Mariah Carey Scores Huge First Day Sales

Posted by Mitch Michaels on 04.17.2008

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Mariah Carey looks certain to debut at #1 on next week's Billboard 200 with E=MC², based on massive first-day sales. Unweighted sales for the Island Def Jam album are at 154,000 units. That's more than five times the total garnered by the current chart-topper, Leona Lewis' Spirit.

By comparison, Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride had first-day sales of 150,000 and wound up shifting 527,000 in its first week. Carey's last release, 2005's The Emancipation of Mimi, debuted at #1 with first-week sales of 404,000 copies.

Credit: Billboard.com