 million worldwide, making it one of the most successful Christmas albums of all time.

What do you guys think about Mariah’s Xmas album? Smash, or trash?

After selling an astonishing 9 million copies of her debut LP I Dreamed a Dream, Scottish singer Susan Boyle is ready to do it all over again by releasing a Christmas album.

Though not officially confirmed by the chart topper herself, Billboard are citing “retail sources” as confirming a Susie Christmas record due this October. Retail and industry sales executives are all predicting Taylor Swift’s third album Speak Now to be the years biggest seller, but they’re also expecting big numbers for Susie, while one merchant has gone as far as to bet that Susie’s Christmas album will be the “must have” album of the gift-giving season.

While Billboard talk Christmas records, Susan already confirmed earlier this year that she was working on 1960′s sounding album comprised of more original material than cover songs.  Is Auntie Susie going to do an album that mixes together holiday classics with original material? Could she perhaps be releasing two separate albums?

Either way, one thing’s for certain – Mariah Carey is gonna be pissed. After the poor performance of her last LP Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, Mariah was planning to return to her glory days with the release of her second Christmas record, but now it looks like Susie the chart slayer is going to steal her thunder.

It’s gonna be Susie verses Mariah in a Holiday showdown this Christmas. Take your bets!

Less than a month after announcing that her Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel remix album had been scrapped Mariah Carey is already back to work on her next project – and she’s brought back some old faces to help her!

About an hour ago the workaholic diva tweeted a brand new picture of herself and Jermaine Dupri in the studio together (as seen above), accompanied by the following message:

“To all the Lambs in the land..Finally!!!Me& Jermash are in his studio reliving the splendor working on new ish”

As Mimi was tweeting her heart out, JD was doing the same and a few words of his own to say: “to all the lambs out there me and mc are in studio right now working on the new album yall been askin for it.”

I thought most of the fans specifically said that they didn’t want a new album and wanted her to take a little vacation?

Moving on… After those tweets Mariah actually dragged her divariffic derriere onto a live Ustream feed from the studio, and luckily yours truly was there to catch all the action. Not much was going but Mariah was writing lyrics by herself, as well as goofing off with Jermaine and B-Cox.

As you know JD and B-Cox not only helmed Mariah’s ill-fated “100%”, but they also worked with her on her albums Charmbracelet, The Emancipation of Mimi and E=MC2.

The recording of the new album is still in the early stages though, with JD saying, and I quote, “this is just day one of the new shit”.

Sounds to me like Mariah tried to take a chance with Memoirs by enlisting The-Dream & Tricky and it didn’t pay off , so now she’s doing what she knows best and going back to basics with some familiar faces.

What do you think of her reuniting with her old friends for a new album so soon?

After yesterday’s news broke that her Angels Advocate LP had been scrapped, Mariah Carey’s manager Chris Lighty confirmed that the diva was contemplating recording a new studio album or a Christmas album. Well we didn’t have to wait long because now Mimi’s label Island Def Jam have confirmed that she’s already back in the studio!

“We’ve released a few of Mariah’s hot remixes on iTunes and Mariah’s back in the studio working on some new surprises.”{source}

Honey, it’ll takes more than a few flop albums to get rid of Mariah! She’s not going to piss off until someone drags her out kicking and screaming!

I actually found a secret leaked video of Mariah’s reaction when she got word from her label that Angels Advocate was being scrapped, and that Lee Daniels doesn’t want to cast her in the lead role in his next film. It’s not a pretty sight!

In the biggest “who the f**k didn’t see this coming” moment of the year, Mariah Carey’s upcoming remix album Angels Advocate has officially been shelved and tossed onto the scrap heap next to the Taiwanese advance copies of Flopzinger’s Her Name Is Nicole.

I won’t bore you with all the abysmal chart placings of the five combined singles from Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel and Angels Advocate, but just know that besides the Platinum-certified “Obsessed” the rest bombed big time.

Never one to bow out gracefully though, Mariah is already plotting her next move and trying to decide between releasing a brand new studio album, or another Christmas record.

“We are looking to go possibly to another studio album or Christmas album,” announced Mariah’s manager Chris Lighty. “The decision hasn’t been totally made yet. It’s a creative process that cannot be rushed.” {source}

Lighty is also promising that some more singles may be released from Angels Advocate and that it won’t completely “go to waste”, but I’d say the likelihood of that actually happening is about the same as Carmit Bachar being elected the mayor of Milwaukee.

Mariah honey, a new album is not the answer to your problems. Chill out for a while, get inspired, do some acting, paint a picture and do an arts and crafts course and then come back in the future because your last two albums were not the business! Sometimes less is more!

You may not be familiar with the School Gyrls just yet, but they’re a new three-piece tween girl group created by Nick Cannon and signed to his NCredible Entertainment label. They haven’t exactly hit the big time yet, but they just had their own movie released on Nickelodeon which co-starred Justin Bieber and Kristinia DeBarge.

They’re also working on an album, and the latest single to be lifted from it is the urban-pop club banger “Get Like Me” that was penned by Nick and his superstar wife Mariah Carey, and actually features Mariah on some sexy background vocals.

