ARTPOP was the most publicized flop in years! Bionic, Lotus, nor Britney Jean garnered that amount of scrutiny outside of our home base. How can anyone think otherwise?

Originally posted by jayyyxtee Come on Get Up should have went #1 I'll never forgive Mariah for this

Originally posted by ChandlerBing Gaga's is not iconic in any way, lol, people just don't care. It's Bionic.

ARTPOP is not the biggest flop ever

That's like saying 4 from IASF is a huge drop.

There are much worse declines!!!

Originally posted by Damita Jo +1, I'm forever bitter tbh.

At that point, Carey's publicist Cindi Berger grabbed the microphone from her hand, and asked the news crew to stop filming. Berger said later, "She was not speaking clearly and not talking about what she had come to talk about: her record."

Only days later, Carey began posting irregular voice notes and messages on her official website: I'm trying to understand things in life right now and so I really don't feel that I should be doing music right now. What I'd like to do is just a take a little break or at least get one night of sleep without someone popping up about a video. All I really want is just be me and that's what I should have done in the first place ... I don't say this much but guess what, I don't take care of myself.[13]

When questioned regarding Carey's suicidal rumor, Berger claimed Carey had broken dishes out of desperation, and as a result, accidentally cut her hands and feet

While the two sides were laying out the terms for Carey's exit from Virgin, Carey's team requested that the two parties just use the word "canceled" when asked by the media regarding the failed venture.[24] Less than 24 hours after the settlement was made, Virgin released a statement that they had "terminated" the contract with Carey, and paid her $28 million to do so.[24] Carey's lawyers threatened to sue, with her attorney Marshall Grossman calling their behavior in the matter "deplorable".

According to record producer Irv Gotti, Mottola, head of Columbia and Carey's ex-husband, knew of Carey's usage of the "Firecracker" sample, and attempted to have Lopez use the same sample before her.

Large quantities of the album remained unsold in record stores and, as such, record stores have the ability to return unsold product back to the record label -this had no effect on the certification already given, however.