144-460: Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audiences . This can be seen, for example, when a song appears on two or more of the record charts , which track differing musical styles or genres . In some contexts, the term "crossover" can have negative connotations associated with cultural appropriation , implying the dilution of a music's distinctive qualities to appeal to mass tastes. For example, in
288-411: A Grammy Global Impact Award , 10 American Music Awards , 19 World Music Awards and 20 Billboard Music Awards . Carey's high-charting singles include " One Sweet Day " and " We Belong Together " – Billboard' s most successful songs of the 1990s and 2000s , respectively. She holds the record for the most Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles by a solo artist (19), a female songwriter (18), and
432-558: A cameo appearance in Adam Sandler 's film You Don't Mess with the Zohan , playing herself. Since the album's release, Carey had planned to embark on an extensive tour in support of E=MC² . However, the tour was suddenly cancelled in early December 2008. Carey later stated that she had been pregnant during that time period and suffered a miscarriage, prompting the tour's cancellation. On January 20, 2009, Carey performed "Hero" at
576-415: A sheet music "score" , which is then performed by the composer or by other musicians. In popular music and traditional music , songwriting may involve the creation of a basic outline of the song, called the lead sheet , which sets out the melody , lyrics and chord progression. In classical music, orchestration (choosing the instruments of a large music ensemble such as an orchestra which will play
720-410: A string section , wind and brass sections used in a standard orchestras to electronic instruments such as synthesizers . Some common group settings include music for full orchestra (consisting of strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion), concert band (which consists of larger sections and greater diversity of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments than are usually found in the orchestra), or
864-543: A "career re-defining" song for Carey, after a relatively unsuccessful period and a point when many critics had considered her career over. Music critics heralded the song as her "return to form," as well as the "return of The Voice," while many felt it would revive "faith" in Carey's potential as a balladeer . "We Belong Together" broke several records in the United States and became Carey's sixteenth chart topper on
1008-641: A "made-for-television act of pop culture redemption". In July 2018, Carey embarked on a new Las Vegas residency, The Butterfly Returns , which received critical acclaim. Its first 12 shows in 2018 grossed $ 3.6 million, with dates later extending into 2019 and 2020. Following the residency, Carey embarked on her Mariah Carey: Live in Concert tour in Asia and returned to Europe with her All I Want for Christmas Is You concert series. In September 2018, Carey announced plans to release her fifteenth studio album later in
1152-463: A "performance train wreck." She said her inability to hear the music without in-ear auditory feedback caused the mishap. Carey's representatives and Dick Clark Productions placed blame on each other. On February 3, 2017, Carey released the single " I Don't " featuring YG . Later that month, she voiced the Mayor of Gotham City in the animated film The Lego Batman Movie . In July 2017, Carey made
1296-568: A "vocal Tour de force". Carey's live version of "I'll Be There" became her sixth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Sony capitalized on its success and released it as an extended play (EP). It earned a triple-Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and earned Gold and Platinum certifications in several European markets. After Emotions failed to achieve
1440-483: A bevy of producers other than Afanasieff, such as Sean Combs , Q-Tip , Missy Elliott and Jean Claude Oliver and Samuel Barnes from Trackmasters . Butterfly was released on September 10, 1997, and introduced a more subdued style of singing, with critics noting Carey's incorporation of breathy vocals . Some viewed her lack of propensity to use her upper range as a sign of maturity, while others questioned whether it forebode waning vocal prowess. The music video for
1584-484: A big lesson from that." She signed a contract with Island Records , valued at more than $ 24 million, and launched the record label MonarC . Carey's father, Alfred Roy, with whom she had had little contact since childhood, died of cancer that year. Her song "Sunflowers for Alfred Roy" from Charmbracelet is dedicated to his memory. In 2002, she was cast in the independent film WiseGirls alongside Mira Sorvino and Melora Walters , who co-starred as waitresses at
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#17327978182121728-470: A cameo in the comedy film Girls Trip and embarked on a tour with Lionel Richie, titled, All the Hits Tour . She was also featured in the official remix for French Montana 's single " Unforgettable ", alongside Swae Lee . In October 2017, Carey released a new soundtrack single, " The Star ", for the movie of the same name She also voiced a hen named Rebecca in the film. The song was nominated for
1872-584: A chamber group (a small number of instruments, but at least two). The composer may also choose to write for only one instrument, in which case this is called a solo . Solos may be unaccompanied, as with works for solo piano or solo cello, or solos may be accompanied by another instrument or by an ensemble. Composers are not limited to writing only for instruments, they may also decide to write for voice (including choral works, some symphonies, operas , and musicals ). Composers can also write for percussion instruments or electronic instruments . Alternatively, as
2016-507: A circular issued by the United States Copyright Office on Copyright Registration of Musical Compositions and Sound Recordings, a musical composition is defined as "A musical composition consists of music, including any accompanying words, and is normally registered as a work of the performing arts. The author of a musical composition is generally the composer, and the lyricists if any. A musical composition may be in
2160-483: A collaboration with her longtime writing partner, Walter Afanasieff. She instead chose to work with David Foster and Diane Warren . " Heartbreaker " and " Thank God I Found You " both topped the Billboard Hot 100, while her rendition of Phil Collins ' " Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) " with Irish boy band Westlife became her second number-one song on the UK charts. Rainbow was released on November 2, 1999, to
2304-434: A composition for different musical ensembles is called arranging or orchestration , may be undertaken by the composer or separately by an arranger based on the composer's core composition. Based on such factors, composers, orchestrators, and arrangers must decide upon the instrumentation of the original work. In the 2010s, the contemporary composer can virtually write for almost any combination of instruments, ranging from
2448-568: A cover of Foreigner 's " I Want to Know What Love Is ", broke airplay records in Brazil. The song spent 27 weeks atop the Brasil Hot 100 , making it the longest running song in the chart's history. On December 31, 2009, Carey embarked on her seventh concert tour, Angels Advocate Tour , which visited the United States and Canada and ended on September 26, 2010. A planned remix album of Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel , titled Angels Advocate ,
2592-449: A departure from her allegiance to pop and gravitated heavily towards R&B and hip hop . Critically, the album was described as Carey's best to date. The New York Times named it one of 1995's best albums and wrote it "brings R&B candy-making to a new peak of textural refinement ... Carey's songwriting has taken a leap forward and become more relaxed, sexier and less reliant on thudding clichés." Its lead single, " Fantasy ", became
2736-461: A duet with John Legend titled " When Christmas Comes ", originally part of Merry Christmas II You . On March 1, 2012, Carey performed at New York City 's Gotham Hall; her first time performing since her pregnancy. She also performed a three-song set at a special fundraiser for US President Barack Obama held in New York's Plaza Hotel. A new song titled "Bring It On Home", which Carey wrote for
