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Mariah Carey is the self-titled debut studio album by American singer-songwriter and record producer Mariah Carey, released on June 12, 1990, by Columbia Records. Its music incorporates a range of contemporary genres with a mix of slow ballads and up-tempo tracks. Originally, Carey wrote four songs with Ben Margulies, which solely constituted her demo tape. After Carey was signed to Columbia, all four songs, after being altered and partially re-recorded, made the final cut for the album. Aside from Margulies, Carey worked with a range of professional writers and producers, all of whom were hired by Columbia CEO, Tommy Mottola. Mariah Carey featured production and writing from Rhett Lawrence, Ric Wake and Narada Michael Walden, all of whom were top record producers at the time. Together with Carey, they conceived the album and reconstructed her original demo tape. Reviews of the album generally complimented Carey's voice and technique, but were ambivalent towards the songwriting. It nonetheless became a commercial success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart for 11 consecutive weeks. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of nine million copies in the United States, certified Mariah Carey nine-times Platinum. The album experienced similar success in Canada, where it topped the charts and was certified seven times Platinum. Mariah Carey fared well in other worldwide territories, reaching the top ten in the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and United Kingdom. Worldwide, the album has sold more than 15 million copies. Five singles were released from the album, four of which became number-one hits on the Hot 100. "Vision of Love" was chosen as the album's lead single, topping the charts in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The song was critically lauded, and is regarded as one of the strongest debut singles by a female artist. The album's second single, "Love Takes Time" was also well received and topped the charts in Canada and the US. With the following two singles, "Someday" and "I Don't Wanna Cry" reaching number one in the US, Carey became the first artist since The Jackson 5 to have their first four singles top the charts in the United States. Background In 1988, an 18-year-old Carey moved out of her mother's house in Long Island, and into a small apartment in Manhattan. She had a demo tape consisting of four songs, which she had written during her high school years with Ben Margulies. As 1988 unfolded, Carey, still without a record deal, struggled to draw the attention of record executives in New York. While working several jobs, she continued writing and producing music with Margulies, making changes and additions to the demo. After months of difficulty, Carey met with singer Brenda K. Starr, and soon began singing back up for her. Eventually, Starr began hearing what she described as "glimpses" of Carey's voice throughout sessions, and noticed her "gifted voice". She realized Carey was capable of achieving success, but only needed help to break through into mainstream music. "I really didn't want to do it, but I said it’s got to be better than what I'm doing now. So I went to the audition, and Brenda was such a great person." —Carey, on auditioning for her position as back up with Starr One night, Starr took Carey to a record industry gala, attempting to convince a record label executive to listen her demo. Jerry L. Greenberg, president of Atlantic Records took notice of her. As Carey handed him the record, Tommy Mottola quickly grabbed the tape, insisting that he would deal with "the project". As Mottola got into his limousine later that evening, he played Carey's demo and quickly realized the talent that he had just discovered. He quickly returned to the event, but a discouraged Carey had already left. "For this particular time, she is my number one priority. We don't look at her as a dance-pop artist. We look at her as a franchise." —Don Ienner, president of Columbia Records, on his plans for working with Carey After a week of tracking her down through Starr's management, Mottola got in touch with Carey and brought her over to Columbia Records. After meeting with Carey and her mother Patricia for the first time, Mottola said, "When I heard and saw Mariah, there was absolutely no doubt that she was in every way destined for super-stardom." After a few brief meetings, Carey was signed to Columbia in December 1988. Mottola had assumed the top position at Sony, the parent label of Columbia, and began taking the company through various stages of change. One he felt was very important for the label's success was to discover a young and very talented female vocalist, to rival Whitney Houston from Arista Records, or a pop star to match Madonna, who was signed to Sire Records at the time. He felt that Carey represented both. Mottola's confidence in Carey led him to hire a range of talented and well-known musicians and songwriters to assist with Carey's demo, as well as to create new material. Among them were Ric Wake, Narada Michael Walden and Rhett Lawrence. Recording and composition "When we met she was 17 years old and I was 24. We worked together for a three-year period developing most of the songs on the first album. She had the ability just to hear things in the air and to start developing songs out of them. Often I would sit down and start playing something, and from the feel of a chord, she would start singing melody lines and coming up with a concept." —Ben Margulies, about his collaboration with Carey Carey and Ben Margulies began writing prior to Carey's signing, and had composed over fourteen songs; seven of which