Mariah Carey
Mariah Shoots Album Cover In NYC
Mariah Carey invaded Lenny Kravitz's Crosby St. apartment building on Wednesday, commandeering the penthouse suite and roof to shoot the cover for her upcoming album, "E = MC²." Arriving in a black Maybach with three SUVs in tow, the diva sported custom-made Van Cleef & Arpels diamond butterfly rings and Christian Louboutin heels.
Below are some pictures of Lenny Kravitz' penthouse on Crosby Street in New York, NY.
"Touch My Body" Chart update
• Mediabase Update:
with only three days of airplay, "Touch My Body" has garnered 19.079 million audience impressions and 1655 spins (Pop - 658, Rhythmic - 623, Urban - 326, Urban A/C - 41, Hot A/C - 7).
For the last two days, "Touch My Body" was the most added song (most new stations playing the song) in the top 3 formats: Pop, Rhythmic and Urban. So far, the song is already appearing on the Pop Airplay chart (#51) and is likely to gain more play by the end of the week and enter the Billboard Pop chart at a higher chart position.
RADIO TIDBITS
• Boston, MA - Jam'n 94.5: "Touch My Body" was #5 on the top 7@7 countdown.
• Boston, MA - KISS 108: The song was #1 on the station's top 7@7 countdown.
• Los Angeles, CA - Power 106: The song debuted at #3 on Tito's top 4@4 countdown.
INTERNATIONAL UPDATES
Up until now, "Touch My Body" premiered in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, France, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa and Sweden.
• Brazil: "Touch My Body" premiered at Transamerica FM 100.1 yesterday and was praised by the DJ.
• Finland: "Touch My Body" premiered today in Finland on YleX. Finnish fans can request the song here.
• Germany: The song premiered on German radio on the station JamFM (Berlin) yesterday morning at 8:21 am.
• Portugal: The song premiered yesterday on Cidadefm and won a battle at 6:00pm against two other songs.
• South Africa: 5fm, the country's leading radio station, officially released the new Mariah Carey single "Touch My Body" at 4:40pm CAT yesterday. DJ Fresh and his team predicted that this will definitely be another huge smash single for Mariah.
• Turkey: 99.5 Capital Radio premiered the song yesterday. Turkish fans can request the song here.
"Touch My Body" [Urban Noize Remix]
The first remix to the song has arrived:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/759278260896cc/
J. Austin & Stargate Write 2 Tracks on E=MC²
Two songs from Mariah's new album, "Bye Bye" and "That Chick", have been registered with the BMI Repertoire. Both songs were co-written by Mariah Carey, Johnta Austin, and the Stargate duo (Eriksen Mikkel Stroleer and Hermansen Tor Erik).
Johnta Austin has previously worked with Mariah on her two #1 records from The Emancipation of Mimi, "We Belong Together" and "Don't Forget About Us."
The Stargate guys have previously remixed Mariah's #1 hit "Thank God I Found You" from Rainbow (1999).
Below is a list of all the currently known song titles from Mariah's upcoming album, and the writers/producers (Mariah excluded) and featured artists associated with them.
• Touch My Body (C. Tricky Stewart, The-Dream)
• Bye Bye (Johnta Austin, Stargate)
• That Chick (Johnta Austin, Stargate)
• Heat (Will.I.Am)
• For The Record (Bryan Michael Cox, Taurian "Adonis" Shropshire)
• 4Real 4Real (Bryan Michael Cox, Taurian "Adonis" Shropshire)
• Thanks For Nothing (Jermaine Dupri)
• Loving You Long Time (DJ Toomp)
• Migrate (ft. T-Pain)
• Cruise Control (ft. Damian Marley)
• OOC ["Out of Control"]
• Last Kiss
• Love Story
Other known producers: James Poyser, Nate "Danjahandz" Hills.
First pic from "Touch My Body" music video
The video will be directed by veteran Brett Ratner, the eye behind movies like Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2 and Hip-Hop videos for rappers like LL Cool J, Sean "Diddy" Combs and The Wu Tang Clan.
"Mariah is musically at the top of her game and has never looked better," Ratner assured AllHipHop.com. "This will be our 5th music video we have collaborated on and definitely the best one yet visually, as well as musically. The video [for "Touch My Body"] is the perfect combination of fantasy and comedy with Mariah looking more beautiful than she has ever looked, ever."
Source: AllHipHop