Mariah Carey Earns Her Lowest-Selling LP With 'Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse' - News - Fuse

The chanteuse's new album sold less than 60,000 copies

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Sorry lambs, but apparently elusive is another way to describe Mariah Carey album sales. The diva's Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse LP opens on the Billboard 200 chart with 58,000 copies sold, landing her at No. 3 on the chart.

This
is the smallest opening for a Mariah LP, not including her two holiday
albums, since 1991, when information and sales tracking system SoundScan
was created for precise album sales figures.

Before
eventually hitting No. 1 and selling nine million copies, Mariah Carey's
self-titled debut album from 1990 started at No. 80 on the Billboard
200. This was probably a lower first-week sum than Me. I Am Mariah..., but it was released a year before SoundScan was created. So the numbers a little hazy.

Post-SoundScan era, Me. I Am Mariah... is the "Thirsty" singer's smallest opening since her Emotions LP
from 1991. That record hit No. 4 with 156,000 copies sold. Yeah, back
then not even 156k could get you in the Top 3... go figure.

Here's a little bit more Mimi chart trivia for the Lambily: Mariah's E=MC² album
actually gave the diva her biggest first week sales ever—463,000 copies
sold for the record that spawned her most recent No. 1, "Touch My Body."



Here is the lyrics to her new song:

"You Don't Know What to Do" is track #8 on the album Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse.

You need to go

Don't look so surprised

Cuz we had a love

That would be immortalized

Said you need me now

So lost without me now

But our little romance is through

Because basically boy you

You just don't know what to do

Oooooooohhhhh (don't know what to do)

[Wale Rap]

I can give it to ya, but what you gonna do

Win it if I hit it, I bet you stuck, stupid

But sucking your teeth, don't fuck up my mood

I'm trying to give it all to you

I can understand it's things we go through

Put C's on your bag, let see this here through

And we can be [?]

But I gotta get it out of you

I see that 'Le throw a ring on it

She don't love you then she put your whole name on it

Gettin' money, at this age is hard knocks

The date [?]

[Verse 1]

I miss you almost half as much as you miss me

You used to act so tough, breed insecurity

Now that I found myself you're begging to be mine

Can't even help yourself from playing the fool each time

Ooh-ooh-ooh, how I loved you

Ooh-ooh-ooh, how I needed you

Ooh-ooh-ooh, boy I feel brand new

Ooh-ooh-ooh, since you turned me loose, baby

[Chorus]

You don't know what

You don't know what

You don't know what to do

You don't know what

You don't know what

You don't know what to do

First you want to leave

Then you never go

I'ma set you free boy

Baby you don't know

You don't know what

You don't know what

You don't know what to do

You don't know what

You don't know what

You don't know what to do

[Verse 2]

You love me more than you love sunny summer days

And even more than you love floating in the haze

Boy when you lost my heart you lost everything

Now all that you can do is listen to me sing

Ooh-ooh-ooh, how I loved you (how I loved you boy)

Ooh-ooh-ooh, how I needed you

Ooh-ooh-ooh, boy I feel brand new

Ooh-ooh-ooh, since you turned me loose, baby

[Chorus]

You don't know what

You don't know what

You don't know what to do

You don't know what

You don't know what

You don't know what to do

First you want to leave

Then you never go

I'ma set you free boy

Baby you don't know

You don't know what

You don't know what

You don't know what to do

You don't know what

You don't know what

You don't know what to

[Wale Rap]

I can give it to you, but what you gon' do

Win it, if I hit it, I bet you stuck, stoop

And the motto I got, no class in this school

Take your bags and go boo

Never mind all of the flexin' I do

Balenciagas, got you two steppin' on smooth

Never will I lower my standards, my boo

I could show you we're attendants like Sampress on cue

That's kinda funny cause love still mean lose

Unless we kill a record and back-and-forth moves

Somehow you keep showing [?], I see through it

Did you catch that all, screw it

All the girls need is respect and I do it

Never catch feelings cause jets is my fuel

Giuseppe my foot, my sweats be [?]

So sexy, they ain't sweating me, I bet you ain't know

[Chorus]
You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do
You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do
First you want to leave
Then you never go
I'ma set you free boy
Baby you don't know
You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do
You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do
You don't know what to do to me
You don't know what to do to me
You don't know
You don't know
You don't know what to do me