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UK fans we have the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for you!On February 8th, Mariah Carey releases LoveSongs, the perfect gift for Valentine’s lovers. A compilation of classic songs from the acclaimed singer songwriter, the album features beautiful ballads including Mariah’s signature love song “My All.”
It also includes many of the outstanding tracks she recorded during her time at Sony Music, an era that propelled her from a young girl into an international superstar to become the biggest selling female artist of all time.Â
Hit singles included on LoveSongs are “Hero,” “Vision of Love,” “Without You,” “Dreamlover,” the landmark duet “One Sweet Day,” featuring Boyz II Men and many others. LoveSongs is a repackaging of Mariah’s hit compilation Ballads re-released in time for Valentine’s Day. This collection of songs was the soundtrack for a generation to fall in love to, back in the 90s, and will be all over again for the next generation this Valentine’s Day.
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UK fans can pre-order the release from:Â HMV | Amazon UK | Play
Irish fans can purchase the release online from:Â iTunes Ireland | 7 Digital Ireland | Play Europe |
Source: MariahCarey.Com
THE Sun’s Helping Haiti single will hit the shops tomorrow, a day earlier than planned, after huge demand.
The cover of REM’s Everybody Hurts, featuring stars including Robbie Williams and Susan Boyle, will be sold as a CD by shops including HMV, Oxfam and Marks & Spencer.
M&S chairman Stuart Rose said: “We urge all our customers to buy a copy and help to rebuild the lives of thousands of people.”
The song can also be downloaded from stockists such as iTunes, 3 Mobile, 7 Digital, Napster, Amazon and Play Nokia.
Half the proceeds will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee and half to The Sun’s Helping Haiti Appeal.
Other stars including Mariah Carey, Kylie Minogue and Leona Lewis helped record the ballad at sessions in London and Los Angeles.
Last night stock to satisfy initial orders worth over £500,000 began to leave the pressing plant near Milton Keynes, Bucks. The promo is expected to be finished by mid-week.
The song, with documentary footage of the quake aftermath, will be broadcast on ITV1 at 8.30pm tomorrow.
* ALL proceeds of the The Sun’s Helping Haiti Appeal will go directly to a charitable fund set up by the Charities Aid Foundation (registered charity number 268369). All money will go to charities helping Haiti quake victims.
Source: The Sun
The number of cinemas showing, the critically acclaimed movie, Precious, featuring Mariah Carey in a supporting role, has doubled in UK & Ireland.
Finally the movie can be seen in Wales, more cinemas in Scotland & outside Dublin in Ireland. Sadly Northern Ireland still does not have a cinema showcasing the movie.
Click here for a list supplied by Icon Movies of the confirmed cinemas showing the movie split by region!Â
So make this a “Precious” weekend for you & your family!
Source: Mariah Connection UK
Mariah Carey: Love Songs has been released in Ireland today in limited numbers. HMV Ireland is the only major record chain stocking the release!
Irish fans can purchase the release online from:Â iTunes Ireland | 7 Digital Ireland | Play Europe |
Finally we can now also confirm the track listing:
1. Hero
2. Vision Of Love
3. Without You
4. Always Be My Baby
5. My All
6. How Much-Feat. Usher
7. Dreamlover
8. Thank God I Found You-Nas And Joe [Make It Last Remix]
9. The Roof
10. One Sweet Day
11. Anytime You Need A Friend
12. I’ll Be There
13. I Still Believe
14. Reflections
15. Open Arms
16. Against All Odds
17. Endless Love
Source: Mariah Connection Ireland
MARIAH Carey releases Love Songs on Monday, to get us all in the mood for Valentine’s Day. It’s a compilation of classic Mariah Carey love songs, including My All, Vision of Love, Without You, Dreamlover and One Sweet Day featuring Boyz II Men.
I’ve got 10 copies of Love Songs, plus a signed copy of Mariah to give away.
Just pop me a postcard saying why you’d like to win and including your name, age and address to Jade Wright, Mariah Carey comp, Liverpool ECHO, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L69, 3EB by midday on Tuesday. Usual ECHO competition rules apply.
Fans can pre-order the release from:Â HMV | Amazon UK | Play
Source: Liverpool Echo
Rating: 3 Stars
Sometimes a film will come along that no matter how much you hear about it beforehand, you just can’t get a handle on it. Here we have a film with an unwieldy title, a title character who is a morbidly obese teenager, that is set in Harlem in the late eighties, includes incest and hideous parental abuse and has Lenny Kravitz as a nurse and Mariah Carey as a social worker. What is that going to be like?
Precious is a movie that sometimes seems to be to be channel hopping between two or three radically different films. One minute it’s rubbing your face harder and further into the dirt than you could imagine a film would ever want to; the next it’s holding you close and gently soft soaping you with human kindness.
The lows are just unbelievably squalid. Precious (Sidibe) is expelled from school after she becomes pregnant by her father for a second time. Her mother’s (Mo’nique) chosen form of communication is throwing heavy objects in the direction of her head whenever she is displeased.
But her expulsion opens up the opportunity for her to go to an alternative school, so alongside the Boy Called It style horrorography there’s a straightforward inspirational teacher story. And it’s all filmed like a version of Requiem for a Dream made by Oprah Winfrey. Confused? You may well be.
The film flings the viewer about this way and that but the strong cast keep you strapped in. Mo’nique makes an almost preposterous figure credible and comprehensible, while the two pieces of novelty casting work out pretty well too. Kravitz is charmingly unaffected and unrecognisable. Mariah takes the standard pop star-trying-to-be-taken-seriously-route, eschewing make up and dressing down. I thought the little moustache was taking it a bit too far but in a small but important role, originally due to be played by Helen Mirren, she is solid.
