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Rainbow (Mariah Carey album)

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Rainbow is the ninth album and sixth studio album by American pop/R&B singer Mariah Carey, released in the United States on November 2 1999 (see 1999 in music) by Columbia Records.

Description

Rainbow is a collaboration-heavy album on which Carey worked with a wide range of producers and artists that dominated the music scene of the late 1990s; Rolling Stone called the album "a sterling chronicle of accessible hip-hop balladeering at the close of 1999."[1] Guest artists included rappers Jay-Z, Da Brat, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg, Mystikal and Master P, singers Usher and Joe, and boy band 98 Degrees. The album was the first since Carey's debut to not be co-produced heavily by Walter Afanasieff, her long-time collaborator who co-produced most of her signature ballads. In his place, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were enlisted.

The message from Carey in the insert reads,

"This album chronicles my emotional roller coaster ride of the past year. If you listen closely, there's a story here with a very happy ending. After every storm — if you look hard enough — a rainbow appears."

The review of the album by Entertainment Weekly asserts that "Against All Odds (Take a Look at me Now)" refers to her relationship with Derek Jeter. "Petals" makes several obscure references to a "dandelion", siblings, and a "Valentine".

Chart performance

Rainbow debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with 323,000 copies sold, the highest first-week sales of Carey's career at that time.[2] In its debut week it was kept out of the top spot by Rage Against The Machine's Battle of Los Angeles. The second week Rainbow stayed at #2, this time blocked by Faith Hill's Breathe. The album stayed in the top twenty for ten weeks and on the chart for thirty-five, making one re-entry. The album's weekly sales peaked at 369,000 copies in its eighth week (when it was at number nine), and it was eventually certified three times platinum by the RIAA. Although a commercial success, it was Carey's first studio album since Emotions (1991) not to reach number one in the U.S. and her lowest-peaking since that album's release. Rainbow was a worldwide top ten hit, also hitting number one in France and on the United World Chart (for its two first weeks). As of 2005, the album had sold three million copies in the U.S.according to Nielsen SoundScan,[3] with an additional 0.5 million sold at Columbia House outlets and 0.44 million at BMG Music Clubs,[4] and 8.5 million units worldwide.

Rainbow produced two number-one hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100: "Heartbreaker" and "Thank God I Found You". A cover version of the Phil Collins song "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" featuring the Irish boy band Westlife was released in the UK and became Carey's second number-one single there, but the double A-side "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"/"Crybaby" became her first single to miss the U.S. top twenty.

Track listing

  1. "Heartbreaker" – 4:46
  2. "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" – 4:33
  3. "Bliss" – 5:44
  4. "How Much" – 3:31
  5. "After Tonight" – 4:16
  6. "X-Girlfriend" – 3:58
  7. "Heartbreaker" (Remix) – 4:32
  8. "Vulnerability (Interlude)" – 1:12
  9. "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (solo version) – 3:25
  10. "Crybaby" – 5:20
  11. "Did I Do That?" – 4:16
  12. "Petals" – 4:23
  13. "Rainbow (Interlude)" – 1:32
  14. "Thank God I Found You" – 4:17
French Edition
  1. "Do You Know Where You're Going To (Theme From Mahogany)" - 3:47
Special edition
  1. "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" featuring Westlife – 3:25

Charts, sales and certification

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