Originally posted by stevyy

with her they can release the old material with some specials. also it's always better if the artist promotes the new releases. Look at Greatest Hits, it only sold 4,2 million copies to date bc Mariah did not even acknowledge its existence. Look at The Ballads which moved 800,000 copies without her involvement as well. Look at The Remixes which sold 500,000 copies without her on board.

1998 - 16,2m - #1's
2001 - 4,2m - Greatest Hits
2003 - 0,5m - The Remixes
2009 - 0,8m - The Ballads
2011 - 0,1m - Essential
2011 - 0,05m - Very best Of
2015 - 0,2m - #1 to Infinity
= 21,850,000 from SONY compilations