Greatest Hits (Mariah Carey album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by Mariah Carey
Released	December 4, 2001
Recorded	1988–2001
Genre	Pop, R&B
Length	123:05
Label	Columbia, Virgin
Producer	Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff, Puff Daddy, Q-Tip, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal, Dave Hall, DJ Clue, Duro, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Stevie J, Mike Mason, David Cole, Robert Clivillés, Babyface, Narada Michael Walden, Rhett Lawrence, Ric Wake
Mariah Carey chronology
Glitter (2001) Greatest Hits (2001) Charmbracelet (2002)
Singles from Greatest Hits
"Never Too Far/Hero Medley" Released: December 11, 2001

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Review scores
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Allmusic
PopMatters	(Positive)

Greatest Hits is the second compilation album by American singer Mariah Carey, released in the United States on December 4, 2001 by Columbia Records. It is a greatest hits double album: CD 1 is primarily a collection of Carey's hits from 1990 to 1995, while CD 2 is primarily a collection of hits from 1996 to 2000. The album was re-released again in 2011 as The Essential Mariah Carey using the exact same track listing.

Greatest Hits is one of three albums to have featured in the ARIA Top 200 Digital Albums Chart in Australia since its introduction in 2007. The other two are Michael Jackson's Number Ones and Pink's I'm Not Dead.

Content

Carey had previously released the compilation album #1's (1998), but the release of her Greatest Hits album was a contractual agreement beyond her control, since she had left Columbia Records and had moved on to Virgin Records. The album had little creative input from Carey and there are no personal messages within its liner notes, unlike #1's. All tracks from the previous album, with the exception of "Whenever You Call" with Brian McKnight, and the #1's non-U.S. bonus track "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" are included on Greatest Hits. Tracks that weren't included on #1's are:

• the U.S. top five hits "Can't Let Go" (1991), "Make It Happen" (1992) and "Without You" (1994), and the top twenty hit "Anytime You Need a Friend" (1994);
• the radio airplay-only tracks "Forever" (1996), "Underneath the Stars" (1996), and "Butterfly" (1997);
• "Heartbreaker" (1999) and "Thank God I Found You" (2000), the two singles from Carey's Rainbow album that went to number 1 following the release of #1's, as well as "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" (2000), another track from Rainbow;
• "Endless Love" (1994), a top five duet with Luther Vandross which had not been previously included on any Carey album;
• the So So Def Remix of "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (2000) featuring Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri, which had previously only been on the Japanese re-release of the single in 2000.

Most non-U.S. versions of Greatest Hits retain the track listing as listed below with the addition of "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (2000), a duet with Westlife. The Japanese version contains "Against All Odds", "Open Arms" (1996), the non-single album track "Music Box" from the album Music Box (1993), and the Merry Christmas album version of "All I Want for Christmas Is You"; it is also the only album to include the "Never Too Far/Hero Medley" (2001) single. Unlike most non-U.S. versions of the Greatest Hits album, the So So Def Remix of "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was not included on the original UK edition but on the album's 2005 re-release.

Track listing

Disc one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Vision of Love" (from Mariah Carey, 1990)	Mariah Carey, Ben Margulies	Rhett Lawrence, Narada Michael Walden	3:30
2.	"Love Takes Time" (from Mariah Carey, 1990)	Carey, Margulies	Walter Afanasieff	3:48
3.	"Someday" (from Mariah Carey, 1990)	Carey, Margulies	Ric Wake	4:07
4.	"I Don't Wanna Cry" (from Mariah Carey, 1990)	Carey, Walden	Walden	4:49
5.	"Emotions" (from Emotions, 1991)	Carey, David Cole, Robert Clivillés	Carey, Cole, Clivillés	4:09
6.	"Can't Let Go" (from Emotions, 1991)	Carey, Afanaseiff	Carey, Afanaseiff	4:27
7.	"Make It Happen" (from Emotions, 1991)	Carey, Cole, Clivillés	Carey, Cole, Clivillés	5:08
8.	"I'll Be There" (featuring Trey Lorenz) (from MTV Unplugged, 1992)	Berry Gordy, Bob West, Hal Davis, Willie Hutch	Carey, Afanaseiff	4:24
9.	"Dreamlover" (from Music Box, 1993)	Carey, Dave Hall	Carey, Hall, Afanaseiff	3:54
10.	"Hero" (from Music Box, 1993)	Carey, Afanaseiff	Carey, Afanaseiff	4:18
11.	"Without You" (from Music Box, 1993)	Pete Ham, Tom Evans	Carey, Afanaseiff	3:34
12.	"Anytime You Need a Friend" (from Music Box, 1993)	Carey, Afanaseiff	Carey, Afanaseiff	4:26
13.	"Endless Love" (duet with Luther Vandross) (from Songs, 1994)	Lionel Richie	Afanaseiff	4:20
14.	"Fantasy" (from Daydream, 1995)	Carey, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Hall, Adrian Belew, Steven Stanley	Carey, Hall	4:04
15.	"Open Arms" (from Daydream, 1995) (Japanese bonus track)	Steve Perry, Jonathan Cain	Carey, Afanaseiff	3:30
16.	"Music Box" (from Music Box, 1993) (Japanese bonus track)	Carey, Afanaseiff	Carey, Afanaseiff	4:57
17.	"All I Want for Christmas Is You" (from Merry Christmas, 1994) (Japanese bonus track)	Carey, Afanaseiff	Carey, Afanaseiff	4:02

