December release date set for new Mariah Carey album
ByAug 5, 2002 10:00 PM
Mariah Carey will release her first album for her new Island Records imprint MonarC Music on Dec. 10, according to the label.
Mariah Carey will release her first album for her new Island Records imprint MonarC Music on Dec. 10, according to the label.
According to Island Records, “the album features Carey writing and co-producing with such A-list producers as Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Jermaine Dupri among others.” Twenty “very personal” songs have already been recorded.
Carey took a nearly $30 million buyout and parted ways with Virgin Records in January after her first album for the label, “Glitter,” sold poorly and a Carey-starring motion picture of the same name flopped.
Carey was hospitalized in 2001, just prior to the release of the album and movie, after suffering what her publicist termed “an emotional and physical breakdown.”