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Originally posted by eli's_rhythm
Give me a ****ing break. She performed different songs like 6 times. Everything was going for her--at the beginning of the year she was still a massive superstar and the first single was going to go #1 no matter what. She is Mariah Carey--she doesn't need to promote (or so I thought).
Bad single choices? True, of course, but it's not like "IBLULT" wasn't a good choice. People just didn't seem to be interested. Radio wasn't interested, MTV wasn't interested = public wasn't interested. "NO PROMOTION" is the Janet Jackson Excuse. Welcome to the club.
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People like Mariah, Beyonce, Kelly, Madonna dont need to EVER do practically anything to promote when they have their first single coming out. People will find out about it without them promoting. So clearly I wasn't talking about TMB not having any promotion. And Bye Bye was song on Oprah [uhm who sings on Oprah anymore?], GMA [when everyones either sleeping or at work?!?!], and American Idol [that helped sales a lot but it wasn't enough for just that one appearance]. Bye Bye was a bust and I have no idea why she released it so early. IBLULT was a perfect summer single, but with the flop of Bye Bye she had to promote her ass off. And singing at at the GAY Teen Choice Awards was not enough my dear. So many people didn't watch that award show because Miley was hosting it, so their goes a lot of veiwers. But thats besides the point, very few people watch that Award Show compared to others. And that was the first and ONLY time she promoted that song. Then that flopped so she goes and sings I Stay In Love at the AMA's which increased sales a lot but it never picked up on radio so it didnt keep rising in sales. Mariah screwed up this era, and its mostly her labels fault. They were so damn worried about annoying artists who wanted like 57483 singles from flop albums like Rihanna and Chris Brown. They forgot about people Like Mariah who had AMAZING songs that were single worthy, and they assumed just because of who she is she would have a hit. But these days that is not the case.
And their is no "no promotion" excuse .. THEIR WAS NONE.