earned a place on the album. Originally, Carey and Margulies planned to produce the entire album as well, an idea her label did not permit. On the album, Carey worked with a range of producers and writers, including from Ben Margulies, Rhett Lawrence, Narada Michael Walden, Ric Wake and Walter Afanasieff; the latter would continue working extensively with Carey on future projects. As production for the album began, Carey worked with Walden in New York, where they produced "I Don't Wanna Cry". While he described Carey as "very shy," he noted how professional she was for someone her age. Additionally, Carey wrote, "There's Got to Be a Way" during her first recording session with Wake. During the session, they wrote four songs, but they only produced the latter song for the album. After flying to New York and working with Carey, Walden was astonished by her voice. Together, they collaborated on transforming many of the demo's songs into more commercial recordings, which took place in Tarpan Studios in San Rafael, California. For her work with Lawrence, Carey traveled to New York once again. In the studio, she presented him with the demo of "Vision of Love" which she had written with Margulies years prior. Lawrence saw "potential" in the song, but he did not think much of it in its early stages. He described the song's sound as having a "fifties sort of shuffle". According to Lawrence, Carey needed a more contemporary sound, so they met in the studio alongside Margulies and producer Chris Toland. They added a new arrangement to the original chord progression, while Carey changed the song's melody and key. Afterwards, Margulies added few drum notes to the arrangement, including additional guitar and bass notes. "I was using my upper register...what happened was at the end of it, I did these vocal flips. When I was doing it, my voice split and went into a harmony. If you hear it, it splits. I was saying, 'Get rid of that,' but everyone was saying 'No way, we're keeping that'." —Carey, on the high notes she hit while experimenting with her voice in the studio When Carey worked with Walden on "I Don't Wanna Cry", they worked on several other songs. Together, they decided to "slow down the tempo" and create a "crying type of ballad," one which according to him, featured a direct inspiration from gospel genres. After they completed the song, Lawrence noted how much of a perfectionist Carey was. He said that after finishing the song, she returned to the studio the following week, all in order to correct "one line" that troubled her. As one of the four original songs she gave to Mottola, "Someday" became Wake's favorite from the start, "I loved that song right from the beginning...Then Mariah called me one day and said 'I'd love to do it if you want to do it.' It was great, I'm glad she called me." During its recording, Carey revealed how the song came into existence. She had been working on the demo with Margulies in his studio. As he began playing different notes on the electric keyboard, Carey directed him on the chord changes, while providing the chorus, lyrics and melody. In "All in Your Mind", Carey does a great vocal performance, doing staccatos up to F7. According to the artist, her voice "split" while doing those ornaments. While she thought to remove it from the song's recording, Wake and Walden were very impressed by the vocal flips, claiming that it would fit in perfectly. The debut album was completed and being mastered when Carey wrote "Love Takes Time" with Ben Margulies. Margulies said, "It was sort of a gospelish thing I was improvising, then we began working on it. It was on a work tape that we had...and we recorded a very quick demo. It was just a piano vocal demo - I played live piano, and she sang it." Carey was on a mini-tour of ten states, playing acoustically with a piano player and three back-up singers. While on a company plane, she played the demo of "Love Takes Time" for Columbia Records president Don Ienner. "All the important guys were on the plane," Margulies said. "Tommy Mottola, Ienner, and Bobby Colomby." Carey was told the song was a "career-maker," and that it had to go on the first album. She protested - her album was already being mastered, and she intended this ballad for her next release. The demo was sent to producer Afanasieff. When Carey flew west to work with Narada Michael Walden on some tracks for her first album, Tommy Mottola and Don Ienner were impressed with Afanasieff's work and gave him an executive staff producer job with the label. "I guess to see if he made the right choice, (Tommy) called me up one day," remembers Afanasieff. "He said, 'We've got this Mariah Carey album done, but there's a song that she and Ben Margulies wrote that is phenomenal, and I want to try everything we can to put it on the album.' I said, 'What do you want me to do?' and he said, 'You only have a couple of days, but are you ready to cut it?' I couldn't believe the opportunity that it was. I'd never produced anything by myself up until that time." The demo was very close to what Mottola wanted the finished product to be, according to Afanasieff. "We cut the song and the music and the basics in about a day - and the only reason is this deadline. It was do it or we were gonna miss out on the whole thing. We got the tape and recorded everything and we got on the plane and went to New York (and) did her vocals. She did all the backgrounds, practically sang all night...We came back to the studio that afternoon, and we had to fix one line very quickly, and then (engineer) Dana (Jon Chapelle) and I got back on the plane with the tape, went back to the studio in Sausalito, and mixed it. So it was a three-day process: a day and a