2880-531: A duet with Tony Bennett for his Duets II album, titled "When Do The Bells Ring For Me?", and re-recorded "All I Want for Christmas Is You" with Justin Bieber as a duet for his Christmas album, Under the Mistletoe . In November that year, Carey was included in the remix to the mixtape single "Warning" by Uncle Murda ; the remix also features 50 Cent and Young Jeezy . Later that month, Carey released
3024-524: A female artist with the most number-one singles in the chart's history. Though a commercial success, Butterfly failed to reach the commercial heights of her previous albums, Music Box and Daydream . After concluding her Butterfly World Tour , Carey participated in the VH1 Divas benefit concert on April 14, 1998, where she sang alongside Aretha Franklin , Celine Dion , Shania Twain , Gloria Estefan , and Carole King . Carey began conceptualizing
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#17327978182123168-518: A female producer (15), spending a record 93 weeks atop the chart . Carey is the highest-certified female artist in the United States and 10th overall, with 75 million certified album units . Carey was born on March 27, 1969, in Huntington, New York . Her name is derived from the song " They Call the Wind Maria ", originally from the 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon . She is
3312-529: A film project All That Glitters , later re-titled to simply Glitter (2001), and wrote songs for other projects, such as Men in Black (1997) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). After Glitter fell into developmental hell , Carey postponed the project and began writing material for a new album. Sony Music executives insisted she prepare a greatest hits collection in time for
3456-626: A guest role voicing as a redneck character on the adult animated series American Dad! . In February 2013, Carey recorded and released a song called " Almost Home ", for the soundtrack of The Walt Disney Studios film Oz the Great and Powerful . The video was directed by photographer David LaChapelle . For her 14th album, she worked with producers including DJ Clue? , Randy Jackson , Q-Tip, R. Kelly , David Morales , Afanasieff, Dupri, The-Dream , and Da Brat . Carey told Billboard : "It's about making sure I have tons of good music, because at
3600-547: A holiday standard and continues to surge in popularity each holiday season. By October 2017, it had become the 11th best-selling single in history with over 16 million copies sold worldwide. Carey's fifth studio album, Daydream , found her consolidating creative control over her career, leading to tensions with Columbia. Songs from her prior two albums had been primarily shaped by Mottola's conceptualization of what Carey should sound like, as innocent and wholesome tracks dominated by her vocal performance. Daydream featured
3744-447: A hundred Mariahs". The singer claims that "it's because I started out as a backup singer and doing sessions as a background vocalist learning from some of the greatest background vocalists, and also people like Luther Vandross . Growing up, I admired his texture in and of itself but also his use of background vocals". Carey's songwriting is noted for its "eccentric verbosity". Jeffrey Ingold of Vice argues that her lyrics are "among
3888-486: A lesser degree than in popular music. Music from the Baroque music era (1600–1750), for example, used only acoustic and mechanical instruments such as strings, brass, woodwinds, timpani and keyboard instruments such as harpsichord and pipe organ . A 2000s-era pop band may use an electric guitar played with electronic effects through a guitar amplifier , a digital synthesizer keyboard and electronic drums . Piece
4032-568: A mobster-operated restaurant. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival , and received negative reviews, though Carey's performance was praised. Roger Friedman of Fox News described her as "a Thelma Ritter for the new millennium", and wrote, "Her line delivery is sharp and she manages to get the right laughs." In December 2002, Carey released her ninth studio album, Charmbracelet , which she said marked "a new lease on life" for her. Sales of Charmbracelet were moderate and
4176-593: A musical based on the 1959 comedy film Some Like It Hot . It earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Musical . In February 2023, the 2009 track " It's a Wrap " experienced a revival on TikTok , prompting Carey to release an EP for the song, which included a new sped-up version. On September 8, 2023, she released a deluxe version of Music Box in celebration of the album's thirtieth anniversary. A remix of "Workin Hard" by Terry Hunter , which featured on
4320-416: A performer. Copyright is a government-granted monopoly which, for a limited time, gives a composition's owner—such as a composer or a composer's employer, in the case of work for hire —a set of exclusive rights to the composition, such as the exclusive right to publish sheet music describing the composition and how it should be performed. Copyright requires anyone else wanting to use the composition in
4464-640: A pushy mom. She never said, 'Give it more of an operatic feel.' I respect opera like crazy, but it didn't influence me." In high school, Mariah Carey was often absent because of her work as a demo singer. This led to her classmates giving her the nickname Mirage . Working in the Long Island music scene gave her opportunities to work with musicians such as Gavin Christopher and Ben Margulies , with whom she co-wrote material for her demo tape. After moving to New York City, she worked part-time jobs to pay
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4608-442: A recording. If music is composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory (the norm for instrumental soloists in concerto performances and singers in opera shows and art song recitals), by reading written musical notation (the norm in large ensembles, such as orchestras, concert bands and choirs ), or through a combination of both methods. For example, the principal cello player in an orchestra may read most of
4752-657: A specific mode ( maqam ) often within improvisational contexts , as does Indian classical music in both the Hindustani and the Carnatic system. As technology has developed in the 20th and 21st century, new methods of music composition have come about. EEG headsets have also been used to create music by interpreting the brainwaves of musicians. This method has been used for Project Mindtunes, which involved collaborating disabled musicians with DJ Fresh, and also by artists Lisa Park and Masaki Batoh. The task of adapting
4896-628: A spurt of crossover popularity as a result of its appearance in the 2003 film Cold Mountain , and bluegrass music experienced a revival due to the reception of 2000's O Brother, Where Art Thou? . Classical crossover broadly encompasses both classical music that has become popularized and a wide variety of popular music forms performed in a classical manner or by classical artists. It can also refer to collaborations between classical and popular performers, as well as music that blends elements of classical music (including operatic and symphonic ) with popular music (including pop , rock , middle of
5040-538: A stripped setting and devoid of studio equipment. Days prior to the show's taping, Carey and Afanasieff chose to add a cover of the Jackson 5 's 1970 song " I'll Be There " to the set-list. On March 16, 1992, she played and recorded an intimate seven-song show at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York. The acclaimed revue was aired more than three times as often as the average episode, and critics heralding it as
5184-463: A surprise appearance on the MTV program Total Request Live (TRL). As the show's host Carson Daly began taping following a commercial break, she came out pushing an ice cream cart while wearing a large men's shirt and began a striptease that revealed a tight ensemble. She credited exhaustion for the appearance going awry. Days later, Carey posted irregular voice notes on her website. On July 26, she
5328-440: A very limited and low-promotion release. Critical reception of Rainbow was generally positive, with the general consensus finding: "what began on Butterfly as a departure ends up on Rainbow a progression – perhaps the first compelling proof of Carey's true colors as an artist." Though a commercial success, Rainbow became Carey's lowest selling album at that point in her career. Carey received Billboard ' s Artist of
