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Exclusive: Mariah Carey Goes Home to Sony-Epic Officially, Plans Album of Number 1s

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It’s official. I can tell you exclusively that Mariah Carey has signed her deal with Sony Music and Epic Records. She’s back with L.A. Reid and Doug Morris, her ardent supporters during her triumphant run at Universal Music Group.

“She’s back where she belongs,” a source told me. And just in the nick of time. Knowing her UMG release last year was her last, DefJam let “Me I Am Mariah, The Elusive Chanteuse” album die a quick death despite very good reviews. Sales were abysmal.

Now Carey rejoins her catalog that stretches back to 1989 and “Vision of Love.” I’m told Epic’s first move will be a big release come May or June of Mariah’s 18 number 1 hits, plus some surprises. The release will coincide with her May 6th debut in Las Vegas at the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace.

So brace yourselves for a big Mariah year– and a hopeful return to the charts.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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