half for music, kind of like a day for vocals, and a day for mixing." Afanasieff heard from Columbia executives as soon as they received the mix. They wanted Carey's vocal a little louder, so a remix was quickly completed. The producer asked if the song would still make the debut album, and was told, "We're going to do our best." On the first copies of the album that were printed, "Love Takes Time" was not listed on the cassette or compact disc liner notes, even though the song was on the cassette or CD itself. "(On) some of the original first copies of the record, they didn't have time to print the name of the song," Margulies laughs. "And so the song's on there, but it doesn't say that it's on there. It was a song that actually was strong enough to stop the pressing...I don't know if they had to throw away a few hundred copies." Promotion Aside from the heavy marketing and promotional campaign held by Sony Music, Carey performed on several television programs and award ceremonies, stateside and throughout Europe. Carey's first televised appearance was at the 1990 NBA Playoffs where she sang "America the Beautiful". Soon after, she performed "Vision of Love" back-to-back on both The Arsenio Hall Show and The Tonight Show. In September 1990, Carey appeared on Good Morning America where she performed an a cappella version of "Vision of Love," alongside the Billy T. Scott Ensemble. "Vision of Love" was performed on various other American television shows such as the 1991 Grammy Awards and The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as European programs such as The Veronica Countdown (The Netherlands) and Wogan (United Kingdom). Carey has performed "Vision of Love" on most of her tours, up until her Angels Advocate Tour in 2010, where it remained absent from the set-list. Promotion for the album continued with Carey's follow up singles. "Love Takes Time" was performed on "The Arsenio Hall Show" as well as Carey's televised performance at "The Tattoo Club." The third single from Mariah Carey, "Someday", was performed at the 1991 American Music Awards, which helped it reach number one in the United States. Carey's fourth single "I Don't Wanna Cry", reached the top of the Hot 100 without any immediate promotion, as Carey had not performed the song until her Music Box Tour in 1993. As promotion for Mariah Carey ended, Sony released a fifth single "There's Got to Be a Way", in the UK. Most of the album's singles were performed live throughout Carey's short Music Box Tour. Both "Vision of Love" and "I Don't Wanna Cry" were performed on Carey's Asian and European Daydream World Tour (1996). Singles "Vision of Love" was the first single released from the album and became one of the most popular and critically praised songs of Carey's career. Additionally, "Vision of Love" is credited with bringing the use of melisma to the 1990s and inspiring various future talents. "Vision of Love" was nominated for three 1991 Grammy Awards: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (which it won), Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The song received the Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female and a Songwriter Award at the BMI Pop Awards. In the United States, it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, during the week of August 2, 1990, staying atop the chart for four consecutive weeks. "Vision of Love" topped the singles chart in Canada and New Zealand as well, and appeared within the top ten in Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Aside from its chart success, music critics lauded the song. In a retrospective review on the album in 2005, Entertainment Weekly called the song "inspired" and complimented Carey's use of the whistle register in the song. Additionally, Rolling Stone said, "the fluttering strings of notes that decorate songs like 'Vision of Love', inspired the entire American Idol vocal school, for better or worse, and virtually every other female R&B singer since the nineties." Bill Lamb from About.com said that "'Vision of Love' is one of the best songs of Mariah's recording career It is simply one of the most stunning debut releases ever by a pop recording artist." "Love Takes Time" served as the album's second single. The song became Carey's second single to top the singles chart in the United States, and third chart topper in Canada. While the song achieved strong success stateside, "Love Takes Time" barely charted inside the top ten in New Zealand and outside the top 20 in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. "Someday" (the album's third single) followed a similar pattern as "Love Takes Time," topping the chart in the US and Canada. In Australia, it peaked outside the top 40, and hit number 38 in France and the UK. "I Don't Wanna Cry", the album's fourth single, also topped the charts in the United States. The song became Carey's fourth chart topper in the US, finishing number 25 on Billboard's year-end chart. Aside from peaking at number two in Canada, it charted at number 49 in Australia. A fifth single, "There's Got to Be a Way", was released in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number fifty-four. Critical reception AllMusic 3.5/5 stars Chicago Tribune 3.5/4 stars Encyclopedia of Popular Music 3/5 stars Entertainment Weekly B− Q 4/5 stars The Rolling Stone Album Guide 3/5 stars The Village Voice C In a contemporary review, Entertainment Weekly wrote that while Carey possessed an "astonishing vocal range and high ideals", the album was plagued by poor songwriting. Robert Christgau was more critical in The Village Voice, unenthusiastically touching on the opera roots of Carey's mother while finding much of the material clueless