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About Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands: Mariah fan since 1993.

Re Mocking business (46,117) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands Once again, I will try to explain what I meant. I'm not mocking Mariah or her success. I fact, I'm proud of what Mariah has accomplished. I love Mariah and almost everything Mariah has ever recorded. I have one of the biggest Mariah collections in the world. And after all, I run this website for 16 years, posting daily updates. But I do mock Mariah's PR team. It gets tired that whenever Mariah announces a new album or tour, they must write that she's the biggest selling female artist in the world, that she has 18 Billboard Number 1 hits, that she has won numerous awards, etc. And they love to exaggerate. I know Mariah is modest (just watch an interview when someone ask her about her success), but her PR team is just the opposite. Remember when they wrote "the key singles such as Faded, Dedicated (featuring Nas), #Beautiful (featuring Miguel), Make It Look Good and Camouflage have featured prominently on numerous music charts"? And now the press release also has mistakes ("This will be Mariah's first reemergence to the stage since her celebrated and extensive 'The Adventures of Mimi' tour in 2006."). Most websites will believe what's written in the press release and if it's full of mistakes and exaggerated, than Mariah will lose her credibility and will be mocked. (Monday 18 August 2014; 20:57)

The Elusive Chanteuse Show (46,110) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands "This will be Mariah's first reemergence to the stage since her celebrated and extensive 'The Adventures of Mimi' tour in 2006." What about the Angels Advocatie Tour in 2010, which visited 20 cities in North America, starting with a spectacular concert at the Madison Square Garden in New York City on New Year's Eve 2010? And her concerts in Egypt, Australia, New York, Atlanta, Gold Coast, Monte Carlo, etc? (Monday 18 August 2014; 15:08)

Re MimiLamb (46,109) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I wasn't mocking Mariah, I was mocking her PR team. When an artist only sells 0.1 million copies of her latest album in the USA (and much less in all other countries, e.g. in the Netherlands Me. I Am Mariah only sold a few hundred copies), I think modesty is in place. But instead they just add another 20 million copies to her total album sales. And they say "albums" and not "records". (Monday 18 August 2014; 15:00)

220 million albums (46,107) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands You can say what you want about Mariah, but she is the only artist who can sell 20 million albums in just 3 months. In May 2014, her official website wrote: "She has sold over 200 million albums and is the recording artist with the most number one singles in America." Her latest press release reads: "Mariah Carey is a true music icon and the best-selling female artist of all time with more than 220 million albums sold to date and 18 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles." Just before the tour starts, I bet they will write: "Mariah Carey has sold more than 250 million albums. Her current album, Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse, has sold over 5 million copies in the USA alone and has a dozen hits, including Meteorite, Fading, Money and the chart topping single You Don't Know What To Do. Order your tickets soon, because her concerts will sell out in just seconds." I love modesty. (Monday 18 August 2014; 14:42)

Re: The number 5 (45,997) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I'm sorry, but The Emancipation Of Mimi is not bigger than Daydream (saleswise). Her best selling albums are: 1. Music Box (worldwide 32 million, USA 7.2 million) 2. Daydream (worldwide 23 million, USA 7.6 million) 3. Merry Christmas (worldwide 15 million, USA 5.3 million) 4. Mariah Carey (worldwide 15 million) 5. The Emancipation of Mimi (worldwide 12 million, USA 6.0 million) 6. Emotions (worldwide 8 million, USA 3.6 million) For the other albums, worldwide sales are not always known, so I rank them by USA sales only: 7. Butterfly (USA 3.8 million) 8. #1's (USA 3.8 million) 9. Rainbow (USA 3.0 million) 10. MTV Unplugged (USA 2.7 million) 11. Charmbracelet (USA 1.9 million) 12. E=MC2 (USA 1.3 million) 13. Greatest Hits (USA 1.2 million) 14. Glitter (USA 0.6 million) 15. Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (USA 0.5 million) 16. Merry Christmas II You (USA 0.5 million) 17. The Remixes (USA 0.3 million) 18. The Ballads (USA 0.2 million) 19. Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse (USA 0.1 million) A rough estimation, but according to these figures she sold about 140 million albums worldwide (and not "over 200 million albums to date" as many of her press releases state). (Monday 11 August 2014; 17:59)