5472-542: Is "compulsory" because the copyright owner cannot refuse or set terms for the license. Copyright collectives also typically manage the licensing of public performances of compositions, whether by live musicians or by transmitting sound recordings over radio or the Internet. Even though the first US copyright laws did not include musical compositions, they were added as part of the Copyright Act of 1831 . According to
5616-403: Is a "general, non-technical term [that began to be] applied mainly to instrumental compositions from the 17th century onwards....other than when they are taken individually 'piece' and its equivalents are rarely used of movements in sonatas or symphonies....composers have used all these terms [in their different languages] frequently in compound forms [e.g. Klavierstück]....In vocal music...the term
5760-466: Is an opera singer, of the Christmas song " O Come, All Ye Faithful ". Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins performed a duet with rock singer Michael Bolton of O Holy Night . Singers and instrumentalists from the classical tradition, Andreas Dorschel has argued, run the risk of losing the sophistication of the genre(s) they were trained in, when they try to perform rock music, without coming up to
5904-417: Is called aleatoric music and is associated with contemporary composers active in the 20th century, such as John Cage , Morton Feldman and Witold Lutosławski . A more commonly known example of chance-based, or indeterminate, music is the sound of wind chimes jingling in a breeze. The study of composition has traditionally been dominated by examination of methods and practice of Western classical music, but
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6048-459: Is generally considered to be one of the first classical singers to have a successful crossover recording with her 1960 album I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues . The first Three Tenors concert in 1990 was a landmark in which Luciano Pavarotti , José Carreras and Plácido Domingo brought a combination of opera, Neapolitan folksong, musical theatre and pop to a vast television audience. This laid
6192-428: Is most frequently used for operatic ensembles..." Composition techniques draw parallels from visual art's formal elements . Sometimes, the entire form of a piece is through-composed , meaning that each part is different, with no repetition of sections; other forms include strophic , rondo , verse-chorus , and others. Some pieces are composed around a set scale , where the compositional technique might be considered
6336-421: Is the case with musique concrète , the composer can work with many sounds often not associated with the creation of music, such as typewriters , sirens , and so forth. In Elizabeth Swados ' Listening Out Loud , she explains how a composer must know the full capabilities of each instrument and how they must complement each other, not compete. She gives an example of how in an earlier composition of hers, she had
6480-495: Is the ordering and disposing of several sounds...in such a manner that their succession pleases the ear. This is what the Ancients called melody . The second is the rendering audible of two or more simultaneous sounds in such a manner that their combination is pleasant. This is what we call harmony and it alone merits the name of composition. Since the invention of sound recording , a classical piece or popular song may exist as
6624-569: Is the subject of the majority of Carey's lyrics, although she has written about themes such as loss, sex, race, abuse and spirituality. Andrew Chan of the University of Texas Press identifies "the purging of private emotions" as the main theme of Carey's ballads, though he believes several others aim to have an "all-purpose feeling" with mass appeal. Carey has said that much of her work is partly autobiographical, but Time magazine's Christopher John Farley wrote: "If only Mariah Carey's music had
6768-697: The 1990 NBA Finals , singing " America the Beautiful ". The highlight was the piercing whistle note toward the song's conclusion, sparking CBS Sports anchor Pat O'Brien to declare, "The palace now has a queen." The album topped the US Billboard 200 for eleven consecutive weeks, after Carey's exposure at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards , where she won the award for Best New Artist , and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Vision of Love". The album's singles "Vision of Love", " Love Takes Time ", " Someday ", and " I Don't Wanna Cry " all topped
6912-637: The American Idol season finale the following day. After multiple delays, The album, titled Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse , was released on May 27, 2014. In October 2014, Carey announced an annual residency show All I Want for Christmas Is You: A Night of Joy and Festivity . Originally performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City , the residency began on December 15, 2014, and ended in 2019. On January 30, 2015, it
7056-568: The Best Original Song at the 75th Golden Globe Awards . Carey additionally developed an animated Christmas film, Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You , for which she recorded an original song called "Lil' Snowman". The film was released direct-to-video on November 14, 2017. On December 31, 2017, Carey returned to perform on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve after the technical difficulties that hindered her previous performance, in what The New York Times described as
7200-534: The Billboard Hot 100 for the first time the same year, the song ended up giving Carey her nineteenth chart-topper in the US. In January 2020, it was announced that Carey would be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame . Carey celebrated the 30th anniversary of her debut album through 2020, in a promotional campaign billed "#MC30". The first release consisted of the live EP The Live Debut – 1990 which
7344-452: The Billboard Hot 100. After staying at number one for fourteen non-consecutive weeks, the song became the second-longest-running number one song in US chart history , behind Carey's "One Sweet Day". Billboard listed it as the "song of the decade" and the ninth most popular song of all time. The song broke several airplay records, and according to Nielsen BDS, and gathered both the largest one-day and one-week audiences in history. During
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#17327978182127488-634: The Caution World Tour in support of the album. Later in 2019, Carey engaged in a series of business and television ventures. On September 18, 2019, Carey released " In the Mix ", the theme song for the ABC sitcom Mixed-ish . On November 1, 2019, Carey re-released her holiday album Merry Christmas for its 25th anniversary. The album package included the original album and another disc which include live performances from Carey's 1994 concert at St. John
7632-552: The Daydream World Tour . Its seven dates spanned three in Japan and four throughout Europe. Forbes named Carey the top-earning female musician of 1996 , collecting an estimated $ 32 million. During the recording of Daydream , Carey also worked on the alternative rock album Someone's Ugly Daughter by the band Chick, contributing writing, production, vocals and art direction. As Columbia Records refused to release
7776-686: The Neighborhood Inaugural Ball after Barack Obama was sworn as the first African-American president of the United States. On July 7, 2009, Carey—alongside Trey Lorenz —performed her version of "I'll Be There" at the memorial service for Michael Jackson. In 2009, she appeared as a social worker in Precious , the movie adaptation of the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire . The film garnered mostly positive reviews from critics, also for Carey's performance. Variety described her acting as "pitch-perfect." In January 2010, Carey won
7920-768: The Wu-Tang Clan , The Notorious B.I.G. and Mobb Deep , with whom she collaborated on the single " The Roof (Back in Time) " (1998). Carey was heavily influenced by Minnie Riperton , and began experimenting with the whistle register due to her original practice of the range. During Carey's career, her vocal and musical style, along with her level of success, has been compared to Whitney Houston, whom she has also cited as an influence. Carey and her peers, according to Garry Mulholland, are "the princesses of wails... virtuoso vocalists who blend chart-oriented pop with mature MOR torch song ." Author and writer Lucy O'Brien attributed