about its love themes. Jan DeKnock from the Chicago Tribune was more impressed by the album, finding it abundant with "sparkling tracks" that showcase Carey's songwriting and production talents, particularly "Vanishing". Mariah Carey was nominated for the 1991 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, while "Vision of Love" received nominations in the categories of Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Carey won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and also received the award for Best New Artist. In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Arion Berger later wrote that "Carey debuted with an album of uplifting dance pop and R&B ballads, each song's composition co-credited to Carey and each providing an opportunity to unleash her wide vocal range." Ashley S. Battel from AllMusic found the record "extremely impressive" and described the songs as "smooth-sounding ballads and uplifting dance/R&B cuts" on an album that served "as a springboard for future successes". "Carey establishes a strong standard of comparison for other breakthrough artists of this genre", Battel concluded. Commercial performance Mariah Carey entered the US Billboard 200 at number 80, and reached the top 20 in its fourth week. The album topped the chart in its 36th week, due to Carey's exposure at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards, and stayed there for 11 consecutive weeks; to date, it is the longest stay at number one in Carey's career. It remained in the top 20 for 65 weeks and on the Billboard 200 for 113 weeks. Mariah Carey was certified nine-times Platinum by the RIAA on December 15, 1999. The album has sold 4,885,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which began counting sales after January 1, 1991. It became the best-selling album of 1991 in the United States. In Canada, the album peaked at number one on the Canadian RPM Albums Chart during the week of April 20, 1991. To date, the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), denoting shipments of 700,000 copies, certifies Mariah Carey seven-times Platinum. The album peaked at number six in Australia, where it went double Platinum and finished sixth on the ARIA Charts end of 1991 top 50 albums. During the week of September 15, 1990, Mariah Carey entered the UK Albums Chart at its peak of number six. After spending 40 weeks fluctuating in the chart, the album was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), denoting shipments of 300,000 copies. Worldwide sales of the album stand at 15 million copies. Legacy Since its release, Mariah Carey has been hailed as being a pop and R&B classic, with Trevor Anderson of Billboard describing it as jumpstarting "one of the most successful stories in pop music history". Commenting on the success of the album in the "particularly saturated female pop landscape in 1990", Anderson further states that the record helped Carey carve a place as the foremost musician of her generation. Critics have also noted the widespread influence of Carey’s vocal delivery on the album, particularly “Vision of Love”. Writing for Complex, Elena Bergeron described the record as "the album that launched a million runs", stating that it "gave an entire generation of would-be divas something to sing into their hairbrushes". R&B singer Beyoncé said that she began doing vocal "runs" after listening to "Vision of Love" for the first time, stating that it inspired her to follow a path into the music industry. Christina Aguilera has also stated how Carey's album had the biggest influence on her vocal styling and delivery. According to the Pier Dominguez, author of Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made, Carey's carefully choreographed image of a grown woman struck a chord with Aguilera, whose influence also stemmed from the fact that both were of mixed heritage. Carey's two wins at the 33rd critics, particularly in regards to the lip-syncing controversy surrounding Milli Vanilli the prior year, also commented upon Annual Grammy Awards. Speaking to the press after winning Best New Artist, Carey stated: "With all the controversy surrounding this award, I hope to bring it back to a real singer-songwriter category, where everyone else following me can be as proud as I am to receive this honor". The singer's performance of "Vision of Love" at the ceremony has consistently been ranked as one of the greatest award show performances of all time. Andrew Unterberger of Billboard described it as showcasing Carey "in full beast mode, tracing her unprecedented vocal runs with her hands and occasionally running out of room in the process; not excessively showy but unafraid of demonstrating". Unterberger further commented on Carey's exposure to the wider pop landscape following her debut at the award show, commenting on how "Mariah's self-titled debut LP shot to the top of the Billboard 200 and stayed there for 11 weeks" in the wake of her appearance. Both music critics and sociologists alike have also commented upon the singer’s outspokenness about her own multi-racial heritage at the time of her debut’s release. As noted by Professor Michael Eric Dyson in his book, Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture, Carey's "refusal to bow to public pressure" surrounding the nature of her ethnicity exposed "the messy, sometimes arbitrary, politics of definition and categorization" and "the racial contradictions at the centre of contemporary pop music" at the time. Sika Dagbovie-Mullins of Florida Atlantic University further credited Carey for breaking down existent racial barriers between pop and R&B, hailing her being a "multiracial heroine" for generations of mixed-race singers and songwriters.

