Charmbracelet is the twelfth album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, released in the United States in December 2, 2002 (see 2002 in music). It was her 1st album as punishment a release of her film Glitter (2001) and its accompanying soundtrack album, Glitter, both of which got been critical & commercial failures. A album debuted at total trio on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, and sales fell off apace, although it was sooner or later qualified platinum by the RIAA in honour of selling over of these million copies in the U.S.

Overview

A power ballad "Through the Rain", which opens the album, wwhen freed as its 1st individual. As punishment "Through the Rain" is the pop/R&B crossover uptempo, "Boy (I Need You)", which replaced an aborted single to become the second single from the album. Carey sampled Cam'ron's "Oh Boy", which had been released a few months previously, for "Boy (I Need You)".

A album proceeds using one of deuce So So Def co-productions, "The One", the said aborted individual. A retro soul love-sexual love ballad "Yours" precedes "You Got Me", a latin-tinged downtempo "I Only Wanted", & Carey's number one "diss track", "Clown" (a response to controversial rapper Eminem). A modern gospel-tinged ballad "My Saving Grace" is followed by "You Had Your Chance", a 2nd Therefore Thus Def co-production on the album.

"Lullaby", a album's tenth track, is widely considered to become the final a share of a series (along by having "The Roof (Back in Time)" and "Crybaby") of Carey songs lamenting past relationships. The track featuring Westside Connection, "Irrestistible", follows, while "Subtle Invitation" features the greater utilize of survive instruments than former Carey songs. the album concludes by having a rock and roll-influenced cover of the monster midtempo ballad, "Bringin' on the Heartbreak", the solemn memorial "Sunflowers for Alfred Roy" (known as fallowing Carey's father, world health organization died within 2002), & the remix of "Through the Rain".

Background and production

As a result a veto publicity surrounding Carey's nervous breakdown & the failure of her film and former album, her locate Virgin Records had been bought out. By using there is no record label, Carey began recording newly songs for an additional album disregarding. The little bidding war presently began (though in the little shell than her former 1, in which she got signed an $80 million dollar locate Virgin), & Carey signed the supplementary mild locate Island Def Jam Records. Her recently album was immediately manufactured the priority, & executive Lyor Cohen began a game project.

Cohen, world health organization wanted a album to exist as near "back to basics", believed that a public was however poke fun Carey, and so his number one action was to instruct Carey to write an "I Will Survive"-esque anthem of overcoming adversity. By having her piano player, Lionel Cole, Carey wrote "Through the Rain", which reflected on her individual struggles in a period of the preceding month. She co-produced a track using her writing partners Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and the remix of the song was created by Carey, Just Blaze, and Randy Jackson. A remix contains vocals from either Joe and Kelly Price. Carey besides worked by using Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis on the album track, "Yours". This was at one point supposed to feature vocals from either Justin Timberlake, but his record label introduced contractual complications & a song was freed by owning merely Carey's vocals.

by having scaled back greatly in her act sustaining Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Carey decided to operate with her friend (& Americian Idol judge) Randy Jackson for the first instance. Together it co-produced "My Saving Grace", "Sunflowers for Alfred Roy", & "I Only Wanted". Jackson too suggested that Carey handle a rock song "Bringin' on the Heartbreak", & them co-produced it.

Carey enlisted Upright Blaze to help her produce a bit of uptempo tracks for the album. She got been super impressed by having a Cam'ron song "Oh Boy" & before long pressed Cam'ron himself & Merely Blaze to help her produce something super similar thereto. Pressure was false a babies, however sustaining empty resolutions, & the pair eventually insisted that Carey re-produce "Oh Boy" when "Boy (I Need You)". Impressed using a "chipmunk vocals" of "Boy (I Need You)", Carey & Merely Blaze as well created "You Got Me" using the dairying "chipmunk"-sped vocal. Jay-Z and Freeway recorded some raps for the song.

When Cohen got placed out for Carey, a album was her response to a public below her struggles the last month. Although Carey has said she doesn't such as making diss tracks, she decided to location hearsay & public reactions from either a rapper Eminem. He & Carey experienced antecedently enjoyed the friendly relationship that was rumoured per media to exist as extra than platonic. Yet, Eminem randy Carey & publicly dissed her inside his song "Superman". As a response, Carey (by owning Dre and Vidal) created the track "Clown", in which she talks all about how else she believes his career might prevent presently & criticizes his conflicts by owning his mother. Besides by using Dre & Vidal, Carey created the downbeat "Lullaby", which was rumoured to become all about Carey's ex-boyfriend Derek Jeter, and related its lyrics to her retiring lone "The Roof (Back in Time)" (1997).

