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Dec 27 08 9:07 AM

First off I love E=MC2. It's a great album.

Secondly, I don't see Mariah releasing an album. For some reason I do believe she is pregnant.

Third, I don't think anybody is really going to be a threat to anybody in terms of sales. I want to go on record and say the biggest record of 09 will scan maybe 2 million from January to December. Judging by the Fourth Quarter sales this year I don't even know if you can depend on that for a sales boost. Under ordinary circumstances you could debut with 725 to 800 thousand to maybe a million and we have seen that not really happen with the releases of some key albums by some big names Fourth Quarter this year. I mean you have to be really careful. (Sidenote: Keyshia Cole is kicking herself. She thought she was going to do a million this season and has said so in many interviews leading up to her release that she was trying to do big numbers but all she could get was 322 k)

Therefore, I think it may be wise for an artist of Mariah Carey's caliber to sit it out for a year and have a life, but look at the direction the industry is heading, just to get a gage of what you need to do to comeback and compete in an industry that is going through a rapid decline.

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