Mariah Carey may be busy singing her number one hits in Las Vegas, but her label boss L.A. Reid isn’t so sure she can top the charts again.
“To
even be on the radio at this point in her career is a huge
accomplishment, because radio doesn’t cater to veteran artists or
legends,” Reid said in a far-ranging interview with Billboard published Monday. “Radio caters to in-the-moment stars.”
Reid was quick to point out that Carey is not the only legacy artist to have trouble cracking the charts these days.
“Nobody
that put out records 25 years ago is going to have a No. 1. Not Paul
[McCartney], Stevie [Wonder], Bruce [Springsteen], Mick [Jagger] or
Keith [Richards]. Not Prince, not anyone,” he said. So if she can get on
the radio, we’ve done damn good. Would we like to have a No. 1? F–
yeah, I’m greedy. But it’s not realistic.”
Reid
signed Carey, 45, to Epic in March and immediately packaged a
greatest-hits collection, “#1s,” to accompany her Las Vegas concert
residency. While at Universal’s Island Def Jam records, Carey felt she
was languishing without Reid’s support.
“I
felt really abandoned by him. I was lost. I really didn’t like being at
a place without a family. You’ve gotta have people that actually care
about you as an artist, that’s first and foremost, and as a person as
well,” Carey recently told the L.A. Times.
“That’s what you get with him. I was kind of like floundering, doing some work that I’m still really proud of.”
Carey’s residency at Caesars Palace includes two more dates in May, with nine shows scheduled for July.
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