“Get Like Me” definitely isn’t anything that hasn’t been done before, but it packs a much bigger punch than anything that Justin Bieber has released and actually wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Raven Symones last album. Also, the addition of Mariah injects the song with a little more maturity that might give it a pass to be played in the clubs.

If you want to pump Mariah’s deflated ego back up by giving her a hit single in her time of need then head on over to iTunes purchase the song.

Mariah Carey reminds us that she has a new album coming out at the end of the month with the official remix to her song “Ribbon”.

The new version of the Memoirs… cut still has the same production from The-Dream & Tricky, but now Ludacris and The-Dream have both been tacked on with a quick cut and paste verse from the two.

I liked “Ribbon” better before, but Angels Advocate is a remix album so obviously she had to do something with the song.

Currently the lead single from Angels Advocate, “Up Out My Face Remix” featuring Nicki Minaj, is at #43 on the R&B/Hip-Hop charts after peaking at #39 last week.

What do you think the album will debut at when it’s released on March 30? I’m gonna predict somewhere around #30 or #40 with a steep drop in it’s second week.

Some fans scratched their heads when Mariah Carey announced that she was going on tour in support of her poorly-selling album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel and upcoming remix album, labeling it as a bad move for the diva who’s had a hard time topping the charts lately.

Unfortunately it seems that the naysayers have been proven right after box office data for two of the shows was released last week, revealing the Mariah has been struggling to fill up the small 3,000 seat venues she’s been performing in.

For her show last month in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre Mimi only sold 2,833 seats out of the total 3,719, and her bad luck continued onto her show at DAR Construction Hall where she only filled 2,430 seats out of the available 3,166. {source}

Not being able to sell-out a 3,000 seat hall when you’re one of the biggest female artists of all time is pretty dire, but Mariah might be able to console herself with some stellar international concert dates if the rumors of her extending the Angels Advocate tour overseas are true.

Meanwhile Mimi’s remix album, also titled Angels Advocate, is scheduled to hit stores March 30. Do you think her poor ticket sales will reflect album sales?

Mariah Carey’s new album Angels Advocate is set to drop on March 23, and now we have the albums first two music videos which premiered exclusively on Vevo only moments ago and we’re brought to my attention by my friend over at the Pin Board Blog.

First up is the Nick Cannon directed “Up Out My Face” featuring femcee Nicki Minaj. Normally I’d cuss Mariah out for dressing up in her usual Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver outfits, but the ridiculous clothes actually work this time around because the song and video are both so tongue-in-cheek and silly.  The whole clip was just a whole lot of fun and for once Mariah was actually in on the joke.

I always appreciate when somebody can make a video work on a recession budget, so props to Nick Cannon for not giving us a repeat of the cringe-worthy “My Love” clip.

The other video, also directed by NC, is the ballad “Angels Cry” which features R&B crooner Ne-Yo. I didn’t mind this one either, though I was a little amused by the sight of Mariah out in the rain being soaking wet one minute then completely dry the next, making sure to maintain her picture perfect makeup the whole time.

Overall though I think Mariah and Nick did a great job, so now all we need is the actual Angels Advocate album so we can all finally move on with our lives and pretend that Mariah hasn’t released an album since The Emancipation of Mimi. Ignorance is bliss!

Mariah Carey showed that she actually has a sense of humor underneath her pedantic diva demands when she prank called her husband Nick Cannon’s radio show in the character of the porn obsessed “Debbie” from Long Island.

Nicky obviously knew that it was his wifey on the other end of the phone from the get-go, but the call is still pretty hilarious.

For once it seems that we’re finally laughing with Mariah, and not at her like we will be if she pushes back that damn Angels Advocate one more time!

Earlier this month Mariah Carey’s new album Angels Advocate was pushed back to March 9th, but it seems that the diva still feels like that release date is far too soon so she’s gone right on ahead and pushed the album back again, this time to March 23.

The music video’s for the albums two new singles “Angels Cry” feat Ne-Yo and “Up Out My Face” feat Nicki Minaj will both be premiered around the world on January 28, exclusively through Vevo. {source}

What’s going on Mariah? Why the hold up?

Mariah Carey’s incredible inflating breasts reached gigantic new proportions today when the diva strutted her stuff on the red carpet at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

She may not have taken home an award, but I’m sure she’s more than happy with the two Golden Globes on her chest.

Mimi’s been had her hands full lately touring around the country and preparing for the release of her remix album Angels Advocate, which was recently pushed back to March 9th.

One of the many guests on Angels Advocate will be R&G Queen Mary J. Blige, whom Mariah spoke about during a recent concert show.

“This next song [It's a Wrap], this is about, basically, relationships. We’re dealing with relationships here. It’s like when you’ve waited all night long for somebody to come home and they finally come home, and it’s the morning and… you yourself are like, ‘Where is this MF’er?’ … I’m talking about a serious subject here. This is a serious situation that I’m talking about. This is from, well I told you we’re remixing the album and I’m singing this with Mary J. Blige and I’m really excited about it.”

I guess Mary no longer feels like Mariah is “too mainstream” for her after making some comments back in 2007 that mainstream music worked for Mariah and Beyonce, but her her music was more organic.

[source: Mariah Daily]