Re: Abraham (45,976) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands "I was wondering if she drinks her tea?" What else do you do with tea? (Sunday 10 August 2014; 15:22)

Vinyls (45,974) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands If you check my discography, you can see which vinyls are released for E=MC2 and Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel. (Sunday 10 August 2014; 11:48)

Re: wrong translation (45,940) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands And what about: "Carey's 14th studio album, 'Me. I Am Mariah. The Elusive Chanteuse', which was released in May this year, sold more than 828,000 in the first three days and broke a new record as the fastest-selling album in the history of iTunes." (Friday 8 August 2014; 10:43)

Dutch Mariah Carey Association (45,825) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands The forum on the Dutch Mariah Carey Association website has a new topic: "Why you like Mariah less". It's a topic where everyone can bash Mariah. People can write reasons why they don't like Mariah anymore. It's also filled with lies. It's really disgusting. I can't understand why a Mariah forum has such a topic. I know some posters here are (too) critical, but no one is mean towards Mariah. But that topic is filled with only mean posts. E.g. someone described in a lengthy post what Mariah had altered on her body (breasts, eyes, nose, lips etc) and he also presented "proof" of his claims. If you read that post, you would instantly puke. It's a good thing it is in Dutch only and most of you can't read Dutch. What I am trying to say is: please don't lower yourself to the level of those Dutch ex-fans and stay respectful towards Mariah and other fans. It's OK that you're sometimes critical, but please don't criticize everything Mariah does. This is Mariah fansite and (hopefully) we all love Mariah. (Monday 4 August 2014; 22:23)

Orkun (45,794) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I also can't remember that you said anything positive about Mariah. And now you're upset because Abraham treats you the same way you treat Mariah. Funny. Maybe you should follow your own advice and "accept Mariah as she is". (Monday 4 August 2014; 14:36)

Press release (45,700) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands We all know Mariah's PR team likes to brag about Mariah's accomplishments, but when you read their latest press release, they have gone too far: "This year, Mariah released her fourteenth studio album, Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse, which has received rave reviews globally from both the media and public. The key singles such as Faded, Dedicated (featuring Nas), #Beautiful (featuring Miguel), Make It Look Good and Camouflage have featured prominently on numerous music charts." I can't remember Faded, Dedicated, Make It Look Good and Camouflage being released as singles, let alone that they've "featured prominently on numerous music charts". (Thursday 31 July 2014; 11:38)

Mariah Carey album cover leaked (45,644) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I was reading this news article from a year ago, and the leaked album cover really turned out to be the real album cover. (Monday 28 July 2014; 20:46)

Re: All except what matters, shut down please (45,528) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I don't see anything wrong in discussing what's in the news. And clearly you don't read most of the messages, or else you would have noticed that most of us are very supportive of Mariah. And no one ever talked about Mariah being black or not. I don't know how you got that idea. And we are the ones who should promote Mariah's album, while Mariah herself is doing nothing? What do you have in mind? That we go on tv-shows to do interviews, or that we sing some songs from the album live? It seems you only want to anger some fans, so in fact you're just as guilty as you claim other fans are. (Wednesday 23 July 2014; 21:47)

Picture of Mariah and her father (45,221) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands There is a picture of Mariah and her father (left), but alas it is fake. They've taken a picture of Alfred Roy and Alison at Mariah's wedding (right) and Photoshopped Mariah's face on her sister's face. (Saturday 5 July 2014; 0:56)

Hits Daily Double (45,097) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands According to Hits Daily Double, Me. I Am Mariah... only drops one spot and sells another 5,699 copies (-28%). (Wednesday 25 June 2014; 2:06)

