Make It Happen (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Make It Happen


Artist = Mariah Carey
from Album = Emotions
Released = April 4 1992Specify|date=June 2007
Format = CD single, CD maxi single, cassette single, cassette maxi single, 7" single, 12" single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop, R&B, dance-pop
Length = 5:07
Label = Sony
Writer = Mariah Carey, David Cole, Robert Clivillés
Producer = Mariah Carey, David Cole, Robert Clivillés
Last single = "Can't Let Go"
(1991)
This single = "Make It Happen"
(1992)
Next single = "Till the End of Time"
(1992)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Emotions
Type = studio
prev_track = "Can't Let Go"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "Make It Happen"
track_no = 4
next_track = "If It's Over"
next_no = 5Extra tracklisting
Album = MTV Unplugged EP
Type = live
prev_track = "Vision of Love"
prev_no = 4
this_track = "Make It Happen"
track_no = 5
next_track = "I'll Be There"
next_no = 6Extra tracklisting
Album = VH1 Divas Live
Type = live
prev_track = "My All"
prev_no = 1
this_track = "Make It Happen"
track_no = 2
next_track = "Turn the Beat Around"
next_no = 3Extra tracklisting
Album = Greatest Hits" (CD #1)
Type = compilation
prev_track = "Can't Let Go"
prev_no = 6
this_track = "Make It Happen"
track_no = 7
next_track = "I'll Be There"
next_no = 8

"Make It Happen" is a song written and produced by Mariah Carey with David Cole and Robert Clivillés of the C&C Music Factory, and recorded for Carey's second album, "Emotions" (1991). It is a dance/gospel hybrid in which Carey sings "if you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're going to make it happen". It was released as the album's third and final single in the U.S. in 1992 (see 1992 in music).

History

Carey's first five U.S. singles had reached number one on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100; her sixth, "Can't Let Go", had reached number two. Pressure was put on "Make It Happen" to become Carey's next number-one hit, but it peaked at number five. It remained in the top forty for sixteen weeks and was one of the year's bigger hits, being ranked forty-second on the 1992 Hot 100 year-end chart. It received heavy radio airplay but sold moderately, and its high peak on the U.S. charts was because airplay statistics were beginning to be given more consideration in the compiling of "Billboard" magazine charts than sales statistics. The single became Carey's first in the U.S. not to top any other "Billboard" chart, and underperformed outside the U.S. like "Can't Let Go". It became her first single to miss the top ten in Canada, but it fared better than the previous single in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Like every earlier U.S. single release from Carey, it won a BMI Pop Award. This made every single from "Emotions" a BMI award winner, matching the record set by her debut album, "Mariah Carey". The single's video, directed by Marcus Nispel, features Carey holding an impromptu benefit concert inside a church slated for closing.

Performance

Carey performed an acoustic version of the song on the television show "MTV Unplugged" in 1992, and her setlist for the show was later released on the EP "MTV Unplugged". Reviewing Carey's "Unplugged" appearance, "Rolling Stone" magazine wrote of "Make It Happen": "a somewhat obnoxious slice of self-help dance rhythm in its original version, is transferred into a bubbly gush of pure pop". ["Rolling Stone". December 10 1992.] Another version is a remix by the song's original producers, David Cole and Robert Clivillés, titled the "C+C classic version".

Carey performed the song on the first concert of VH1 Divas Live in 1998. She was the opening performer of the event and after the first song, "My All", she made a brief speech addressing to the audience and performed "Make It Happen" then. As during the usual live performances of the song, a gospel choir accompanied her. The performance of the song was the last song Carey sang solo on the evening.

As of 2006, the song continued to receive heavy airplay on U.S. adult contemporary radio stations such as Los Angeles's K-BIG. Carey frequently performs "Make It Happen" in concert, as well as at charity and fundraising events. One of her most widely seen performances was at Live 8 in London's Hyde Park in July 2005, as part of the multicontinental awareness-raising project to reduce poverty in Africa. "Make It Happen" was the set-closing number on the first half of Carey's 2006 The Adventures of Mimi Tour.

Track listings

;U.S. CD maxi single (cassette maxi single/12" single)
#"Make It Happen" (extended version)
#"Make It Happen" (dub version)
#"Make It Happen" (C+C classic version)
#"Make It Happen" (radio edit)
#"Make It Happen" (album version)
#"Emotions" (Special Motion edit);European CD maxi single
#"Make It Happen" (radio edit)
#"Make It Happen" (extended version)
#"Make It Happen" (dub version)
#"Make It Happen" (C+C classic version)
#"Make It Happen" (album version)

Charts

References