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Mariah Carey [Mariah Carey] Full Album MP3s List

NoMP3 TitleMP3 Time
1.Vision Of Love MP3 3:28
2.There's Got To Be A Way MP3 4:52
3.I Don't Wanna Cry MP3 4:47
4.Someday MP3 4:05
5.Vanishing MP3 4:11
6.All In Your Mind MP3 4:42
7.Alone In Love MP3 4:10
8.You Need Me MP3 3:50
9.Sent From Up Above MP3 4:03
10.Prisoner MP3 4:22
11.Love Takes Time MP3 3:48

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Jayytie - BEAST

I'm a lamb(: I love every track.

BrunoMars - When Mariah Carey Acttully Sing

Mariah been one my favorite singers of all time I ve been listening to her since I was 12 years old her voice sounds beautiful and her older stuff is wayyy betr den hr new stuff luv u Mariah :)

ThePurposeInside - Mariah During Her Height!

When born in the '90s, I never knew or listened to Mariah Carey until the 2000s. I guess the awful Glitter film enticed me to find her greatest songs (before We Belong Together). Besides listening to songs like One Sweet Day or Hero, I found this. This album is pure gold. Vision of Love, Love Takes Time, Someday, and I Don't Wanna Cry are, of course, her first four of her #1's. However, tunes like There's Got to Be a Way and Vanishing are very soulful, as well. I can't really express all I have to say. It's just a great album. And this was a time where Mariah could really sing. Not that she can't sing today. She still can. However, she can no longer reach those high notes like she used to. During this time when this album came out, she could. That's what I love about it.

negemai - WOW!

I love you Mariah Carey!!!

catbri - love it

this album is wonderful vision of love is great

Greekboy0719 - This album is Single Handedly Mariahs best a MUST HAVE

Honestly, it doesnt get better than this, i am one of her biggest fans and this album shows her vocal straengths better than any other....a MUST HAVE in your music collection

Peter Palter - Mariah Carey is the best

If her can sings like this, I will be happy.

Strwbrychzck - An awesome debut

I was eleven years old when this album was released. This is one of my favorite Mariah albums to this day. It is one of those albums that you can't skip a track because you want to hear more. All of them display her amazing vocal abilities. I still remember the first time I ever heard "Vision of Love" and how I knew that she would become one of the great voices of my generation. If you haven't heard this album yet, you won't be disappointed, this is classic Mariah!!!!!!

venicebeachh - Wrongly titled Mariah Carey

This was Mariah Carey's first album, which featured many #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Even though the album was successful, the songs contained in it did not reflect Mariah Carey because of influence from other writers who had more control over her. Still, amazing songs from this album include "Vision of Love," "Love Takes Time," "I Don't Wanna Cry," and "Vanishing."

wvanhoosen - Mariah Carey the way she should be.

