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Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi set for April 12 release date.

Album guests include Snoop Dogg, Nelly, Twista and top producers Jermaine Dupri, the Neptunes and Kanye West.

Island / Def Jam recording artist Mariah Carey's eagerly anticipated new album, THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI, is shaping up to be one of the early success stories of 2005; its first single pick, "It's Like That," written by Mariah and co-produced by ber-producer Jermaine Dupri, continues its ascent at radio.

The new single, "It's Like That" is now #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #12 on the Rhythm chart and #19 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart with over 52 million in audience this week. The song was #1 most-added at pop and urban radio in its first week, with over 200 stations combined, including major U.S. markets New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington DC, St. Louis, Miami, Detroit and Denver.

The music video for "It's Like That" has been shot by Hollywood A-list director Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Red Dragon). Ratner last worked with Mariah in 1999 on the #1 Pop/ #1 R&B "Heartbreaker" clip.

THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI, Mariah Carey's 10th studio album, is set to arrive in stores on April 11th (and on April 12th in the U.S.). It is the long-awaited follow-up to 2002's RIAA platinum Charmbracelet, Mariah's IDJ debut, which hit #2 R&B and #3 Pop.

The new album finds Mariah's broad range of musical talents on full display, as every one of its 14 songs bears her signature as writer and co-producer. Carey continues to work with today's top R&B and hip-hop producers, such as the Neptunes, who lend their signature production style to two tracks: "To The Floor" (featuring Nelly) and "Say Somethin'" (featuring Snoop Dogg). The album's other featured guest is Twista, who shows up on "One and Only". The first single, "It's Like That", is one of four songs co-produced by Mariah and Jermaine Dupri, along with "Get Your Number", "Shake It Off" and "We Belong Together". Fellow Def Jam artist Kanye West collaborates with Mariah on "Stay the Night". On other tracks she works with Scram Jones ("Your Girl"), Mahogany ("When I Feel It") and James Poyser ("Mine Again"). Three tracks are co-written and co-produced by Mariah and James "Big Jim" Wright (of Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis' Flyte Tyme Productions), including "I Wish You Knew" "Circles" and "Fly Like a Bird".

Mariah Carey is an award-winning megastar who holds the title of #1 Female Artist of the '90s - the only artist to have topped the charts in each year of that decade. With cumulative total sales of her albums, singles and long-form videos in excess of 75-times platinum in the U.S. and over 150 million in sales worldwide, she is simply the top-selling female artist in history. With a record 15 #1 singles, two Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, Billboard magazine's Artist of the Decade Award, and the World Music Award as World's Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium - Mariah Carey's ongoing career remains an unparalleled success story in the history of contemporary popular music.