Disc two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"One Sweet Day" (duet with Boyz II Men) (from Daydream, 1995)	Carey, Michael McCary, Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris, Shawn Stockman	Carey, Afanaseiff	4:41
2.	"Always Be My Baby" (from Daydream, 1995)	Carey	Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal	4:18
3.	"Forever" (from Daydream, 1995)	Carey	Carey, Afanaseiff	4:01
4.	"Underneath the Stars" (from Daydream, 1995)	Carey	Carey, Afanaseiff	3:33
5.	"Honey" (from Butterfly, 1997)	Carey, Sean Combs, Kamaal Fareed, Steven Jordan, Stephen Hague, Bobby Robinson, Larry Price, Malcom McLaren	Carey, Combs, Stevie J, The Ummah	4:59
6.	"Butterfly" (from Butterfly, 1997)	Carey, Afanasieff, Dan Shea	Carey, Afanasieff	4:34
7.	"My All" (from Butterfly, 1997)	Carey, Afanasieff	Carey, Afanasieff	3:50
8.	"Sweetheart" (Jermaine Dupri featuring Mariah Carey) (from Life in 1472, and #1's, 1998)	Rainy Davis, Pete Warner	Dupri, Carey	4:22
9.	"When You Believe" (duet with Whitney Houston) (from The Prince of Egypt, and #1's, 1998)	Stephen Schwartz	Babyface	4:34
10.	"I Still Believe" (from #1's, 1998)	Antonina Armato, Giuseppe Cantarelli	Carey, Stevie J, Mike Mason	3:54
11.	"Heartbreaker" (featuring Jay-Z) (from Rainbow, 1999)	Carey, Shawn Carter, Walden, Shirley Ellison, Lincoln Chase, Jeffrey Cohen	Carey, DJ Clue?	4:46
12.	"Thank God I Found You" (featuring Joe and 98 Degrees) (from Rainbow, 1999)	Carey, James Harris III, Terry Lewis	Carey, Lewis	4:17
13.	"Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" (from Rainbow, 1999)	Carey, Diane Warren	Carey, Warren	4:32
14.	"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (featuring Westlife) (from Rainbow, 1999) (non-US bonus track)	Phil Collins	Carey, Steve Mac	3:21
15.	"All I Want for Christmas Is You" (So So Def Remix) (featuring Jermaine Dupri and Lil' Bow Wow) (bonus track)	Carey, Afanaseiff	Carey, Afanaseiff (remixed by Dupri)	3:43
16.	"Never Too Far/Hero Medley" (Japanese bonus track)	Carey, Afanaseiff, Harris III, Lewis	Carey, Harris III, Lewis, Randy Jackson	4:48

Chart performance

Chart	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart	47
Austrian Albums Chart	40
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)	45
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)	31
Danish Albums Chart	11
Dutch Albums Chart	37
French Albums Chart	24
German Albums Chart	36
Hungarian Albums Chart	34
Italian Albums Chart	25
Japanese Albums Chart	3
New Zealand Albums Chart	11
Swedish Albums Chart	38
Swiss Albums Chart	17
UK Albums Chart	7
U.S. Billboard 200	52

Region (Provider)	Certification (sales thresholds)
Australia (ARIA)	Gold
Brazil (ABPD)	Platinum
France (SNEP)	Gold
Ireland (IRMA)	Platinum
Hong Kong (IFPI)	Gold
New Zealand (RIANZ)	Platinum
United Kingdom (BPI)	Platinum
United States (RIAA)	Platinum1

• ¹ Multi-disc albums are counted once for each disc within the album.