Brown Sista

Singer Mary J. Blige took to the stage last night in Detroit to perform at the 2nd Annual General Motors Night of Stars and Cars. Check out Mary above at the press conference rocking her signature honey blond bob and knee-high Alexander McQueen boots. Word has it Mary also celebrated her 37th birthday a day earlier with a surprise dinner with her father at a Detroit Restaurant.
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Mary J. Blige is having a very good week. Her latest CD, Growing Pains, has taken the #1 position on the charts after debuting at #2 and now comes word the sista will also be gracing the cover of Vibe’s 2008 February edition. This is Mary’s fifty-eleventh cover and it is well deserved. After nearly 20 years of releasing music Mary is at her peak and shows no signs of slowing down. And always one to show love to her supporters, Mary is giving her fans a chance to pick her next (third) single. Visit Mary’s official website to cast your vote and look for Mary to take to the stage at next month’s Grammy Awards, where she is rumored to be performing.

Holy Guacamole! Mary J. Blige is clearly “That Chick”. According to one day sales reports from Hits Daily Double, Mary’s new CD, Growing Pains, is on pace to sale about 600,000 copies in it’s first week. That number however is not enough to take the top spot as some guy named Josh Groban is expected to top the charts with his Noel CD, which is expected to exceed 700,000 in it’s 4th. week of release. Still, grabbing the number two position on the charts is nothing to sneeze at, especially when you do it with such phenomenal numbers. Many didn’t think Mary would have as much success with Growing Pains as she did with The Breakthrough, mainly because the first single did not get as much buzz. I guess they were wrong. Me also thinks Mary isn’t so sad about losing out on Umbrella. After all, that single only helped Rihanna sell a 140k in her first week of release.

I think one of the best promotional tools ever devised was having artists host high rating shows during the week their albums are due to hit record stores. Def Jam utilized this strategy with Rihanna and it didn’t work (lol). It did however work for Ciara and LeToya Luckett, who did the same thing. Well it is now Mary J. Blige’s turn as she will share hosting duties with Rosci and Terrence all this week on BET’s 106 & Park. And for those of you who do not know, Mary’s new album, Growing Pains, comes out today and expectations are high.
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