Claim: Mariah Carey entered into a contractual relationship with an American record company.
Evidence: Carey parted with Columbia in 2000 , and signed a record-breaking $ 100 million recording contract with 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.