8064-525: The accompaniment parts in a symphony, where she is playing tutti parts, but then memorize an exposed solo, in order to be able to watch the conductor . Compositions comprise a huge variety of musical elements, which vary widely from between genres and cultures. Popular music genres after about 1960 make extensive use of electric and electronic instruments, such as electric guitar and electric bass . Electric and electronic instruments are used in contemporary classical music compositions and concerts, albeit to
8208-428: The dance group C+C Music Factory . Carey's relationship with Margulies deteriorated over a songwriting royalties dispute. After he filed a lawsuit against Columbia's parent company, Sony Music Entertainment , the songwriting duo parted ways. Emotions was released on September 17 that year. Its title track served as the album's lead single and became Carey's fifth chart topper on the Billboard Hot 100, making her
8352-431: The structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called composers . Composers of primarily songs are usually called songwriters ; with songs, the person who writes lyrics for a song is the lyricist . In many cultures, including Western classical music , the act of composing typically includes the creation of music notation , such as
8496-577: The "Queen of Christmas" due to the enduring popularity of her holiday music , particularly Merry Christmas (1994), the best-selling holiday album , and its single " All I Want for Christmas Is You ", which is the best selling holiday single by a female artist of all time. Outside of music, she has acted in major roles in the films Tennessee (2008), Precious (2009), The Butler (2013), A Christmas Melody (2015), and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). Appearing on multiple television series, Carey served as an American Idol judge and starred in
8640-422: The 1750s onwards, there are many decisions that a performer or conductor has to make, because notation does not specify all of the elements of musical performance. The process of deciding how to perform music that has been previously composed and notated is termed "interpretation". Different performers' or conductor's interpretations of the same work of music can vary widely, in terms of the tempos that are chosen and
8784-744: The Breakthrough Actress Performance Award for her role in Precious at the Palm Springs International Film Festival . On September 25, 2009, Carey's twelfth studio album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel , was released. Reception for the album was mostly mixed; Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it "her most interesting album in a decade," while Jon Caramanica from The New York Times criticized Carey's vocal performances, complaining she overused softer vocal registers at
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#17327978182128928-722: The Carey family from integrating into their community. While they lived in Huntington, their neighbors poisoned the family dog and set fire to their car. After her parents' divorce, Carey had little contact with Alfred, and Patricia worked several jobs to support the family. Carey spent much of her time at home alone and began singing at age three, often imitating her mother's take on Verdi 's opera Rigoletto in Italian. Her older sister Alison moved in with their father while Mariah and her elder brother Morgan lived with their mother. During her years in elementary school, she excelled in
9072-610: The Clark Sisters , Shirley Caesar , and Edwin Hawkins as the most influential in her early years. When Carey incorporated hip hop into her sound, speculation arose that she was making an attempt to take advantage of the genre's popularity, but she told Newsweek , "People just don't understand. I grew up with this music." She has expressed appreciation for rappers such as the Sugarhill Gang , Eric B. & Rakim ,
9216-477: The Day " featuring Lauryn Hill and a cover of Irene Cara 's " Out Here on My Own ". At the end of October, Carey was featured on Busta Rhymes ' single " Where I Belong ". Carey's 2020 Christmas special , Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special , premiered on December 4, 2020, on Apple TV+ along with a soundtrack. A new version of Carey's 2010 song " Oh Santa! ", featuring Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson ,
9360-725: The Decade Award and the World Music Award for Best-Selling Pop Female Artist of the Millennium , and parted from Columbia Records. She signed an unprecedented $ 80 million five-album recording contract with Virgin Records ( EMI Records ) in April 2001. Glitter was a musical departure, recreating a 1980s post-disco era to accompany the film, set in 1983. Carey was given full conceptual and creative control over
9504-500: The Divine Church, several tracks from Merry Christmas II You , as well as other stand-alone singles such as "Lil Snowman" and "The Star". On December 5, 2019, it was announced that a mini-documentary titled Mariah Carey Is Christmas! , charting the creation and subsequent cultural legacy of "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was to be produced and broadcast on Amazon Music; it premiered later that month. Peaking at number one on
9648-621: The RIAA, after Music Box . The album continued Carey's dominance in Asian music markets and sold in excess of 2.2 million copies in Japan alone and over 20 million copies globally. Daydream and its singles were nominated in six categories at the 38th Grammy Awards . Though considered a favorite to win the top awards of the evening, Carey was shut out, prompting her to comment "What can you do? I will never be disappointed again." In early 1996, she embarked on her first international string of concerts,
9792-514: The US Billboard Hot 100 . Mariah Carey was the best-selling album in the United States in 1991, and achieved worldwide sales of 15 million copies. Carey co-wrote, co-produced, and recorded her second studio effort, Emotions , during 1991. She described it as a homage to Motown soul music and employed the help of Walter Afanasieff , who only had a small role on her debut, as well as Robert Clivillés and David Cole , from
9936-544: The United Kingdom. Music Box remains Carey's best-seller and one of the best-selling albums , with worldwide sales of over 28 million copies. In mid-1994, Carey and Luther Vandross recorded and released a cover of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross 's " Endless Love ". Merry Christmas , released on November 1, 1994, became the best-selling Christmas album , with global sales of over 15 million copies. The lead single, " All I Want for Christmas Is You ", became
10080-473: The album was well received by some critics, others criticized it for being very similar to the formula used on The Emancipation of Mimi . Two weeks before the album's release, " Touch My Body ", the record's lead single, reached the top position on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Carey's eighteenth number one and making her the solo artist with the most number one singles in United States history , pushing her past Elvis Presley into second place according to
10224-535: The album with her lead vocals, Carey's friend Clarissa Dane was brought in to become the face of Chick, and her vocals were layered on top of Carey's, masking her voice. Her contributions were secret until the release of her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey . Carey's subsequent musical releases followed the trend that began with Daydream . Her music began relying less on pop and adult contemporary-tinged balladry and instead incorporating heavy elements of hip hop and R&B. On Butterfly , she collaborated with
10368-401: The album's lead single, " Honey ", her first since separating from Mottola, introduced a more overtly sexual image. Butterfly became Carey's best-reviewed album, with attention placed on the album's exploration of more mature lyrical themes. In their review of the album, Rolling Stone wrote it was "not as if Carey has totally dispensed with her old saccharine, Houston-style balladry ... but