Hits Daily Double (44,850) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands According to Hits Daily Double, this week Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse is at #41 with 7,951 copies sold (-44%). (Wednesday 18 June 2014; 1:07)

Re: Lambs are dumb (44,647) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands Maybe you didn't understand what other fans are trying to say (or maybe you're just dumb ). Most of us enjoy the music, but we're concerned that if the album flops, there will be no more albums from Mariah in the future. It has nothing to do with the quality of the music. Fans are giving their opinion why the album flopped (lack of promotion, general image of Mariah), but no one says the album flopped because of the music. Saying we should "just shut up and enjoy the music" is not helping Mariah at all. (Wednesday 11 June 2014; 12:16)

Promotion (44,601) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands Me. I Am Mariah... is dropping all over the world. In the USA it will sell less than 15,000 in the second week, and likely it will drop to number 16. And what is Mariah doing? She is promoting a beverage. What the fuck? I'm not disappointed, I'm furious. Some of you will say that sales are not important, only the quality of the songs. But if her last album will sell less than 100,000, do you think record companies are waiting in line to contract her? Of course not. That means this could be her last album ever, not because she doesn't want to release more albums, but because no record company wants to release her albums. I'm a fan of Mariah the singer, and I hate all the perfumes, shoes, jewelry, beverages etc she promotes. I never bought any of that and I never will. What's next? Condoms? (Tuesday 10 June 2014; 11:48)

Album drops (44,580) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands On the official UK album chart Me. I Am Mariah... drops 40 places to #54 in the second week. (Sunday 8 June 2014; 23:58)

Mariah Carey at home in concert with Matt Lauer (44,395) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands (Sunday 1 June 2014; 21:17)

Re: Singles for release by Alain from the Philippines (44,304) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I can't remember Merry Christmas II You had a re-release. Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel also did not have a re-release, nor did E=MC2. The last album that did have a re-release with additional songs was The Emancipation Of Mimi. So you're not buying Mariah's new album because 4 albums and 9 years ago there was a re-release and you think this will happen again with Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse, although the chances are very slim? I find this very strange. (Friday 30 May 2014; 12:08)

Re: Nobody wishes her to fail by Marcel from Canada (44,206) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands When I read all the messages you've posted here, they are mostly very negative. I highly doubt you can call yourself a fan if you only like her the first 7 years and nothing she has done for the last 17 years. Maybe you're in denial, but I think you should face the truth: you're no longer a fan. (Wednesday 28 May 2014; 16:31)

Mixed reviews (43,604) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands I've been reading reviews of Mariah's new single Thirsty on this messageboard and other websites, and it is clear that this song generates mixed reviews. Some love it, some hate it and some don't care. There's nothing wrong with this, not everyone has the same taste in music. What bothers me are the fans who say Mariah has lost it, that she can't make quality music, that all her songs suck. Well, that's just your opinion. I'm well aware that Mariah these days sell less albums. Is this because of the quality of her songs? I don't think so, I think it is because Mariah has evolved to a different genre that less people like. Some of the best songs (according to me) of other artists were big flops, but I still adore these songs. What I'm trying to say, just because you don't like some songs doesn't mean the artist isn't talented. I don't like country, metal, hard rock, jazz, etc, but that doesn't mean I think these artists are less talented than others. If you don't like the music Mariah makes these days, there is a simple solution: don't listen to the new songs. (Wednesday 14 May 2014; 14:25)

Re: Exactly Carlos, you are right (43,433) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands This is a messageboard about Mariah. The people who visit this board are fans of Mariah, or at least I hope so. And I'm sure they don't want to read about someone insulting Mariah. If you don't like this, I'm sorry, but I won't change the rules for you. (Saturday 10 May 2014; 19:07)

Isaac (43,207) by Webmaster Eric from the Netherlands Did you know Isaac Ortiz creates every day a new fake account and starts insulting everyone on this messageboard? Of course I delete all his messages and accounts immediately, but still after all these months he keeps trying to get his messages posted. I find this very funny. (Friday 2 May 2014; 10:22)

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