- Butterfly (Mariah Carey album)
Infobox Album
Name = Butterfly
Type = studio
Artist =Mariah Carey
Released =September 11 ,1997 (U.K. )September 16 1997 (U.S.)
Recorded = 1996-1997
Length=57:10
Genre = Pop, R&B
Label = Columbia
Producer = Mariah Carey,Walter Afanasieff ,Puff Daddy , Q-Tip,Stevie J ,The Trackmasters ,Cory Rooney ,David Morales
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8c881va1zzpa~T1 link]
*Entertainment Weekly (B-) [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,289461,00.html link]
*"Rolling Stone " Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/mariahcarey/albums/album/95051/review/6067857/butterfly link]
*Slant Magazine Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=339 link]
Last album = "Daydream"
(1995)
This album = "Butterfly"
(1997)
Next album = "#1's"
(1998)
Misc = Singles
Name = Butterfly
Type = studio
single 1 = Honey
single 1 date =August 26 ,1997
single 2 = Butterfly
single 3 = Breakdown
single 4 = The Roof (Back in Time)
single 5 =My All
single 5 date =April 21 ,1998
single 6 =Whenever You Call "Butterfly" is the seventh
album and fifthstudio album byUnited States R&B/pop singerMariah Carey , released onSeptember 16 1997 (see1997 in music ) in the US onColumbia Records . "Butterfly" has been certified 5 times platinum by the RIAA and has sold an estimated 10 million copies worldwide. [http://www.mariahdaily.com/infozone/charts/albums/worldwide/index.shtml]Reception
"Butterfly" debuted at number one on the U.S. "Billboard" 200 chart with 236,000 copies sold in its first week; it remained there for one week, in the top twenty for twenty-one weeks and on the chart for fifty-five weeks (making one re-entry). The album sold more in both its fourteenth week and fifteenth week of release than in its opening week, peaking at 283,000 copies in its fifteenth (when it was at number eight). It has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA and produced two number-one singles on the "Billboard" Hot 100: "Honey" and "
My All ". "Honey" became the sixth single (and the third by Carey) to debut at number one on the Hot 100. The album also yielded the airplay-only singles "Butterfly" and "Breakdown". "The Roof " and "Whenever You Call " received limited release in some countries."
Rolling Stone " described "Butterfly" as "a transitional album" for Carey, who placed herself firmly in the "milieu of modern hip-hop-inflected R&B," whileAllmusic stated that "it is one of her best albums, illustrating that Carey continues to improve and refine her music which makes her a rarity among her '90s peers". [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8c881va1zzpa~T1 http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8c881va1zzpa~T1] "Allmusic.com" ]"Honey" was nominated for the 1998
Grammy Award s for "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance" and "Best R&B Song", while "Butterfly" was nominated for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance". The album won International Pop Album of the Year at theGold Disc Awards inJapan , and also won at the IFPI Platinum Europe Awards. For "Butterfly", Carey won the "Favorite Female Artist, Soul/R&B" award at the American Music Awards of 1998. The album also helped Carey win the BMI Pop Awards for "Songwriter of the Year" and the "Songwriter" awards for "Honey", "Butterfly" and "My All". Additionally, Carey won the Top Female ArtistBlockbuster Entertainment Award .Butterfly was selected as one of the
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die [ [http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/1001albums.htm Outline Page ] ] and has sold an estimated 15 million copies worldwide. [http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=4687]Track listing
;U.S. editions
# "Honey" 1 (Mariah Carey ,Sean Combs , Kamaal Fareed, Steven Jordan,Stephen Hague , Bobby Robinson, Ronald Larkins, Larry Price,Malcolm McLaren ) – 5:00
# "Butterfly" (Carey,Walter Afanasieff ) – 4:35
# "My All " (Carey, Afanasieff) – 3:52
# "The Roof" 2 (Carey,Jean Claude Oliver ,Samuel Barnes ,Cory Rooney ,Albert Johnson ,Kejuan Waliek Muchita ) – 5:14
# "Fourth of July" (Carey, Afanasieff) – 4:22
# "Breakdown" (Carey, Anthony Henderson, Charles Scruggs, Stevie J.) – 4:44
#* performed byMariah Carey ,Krayzie Bone (ofBone Thugs-n-Harmony ), &Wish Bone (ofBone Thugs-n-Harmony )
# "Babydoll" (Carey,Missy Elliott , Rooney, Stevie J.) – 5:07
# "Close My Eyes" (Carey, Afanasieff) – 4:21
# "Whenever You Call " (Carey, Afanasieff) – 4:21
# "Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)" (Carey,David Morales ) – 3:49
# "The Beautiful Ones" featuringDru Hill (Prince) – 6:59
# "Outside" (Carey, Afanasieff) – 4:46;Non-U.S. editions:13. "Honey" (So So Def radio remix) (Carey, Robinson, Hague, Larkins, Price, McLaren,
Freddie Perren ,Alphonzo Mizell ,Berry Gordy ,Dennis Lussier ) featuringDa Brat & JD - 3:59:14. "Honey" (Def Club mix) (Carey, Robinson) - 6:17:15. "Mi Todo" ("My All" in Spanish) - 3:52*1 Sampled from the
Treacherous Three 's "The Body Rock" & theWorld Famous Supreme Team 's "Hey DJ"
*2 Sampled fromMobb Deep 's "Shook Ones"Charts
Notes
sucession box
before = ""
byLeAnn Rimes
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years =October 4 -October 10 1997
after = "Evolution" byBoyz II Men succession box
before = "Be Here Now" by Oasis
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
years =September 28 -October 4 1997
after = "Anthology 1: Greatest Hits 1987-1997" byJohn Farnham
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