10512-598: The album, AllMusic 's Ron Wynn concluded: "sometimes excessive spirit is preferable to an absence of passion." In promotion of the album, Carey embarked on her debut tour, a six-date concert series, the Music Box Tour . Music Box ' s first and second singles, " Dreamlover " and " Hero ", became Carey's seventh and eighth chart-toppers in the United States, while her cover of Badfinger 's " Without You " became her first number-one single in Germany, Sweden and
10656-491: The album, Carey embarked on her first headlining tour in three years, named The Adventures of Mimi after a "Carey-centric fan's" music diary. The tour spanned 40 dates, with 32 in the United States and Canada, two in Africa, and six in Japan. It received warm reception from music critics and concert goers, many of which lauded Carey's vocals. In early 2007, Carey began to work on her eleventh studio album, E=MC² . Although
10800-558: The album, Carey embarked on the Charmbracelet World Tour , spanning North America and East Asia over three months. While smaller venues were booked throughout the tour's stateside leg, Carey performed in stadiums in Asia and Europe. In the United Kingdom, it was her first tour to feature shows outside London. The tour garnered generally positive reviews, with many praising the production and Carey's vocals. Carey's tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi in 2005,
10944-514: The album, titled Merry Christmas II You , was November 2, 2010; the track list included new songs as well as a remix of "All I Want for Christmas Is You". Merry Christmas II You debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with sales of 56,000 copies, and number one on the R&;B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, making it only the second Christmas album to top this chart. In February 2011, she recorded
11088-427: The album. Although she attributed this to stage fright and the vocally challenging nature of her material, speculation grew that Carey was a "studio worm" and incapable of producing the perfect pitch and five- octave vocal range for which she was known. In hopes of ending any speculation of her being a manufactured artist, Carey booked an appearance on MTV Unplugged . The show presented artists "unplugged" or in
11232-470: The arts, such as music and literature. Carey began writing poetry and lyrics while attending Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York , where she graduated in 1987. Carey began vocal training under her mother's guidance. Though she was a classically trained opera singer, Patricia Carey never pressured her daughter to pursue a career in classical opera. Mariah Carey recalled that she had "never been
11376-606: The classics has been through their use as inspirational anthems in sports settings. The aria " Nessun Dorma " from Puccini 's Turandot , especially Luciano Pavarotti 's version, has become indissolubly linked with soccer. Within the classical recording industry, the term "crossover" is applied particularly to classical artists' recordings of popular repertoire such as Broadway show tunes. Two examples of this are Lesley Garrett 's excursions into musical comedy and José Carreras 's recording West Side Story , as well as Teresa Stratas ' recording Showboat . Soprano Eileen Farrell
11520-489: The comeback of Barbra Streisand 's "old-fashioned showgirl" to Carey and Celine Dion, and described them and Houston as "groomed, airbrushed and overblown to perfection." Carey's musical transition and use of more revealing clothing during the late 1990s were, in part, initiated to distance herself from this image, and she subsequently said that most of her early work was "schmaltzy MOR." Some have noted that unlike Houston and Dion, Carey writes and produces her own music. Love
11664-496: The commercial heights of her debut album, Carey's subsequent release was to be marketed as adult contemporary and pop-friendly. Music Box was produced by Carey and Afanasieff, and it began a songwriting partnership that would extend until 1997's Butterfly . The album was released on August 31, 1993, to mixed reviews from music critics. Carey's songwriting was derided as clichéd and her vocal performances were described as less emotive and lazier in their delivery. In his review of
11808-531: The composer's work. Contract law, not copyright law, governs these composer–publisher contracts, which ordinarily involve an agreement on how profits from the publisher's activities related to the work will be shared with the composer in the form of royalties . The scope of copyright in general is defined by various international treaties and their implementations, which take the form of national statutes , and in common law jurisdictions, case law . These agreements and corresponding body of law distinguish between
11952-533: The definition of composition is broad enough to include the creation of popular music and traditional music songs and instrumental pieces, and to include spontaneously improvised works like those of free jazz performers and African percussionists such as Ewe drummers . In the 2000s, composition is considered to consist of the manipulation of each aspect of music ( harmony , melody, form, rhythm and timbre ), according to Jean-Benjamin de Laborde (1780 , 2:12): Composition consists in two things only. The first
12096-439: The deluxe album, was nominated for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards . Carey embarked on her 16-date concert tour, Merry Christmas One and All! , which ran from November 15 to December 17, 2023, in the United States. The tour grossed approximately $ 30 million and sold more than 200,000 tickets. On February 16, 2024, Carey featured on the remix of Ariana Grande's single " Yes, And? ", which
12240-509: The different parts of music, such as the melody, accompaniment , countermelody , bassline and so on) is typically done by the composer, but in musical theatre and in pop music , songwriters may hire an arranger to do the orchestration. In some cases, a pop or traditional songwriter may not use written notation at all and instead compose the song in their mind and then play, sing or record it from memory. In jazz and popular music, notable sound recordings by influential performers are given
12384-569: The docu-series Mariah's World . She published a memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey , in 2020. Carey is one of the best-selling music artists , with over 220 million records sold worldwide. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame , the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress , and The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame . Her accolades include 5 competitive Grammy Awards and
12528-470: The drama of her life. Her songs are often sugary and artificial— NutraSweet soul. But her life has passion and conflict," applying it to the first stages of her career. He commented that as her albums progressed, so too her songwriting and music blossomed into more mature and meaningful material. Jim Faber of the New York Daily News , made similar comments, "For Carey, vocalizing is all about
12672-451: The early years of rock and roll , many songs originally recorded by African-American musicians were re-recorded by white artists such as Pat Boone in a more toned-down style, often with changed lyrics , that lacked the hard edge of the original versions. These covers were popular with a much broader audience. Crossover frequently results from the appearance of the music in a film soundtrack. For instance, Sacred Harp music experienced
12816-512: The end of the day that's the most important thing... There are a lot more raw ballads than people might expect...there are also uptempo and signature-type songs that represent [my] different facets as an artist." The lead single, " Beautiful ", featuring singer Miguel , was released on May 6, 2013, and peaked at number 15 on the Hot 100. Carey taped a performance of "Beautiful" along with a medley of her greatest hits on May 15, 2013. This taping aired on
12960-604: The event to show her support for Obama's re-election campaign, was also performed. In August 2012, she released a stand-alone single, " Triumphant (Get 'Em) ", featuring rappers Rick Ross and Meek Mill . Carey joined the judging panel of the twelfth season of American Idol . Throughout the show there were on-set disagreements between Carey and fellow judge Nicki Minaj . Three years later, Carey did not make an appearance for its original series finale. In 2013, Carey appeared in Lee Daniels ' film The Butler and had
