- There's Got to Be a Way
Infobox Single
Name = There's Got to Be a Way
Artist =Mariah Carey
Album = Mariah Carey
Released = 1991 (Europe )
Format =Cassette single , 5" single, 7" single, 12" single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop, R&B
Length = 4:53
Label = Columbia
Writer = Mariah Carey,Ric Wake
Producer = Ric Wake
Last single = "I Don't Wanna Cry "
(1991)
This single = "There's Got to Be a Way"
(1991)
Next single = "Emotions"
(1991)
Misc = Extra track listing
Album = Mariah Carey
Type = studio
prev_track = "Vision of Love "
prev_no = 1
this_track = "There's Got to Be a Way"
track_no = 2
next_track = "I Don't Wanna Cry"
next_no = 3"There's Got to Be a Way" is a song written by American singerMariah Carey andRic Wake , and produced by Wake for Carey's debut album "Mariah Carey" (1990). Carey had lobbied to co-produce the song, but was denied permission by her record label Sony/Columbia. The protagonist of this dance song declares "There's got to be a way to connect this world today" and pleads for other ways to help fix the state of the world. It is one of Carey's few socially conscious songs, and deals withracism andpoverty .It was released as the album's fifth and final single in the second quarter of 1991 (see
1991 in music ) in theUnited Kingdom and some otherEurope an markets. To maintain a then-unbroken string ofBillboard Hot 100 number-one singles, "There's Got to Be a Way" was not released in the United States. The song received little promotion and it became not only one of the least successful singles from "Mariah Carey", and one of the biggest commercial failures of Carey's career. It was released instead of "I Don't Wanna Cry " for the UK market and failed even to reach the top forty, which her previous three singles had all managed. It peaked at number fifty-four, making a brief appearance in the top seventy-five.Music video
. The 7" remix was also used for the music video.
Track listings
*UK CD single 1 (5" single)
#"There’s Got to Be a Way (album version)
#"There’s Got to Be a Way (7" remix)
#"Someday" (7" jackswing mix)
#"Vision of Love"*UK CD single 2 (12" vinyl maxi single)
#"There’s Got to Be a Way" (album version)
#"There’s Got to Be a Way" (12" remix)
#"There’s Got to Be a Way" (Alternative vocal club mix)
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