"Earlier today, we posted links to several iTunes stores in the Asia Pacific region where Mariah's new single "Almost Home" was released. We have learned that the release was premature and that the single has been removed from these iTunes stores for the time being. Stay tuned as "Almost Home" becomes officially available worldwide tomorrow!"
"As far as breakout potential, this could go either way: Carey purists are going to go ham for that key change and those runs at the end, but the beat feels a little vanilla and the chorus is not exactly a home run.
Carey’s body of work is pretty phenomenal—she could comfortably put together a satisfying two-disc greatest hits without having to let middling stuff sneak in—but it has been a while since she delivered a really transcendent single. It used to be her bread and butter; she still holds the record for most chart-topping songs by a solo artist in history.
But this millennium has been spottier, and though songs like “Obsessed” and “Touch My Body” scored big on the charts, they both feel like weaker versions of other Carey smashes (and have not aged particularly well, either). “Almost Home” kind of feels the same way. It’s an uplift anthem that could have been sung by most anybody, at least for the first three minutes."
