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Lead single "[[Dreamlover]]" became Carey's most successful single at the time of its release when it topped the U.S. and Canadian singles charts, and [[Badfinger|Badfinger's]] "[[Without You#Mariah Carey version|Without You]]" became her first to reach number one in the UK and several other countries across Europe. Carey was nominated for "[[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]]" for "Dreamlover" at the [[Grammy Awards of 1994|1994 Grammy Awards]] but she lost to Whitney Houston; she received the same nomination for "[[Hero (Mariah Carey song)|Hero]]" at the [[Grammy Awards of 1995|1995 Grammy Awards]].
Lead single "[[Dreamlover]]" became Carey's most successful single at the time of its release when it topped the U.S. and Canadian singles charts, and [[Badfinger|Badfinger's]] "[[Without You#Mariah Carey version|Without You]]" became her first to reach number one in the UK and several other countries across Europe. Carey was nominated for "[[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]]" for "Dreamlover" at the [[Grammy Awards of 1994|1994 Grammy Awards]] but she lost to Whitney Houston; she received the same nomination for "[[Hero (Mariah Carey song)|Hero]]" at the [[Grammy Awards of 1995|1995 Grammy Awards]].


As of [[2008]], "Music Box" has sold over 32 million copies worldwide.<ref>http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=4687</ref>
As of [[2005]], "Music Box" has sold over twenty-seven million copies worldwide.<ref>["The Story Behind 50 Years of Great Recordings": Outline Press Ltd (2005) - ISBN1-59223-295-7]</ref>


==Chart performance==
==Chart performance==
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Music Box is the fourth album and third studio album by pop and R&B singer Mariah Carey. It was released by Columbia Records on August 31, 1993 (see 1993 in music) in North America. The album comprises ballads primarily co-written by Carey and Walter Afanasieff — with whom she had previously worked on Emotions (1991) — and a few urban dance tracks. Other collaborators on Music Box include Babyface and Robert Clivillés/David Cole (also known as Clivillés & Cole). The album has two b-sides: "Do You Think Of Me" and "Everything Fades Away". They were left off the main tracklisting because they were seen as too suggestive.

Lead single "Dreamlover" became Carey's most successful single at the time of its release when it topped the U.S. and Canadian singles charts, and Badfinger's "Without You" became her first to reach number one in the UK and several other countries across Europe. Carey was nominated for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "Dreamlover" at the 1994 Grammy Awards but she lost to Whitney Houston; she received the same nomination for "Hero" at the 1995 Grammy Awards.

As of 2005, "Music Box" has sold over twenty-seven million copies worldwide.[1]

Chart performance

"Music Box" entered the U.S. Billboard 200 at #2 and with 174,000 copies ascended to #1 fifteen weeks after its release . The album's best sales week was its 15th week, during which it sold 505,000 units to settle at number one (Christmas 1993), staying at the top for eight non-consecutive weeks. It remained in the top twenty for forty weeks and on the Billboard 200 for 128 weeks (more than two years, and the most for a Mariah Carey album), re-entering the chart three times. The album also reached number one on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and as of 2008 it had sold more than 7.17 million copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan, with an additional 0.74 million sold at BMG Music Clubs.[2] Music Box was the second-best selling album in the United States in 1994, only behind Ace of Base's The Sign.

"Music Box" was a big success in Canada but only managed a peaked position of number five despite the success of "Dreamlover". The album was a large seller elsewhere because of its singles, and it topped the charts in Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

"Music Box" yielded Carey's seventh and eighth U.S. #1 singles, "Dreamlover" and "Hero". "Dreamlover" (based around a sample of "Blind Alley" by The Emotions) spent eight weeks at #1 and has become one of Carey's most popular songs to date; it continued the trend of Carey's debut singles from each studio album topping the U.S. Hot 100 (which lasted until the turn of the decade). "Hero" spent four weeks at #1 and became her first Christmas #1 single. The album's third and fourth singles, "Without You" (a cover of the Badfinger song made famous by Harry Nilsson in 1972) and "Anytime You Need a Friend", respectively, were slightly less successful in the U.S. The former did not reach number one, but it became Carey's first single to top the U.K. chart, was very successful around the world and became the biggest worldwide hit in Mariah's career, while "Anytime You Need a Friend" failed to make the U.S. top ten (Carey's first single to do so). All four singles were top ten Adult Contemporary hits, though none of them attained the #1 Adult Contemporary spot, making it Carey's first album without a #1 Adult Contemporary hit.

