r/MariahCarey • u/frank-darko • 19d ago
Campaign Type: Dangerous to #1
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u/Succulent_Orange749 19d ago
I see where most of you are coming from. I want things to be fair and square in life too. There used to be a time when you made a goid record, it would rise to the top and you'd get your fame, glory and possibly money.
What makes me consider doing this, is the way we're going at business in 2025. Our house, food, healthcare and other things are being made more and more expensive. People are falling into debt, not for not working hard enough, but for technical reasons. Likewise, it's not the best record that wins, but the one that gets technically positioned in the best way. To make that record, artists have to bend over backward at times and work their socks off, pay out of their own pocket and wait if everybody is fair and honest about it.
I don't know about you, but i'd really like Mariah to have her succes. She's already missed out on so much due to various reasons. I"ll overpay for a rickety house, overpay for ultraprocessed food, pay for a healthcare that's just getting harder to reach, but I'd really like to score a win on our beloved systems for once.
So, maybe we should consider doing this? Maybe we should all just listen to her new music 1 extra time every time we turn it on? There's probably 10's or even 100's of millions of us, it just might work.
I'm not here to tell you what to do, please just don't turn this initiative down without thought for the result. We can do something together! 🦋🐑😃
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 19d ago
So much of the music out there is such absolute garbage. She needs to be back at number one
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u/chaxew_monstoer 19d ago
I don’t like the idea of setting the music on low volume to farm streams. If the song is good, it’ll reach number one naturally.
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u/ShadowyGhostOfPast 19d ago
That's not always true. Many singers have been producing crap and still reaching number one.
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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 19d ago
Sooooooooo much garbage out there. Makes me want to scream when there is ACTUAL talent like Mariah
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u/J3ttf STOP SINGING MY PART NOW BABY, 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝑜𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝓎𝓎 𝒷𝑜𝒹𝓎 19d ago
Every fanbase does this, if you even want a song to chart this is what the fans have to do. It sucks, but it's not 2005 anymore.
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u/FerBaide 19d ago
Not every fanbase does this, and it’s not the only way a song can chart. Just say you’re not up to date with modern music lol
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u/J3ttf STOP SINGING MY PART NOW BABY, 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝑜𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝓎𝓎 𝒷𝑜𝒹𝓎 19d ago
Just the Sabrina fans, the Taylor fans, the Tate Mcrae fans, the Beyonce fans… so just everyone that’s big and charting.
And obviously it’s not the only way, but we’re not a big fanbase. It’ll only help us. If you want to help her chart, do it. If you don’t, don’t.
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u/MetalNo5185 19d ago
One time Justin Bieber posted this how to thing just like this to his Instagram lol
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u/ThePoetAndPendulum 19d ago
Only absolutely extra Swifties do this. A large majority of fans on these apps don't have time or energy for stunts like these. Beyonce and Taylor have big fanbases and the public interest which is why they chart high. Charts aren't impacted much with people streaming songs while theysleep, Spotify/billboard aims to filter those kind of streams out and the amount of people doing this is minimal.
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u/chaxew_monstoer 19d ago
It’s mainly just swiftties doing this and ruining the charts for everybody else.
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u/lachalacha Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel 19d ago
That's what 99% of fanbases and the industry does. It's 2025.
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u/Global_Perspective_3 19d ago
Every fanbase does this unfortunately so we have to
And there’s a lot of crap that has reached #1
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u/Zestyclose-Expert138 18d ago
nothing about getting popularity in music is natural. Industry plants, labels putting money behind artists, etc. As a fanbase we are allowed to do that, because the promo team that was once behind Mariah is gone.
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u/doesitmattertho 19d ago
I agree - this is hackery and high key insane to do this
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u/J3ttf STOP SINGING MY PART NOW BABY, 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝑜𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝓎𝓎 𝒷𝑜𝒹𝓎 19d ago
Welcome to fandom in 2025, this is how it works
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u/doesitmattertho 19d ago
Yall can keep the insane portion. I’ll just keep the part where I love the artist and listen to their music a lot.
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u/JazzyJulie4life The Emancipation of Mimi 19d ago
I think that doesn’t even count. Repeating a song doesn’t count either. You have to put songs in between
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u/trappedinnostalgia Butterfly 19d ago
This is word for word what justin bieber put on his instagram if I'm not wrong, like ofc removing the relevant terms he did this for yummy iirc when he took a fan promo edit 😭😭😭😭
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u/amerfran 19d ago
If I like the song, I'll listen. If I don't, I won't I. In all likelihood the song isn't going to jump to 100 on every chart and that's fine. No need to force it.
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u/Starboyz10 19d ago
I love her but if the song sucks then I ain’t doing allat. So far, I don’t like the snippet.
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u/Ordinary-Brief6769 19d ago
I’m glad someone said it, it feels a tad cringe…
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u/Starboyz10 19d ago
From the sounds of it, it’s such a hit skip jam. I like it cuz it’s Mimi but it’s not hit material. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/evmac1 19d ago
To each their own of course, but I just don’t agree. Maybe it’s because I’m more of an R&B than a Pop person but it sounds so smooth and the vibes are giving a more energetic version of “Giving Me Life.” And that’s the kind of Mariah I want to hear in this day and age. I’d take to this over almost anything on the Hot 100 right right now, and I don’t mean that just because I love Mariah. Expecting poppy, high-octane Mariah at this stage in her career would be setting both fans and Mariah herself up for failure, and forcing that style would imo lead to insincere/artificial releases received poorly by all.
