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Single: Mariah Carey f/ Miguel - "#Beautiful"
Member Since: 8/4/2010
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I mean, it's decent. It feels more like a Miguel song than a Mariah song. Plus, she didn't deliver vocally like I thought she would have. It can do well on the charts, but I honestly don't think it's that memorable or impactful to keep up the momentum on the charts. It'll have a great few weeks. I don't know, I guess I'm just partial towards it. 
Miguel sounds amazing though. 
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
Posts: 25,228
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Originally posted by skyler
Triumphant wasnt a single and Almost Home was just for the Oz movie
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But they didn't do well AT ALL. And nothing since Touch My Body has done that well. Obsessed did fine but the album didn't.
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Member Since: 4/30/2012
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by Inverted
This is actually nice. I'm buying it.
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I can't at all this love.
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Member Since: 9/8/2012
Posts: 10,084
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Omg I love it. I just bought it! can't stop replaying it! 
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Member Since: 4/1/2011
Posts: 549
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#Beautiful - Spins:
AC 62
Hot AC 58
Thythmic 79
Top40 334
Urban 73
= 606
yay.
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Member Since: 3/12/2011
Posts: 18,360
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It feels like Miguel song. It will flop, and they will annoce it as a promo single in 2/3 weeks.
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Member Since: 6/2/2011
Posts: 9,459
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omg!
I didn't expect it to be that good!
Mariah impresses me once again tbh! Mimi is back to snatch some wigs 
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Member Since: 8/7/2012
Posts: 221
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Quote:
Originally posted by Solarie
It feels like Miguel song. It will flop, and they will annoce it as a promo single in 2/3 weeks.
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LOL I strongly disagree
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Member Since: 9/6/2012
Posts: 5,634
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Debut on z100's noon countdown at #5!
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Member Since: 6/6/2011
Posts: 3,476
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Definitely wasn't expecting this! Even my grandparents who hate Mariah bought the song & love it! This deserves to smash!
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Member Since: 3/24/2012
Posts: 4,192
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
Posts: 4,069
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Quote:
Originally posted by Solarie
It feels like Miguel song. It will flop, and they will annoce it as a promo single in 2/3 weeks.
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LOL. Stay pressed.
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 9/14/2010
Posts: 78,921
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Quote:
Originally posted by Beyhive2012
#Beautiful
#1 Bulgaria
#1 Malaysia
#1 Philippines
#1 Singapore
#1 Spain
#1 Taiwan
#1 Vietnam
#2 Thailand
#2 Trinidad and Tobago
#3 Costa Rica
#3 Cyprus
#3 Hong Kong
#4 Poland
#5 Indonesia
#6 Hungary
#7 Brazil
#7 Sweden
#9 Chile
#10 Czech Republic
#10 Venezuela
#11 Israel
#18 Greece
#20 Argentina
#20 Slovakia
#22 United States
#25 Ecuador
#25 Netherlands
#32 France
#35 Italy
#40 South Africa
#44 Ireland
#51 Canada
#53 Brunei Darussalam
#55 United Kingdom
#60 Azerbaijan
#66 Australia
#68 Russia
#69 Finland
#70 New Zealand
#71 Denmark
#81 Mexico
#87 Norway
#90 Austria
#94 Switzerland
#112 Germany
#135 Turkey
#176 Belgium
#214 El Salvador
SLAY
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Top 100 in the biggest music markets.
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Member Since: 10/13/2010
Posts: 6,733
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It's very very nice 
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Member Since: 12/3/2010
Posts: 19,759
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I love the LA Times review of the song. 
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By Randall Roberts
May 6, 2013, 9:19 a.m.
This morning I woke up way too early, checked my Twitter and read music critic Maura Johnston confidently declare that Mariah Carey had just released the "song of the summer.” I groaned, rolled over and tried to go back to sleep, filled with a combination of skepticism and dread.
After all, the evidence had already piled up against it: The song contains a hashtag, is called “#Beautiful,” and features one of the most overused words in the English language. Silly, trendy and typical, I snobbishly judged -- before hearing even a lick of it.
While making coffee a few hours later, the computer stared, headphones laying wait. Would she actually use the word “hashtag” in the lyrics? Would it be about, God forbid, Tweet love? Why would Miguel, one of the best young R&B singers on the scene right now, participate in such nonsense?
