Mimi Plays To Pakced Houses Every Night To Roaring, Fanatical Crowds: Sold Out Madison Square Garden: Now Honored With Six of the Most Prestigious Awards Of Her Entier Career
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- Mariah Receives 6 Prestigious BMI Awards
MARIAH RECEIVES 6 PRESTIGIOUS BMI AWARDS
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR PLAYS TO PACKED HOUSES EVERY NIGHT
10 Million worldwide selling album THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI generates
25 industry awards - three Grammys, two Soul Train Music Awards, four
VIBE Awards, American Music Award, five Billboard Music Awards, four
Radio Music Awards, six BMI Awards
As she reaches the half-way point on her North American tour, playing
to packed houses and roaring, fanatical crowds in every city -
including sold-out homecoming New York-area shows last week at Madison
Square Garden and the Continental Airlines Arena - performer and
songwriter Mariah Carey, the top-selling female artist in history,
has now been honored with six of the most prestigious awards of her
entire career. Mariah is the recipient of BMI's Songwriter of The Year
Award; Song of the Year "We Belong Together"; #1 Billboard Song "We
Belong Together"/b>; and the 3 most performed songs: "We Belong
Together," "Shake It Off," and "Don't Forget About Us".
The six BMI Awards cap one of the most phenomenally successful
year-and-a-halfs of Mariah's entire career, centering upon the success
of her Island Records album The Emancipation Of Mimi, which generated
three Grammy awards and more than a dozen additional major industry
awards. Soundscan's biggest-selling album of 2005, Mimi has sold over
10 million units worldwide to date, bringing Mariah's career sales to
over 160 million units worldwide.
Mariah's most successful tour ever, "The Adventures of Mimi: The
Voice, The Hits, The Tour," is selling out arenas from coast to coast.
The Los Angeles Times said that the Live Nation-produced "Adventures'
tour showcases a well-toned and well-honed talent." Live Nation
President and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Rapino, called the tour
"An absolute home run that solidifies Mariah as one of the most
successful live acts around."
Mariah's new cache of BMI Awards join a shelf of honors that began last
November at the 33rd annual American Music Awards, where she was voted
Favorite Soul/Rhythm & Blues Female Artist. At the 3rd annual VIBE
Awards the same month, Mariah led everyone with four wins generated by
Mimi: Artist Of The Year, Album Of The Year, R&B Voice Of The Year, and
Best R&B Song for "We Belong Together."
At the 2005 Billboard Music Awards in December, Mariah was named Top
R&B Singles Artist - Female, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist - Female, Top
R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Artist - Female, and Top Overall Albums Artist -
Female, with "We Belong Together" named the #1 Hot 100 Single Of the
Year. Later that month, at the annual Radio Music Awards broadcast from
Las Vegas, Mariah was honored with the Legend Award and was named
Artist of the Year/Urban and Rhythmic Radio, in addition to "We Belong
Together" winning both Song of the Year/Main Stream Hit Radio and Song
of the Year/Urban and Rhythmic Radio.
It was the prelude to the 48th annual Grammy Awards in February 2006.
Mariah received 8 nominations (tied for the highest number of
nominations for the year) and was ultimately honored for Best Female
R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song for "We Belong Together," and
Best Contemporary R&B Album for The Emancipation Of Mimi. At the
broadcast, Mariah delivered a rousing, career-defining medley of "We
Belong Together" and "Fly Like A Bird," the latter backed by Hezekiah
Walker & Brooklyn's 30-voice Love Fellowship Tabernacle Choir.
Mimi includes Mariah's 16th and 17th #1 career singles, "We Belong
Together" and "Don't Forget About Us," respectively - which tied one
of the most enduring chart records in Billboard Hot 100 history, Elvis
Presley's 17 #1's. Mariah is now positioned as the only active
recording artist in the 48 years of the Hot 100 (which began in 1958)
with the potential to match or surpass the Beatles' all-time high of 20
#1 hits. With 76 total weeks of #1 hits (since her career began in
1990), Mariah also ranks second only to Presley's all-time high 79
weeks.
David E. Powell
skepticl1
David E. Powell wrote:
> She's a cutie..
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See. John Walsh, Yertle and Ninerspeak are nuts.
John Walsh
I like her, I just don't think he's as "natural" as some of the "other"
singers. ;)