13104-446: The expense of her more powerful lower and upper registers. Commercially, the album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 168,000 copies. " Obsessed " served as the lead single and debuted at number eleven in the US before peaking at number seven. It became Carey's 27th top-ten entry within the nation, tying her with Elton John and Janet Jackson for having the fifth most top-tens. Its follow-up single,
13248-418: The first artist whose first five singles reached the chart's summit. Though critics praised the album's content and described it as a more mature effort, the album was criticized as calculated and lacking originality. While the album managed sales of eight million copies globally, Emotions failed to reach the commercial and critical heights of its predecessor. Carey did not embark on a world tour to promote
13392-413: The first single by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and the second song overall after Michael Jackson 's " You Are Not Alone ". " One Sweet Day ", a collaboration with R&B group Boyz II Men , served as the second single from Daydream and remained atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a record-breaking 16 consecutive weeks, becoming the longest-running number-one song in
13536-455: The form of a notated copy (for example sheet music) or in the form of a phonorecord (for example cassette tape, LP, or CD). Sending a musical composition in the form of a phonorecord does not necessarily mean that there is a claim to copyright in the sound recording." Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 defines a musical work to mean "a work consisting of music, exclusive of any words or action intended to be sung, spoken or performed with
13680-523: The foundations for the modern flourishing of classical crossover. Collaborations between classical and popular performers have included Sting and Edin Karamazov 's album Songs from the Labyrinth . A collaboration between Freddie Mercury and soprano Montserrat Caballé resulted in the worldwide hit " Barcelona ". R&B singer Mariah Carey performed a live duet with her mother Patricia, who
13824-411: The highest first-week sales of her career at the time, and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. Carey's tense relationship with Columbia grew increasingly fractious; she began posting messages on her website, sharing inside information with fans on the dispute, as well as instructing them to request " Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) " on radio stations. Ultimately, the song was only given
13968-431: The history of the charts at the time. It also opened at the top spot, becoming Carey's second track to do so. The album's third single, " Always Be My Baby ", became Carey's eleventh chart-topper, tying her with Madonna and Whitney Houston for the most number-one singles among female artists at the time. Daydream became Carey's biggest-selling album in the United States, and her second album to be certified Diamond by
14112-483: The holiday season. The album, titled #1's (1998), featured a cover of Brenda K. Starr's " I Still Believe " and a duet with Whitney Houston, " When You Believe ", which was included on the soundtrack for The Prince of Egypt (1998). #1's became a phenomenon in Japan, selling over one million copies in its opening week, making Carey the only international artist to accomplish this feat. It sold over 3.25 million copies in Japan in its first three months and holds
14256-524: The lyrics and a third person orchestrates the songs. A piece of music can also be composed with words, images or, since the 20th century, with computer programs that explain or notate how the singer or musician should create musical sounds. Examples range from 20th century avant-garde music that uses graphic notation , to text compositions such as Karlheinz Stockhausen 's Aus den sieben Tagen , to computer programs that select sounds for musical pieces. Music that makes heavy use of randomness and chance
14400-549: The magazine's revised methodology. Carey is second only to The Beatles , who have twenty number-one singles. Additionally, it gave Carey her 79th week atop the Hot 100, tying her with Presley as the artist with the most weeks at number one in the Billboard chart history ." E=MC² debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 463,000 copies sold, the biggest opening week sales of her career. In 2008, Carey also played an aspiring singer named Krystal in Tennessee and had
14544-400: The music." Mariah Carey Mariah Carey ( / m ə ˈ r aɪ ə / ; born March 27, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records , she is known for her five-octave vocal range , melismatic singing style and signature use of the whistle register . As an influential figure in music , she
14688-509: The music." In India The Copy Right Act, 1957 prevailed for original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work until the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1984 was introduced. Under the amended act, a new definition has been provided for musical work which states "musical works means a work consisting of music and included any graphical notation of such work but does not included any words or any action intended to be sung, spoken or performed with
14832-714: The musical drama Empire , as a superstar singer named Kitty and sung the song "Infamous" featuring Jussie Smollett . On December 5, 2016, Carey participated in the VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night benefit concert, alongside Vanessa Williams , Chaka Khan , Patti LaBelle , and Teyana Taylor . On December 31, 2016, Carey's performance on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve in Times Square received worldwide attention after technical difficulties caused her in-ear monitors to malfunction, resulting in what The New York Times referred to as
14976-604: The need to categorize music. In the 2008 Polish release of her Symphony album she sings " I Will Be with You (Where the Lost Ones Go) " with Polish tenor Andrzej Lampert , another artist who has performed in both classical and non-classical styles, as well as having actually obtained full musical training and academic degrees in both (though operatic singing is his main professional focus). Musical composition Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music , either vocal or instrumental ,
15120-406: The non-lyrical elements. Many jurisdictions allow for compulsory licensing of certain uses of compositions. For example, copyright law may allow a record company to pay a modest fee to a copyright collective to which the composer or publisher belongs, in exchange for the right to make and distribute CDs containing a cover band 's performance of the composer or publisher's compositions. The license
15264-456: The often rough and wild qualities of the latter. Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli , who is the biggest-selling singer in the history of classical music, has been described as the king of classical crossover. British soprano Sarah Brightman is also considered a crossover classical artist, having released albums of classical, folk, pop and musical-theatre music. Brightman dislikes the classical crossover label, though she has said she understands
15408-479: The original release, the most received by Carey in a single year, and two in 2007 for the Ultra Platinum Edition . Carey won Best Contemporary R&B Album for The Emancipation of Mimi and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song for "We Belong Together". The Emancipation of Mimi was 2005's best-selling album in the United States, with nearly five million units sold. It
15552-493: The performance, not the emotions that inspired it. Singing, to her, represents a physical challenge, not an emotional unburdening." While reviewing Music Box , Stephen Holden from Rolling Stone commented that Carey sang with "sustained passion," while Arion Berger of Entertainment Weekly wrote that during some vocal moments, Carey becomes "too overwhelmed to put her passion into words." In 2001, The Village Voice wrote that "Carey's Strawberry Shortcake soul still provides
