Mariah is recording her tenth studio album. She booked a whole month in Anguilla’s biggest villa and had a studio built in! Now that’s a diva!

This album comes after the highly successful The Emancipation of Mimi which became 2005’s best-selling album in the U.S., won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album and received some of Carey’s most favorable reviews in some time. The second single, “We Belong Together”, held the Hot 100’s number-one position for fourteen weeks (her longest run at the top as a solo lead artist) and was the biggest hit of 2005 in the U.S., while “Shake It Off” made Carey the only female artist to occupy the Hot 100’s top two positions simultaneously, other than Ashanti in 2002. “Don’t Forget About Us” became her seventeenth number-one in the U.S., tying her with Elvis Presley for the most number-ones by a solo act according to Billboard magazine’s revised methodology (their statistician Joel Whitburn still credits Presley with an eighteenth. The Beatles had twenty number-ones.) In 2007 Carey will receive a “recording star” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame October 21, 2007.

According to an interview with Entertainment Tonight, she has already begun to work on her next studio album, which is expected for release in November of 2007. According to a November 2006 Reuters report, Universal Music Group CEO, Doug Morris, has stated that Carey will release two albums in 2007.

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