Mariah Carey’s career has declined since 2001 when her movie Glitter, and the soundtrack for it, bombed. Nobody saw it, nobody bought it, and reviews for both were awful.

Virgin paid her over $20 million to leave the label. Read that again. They PAID her $20 million NOT to record anymore for them.

She signed with Universal and her last album reached platinum status, decent but lower than what should be expected for a proven superstar.

But her latest album, The Emancipation of Mimi, released Tuesday, will bring Carey back into that superstar status that she has longed for since the ’90s.

According to HITS, a music tracking service, Carey is on pace to debut at number one next week, ending 50 Cent’s 6-week reign atop the Billboard chart.

She is on pace to sell over 300,000 copies, surpassing the amount her last album in 2002 sold in its first week.






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