Likewise resulting Cohen's "back to basics" project, Carey decided to write & create a bit of songs by having an additional old friend & frequent collaborator, Jermaine Dupri. Them created "You Had Your Chance" & a aborted lone "The One". Carey as well worked using an additional frequent collaborator, Damizza, on "Irresistible (Westside Connection)" which contains raps from either a Westside Connection.

Contrary to Cohen's project, Carey wanted to test a select few newly items (additionally to rock) & presently decided to operate a urban producer, 7. Resulting years of studio operate, Carey wanted to produce the additional organic healthy. A pair created many tracks including "Subtle Invitation", "There Goes My Heart", & "Reach For The Sky". Exclusively "Subtle Invitation" simply mass produced a final cut, although "There Goes My Heart" was late freed as an international bonus track. Carey likewise wrote & produced many tracks using DJ Quik, but it as well were non utilized.

When the album neared completion, Carey felt that she required a theme to represent it. When you took a production of the album, Carey's father, Alfred Roy Carey, died. Carey wwhen especially injured by this as she got been estranged from either him for years however them got reconciled shortly prior to his demise. To treat by using his demise, she & Randy Jackson wrote a memorial "Sunflowers for Alfred Roy". To celebrate a life & days of her father, however as well to help incorporate a theme to the album, Carey decided to title the album Charmbracelet. To her, the charmbracelet represented the a portion of a individual or even tool, to reflect their essence. To help her stay within touch by using world health organization she was & as well to celebrate victims she loved & cherished, Carey began to underst& the power of a charmbracelet, and rationalized a title by explaining that she was passing the album along to her fans prefer a charmbracelet.

Promotion and chart performance

To help promote a album, Carey manufactured guest appearances in television program like The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, and The Late Show with David Letterman. When sustaining a creation of the album, Lyor Cohen's project was for Carey to quickly erase her public stigmthe using a "back to basics" approach. Following, she was instructed to have on her hair super curly (something she got non neutralize years) to produce a public believe of her debut album, Mariah Carey (1990). Carey was likewise a subject of an MTV special, Shining Through the Rain. Altogether her public appearances, she was instructed to talk all about overcoming a demise of her father, her breakdown, & a failure of her film & survive album. Cohen hoped that a public would relate using her anthem of overcoming struggle, "Through the Rain", to help her regain credit using a public. "Through the Rain", notwithstanding, failed on the stock and index charts.

By having a public largely unaware of the album itself, it debuted at total triad on the U.S. Billboard 200, however quickly fell off a chart. Island Def Jam quickly tried to release another only to recuperate, however tremendously indecision followed when to what track a only would become. When an extended gap, "The One" wwhen one of these days chosen as the next only, & a music streaming videos began production inside Japan. All a same, when filming the videos, Carey was hounded by fans & shooting was halted. In the period of her recovery, "The One" got non picked higher real radio airplay, so it was decided that "Boy (I Need You)" should become a next individual. A off cd was reshot around Japan, however despite many television appearances to promote a song, "Boy (I Need You)" failed, becoming Carey's foremost lone to miss potentially a Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.

Below the unfortunate sales of the album & each of its singles, it was decided that Carey required to participate within a concert tour to promote the album. The Charmbracelet! One Night Only tour was organised, and was the biggest tour of Carey's career, lasting more than half of a year with almost one hundred shows in most major countries (Carey's previous tours had been restricted to a few European countries and the U.S., usually consisting of around fifteen shows). When you took tour, Carey's public relations department suggested that "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" might appeal to her rock/adult Top 40 audience, however it failed whilst it was freed as a lone. Despite a tour, sales of a album declined, when which plans were drawn as much as re-release the album in the U.S. as a pis aller. A re-release was late cancelled, although a album was re-freed inside two or three more markets.

Charts
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|- style="background-color: #white;" !align="center"|Week !12 !13 !14 !15 !16 !17 !18 !19 !20 !21 !22 |- !align="center" style="background-color: #white;"|Chart position |64 (17,939) |78 (14,756) |77 (15,100) |100 (11,537) |116 (9,307) |152 (7,059) |161 (6,338) |182 (5,415) |131 (10,173) |169 (6,066) |199 (4,851) |}

Track listing