15696-414: The playing or singing style or phrasing of the melodies. Composers and songwriters who present their own music in a concert are interpreting their songs, just as much as those who perform the music of others. The standard body of choices and techniques present at a given time and a given place is referred to as performance practice , whereas interpretation is generally used to mean the individual choices of
15840-468: The poor performance to her state of mind, its postponement and the soundtrack having been released on September 11 . Carey's record deal with Virgin Records was bought out for $ 28 million. She flew to Capri , Italy, for five months, and wrote material for a new album there. Carey described her time at Virgin "a complete and total stress-fest ... I made a total snap decision which was based on money and I never make decisions based on money. I learned
15984-406: The predominant mood of Butterfly is one of coolly erotic reverie." AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine described Carey's vocals as "sultrier and more controlled than ever," and felt the album "illustrates that Carey continues to improve and refine her music, which makes her a rarity among her '90s peers.'" "Honey" and " My All ", the album's fifth single, both topped the Hot 100, making Carey
16128-421: The project. She said that Columbia had regarded her as a commodity, with her separation from Mottola exacerbating her relations with label executives. Carey's three-year relationship with Latin singer Luis Miguel ended. In July 2001, Carey suffered a physical and emotional breakdown. She began posting disturbing messages on her website and behaved erratically in live promotional outings. On July 19, Carey made
16272-472: The quality of Carey's vocals came under criticism. Joan Anderson from The Boston Globe declared the album "the worst of her career, and revealed a voice [that is] no longer capable of either gravity-defying gymnastics or soft coos", while AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote, "Mariah's voice is shot, sounding in tatters throughout the record. She can no longer coo or softly croon nor can she perform her trademark gravity-defying vocal runs." To support
16416-552: The re-release, she said that new music was being worked on. On November 6, 2024, Carey will embark on the "Mariah Carey's Christmas Time" tour, set to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Merry Christmas . It shall conclude the following December 17. Carey has said that from childhood she has been influenced by Billie Holiday , Sarah Vaughan as well as R&B and soul musicians including Al Green , Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight , Aretha Franklin, and George Michael . Her music contains strong influences of gospel music , and she credits
16560-440: The record as the best-selling album by a non-Asian artist. With only one album left to fulfill her contract with Sony, and with a desire to separate herself professionally from the record label her ex-husband still headed, Carey completed the album in three months in mid-1999. Titled Rainbow , the album found Carey exploring with producers whom she had not worked with before. Rainbow became Carey's first album to not feature
16704-565: The release of Butterfly (1997). With eleven consecutive years of US number-one singles, Billboard ranked Carey as the most successful artist of the decade . Following a career decline and the failure of her 2001 film Glitter , she returned to the top of the charts with The Emancipation of Mimi (2005), one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century . Carey's public and personal life, including her diva persona, high-profile relationships and public breakdown in 2001 , has received widespread media coverage . She has also been dubbed
16848-468: The rent and completed 500 hours of beauty school . Carey moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan with four female students as roommates. She landed a gig singing backup for freestyle singer Brenda K. Starr . In December 1988, Carey accompanied Starr to a music executive's party and handed her demo tape to the head of Columbia Records , Tommy Mottola . After listening to the tape during
16992-644: The ride home, he immediately requested the driver turn around. She had already left the event, and Mottola spent two weeks looking for her. Another record label expressed interest and a bidding war ensued. He signed Carey to Columbia and enlisted producers Ric Wake , Narada Michael Walden , and Rhett Lawrence for her first album. Columbia marketed Carey as the main female artist on their roster, competing with Arista Records 's Whitney Houston and Madonna of Sire Records . It spent upwards of $ 1 million promoting Carey's debut studio album, Mariah Carey . On June 5, 1990, Carey made her first public appearance at
17136-428: The rights applicable to sound recordings and the rights applicable to compositions. For example, Beethoven 's 9th Symphony is in the public domain , but in most of the world, recordings of particular performances of that composition usually are not. For copyright purposes, song lyrics and other performed words are considered part of the composition, even though they may have different authors and copyright owners than
17280-460: The road , and Latin , among other types). Pop vocalists and musicians, opera singers, classical instrumentalists, and occasionally rock groups primarily perform classical crossover. Although the phenomenon has long been widespread in the music industry, record companies first used the term "classical crossover" in the 1980s. It has gained in popularity since the 1990s and has acquired its own Billboard chart. A means of generating vast popularity for
17424-408: The same ways to obtain a license (permission) from the owner. In some jurisdictions, the composer can assign copyright , in part, to another party. Often, composers who are not doing business as publishing companies themselves will temporarily assign their copyright interests to formal publishing companies, granting those companies a license to control both the publication and the further licensing of
17568-497: The template with which teen-pop cuties draw curlicues around those centerless [Diane] Warren ballads." Carey gained public perception as a balladeer with her first few releases. Following her divorce with Tommy Mottola, Carey broke free of adult contemporary arrangements in favor of what Alex Macpherson of The Guardian described as "a lovingly crafted, hip-hop-inflected quiet storm". Carey often records her layered background vocals, which has been described as "a swooning bank of
17712-774: The time, along with a new recording, " Infinity ", which was released as a single on April 27. In 2015 Carey had her directorial debut for the Hallmark Channel Christmas movie A Christmas Melody , in which she also performed as one of the main characters. In December 2015, Carey announced The Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour which spanned a total of 27-dates beginning in March 2016, marking Carey's first major tour of mainland Europe in 13 years. Four stops included shows in South Africa. The tour grossed $ 30.3 million. On March 15, 2016, Carey announced that she
17856-507: The tuba playing with the piccolo. This would clearly drown the piccolo out. Each instrument chosen to be in a piece must have a reason for being there that adds to what the composer is trying to convey within the work. Arranging is composition which employs prior material so as to comment upon it such as in mash-ups and various contemporary classical works. Even when music is notated relatively precisely, as in Western classical music from
18000-468: The usage of a particular scale. Others are composed during performance (see improvisation ), where a variety of techniques are also sometimes used. Some are used from particular songs which are familiar. The scale for the notes used, including the mode and tonic note, is important in tonal musical composition. Similarly, music of the Middle East employs compositions that are rigidly based on
18144-421: The week of September 25, 2005, Carey set another record, becoming the first woman to occupy the first two spots atop the Hot 100, as "We Belong Together" remained at number one, and her next single, " Shake It Off ", moved into the number two spot (Ashanti had topped the chart in 2002 while being a featured singer on the number two single). On the US Billboard Hot 100 Year-end Chart of 2005, "We Belong Together"