With the exception of "Emotions" and "Daydream", "Mariah Carey" is the best vocal performance by Mariah Carey, ever. And, this one of the only albums of hers where all the songs are lyrical. AND SHE CAN SING IN THIS ALBUM!!! I'm sorry, but compared to this, no other album of hers past 1998 is any good. Best vocals ever. -Japanizzle35

The Reinventions - Mariah

This is an album that I will grow tire of. Yes, she made more good music, but this is her best by far!

Poet Rhapsody - AN ASTONISHING ALBUM BY A SUPERB ARTIST!!!

God and the angels above know how much I just love Mariah Carey since her debut in 1990 and even more now, but I feel the album's track order is a little. . .off. The hearfelt sorrow of "Vanishing" and the passionate yearning of "Loves Takes Time" should be switched. It would make Mariah's debut album alot stronger than it already is considering the fact that "Vanishing" is without question the most vocally and emotionally powerful song on the album which is the reason it should be the last.The weakest tracks on Carey's debut which, in my opinion, shouldn't be on the album or even considered is the overly-chipper "There's Got to Be a Way" and the aggarvatingly over-confident "You Need Me". However, don't get me wrong the album still remains with great longevity and power. With such an incredible piece of art still remebered 19 years later, this makes it artistically difficult for artist who MC has been compared to and rivaled with back in the 90's and now, such as: Madonna, Janet Jackson, Toni Braxton, and mainly Celine Dion and Whitney Houston. The same goes for newbies like Beyonce', Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Rihanna, Jennifer Hudson, Britney Spears, and sooo many more! All the artist I named are great talents, don't get me wrong, it's just that they can't compare to Carey or any artist similar. Astounding and Impressive album I recommend the entire thing to all iTune buyers and if you're a picky music listener, the top five tracks you just have to get would be: #5. Sent from Above, #4. I Don't Wanny Cry, #3. Alone In Love, #2. Vision Of Love, and #1. Vanishing! 2 more that I have to recommend after those are #7. Loves Takes Time and #6. Prisoner!

MAGALYMIMI - Beautifull!!!

First let me start that im a huge fan!!! I always loved her music and mariah she writes beautifull lyrics and I love them all especially congrats in your first album love it. You look wonderful from the past and now.My favorite songs are all of them but my first top song in this album is Vision Of Love is one of the most popular songs of all time and the first song she ever writen. I Love U Mariah Carery!!!

Thank God (I Found You) - Setting Standards

This album set the stardard for the rest to follow. I think this is one of my favorities simply because its such a 90's album. The vibe the album gives is incredible. Very good cd.

sum1whocares - Amazing

MC is "said" to rirval ppl like Beyonce, Rhianna, Celine Dion. But vocally, she surpasses them all. She can whisper sing. Belt with that powerhouse voice. And whistle register is something u rarely hear from other artists. This is one if her best works of her entire career.

nunes,dc - mariah carey

i, have been looking for this cd for so long. now i have it, you are the voice!!!!! love you

Tim_Blake - Wow

No other debut album by any artist has ever been this good. It marked the beginning of the most incredible artist of all-time. Now, in 2008 with the release of E=MC2, Mariah is still kicking, and harder than ever. This album shows the beginning of this amazing woman, and there is nothing better than the songs you are about to listen to if you buy this album. Need proof? How bout that this is the best-selling debut album by any artist in music history? Haha!

iReview101 - At 19, already so good

Some people don't count the fact she was 19 when she recorded this baby, which was unprecedently so great. Powerhouse, and that is alI I can say, I love Vanishing the best

Musicfan412 - The debut which started it all!

I was too young to remember when Mariah Carey first came onto the scene. I became a fan of her with the "Butterfly" album and since. I checked out her first album which sold very well and had a string of #1 hits. It's great! I use to be obsessed with her song "All In Your Mind" which could be hailed as the best song from the album. It's a fan favorite I think. This music has a late 80's/early 90's feel to it. I don't really remember any of the singles but it's still a classic debut. My favorite album from her under the sony label is "Emotions" (which she wrote all by herself!), but "Mariah Carey" is a close second. Her voice is amazing! She is better than Whitney Houston or Celine Dion, some of her rival singers. I highly reccomend her debut album if you want to listen to old-school Mariah! ~ Eric

CenterCore - So sad..

