Contrary to reports that hit the internet today Mariah Carey’s new single will not premier tomorrow on the Californian radio station, KHOP 95-1, but rather on the radio station next week Tuesday, February 5th! You already know that 2008 is going to be my year especially now with new Mimi music providing the icing on the cake!

CLICK HERE to listen to the radio station’s announcement!

(Mariah Carey showed off her toned body in the Caribbean Jan. 21. – usmagazine.com)

Normally I just feature unknown male models under the “Eye Candy” title but my 37 year-old diva-of-all-divas, Mariah Carey, is looking down right hot tamale as she would say! I mean damn, MC really? Her body, honey brown sun-kissed hair and flawless skin are so on point – very Butterfly album era! (B. Scott clapping for the fiercest diva/inspiration he has ever known while putting on his gym ensemble!)

For those of you love muffins who don’t remember what she looked like during the Butterfly album era, here’s the video for her 1997 #1 hit single “Honey”; I still jump for joy and run around my apartment every time I watch Mimi emerge from the pool in that skin-toned bikini and black stilettos! I live!

Update: The title for Mariah Carey’s upcoming album is “up in the air and the cover is up in the air. No official decisions have been made but this photo could very well be a new cover for a single or album, but as of right now it is NOT.”

So love muffins a little birdie from Mariah Carey’s public relations team informed me that this promotional photo previously posted as the rumored album cover is in fact “just a promotional photo” and “is NOT the cover.” (B. Scott dreaming of the day he will meet Mimi…… faints!)

Here’s another review from MTV UK of the preview listening party that Def Jam head L.A Reid had for an invited very exclusive VIP audience to hear the new albums from both his 2 top divas Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey on Wednesday night.

“With stringent rules laid down at the top of the evening about not leaving the room for a bathroom visit, handing over all gadgets and returning song word sheets we knew it was about to go down.

Beginning with Janet’s new material which sees Janet reworking her old sounds from the days of Velvet Rope and Control, Janet’s material was quite sexually overt and a little gross (”real heavy like my first period”!) but it was really Mariah’s new material that blew everyone away.

Mariah’s new album, tentatively titled That Chick, saw collaborations with T Pain, Young Jeezy and Damien Marley with production by her long time friend and producer Jermaine Dupri, Will I Am, Rodney Jerkins and The Dream.

The new music with catchier hooks and melodies than ever, even sees Mariah taking on an exciting new musical adventure where she sings in Jamaican patois on her Damien Marley duet “Cruise Control” where she references “dramas” and “baby mamas” and like your favorite rap star Mariah throws down a new Mariahism (”you love yourself some me!”) soon as the album gets into the public domain.

Urban music lovers in the house were really excited about that track as well as hip-hop banger “Heat” produced by Will I Am, “For Real, For Real”, and “Migrate” where 2007’s hit man T Pain hooks up with Mariah but it was the title track “That Chick” with its double entendres which includes a tip of the hat to Michael Jackson with references to his “Of The Wall Classics” that had pop chart taste makers excited claiming it was the number 1 track on the album closely followed by likely international pop hit “Love You Long Time”.

In typical Mariah fashion there were the legendary ballads “Love Story” and tear jerker “Bye Bye” (an ode to people who have passed away) that will have reality pop contestants singing away for decades to come!

One track titled “O.O.C.” summed up the night and the return of Mariah – once the albums out it’s gonna be “Out Of Control!”.”

Take me higher lord! It is no secret that I love Mariah Carey with all my heart, body and soul. For me even to begin to explain why, LBS would clearly become Mariahdaily.com! But the bottom line is that MC in addition to all her splendiferous God-given talents made me feel like I wasn’t alone as an outsider when I was growing up and when my sister passed her “One Sweet Day” literally gave me the strength to continue on this journey we called life. I absolutely adore everything about this new promotional picture, regardless of how you feel about Mimi you have to give it to her for staying true to who she is and not giving in to what others think her image should be which is something I definitely relate to. Mariah Carey’s unparalleled vocal and true songwriting abilities, ultra femininity, vulnerability, voluptuous womanly body and misunderstood humorous personality define her as the legendary icon she is. This often imitated never duplicated diva, I would argue is the single most influential female artist of our generation on numerous different levels. So yes indeed this personal inspiration with the most number-one singles—seventeen—for a female solo artist in the United States, Mariah Carey, is and forever will be That Chick for B. Scott! If you didn’t know, now you know love muffins! (And she rocking her trademark honey brown hair…. faints at the sheer fierceness of this promotional picture!)

Words can’t express how excited I am about the new Mariah Carey album that will be entitled That Chick! My mind is racing with all the possibilities of what that title will mean in regards to the sound of the album which is set to be released in April! But anyway, DefJam had a listening session in London on Wednesday, where they played the majority of Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson’s new albums.

Here’s what Discopop had to say, even though the writer obviously wasn’t the biggest Mimi fan the review was still positive which says a lot.

So, Def Jam were showing off the two female jewels in their crown today with playbacks of the new Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey albums.

Both albums: 6/10 (scores may go up or down after further listens at levels tolerable to the human ear).

To read what they had to say about Janet Jackson’s Discipline CLICK HERE!

… has confirmed that I will indeed get a little doggy in 2008! I mean I have just fallen in love with Jack Junior – so love muffins don’t be surprised if you see me introduce you to my new little baby doggy one of these days!

In other Mariah Carey news, All Access, the biggest radio industry information source, has updated its Future Releases lists to now show Mimi’s new, still-untitled single as impacting Top 40/Mainstream and Top 40/Rhythmic-Crossover radio stations on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 (previously listed as January 22nd).

I knew Mimi didn’t say as previously reported and widely spread on the blogsphere Tuesday that she would supposedly, rather appear on stage with a pig than ever share a stage with Jennifer Lopez. The story, Carey tells PEOPLE, is “a complete untruth.”

“This is just some Internet gossip and it’s pathetic that people actually entertain the thought that this could be real,” Carey adds. “This is another sad example of two strong women being pit against each other.”

Thanks Mariah for clearing that nonsense up! Love muffins, check out these adorable pictures of Mimi with little Jack Jr. last week in St. Barts. Can we say, too cute!