18288-402: The weight that written or printed scores play in classical music . Although a musical composition often uses musical notation and has a single author, this is not always the case. A work of music can have multiple composers, which often occurs in popular music when all members of a band collaborate to write a song or in musical theatre, when one person writes the melodies, a second person writes
18432-660: The year. The project was announced alongside the release of a new song titled " GTFO ", which she performed on September 21, 2018, when she headlined the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Festival . The album's lead single, " With You ", was released in October and performed for the first time at the American Music Awards of 2018 . It became Carey's highest-charting non-holiday song on the US Adult Contemporary chart since "We Belong Together" in 2005. This
18576-417: The youngest of three children born to Patricia (née Hickey), a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish descent, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of both African-American and Afro-Venezuelan lineage. The last name "Carey" was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather, Francisco Núñez, after he emigrated to New York. Patricia's family disowned her for marrying a black man. Racial tensions prevented
18720-501: Was announced that Carey had left Universal Music Group 's Def Jam Recordings to reunite with L.A. Reid and Sony Music via Epic Records . Carey also announced her new #1 to Infinity residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas the same month. To coincide with the residency, Carey released #1 to Infinity , a greatest hits compilation album containing all of her eighteen Billboard Hot 100 number one singles at
18864-461: Was declared the number one song, a first for Carey. Billboard listed "We Belong Together" ninth on The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs and was declared the most popular song of the 2000s decade by Billboard . The album was re-released as The Ultra Platinum Edition , from which " Don't Forget About Us " became her seventeenth number-one in the United States. The Emancipation of Mimi earned ten Grammy Award nominations: eight in 2006 for
19008-460: Was filming Mariah's World , a docu-series for the E! network documenting her Sweet Sweet Fantasy tour and her wedding planning process. Carey told The New York Times , "I thought it would be a good opportunity to kind of, like, show my personality and who I am, even though I feel like my real fans have an idea of who I am... A lot of people have misperceptions about this and that." The series premiered on December 4, 2016. Carey guest starred on
19152-506: Was followed by a second single, " A No No ". The album, titled Caution , was released on November 16, 2018, and received universal acclaim from critics. Though it debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, it became her lowest-selling album to date and ultimately was her final release with Epic Records ; she quietly left the label sometime in 2019. By December 2018, the album had been featured on numerous year-end lists by music critics and publications. In February 2019, Carey commenced
19296-663: Was hospitalized due to exhaustion and a "physical and emotional breakdown". Carey was admitted to a hospital in Connecticut and remained under doctor's care for two weeks, followed by an extended absence from the public. Virgin Records and 20th Century Fox delayed the release of Glitter and its soundtrack. Critics panned Glitter and its soundtrack; both were unsuccessful commercially. The soundtrack became Carey's lowest-selling album to that point. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch condemned it as "an absolute mess that'll go down as an annoying blemish on [her] career." She attributed
19440-468: Was included in the "slightly deluxe" edition of Grande's seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine . On April 12, Carey began a new residency at the Dolby Live in Las Vegas titled The Celebration of Mimi . On May 21, Carey appeared on the remix to Muni Long 's " Made for Me ". In June, Carey released an expanded edition of Rainbow to coincide with its twenty-fifth anniversary. While promoting
19584-424: Was performed on her second Christmas special, Mariah's Christmas: The Magic Continues . In March 2022, Carey was featured alongside DJ Khaled on the remix of Latto 's single " Big Energy ", which interpolates Carey's 1995 single "Fantasy". In April, an online course from MasterClass based on singing, in which Carey served as a vocal coach, was released. On September 16, 2022, an expanded version of Butterfly
19728-482: Was produced with the Neptunes , Kanye West and Carey's longtime collaborator, Jermaine Dupri . She described the album as "very much like a party record ... the process of putting on makeup and getting ready to go out ... I wanted to make a record that was reflective of that." The Emancipation of Mimi topped the charts in the United States, becoming her fifth number-one album and first since Butterfly (1997), and
19872-453: Was ranked as the fifth greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone in 2023. Carey rose to fame in 1990 with her self-titled debut album and became the only artist to have their first five singles reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. She achieved an international success with the best-selling albums Music Box (1993) and Daydream (1995), before adopting a new urban image with hip hop -inflected sounds, following
20016-577: Was released as a single the same day. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" topped the UK chart for the first time that month, becoming her third number one in the nation, and spent an unprecedented 69 weeks in its top 40 before reaching the summit. In July 2021, Carey was featured on the track " Somewhat Loved " from Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis ' debut studio album Jam & Lewis: Volume One . On November 5, 2021, Carey released " Fall in Love at Christmas ", which features Khalid and Kirk Franklin . The single
20160-481: Was released for the 25th anniversary of the album. In November, Carey released a children's picture book titled The Christmas Princess , co-written with Michaela Angela Davis and illustrated by Fuuji Takashi. In December 2022, Carey performed two pairs of shows at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto and Madison Square Garden in New York City . Carey also served as a co-producer of Some Like It Hot on Broadway ,
20304-534: Was released on July 17, 2020. Her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey which was co-written with Michaela Angela Davis , was published in September of the same year. The memoir reached number one on The New York Times Best Seller list after its first week of release. On October 2, 2020, Carey released a compilation album titled The Rarities , which includes rare and unreleased songs that Carey recorded at various stages of her career. Its songs included " Save
20448-490: Was slated for a March 30, 2010, release but was eventually cancelled after Island Def Jam decided to instead distribute " Up Out My Face " with Nicki Minaj and " Angels Cry " with Ne-Yo as stand-alone releases. Following the cancellation of Angels Advocate , it was announced that Carey would return to the studio to start work on her thirteenth studio album. It was later revealed that it would be her second Christmas album, and follow-up to Merry Christmas . The release date for
20592-640: Was the first album by a solo female artist to become the year's best-selling album within the country since Alanis Morissette 's Jagged Little Pill in 1996. At the end of 2005, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) reported that The Emancipation of Mimi had sold more than 7.7 million copies globally, and was the second-best-selling album of the year after Coldplay 's X&Y . It has since sold 12 million copies worldwide. In support of
20736-432: Was warmly accepted by critics. Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian defined it as "cool, focused and urban [... some of] the first Mariah Carey tunes in years which I wouldn't have to be paid to listen to again," while USA Today ' s Elysa Gardner wrote, "The [songs] truly reflect the renewed confidence of a songbird who has taken her shots and kept on flying." The album's second single, " We Belong Together ", became
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