Mariah and Miguel have now answered, and I’m struggling to adjust Monday to the reality that “#Beautiful” just may be said jam of the summer. Despite the hashtag, and the wariness, “#Beautiful” is as close to a perfect pop song as has been released in 2013. Produced by Miguel and Carey, the track is gritty and vital, filled with a crawling, dirty bass line, a seductive, immediately embeddable guitar melody and just enough tambourine to get the engine running.
From the first line, delivered by Miguel, the track takes to the road: “Hop on the back of my bike, let the wind run through your hair,” he sings. Miguel, the San Pedro-born breakout whose “Kaleidoscope Dream” was one of the best albums of 2012, rides away, his girl on his bike, with the charisma of a superstar.
They cruise through the night, Miguel crooning about her beauty while he advises her to "let the moonlight kiss your skin." You can almost see a lunar glimmer on the Pacific as they cruise down PCH.
Then, finally, Carey responds.
“I like when you run red lights, don’t stop till you thrill me,” she sings to the dismay of mothers and traffic cops the world over. She doesn’t even arrive into her own song until it’s a third of the way through, ceding to Miguel’s glorious tone with the confidence of someone who knows she can lift her verse to equal whatever comes her way. When she does, she does so with a seemingly effortless glow.
Ceding control to Miguel, she giggles. "Take me anywhere."
The song ends at the exact moment it should. No fat: 3 minutes 22 seconds, closing with a rush of layered voices that drift through the ears like a breeze, fading away as though Miguel and Carey have just squeezed the throttle and left the rest of us behind.
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Member Since: 5/15/2006
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30+ plays since I bought it 2 hours ago...I'm addicted
Legend M coming for #1 
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Member Since: 3/5/2011
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Nice bop..kinda reminds me of JGMAR.
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Member Since: 1/9/2005
Posts: 2,915
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Quote:
Originally posted by Travextina
#Beautiful - Spins:
AC 62
Hot AC 58
Thythmic 79
Top40 334
Urban 73
= 606
yay.
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Chart monster !! #11 in Israel btw ,I bought it also 
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Member Since: 9/2/2011
Posts: 14,788
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I love the LA Times review of the song.
Quote:
By Randall Roberts
May 6, 2013, 9:19 a.m.
This morning I woke up way too early, checked my Twitter and read music critic Maura Johnston confidently declare that Mariah Carey had just released the "song of the summer.” I groaned, rolled over and tried to go back to sleep, filled with a combination of skepticism and dread.
After all, the evidence had already piled up against it: The song contains a hashtag, is called “#Beautiful,” and features one of the most overused words in the English language. Silly, trendy and typical, I snobbishly judged -- before hearing even a lick of it.
While making coffee a few hours later, the computer stared, headphones laying wait. Would she actually use the word “hashtag” in the lyrics? Would it be about, God forbid, Tweet love? Why would Miguel, one of the best young R&B singers on the scene right now, participate in such nonsense?
Mariah and Miguel have now answered, and I’m struggling to adjust Monday to the reality that “#Beautiful” just may be said jam of the summer. Despite the hashtag, and the wariness, “#Beautiful” is as close to a perfect pop song as has been released in 2013. Produced by Miguel and Carey, the track is gritty and vital, filled with a crawling, dirty bass line, a seductive, immediately embeddable guitar melody and just enough tambourine to get the engine running.
From the first line, delivered by Miguel, the track takes to the road: “Hop on the back of my bike, let the wind run through your hair,” he sings. Miguel, the San Pedro-born breakout whose “Kaleidoscope Dream” was one of the best albums of 2012, rides away, his girl on his bike, with the charisma of a superstar.
They cruise through the night, Miguel crooning about her beauty while he advises her to "let the moonlight kiss your skin." You can almost see a lunar glimmer on the Pacific as they cruise down PCH.
Then, finally, Carey responds.
“I like when you run red lights, don’t stop till you thrill me,” she sings to the dismay of mothers and traffic cops the world over. She doesn’t even arrive into her own song until it’s a third of the way through, ceding to Miguel’s glorious tone with the confidence of someone who knows she can lift her verse to equal whatever comes her way. When she does, she does so with a seemingly effortless glow.
Ceding control to Miguel, she giggles. "Take me anywhere."
The song ends at the exact moment it should. No fat: 3 minutes 22 seconds, closing with a rush of layered voices that drift through the ears like a breeze, fading away as though Miguel and Carey have just squeezed the throttle and left the rest of us behind.
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AMAZING Review 
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