Track listing

  1. "Dreamlover" (Carey, Dave Hall) - 3:54
  2. "Hero" (Carey, Walter Afanasieff) - 4:20
  3. "Anytime You Need A Friend" (Carey, Afanasieff) - 4:27
  4. "Music Box" (Carey, Afanasieff) - 4:58
  5. "Now That I Know" (Carey, Clivillés, Cole) - 4:19
  6. "Never Forget You" (Carey, Babyface, Daryl Simmons) - 3:46
  7. "Without You" (Peter Ham, Tom Evans) - 3:37
  8. "Just To Hold You Once Again" (Carey, Afanasieff) - 3:59
  9. "I've Been Thinking About You" (Carey, Clivillés, Cole) - 4:48
  10. "All I've Ever Wanted" (Carey, Afanasieff) - 3:52

International editions
11. "Everything Fades Away" (Carey, Afanasieff) - 5:25

Latin American edition
11. "Héroe" (Hero in Spanish) (Carey, Afanasieff) - 4:19

Charts and certifications

Charts[3] Peak
Position 		Certification Sales/Shipments
Australia 1
Austria 1 2× platinum[4] 60,000[5]
Brazil 2 Gold[6] 100,000[7]
Canada 5 7× platinum[8] 700,000[9]
Finland Gold[10] 47,382[10]
France 1 Diamond[11] 1 million[11]
Germany[12] 1 2× platinum[13] 1 million[14]
Netherlands 1 6× platinum[15] 480,000[5]
New Zealand 2
Norway 2 Platinum[16] 40,000[5]
Sweden 3 Platinum[17] 60,000[5]
Switzerland 1 4× platinum[18] 200,000[18]
United Kingdom[19] 1 5× platinum[20] 1.5 million[21]
United States[22] 1 10× Platinum (Diamond)[23] 10 million shipped (7.9 million sales)[I]
Worldwide 27 million

Footnotes

^ I As of 2008, the album has sold 7.17 million copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan,[24] with additional 735,000 sold at BMG Music Clubs.[25] Nielsen SoundScan does not count albums sold through clubs like the BMG Music Service, which were significantly popular in the 1990s. [26]

References

  1. ^ ["The Story Behind 50 Years of Great Recordings": Outline Press Ltd (2005) - ISBN1-59223-295-7]
  2. ^ U.S. BMG Music Club and Columbia House sales as of February 2005
  3. ^ Hit Parade (1993). "European charts". Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  4. ^ International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — Austria (January 3, 1995). "Austrian certification (searchable database)". ifpi.at. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  5. ^ a b c d Recording Industry Association of Japan (2005). "Standard for Certifying Awards of Countries" (PDF). riaj.or.jp. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  6. ^ Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (1994). "Brazilian certification (searchable database)". Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  7. ^ "Criteria". Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos. 1994. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  8. ^ Canadian Recording Industry Association (April 4, 1996). "Canadian certification (searchable database)". Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  9. ^ Canadian Recording Industry Association. "Criteria". cria.ca. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  10. ^ a b International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — Finland (1999). "Finnish certification". ifpi.fi. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  11. ^ a b Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique (1995). "French certification". chartsinfrance.net. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  12. ^ "German Albums Chart (searchable database)". charts-surfer.de. 1994. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  13. ^ International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — Germany (1994). "German certification". musikindustrie.de. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  14. ^ International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (1994). "Criteria" (PDF). musikindustrie.de. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  15. ^ Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld-en geluidsdragers (1996). "Dutch certification (search)". nvpi.nl. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  16. ^ International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — Norway (1994). "Norwegian certification (search)". ifpi.no. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  17. ^ International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — Sweden (1994). "Swedish certification" (PDF). ifpi.se. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  18. ^ a b HitParade (1994). "Swiss certification". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  19. ^ Every Hit (September, 1993). "UK Albums Chart". Retrieved 2008-11-15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ British Phonographic Industry (October 1, 1994). "U.K. certification". bpi.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  21. ^ British Phonographic Industry. "Criteria". bpi.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  22. ^ "Billboard charts". Allmusic. 1993. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  23. ^ Recording Industry Association of America (November 5, 1997). "U.S. certification". riaa.com. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  24. ^ Grein, Paul (April 20, 2008). "Week Ending April 20, 2008: Now That's What I Call A Debut!". news.music.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  25. ^ Barry David (February 18, 2003). "Shania, Backstreet, Britney, Eminem and Janet Top All-Time Sellers". mi2n.com. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
  26. ^ Keith Caulfield (January 25, 2008). "Ask Billboard". Billboard magazine. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
December 25, 1993 - January 14, 1994
January 22 - February 11, 1994
March 5 - March 18, 1994 		Succeeded by
Preceded by UK number one album
September 11, 1993 – September 17, 1993
February 26, 1994 – March 25, 1994
April 2, 1994 – April 8, 1994 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
March 27 - April 2, 1994
April 10 - April 16, 1994
May 8 - June 25, 1994
July 3 - July 30, 1994
August 7 - September 3, 1994
September 18 - September 24, 1994 		Succeeded by
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