Precious has many traits of the saccharine little indie Oscar Pleader but with its emotional and violent excesses there is also a darkly comic edge to it, like a dramatisation of the Monty Python, “You think you had it tough” sketch. It’s a film that will provoke all kinds of responses, that will probably narrow as many minds as it broadens, inspire derision as well as floods of tears.
Source: Barking and Dagenham Post
UK RELEASE - FEBRUARY 7th (digital album) & FEBRUARYÂ Â 8th (physical CD)
Some of the  biggest names in UK and American music have joined forces to record an  emotive cover of the REM classic “Everybody Hurts”, to raise money for  charities supporting the relief efforts in Haiti. The final line up of featured artists is; Mariah Carey, Jon Bon Jovi, Robbie Williams, Kylie,  Rod Stewart, Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke, Miley Cyrus, Take That, Joe  McElderry, Cheryl Cole, JLS, Mika, Michael Bublé, James Blunt, James  Morrison, Susan Boyle, and Westlife.
The single  will split all proceeds 50/50 between DEC (Disasters Emergency  Committee) and The  Sun newspaper’s “Helping Haiti’ appeal. Prime Minister Gordon Brown  has pledged to waive VAT on the single. The Haitian earthquake, which  occurred on 12th January 2010 measuring a catastrophic 7.0 on the  richter scale, is already estimated to have caused the deaths of over  250,000 people. 250,000 are in need of urgent aid and  more than 2 million people are estimated homeless and in need of long  term support to help rebuild their lives.
Disasters  Emergency Committee, Chief Executive Brendan Gormley said: “We are  absolutely delighted to help those recording, producing and buying this  charity single make a difference in Haiti. More and more water, food,  household items and medical supplies are getting through to the  earthquake survivors. Buying the charity single will greatly aid our  work and help us work with survivors in Haiti to rebuild new lives from  the ruins.”
Simon Cowell  who is organizing the recording and release of the record for Haiti  said: “We have a short time to do this but already we are getting some  fantastic support. Right now this is an absolute priority for us all,  the people of Haiti need as much help as we can give them as soon as  possible, every day the situation becomes more desperate”Â
Pre-order your single NOW at HMV.com, Amazon.co.uk & Play.com
Source: MariahCarey.Com
Precious performed well after getting a release in 47 cinemas across the UK. The Harlem-set drama, which stars Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique and Mariah Carey, enters the chart at number nine with more than £260,000 in ticket sales.
The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Avatar - £4,865,081
2. (3) Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel - £1,195,220
3. (-) Edge Of Darkness - £1,172,927
4. (2) Sherlock Holmes - £1,149,268
5. (5) It’s Complicated - £849,416
6. (4) Up In The Air - £735,463
7. (6) Toy Story 2 - £690,291
8. (7) The Book Of Eli - £484,983
9. (-) Precious - £260,921
10. (8) Daybreakers - £238,849
Source: Digital Spy
THE Sun’s Helping Haiti single will get a global release after demand from music fans around the world.
The haunting version of REM’s Everybody Hurts, featuring 21 stars including Leona Lewis and Take That, will be available as a download worldwide from Sunday.
The track - also boasting Susan Boyle, Robbie Williams, Cheryl Cole and Rod Stewart - got its first airing on UK radio yesterday.
And it won wide acclaim - with more celebrities urging people to buy the single.
Fans included REM frontman Michael Stipe, who co-wrote the classic.
He said: “We are thrilled the song can help. Thanks from us to everyone involved and everyone who donates.”
Chris Evans was one of the first to broadcast the single, on his Radio 2 Breakfast Show.
He said: “I was moved and impressed by the quality of such a speedily put together piece of work.”
Radio 5 rival Nicky Campbell said: “It’s lovely”, while Radio 1’s Greg James commented: “It’s a classic song and nice to hear so many great artists.”
TV’s Myleene Klass said: “Please buy the Helping Haiti single.” Vinnie Jones said: “I hope people make the track a massive hit.”
Mariah Carey, who appears early in the song, said: “I hope Everybody Hurts helps to raise a very large amount of funds.”
Richard and Judy called it “a triumph of organisation and rapid response”.
Mika, another of the song’s contributors, said: “It sounds fantastic, and I hope the public will support it.” The Sugababes added: “We love the single.”
Everybody Hurts - masterminded by Simon Cowell - can be pre-ordered from Amazon, Play.com and HMV.com.
In an amazing show of support, other stores stocking it from Monday include Marks & Spencer, Bhs, House of Fraser, BP Extra, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons.
Pre-Order CD Single From: Amazon UK | HMV | Zavvi (UK) | Zavvi (Europe) | Woolworths | Amazon (USA)
Source: The Sun
Critically acclaimed movie, Precious, featuring Mariah Carey in a supporting role, opened at just four cinemas in Republic of Ireland last week. Surprisingly the movie has managed to break the Top 15 on the Irish Box Office Chart, at No.14 with ticket sales in excess of €19,000.
A list of cinemas showing the movie in Ireland can be found here!
Source: Mariah Connection Ireland
UK fans we have the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for you!On February 8th, Mariah Carey releases LoveSongs, the perfect gift for Valentine’s lovers. A compilation of classic songs from the acclaimed singer songwriter, the album features beautiful ballads including Mariah’s signature love song “My All.”
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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