..that her top five songs all come from her ridiculous hip-hop treads of recent years, with no mote of hope whatsoever left that kids of today will know her for songs like "Vision of Love", "Fantasy", "Hero", and so, so many more that made her famous in the first place. This is Mariah Carey, not Mariah Canon.

Llassiter - Ahh the 90s

What happened to R&B like this? Music actually had melody back in the day, I say bring it back! Great debut by Mariah Carey

WeEzYaBeAsT - Amazing

This is Total beauty done by The Most Beautiful & Top Selling Artist of The 90's. Love U Mariah!!!!

P. Nelson - The Angel Is Heard

This is not only her first album. But a album that will always be remembered in history. This started it all, for her only to grow and become more as time goes by. I remember being really young when this came out, this is when I found my favorite artist, still to date... This album is very meaningful and powerful. everytime I listen to it it brings me back when I was with my mom. We would sing this together. 5 Stars! My Song Picks: 'There's Got To Be A Way' 'Prisoner' 'Someday' 'Alone In love' 'Vision Of Love' 'Love Takes Time'

Rare Music Fan - Mariah Carey Fan

This album is so cool. I remember reading about this album Mariah Carey dedicated it to her middle sister Alison Carey who I wish was a Pop & R&B artist too.

eva the deva - Classic!

What can I say that hasn't already been said? I went from listening to speed metal to listening to Mariah Carey the first time I ever saw the video for "Someday" on VH-1...I actually remember the moment specifically...I really appreciate her new stuff, but this album showcases her voice above all else and I love her voice sooo much, I don't care if she stretches one word into a million syllables, its worth every note!

Michael Carroll - the greatest

stings like honey b. fly and swors like a butterfly!!

Mi6ko - WOW

One of the best albums ever! I like the fact that she writes all of her songs and put all of her heart and soul into it. What an amazing voice and technique! Just listen to the album, and you'll se for yourself! :)

Missy<3Lamb - Amazing album

This CD I can't even really put into words. Mariah Carey's voice is by far better than most other female singers. Also, even though critics say her song writing wasn't as good on her first few albums as it eventualy got, I still think the lyrics and the meaning behind each song on this album are nothing less than extraordinary, especially for a debut! I really recomend this CD to anybody who loves listening to a TALENTED artist and also anybody who likes songs for their meaning and not just superficial things. I own every MC album and this album is what first got me into Mariah Carey, because i heard "Vision of Love" and now I have every one of her albums!

SirMusicLover - 4 stars? WHAT?!

I pitty the fool who gives this album 4 stars.

StephenAndrew93 - Mariah Carey

This is by far the best, most powerful, most soulful music ever created by Mariah Carey! She is the goddess of music! I've been listening to Mariah Carey since I was five, and I'm still blown away by her vocal abilities! Her music and her voice are in a class of its own! Sure Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Madonna and other artists are great, but Mariah Carey is the real deal! She's in league with The Beatles! I have never seen such raw talent and power! Mariah Carey should be proud of what she has accomplished!

charles626 - Excellent Start!

One of her greatest albums she ever made. Really cool to be hearing the first songs that this diva made. I love her and her voice so much. I've always listen to all of her songs from start to finish, without skipping. Just amazing.

Muni2944 - When Mariah was MARIAH!

This was Mariah at her best. She was just a great singer with great songs and she worked with great producers. This album can be played from the first track to the last with each song being worthy of listening all the way through. This album will always the bar standard which Mariah has yet to return to.

Ja999 - Awesome

An Awesome debut album. Few can match the beauty of Vision of Love or Vanishing. I love the singles from this album but tend to skip a lot of the filler tracks. Personally I love Emotions more and would recommend downloading Vision of Love, Someday, Vanishing, I Don't Wanna Cry, and Love Take Time from Mariah's debut and then downloading all of Emotions to hear that glorious voice at its peak.

