Rap-Up.com || Mariah Carey Unwraps Christmas Album Cover, First Single

It may only be September, but Mariah Carey is getting in the holiday spirit. The pop diva has revealed the festive artwork and select song titles from the sequel to her holiday album.

The new collection of seasonal tunes is titled Merry Christmas II You and arrives Nov. 2, as Rap-Up.com first reported. The II represents the follow-up to 1994′s multi-platinum Merry Christmas album, which spawned the now-classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

Mariah’s official website has unveiled the official cover artwork shot earlier this year by famed photographer David LaChapelle. The Grammy-winning songstress dons her Santa outfit from her 1994 album, and is pictured kneeling on a snowy city rooftop while a snowman and Christmas lights twinkle in the background.

The project will include a brand new recording of “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” plus traditional yuletide fare such as “The First Noel,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” and “O Come All Ye Faithful.” In addition, there are four original songs composed by Mariah, including the new single “Oh Santa.”

Randy Jackson, Jermaine Dupri, James Poyser (The Roots, Lauryn Hill), and award-winning composer Marc Shaiman are among the producers.

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29 Comments

Alex
September 19th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
the cover looks cheap…

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Hold up!
September 19th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Eh…

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Hold up!
September 19th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Yawns… MC has had her time. Retirement is a strong suggestion.

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From Tokyo
September 19th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Since she just posed in the outfit and everything else was added later they could have picked a better background. But she still looks cute.

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ooooo
September 19th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
please change the cover :(((

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JDollar
September 19th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
OMG!!!! I can’t wait for the new single to drop. This is going to be EPIC!

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LOL
September 20th, 2010 at 12:11 am
Obvious extensive photoshop use is obviously extensive.

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Dwayne
September 20th, 2010 at 12:20 am
can’t wait for this new holiday album, I love hearing her voice on gospel type tracks where the production is minimal, she still has the best voice in the game

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jusss
September 20th, 2010 at 12:27 am
this is so fkn photoshopped

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Star Sapphire
September 20th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Dude, that cover is soooo photoshoped, it looks cheap as hell, and I know for a *FACT* Mariah is NOT GONNA FIT INTO THAT OUTFIT FROM 1994………. LOL She got waay to much bootie and Bootie to pull that off! (I have seen her in person) MiMi Most Def has tilted over to the plus size! she still Rockin though!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ponyo
September 20th, 2010 at 5:33 am
i don’t like this cover one bit …i hope this is not true

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I'm Me Honey
September 20th, 2010 at 6:45 am
It looks like a mixtape cover for a local artist…

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Deangelo R.
September 20th, 2010 at 7:14 am
This album WILL be a win. Why does everyone always have to hate? Probably more than half the people hating probably like the song “All I want for Christmas” haha

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musician
September 20th, 2010 at 8:09 am
that is the worst cover art i’ve ever seen. mariah is too famous to have cheap album covers like this. memoirs looked awful too. get it together island def jam.

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Ankka
September 20th, 2010 at 8:26 am
looks like a Photoshop nightmare!!

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bass_man
September 20th, 2010 at 8:36 am
campy as hell.

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musician
September 20th, 2010 at 9:17 am
i love mariah, she is an amazing singer/songwriter but she desperately needs a young/gifted creative director

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Charmaine Bryan
September 20th, 2010 at 9:29 am
I love what Mariah Carey-Cannon is doing. Mariah Carey girlfriend please continue keep the Christmas Spirit alive and I hope this Album will be the best Album ever produced.

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Khalil The Arabic Warrior
September 20th, 2010 at 9:38 am
She looks pregnant is she ????????

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Cat
September 20th, 2010 at 10:01 am
She had this photo taken months ago – it said so on her website. And yes I agree, how dare they give Mariah such a tacky album cover!!! She is legendary status, but this looks like something for some kindergarten nativity play.

I’m still buying it, but just saying…

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DAVIDF
September 20th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
IT’S SO FULL OF LITTLE DETAILS LIKE A POST CARD, THIS TIME SHE STAYED IN THE CITY , NOT SHOTS FROM ASPEN? IT IS FOR THE REAL FANS TO FIGURE OUT THE LITTLE DETAILS VERY DREAMY , CUTE.

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sooyoong
September 21st, 2010 at 4:27 am
the cover looks so …. (*roll eyes*)

and that is not mariah in the cover, that is mariah way back 90′s. the past/old mariah.

why they not use the present picture of mariah? bcoz mariah is really big now? fat?

that other people will say:
“oh this album cover is perfect! mariah is Mrs. Claus!”

please change this cover. it’s so UGH..!!!

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Chase
September 21st, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Who the eff are they kidding w/that cover? She ain’t been that thin EVER!!! She must employ a team of photoshoppers around the clock. That looks SO cheap and ghetto. And it looks like she ’bout to be bu&&fuc*ed by that snowman!!! She just seems desperate to me now. Tryin to relive past successes. I bet Susan Boyle X-Mas CD, releasing one week later, will DESTROY hers.

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The Songbird
September 21st, 2010 at 2:00 pm
No people. This picture is from a photoshoot by David LaChapelle in April 2010, not the 1990s. I mean you can tell between 90s Mariah and now Mariah.

The album cover could’ve been much better of course. But don’t be hatin Mariah for it. The photographer is David LaChapelle and I hope she NEVER works with him again!!! And to the Chase person above, hell yeah she’s been skinny before (many times). But she was real skinny 1990-92 and late-2008.

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Valerie
October 4th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
I love MC, I can’t wait for her new Christmas album!!!

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fran
November 25th, 2010 at 9:15 am
well you people must know how to make a cd cover propetly as you almost rekon that this one is a shit, you may thing mariah album producers and merchandaicing roducer dont know how to do their jobs propetly and mariah itself is an stupid girl.

well sorry peple she has sell more million of cds than no other artis a live. so just close your mouth and learn to criticed with a contain.

fran from spain ( sorry about my spellings mistakes)

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