Mariah Carey entered into a contractual relationship with an American record company.
Carey parted with Columbia in 2000 , and signed a record-breaking $ 100 million recording contract with Virgin Records America .	Columbia	Columbia Records	Virgin	Virgin Records	Virgin Records America	Virgin Records America
Columbia Records -LRB- also known simply as Columbia -RRB- is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment -LRB- SME -RRB- , a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America , Inc. , the United States division of Sony Corporation .	Sony Music Entertainment	Sony Music Entertainment	United States	United States	record label	record label	subsidiary	subsidiary	Sony Corporation	Sony Corporation	Sony Corporation of America	Sony Corporation of America	Sony	Sony
