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1 Dreamlover Music Box 3:54
2 Bliss Rainbow 5:45
3 Melt Away Daydream 3:41
4 Breakdown Butterfly 4:45
5 Make It Happen Emotions 5:08
6 Outside Butterfly 4:46
7 Vanishing Mariah Carey 4:12
8 Looking In Daydream 3:36
9 Emotions Emotions 4:09
10 Babydoll Butterfly 5:07
11 I Am Free Daydream 3:09
12 Fantasy Featuring O.D.B. The Remixes 4:50
13 Underneath The Stars Daydream 3:34
14 Rainbow – Interlude Rainbow 1:48
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Fans and critics worldwide agreed that there was an inescapable
liner notes sense of a torch being passed when the self-titled debut album
Mariah Carey was released in 1990. It couldn't have been more
obvious that Carey, the co-writer, co-arranger and co-producer
about playlist of her own album, did true honor to a tradition encompassing
such magnificent voices and cultural icons as Billie Holiday, Lena
eco-friendly Horne, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Luther
Vandross, and Whitney Houston.
But, breaking conventional wisdom formed over decades, she
turned on its head the established R&B/pop diva career model,
with its perceived inevitable pull toward poppier ballads as a sign
of true mainstream arrival. Instead, Mariah Carey ran with that
torch directly toward the leading edge of music.
As soon as she established herself as the new name of the year
and the undisputed leading voice of the new decade, collecting the
1990 Best New Artist Grammy®, Carey set about to bring
production collaborators from the dance and hip-hop
underground into her orbit: these included such radical young
genre leaders as Robert Clivillés and David Cole (C+C Music
Factory), Jermaine Dupri, Dave Hall, Manuel Seal, Sean Combs,
Stevie J. and David Morales. She also called on the hottest new
names in hip-hop for step-out guest vocals in her singles,
remixes and videos, including Jay-Z, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Da Brat,
Ludacris, and Missy Elliott.
In the same year that the transformative hip-hop figure Mary J.
Blige broke ground in the urban market by using the raw
breakbeat of “Top Billin’” as the basis of the vocal track "Real
Love," Carey chose an equally hard-core hip-hop signifier, the
much-sampled rhythm loop from the Emotions’ “Blind Alley,” to
craft the eight-week No. 1 pop hit “Dreamlover.”
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Thereafter, Carey whimsically proclaimed herself “queen of loops”
in a television interview, noting that you had to know some
pretty obscure records to stump her. She selected dance and rap
classics that were undoubtedly playing in the clubs where she
sang back-up for Brenda K. Starr (the Tina Turner-like pop-
dance songstress who provided Mariah’s fateful introduction to a
label executive) as the rhythm beds for several of her No. 1 hits,
combining them with her own newly-composed song material,
and proving them to be the crossover hits they should have been
in their time: Stacy Lattisaw’s “Attack Of The Name Game” in
“Heartbreaker,” “Hey DJ” by World's Famous Supreme Team in
“Honey,” and Tom Tom Club’s “Genius Of Love” in “Fantasy.”
At the same time, Carey’s ballads blazed a similar path out of the
middle of the road, starting with the mind-bendingly raw, bereft
(and perhaps even angry) confessional “Vanishing” on her first
album, and alternating romantic and gospel-based anthems in the
traditional R&B vein of Minnie Riperton and Deniece Williams with
the new, sparse but penetrating urban style of slow-jam
balladry, in the company of Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and
contemporary ballad master Walter Afanasieff.
Carey’s willingness to push the envelope did nothing to undercut
her mass appeal or her longevity. In 2008, she tied Elvis Presley
by scoring her 18th No. 1 pop record, and at the late-2009
release of her twelfth studio album, she was in striking distance
of surpassing the Beatles’ all-time rock-era record of 20 No. 1
songs. Combining extraordinary musical gifts with an enthusiast’s
encyclopedic grasp of her musical heritage, Mariah Carey must be
counted as a leader and innovator, who directed mainstream
music towards the street and club-based underground of hip-
hop, through the many considered musical choices she made once
she was secure as the leading pop singer in the world.
- Brian Chin
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eco-friendly Welcome to the Playlist series. We’ve fished through hundreds of tracks to cherry pick the perfect playlists.
Not just the hits, but...the life-changing songs. The out-of-print tracks. The fan favorites everyone loves.
The songs that make the artists who they are.

