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TAPE: EF01/0890 IN_TIME: 14:15:46 DURATION: 1:45 SOURCES: APTN/SONY/EMI RESTRICTIONS: music video/performance rights must be cleared DATELINE: 28/12/01 FILE SHOTLIST 1.Clip ' Hero ' 2. File Mariah Carey-23/07/01 3. B-roll Mariah Carey 4. Sot Mariah Carey: "We are all living in the moment of being positive and there are people called haters, no, no, Cindy one more thing... and we give them positivity. See I can't even get minute." 5. Ws Glitter sign 6. Sot Mariah Carey: "We are expected to be perfect and we are not perfect, we are human beings, I am far from perfect, I'm still learning. I over worked myself and I paid the price. My fans helped me through it and that is why I am here tonight. I'm grateful to be alive." 5. Clip ' Loverboy ' Mariah Carey. EMI SET TO DUMP MARIAH CAREY ============================= Mariah Carey has had a very bad year - her album "Glitter" barely scraped gold, her movie of the same name didn't even achieve flop status, and she suffered an emotional breakdown. So how will she react to news that the record company who paid her £60 million as an advance on a four album deal want out of the contract? British based music giant EMI/VIRGIN are already seeking to buy the singer out of the eight month old deal. Reports in the Los Angeles Times and British tabloid The Mirror, suggest she is being offered a seven figure sum to walk away from the company. Former EMI boss Ken Berry signed the 31-year-old singer in April this year (2001). She received £15 million in advances for each album, £4.5 for video promotion and £1 million to promote four singles. Berry was himself ousted from the company in October with a £5Million payoff. New boss Alain Levy was hired after "Glitter" was released. The album sold just two million copies world wide, compared to the 20 million of her 1993 smash hit "Music Box", and Levy decided Mariah should go as part of his plan to cut the company's losses after a year of poor sales. Mariah Joined EMI after having a hard time at Sony Music, run by her by her ex-husband, Tommy Mottola. He discovered Mariah and masterminded the singer's climb to super stardom. Their five year marriage ended in 1998 and she has since described the time as the lowest point in her life. But she hit new lows this year when Carey checked herself into a re-hab clinic in July this year after suffering mental and physical exhaustion, and also suffered a relapse in September. Many observers think it was more than exhaustion, suggesting she had attempted to commit suicide. While her bad health limited her availability to promote her album, her poor sales are reflected in an overall music slump, with artists from Michael Jackson and REM to Paul McCartney and Macy Gray all suffering slow sales in 2001. CLEARANCE DETAILS TITLE: Hero ARTIST: Mariah Carey WRITER: TBC PUBLISHER: TBC LABEL: COLUMBIA (20) 7911 8200 TITLE: Loverboy ARTIST: Mariah Carey WITER: Carey/Blackmon/Jenkins PUBLISHER: Sony / EMI LABEL: Virgin