Mariah Carey’s E=MC2 Album Enters at #1!

Mariah Carey’s E=MC2 Album Enters at #1, on Career-High First Week Soundscan Sales of 463,000!!! Congratulations Mimi, that’s my girl!
• Mariah Carey crowns the Billboard 200 for a sixth time as “E=MC2″ starts atop the tally with 463,000 — her biggest opening week. It’s also the highest sales week of the year, surpassing the 375,000 start of Jack Johnson’s “Sleep Through the Static” in February. Finally, “E=MC2″ marks the best opening week for any album since Mary J. Blige’s “Growing Pains” started with 629,000.
• Carey is now tied with fellow divas Madonna and Janet Jackson for the second most No. 1 albums among female artists. Only queen bee Barbra Streisand, with eight, is ahead of the pack.
• “E=MC2″ is the eighth debut at No. 1 in as many weeks on the fast-moving Billboard 200. It follows penthouse-bows from Jackson, Alan Jackson, Rick Ross, Danity Kane, Day26, George Strait and Leona Lewis.
• Carey’s last album, “The Emancipation of Mimi,” also landed at No. 1 in its premier week, moving 404,000. “Mimi” spent two weeks atop the chart, was the best-selling album in the United States in 2005 and has shifted 5.8 million units total… This is the first time Carey has scored back-to-back No. 1 albums since “Daydream” and “Butterfly” reached the top in 1995 and 1997.
• Collectively, Carey’s albums have sold 50 million copies in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991. She’s the third-biggest-selling albums artist in the SoundScan era, trailing only Garth Brooks (67.8 million) and the Beatles (56.2 million).

Both Gwyneth Paltrow and Mariah Carey have recently broken out their stems as the ultimate promotional tool. Gwyn’s rocked short skirts this week while stumping for “Iron Man” all over Europe, while Mariah, who I suspect came out of the womb in a minidress, worked her legs to the top of the Billboard Charts.
Mariah’s new album, “E=MC2″, will debut at No. 1 but Gwyneth will have to wait a bit longer (”Iron Man” hits theaters on May 2) to find out if her “pin plan” paid off.
But the question becomes, which one of these self-promoters has the best legs? Gwyneth Paltrow or Mariah Carey?
Source: New York Post