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1>Dreamlover
song credits (Lyrics: M. Carey; Music: M. Carey–D. Hall)
Produced and arranged by Mariah Carey
and Walter Afanasieff
album credits Co-produced by Dave-Jam-Hall for
Untouchables Entertainment
Charted (pop) 8/7/93; weeks: 29; peak: 1
Charted (R&B) 8/14/93; weeks: 27; peak: 2
Charted (AC) 8/14/93; weeks: 32; peak: 2
From Columbia single 77080 and Columbia album
Music Box (CK 53205), rel. 1993
P 1993 Sony Music Entertainment
2>Bliss
(M. Carey–J. Harris III–T. Lewis–J. Wright)
Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis for Flyte Tyme
Productions, Inc. and Mariah Carey, Co-Produced by
Jim Wright for Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc.
From Columbia album Rainbow (CK 63800), rel. 1999
P 1999 Sony Music Entertainment
3>Melt Away
(Lyrics & Music: M. Carey, Babyface)
Produced and arranged by Mariah Carey
From Columbia album Daydream (CK 66700), rel. 1995
P 1995 Sony Music Entertainment
4>Breakdown
(M. Carey–A. Henderson–S. Jordan–C. Scruggs)
Featuring Krayzie Bone & Wish Bone
Produced by Sean "Puffy" Combs and Mariah Carey
Charted (pop) 3/7/98; weeks: 3; peak: 53
Charted (R&B) 5/9/98; weeks: 21; peak: 4
From Columbia single 78821 and Columbia album
Butterfly (CK 67835), rel. 1997
P 1997 Sony Music Entertainment
5>Make It Happen
(Lyrics: M. Carey; Music: M. Carey–D. Cole–R. Clivillés)
Produced, arranged and mixed by David Cole,
Robert Clivillés, Mariah Carey
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(David Cole and Robert Clivillés for Cole/
Clivillés Music Enterprises)
Charted (pop) 2/22/92; weeks: 20; peak: 5
Charted (R&B) 2/29/92; weeks: 16; peak: 7
Charted (AC) 3/7/92; weeks: 17; peak: 13
From Columbia single 74239 and Columbia album
Emotions (CK 47980), rel. 1991
P 1991 Sony Music Entertainment
6>Outside
(M. Carey–W. Afanasieff)
Produced by Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff
and Cory Rooney
From Columbia album Butterfly (CK 67835), rel. 1997
P 1997 Sony Music Entertainment
7>Vanishing
(M. Carey–B. Margulies)
Produced by Mariah Carey
From Columbia album Mariah Carey
(CK 46766), rel. 1990
P 1990 Sony Music Entertainment
8>Looking In
(Lyrics: M. Carey; Music: M. Carey–W. Afanasieff)
Produced and arranged by Walter Afanasieff
and Mariah Carey
From Columbia album Daydream (CK 66700), rel. 1995
P 1995 Sony Music Entertainment
9>Emotions
(Lyrics: M. Carey; Music: M. Carey–D. Cole–R. Clivillés)
Produced, arranged and mixed by David Cole,
Robert Clivillés, Mariah Carey (David Cole and
Robert Clivillés for Cole-Clivillés Music Enterprises)
Charted (pop) 8/31/91; weeks: 20; peak: 1
Charted (R&B) 8/31/91; weeks: 16; peak: 1
Charted (AC) 8/31/91; weeks: 18; peak: 3
From Columbia single 73977 and Columbia album
Emotions (CK 47980), rel. 1991
P 1991 Sony Music Entertainment
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10>Babydoll
(M. Carey–C. Rooney–S. Jordan–M. Elliot)
Produced by Cory Rooney
From Columbia album Butterfly (CK 67835), rel. 1997
P 1997 Sony Music Entertainment
11>I Am Free
(Lyrics: M. Carey; Music: M. Carey–W. Afanasieff)
Produced and arranged by Walter Afanasieff
and Mariah Carey
From Columbia album Daydream (CK 66700), rel. 1995
P 1995 Sony Music Entertainment
12>Fantasy Featuring O.D.B.
(Lyrics: M. Carey–C. Frantz–T. Weymouth;
Music: M. Carey–D. Hall–C. Frantz–T. Weymouth–
A. Belew–S. Stanley)
Produced and arranged by Mariah Carey and Dave Hall
(Dave Hall for Untouchables Entertainment)
Original version charted (pop) 9/30/95; weeks: 25; peak: 1
Original version charted (R&B) 9/30/95; weeks: 25; peak: 1
Original version charted (AC) 9/9/95; weeks: 26; peak: 8
From Columbia single 78043, Columbia CD Maxi-single
44K-78044 and Columbia album The Remixes
(C2K 87154) (rel. 2003)
P 1995 Sony Music Entertainment
O.D.B. appears courtesy of Elektra Records
Contains a sample of "Genius Of Love" performed by
Tom Tom Club used courtesy of Warner Bros. Records, Its
(by arrangement with Warner Special Products), Island
Records, Inc.
13>Underneath The Stars
(Lyrics: M. Carey; Music: M. Carey–W. Afanasieff)
Produced and arranged by Walter Afanasieff
and Mariah Carey
From Columbia album Daydream (CK 66700), rel. 1995
P 1995 Sony Music Entertainment
14>Rainbow - Interlude
(M. Carey–J. Harris III–T. Lewis)
Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis for Flyte Tyme
Productions, Inc. and Mariah Carey Mixed by
Steve Hodge at Flyte Tyme Studios (Edina, MN)
From Columbia album Rainbow (CK 63800), rel. 1999
P 1999 Sony Music Entertainment
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Executive Producer: Mariah Carey

song credits Compilation Produced by Al Quaglieri
Mastered by Mark Wilder at Battery Studios, New York

album credits Project Direction: Tim Anderson

Art Direction and Design by Rob Carter
Thanks to: Steve Berkowitz, Adam Block, Michael Block,
Gretchen Brennison, Mandy Eidgah, Howard Fritzson,
Jeremy Holiday, John Pinder, Harry Safter, and Jeffrey Schulberg

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