BH_ - a true icon

wow mariah brust onto the scene in 1990 with this album very brilliant not only could this 19 year old girl write her own sounds but can sing excellent too pure essence i was 5 years old when this cd drop one of my moms favorites

mtcjoseph - Vision Of Love

Someone please tell me a more powerful song than Vision of Love. You can't! Mariah nails this song. Awesome!!

yeahyeah098 - True Talent.

In my opinion, the most talented music artist. I think she's a better singer than Whitney Houston (don't get me wrong, she's great too), but Mariah has an amazing range, feeling, power, and unique texture to her voice. Not to mention she writes all her stuff. I wish music today was more like this, real, raw talent. This album is definitely one of my favorites of all time!

Allan3 - Mariah Carey

This is the reason to love Mariah Carey. She shows off her extensive talent, vocal range, and beautiful qualities of her voice. She had me hooked in the first minute of Vision of Love.

butterflybabie )i( - LUV MC

I LUV this alblum its 1 of the best thats come from the fabulous MC!!!!!

remeber my name - amazing album!!!!

this is one of my favorite albums ever. ITs her second best in my opinion. it is older but it is still really enjoyable to listen to. her vocals are amazing and the songs are almost completely flawless!! Its too bad pop music is not like this anymore. i bet whitney was probably furious when this album came out. a great compilation of pop and dance pop music with soul, hip hop and r&b influences. This is mariah in her Pop music days and i LOVE it. If you like mariah using her vocals to their full potential and great Pop music then you will like this one form her.

0___0 - 21st

Today is the MariahCarey21anniversary! Twenty-one years ago today the music industry changed. This album inspired Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Leona Lewis, Jessie J, and many more! The Queen.

ShugSlavery - LOVE MARIAH!

Seriously she is one of the greatest singers of all time. Her music spoke to you with such intensity and passion! I love Mariah Carey! My favorite song off this album is Love Takes Time. This is the BEST album followed by Daydream!

Dembabies*2 - Best artist of all time

Mariah is always great! She always create an album that you never have to skip a song. I was 2 when this album came out and been singing it every since.

jaydee33 - MY LIFE !

Never will I ever get tired of this album! There's a meaning to every single song! It's just Gold! I could listen to it every single day! Mariah is truly what you call an amazing singer/songwriter!

TYNEHS - No Kiddin'

No need say no more, best of all time!!

Mariah's (unofficial) crittic - The true Mariah!!!! Her best work

This album is Mariah @ her best times!!!! No 1 can try 2 touch her @ this time!!!!!! The splendor, magestidy and magnatude of this album is unbelievable. I wish she would make more music like this but unfortunatly music has changed and if she went bak, she would not sell well at all):!!! But still then and now she is an timeless album and an imperfect angle!!!!! Sorry if it's corny!!!!

Jarrell1e - MARIAH!

Though this came out 20 years ago, and I don't expect Mariah to sound the same, as none of the greats do in that length of time. This is the greatest!!!!!!! I remember when this first came out! I was like who the heck is this girl?! She sounded like a distance but sang better than one. And with that coming from one, I STILL love present day Mariah!

SecRendezvous - Timeless

12 years after the release of this album and it is still selling proficiently... Yeah that is what a timeless, legendary album is all about! And of course only a LEGEND could creat such an album! We adore you Mariah Carey!

ericfrompitt - Can't beat Old-School Mariah Carey!

Mariah doesn't release music like this anymore. If she did it would sound too dated and not contemporary. At the time this debut album was released late 80's/early 90's synth pop was en vogue and thus some of these songs sound like music Madonna, Taylor Dayne or Paula Abdul would make. It's still good though because Carey sounds better than all of those artists combined. "Prisoner" is great but still sounds VERY similar to Taylor Dayne's "Prove Your Love." My favorite non-single is "All In Your Mind" which has a very Jamaican/Reggae-pop feel. There are so many good songs on this album. I still remember when "Vision of Love" came out and it still gives me chills when I listen to it. This is probably Mariah Carey's best album with 1997's "Butterfly" in 2nd.

CTH3 - OMG! GREAT!!

I love Mariah Carey. My favorite song on this CD is Someday, because it is so true!! She has a great voice with 5 octave range. Me, being a singer myself, gives her Kudos. I love Mariah Carey

JBMak00 - Mariah on fire

love it!

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