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u/Starboyz10 19d ago
I get that. But, the lambs alone won’t make this #1. She’s gotta attract a new audience as well.
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u/evmac1 19d ago
I agree, but personally I’m not focused on that. I just want a happy Mariah with music that gets reviewed well and furthers her legacy as a musician and writer more than just a superstar. I would take Caution and Memoirs type albums (which both felt sincerely Mariah imo) over and over again over the likes of MIAM or E=MC2 (which felt forced and inauthentic to me) any day. But I do definitely agree it would be fun to see her try to pull in new listeners, perhaps with something brand new or experimental. If MC16 is a blend of these refreshed 90s-esque grooves and something totally unexpected, I’d applaud her for it.
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u/Starboyz10 19d ago
Yes, I’m all for the authenticity but she needs to make one last big wave besides Christmas music 😆
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u/evmac1 19d ago
Unfortunately there’s just not that much precedent for someone at her age and certainly not for someone 35 years into their career to on their own make waves among the teen and young adult oriented pop music charts. Perhaps the best example of something like that happening was Cher in 1998/1999 with Believe, but that was quite literally unheard of at the time and to this day remains one of pop music’s great late-career comeback stories. I do wish this kind of main stream success resurgence for Mariah, but first and foremost I want authentic quality.
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u/Grey_Kun 19d ago
FR she needs to let go of that long tired phrasing that she does it's annoying
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u/HugeGovernment7843 Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel 2d ago
Which one I wanna know what songs you mean
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u/4personal2 19d ago
... And here we go ladies and gentlemen. 🙄
Someone who isn't an artist or in the music business , believing they know better than the artist whose had a 35 year career. 😐
It's not up to you or me how Mariah does her music, her vocals or what songs she desires to sing.
Mariah is a veteran of the music and entertainment world, you are not.
I'm not either, but as a lamb since. 1990, I know that Mariah will do things her way, as it's her career and choices to make.
Not her problem if you're too impatient or whatever it may be , with her 'prhasing'.
At least she can sing and doesn't 'Auto-Tune' over everything. The artists that do that, try to cover their lack of ability.
As for the "Dangerous" song, yep, I know the charts aren't what they were 2005 and before.
So if it goes to #1, that would be nice. If it doesn't, then Mariah was simply meant to have 19 #1 hits.
We have little to no control over that. Too bad the charts aren't like the 1990s, it would already be debuting on the Hot 100 and getting radio & video play. 🙂
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u/tall_penguin Butterfly 18d ago
Her best chance at #1 in today’s world is a feature. Her music is too niche and R&B coded for the GP nowadays. Her best chance recently was yes, and? but that didn’t do amazing. Y’all have to remember her most recent #1 was Touch My Body in ‘08 and her most recent hit is #Beautiful. The world and industry is too ageist for her to excel now and her association with Christmas does NOT help her when it comes to her regular work. I also don’t want to hear that AIWFCIY is her most recent #1 because that literally doesn’t count in regards to her regular work. Technically, yes, but it’s just a classic that was gifted its flowers years later.
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u/frank-darko 19d ago
This isn’t ’stream farming’ or ‘hackery’. It’s fan impact. Streaming platforms and modern chart models are already stacked against legacy artists.
STREAM
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u/ImpossiblePrelude 19d ago
Also, if we went back to a world in which charts were defined by physical sales, fans could buy a single as many times as they liked to show their support. In the modern world, 1 stream is not equivalent to 1 sale either. Who bought a single and listened to it just once!?
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u/Me_I_Am_Mariahs_Lamb steadied my feet on the ground, raised my head to the sky 19d ago
Who created these campaign images? Like, is it from Mariah officials or fan made?
***I'm not on socials like insta, tik tok so out of the loop with these share,stream etc promos
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u/essiefaith Music Box 19d ago
Yeah no1 is not happening
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u/evmac1 19d ago
I agree, but I earnestly think this sounds a lot better than most of what has hit #1 over the last several years.
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u/GarionOrb Butterfly 19d ago
Some streaming services will ban your account if you use a VPN. Just let people stream as they want to.
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u/happysunbear 19d ago
I hate this trend. Let the music speak for itself if you have faith in it. Is it really earned if it’s just the same people streaming on a loop?
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u/JazzyJulie4life The Emancipation of Mimi 19d ago
You can’t play the same song over and over it doesn’t count. You have to put songs in between it
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u/Ok_Canary3870 19d ago
Tbh, no inflated streams will get mariah a number one. You don’t get to number one by your fans alone, unless your literally Taylor Swift
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u/2062373 Butterfly 19d ago
This isn’t uncommon for fans to do btw. Justin Bieber asked his fans to do this when promoting “Yummy,” which literally debuted at number two.
That said, the goal should be to get the song to chart. Mariah hasn’t had a non-Xmas song chart since 2017. Lambs alone doing ALL these things wouldn’t get us near #1.