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MARIAH CAREY

The pop diva’s 2018 got off to a much better start than her 2017 did. Last year, her botched performanc­e on

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Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest made headlines after technical difficulti­es led the diva to exit the stage in frustratio­n and disgust. Things went much more smoothly Sunday night when she sang her hits Vision of Love and Hero in Times Square in New York, where revelers greeted 2018 in miserably cold weather. “I’m feeling a lot better than last year, when I had to get my own police escort,” Carey told Seacrest after he congratula­ted her on the broadcast.

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