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Here for It All (2025)

Where the lyrics of Here for It All take you, and where it was really made.

The title track began at Carey's home studio, The Butterfly Lounge, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and she named the whole album after it because it was her favorite song.

Key places

Larrabee Sound Studios, Los Angeles (2025)

Recording site Larrabee Sound Studios — Listed among the Los Angeles studios where the album was recorded. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Conway Recording Studios, Los Angeles (2025)

Recording site Conway Recording Studios — Listed among the Los Angeles studios where the album was recorded. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Westlake Recording Studios, Los Angeles (2025)

Recording site Westlake Recording Studios — Listed among the Los Angeles studios where the album was recorded. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Honey Snow Studios, Aspen (2025)

Recording site Honey Snow Studios — Listed as a recording location for the album in Aspen, Colorado. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Electric Lady Studios, New York City (2025)

Recording site Electric Lady Studios — Listed as a New York City recording location for the album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The Butterfly Lounge, Atlanta (2025)

Recording site DARP Studios (Atlanta) — Carey's home recording studio, where early sessions and the title track were recorded in Atlanta. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey
• Released September 26, 2025 through her own imprint Mariah and the media company Gamma
• Experiments with pop and R&B sounds influenced by funk, disco, soul, and gospel
• Lyrics move between love, vulnerability, and faith, and reflect Carey's confidence and personal strength
• Guest collaborators: Anderson .Paak, Kehlani, Shenseea, and the Clark Sisters
• Preceded by the singles 'Type Dangerous' and 'Sugar Sweet' (featuring Kehlani and Shenseea)

Background

• Follows Caution (2018); in between, Carey released anniversary editions of past albums and the compilation The Rarities (2020)
• In November 2023 she revealed she was working on a new album with about 10 songs ready, describing it as 'summer-y'
• She said the album would reflect her personal journey, particularly over the past decade
• In June 2025 she began posting teasers, including a clip with a track titled 'T:D_MC16.mp3' and a car license plate reading 'MC16'
• The lead single 'Type Dangerous' followed on June 6, marking her first release under Gamma after a multi-album deal with the company
• On July 20, 2025 she released a 37-second montage celebrating her discography
• The album is her first independent album, released under her own imprint Mariah and Gamma
• It is her third album with L.A. Reid as executive producer

Recording

• Early sessions were held at The Butterfly Lounge, her home recording studio, with a small group of collaborators
• According to the Recording Academy, the first song to emerge from those early sessions was 'Nothing Is Impossible'
• Daniel Moore II and Carey began writing the title track 'Here for It All' at The Butterfly Lounge during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Carey named the album after the title track because it was her favorite song on the album
• The collaboration 'Jesus I Do' with the Clark Sisters was recorded in the summer of 2021
• Dorinda Clark-Cole told The Detroit News that the recording session 'lasted all day', with each singer recording individually while Moore directed
• Recording continued into 2023 and 2024
• In June 2025 Carey said the album was complete and would have '11 or 12 songs'
• Carey said her work with Anderson .Paak was a turning point, when she felt the album was becoming 'something really interesting'

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Early life

• Born March 27, 1969 in Huntington, New York, on Long Island.
• Youngest of three children of Patricia Hickey, a former opera singer, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer.
• Began singing at age three; graduated from Harborfields High School in 1987.
• Worked as a demo singer and backup singer, including for Brenda K. Starr.

Career

• Signed to Columbia Records after Tommy Mottola heard her demo tape in December 1988.
• Debut album Mariah Carey (1990) topped the US Billboard 200 and won Best New Artist at the Grammys.
• Became the first artist whose first five singles reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Music Box (1993), Merry Christmas (1994), and Daydream (1995) achieved major global sales.
• Later albums moved toward hip-hop and R&B, including Butterfly (1997) and Rainbow (1999).
• Comeback album The Emancipation of Mimi (2005) was her fifth number-one album in the US.
• Known as the 'Songbird Supreme' and 'Queen of Christmas'; one of the best-selling artists in history with over 220 million records sold.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Upon release, critics gave the album generally positive reviews, praising Carey's vocals and lyrical content, with some criticism aimed at the production
• NME's Ziwei Puah and The Independent's Adam White each rated it four out of five stars
• Puah complimented Carey's confident delivery despite her voice 'not being what it was' and singled out 'My Love' and 'Jesus I Do'
• White praised her vocals, which he described as having a 'lovely grit', and highlighted the title track as a standout
• PopMatters' Peter Piatkowski gave it eight out of ten, describing it as 'charmingly retro without feeling stale or derivative'
• Piatkowski argued Carey tried too hard to stay contemporary with the lead single 'Type Dangerous'
• Pitchfork's Rich Juzwiak gave it seven out of ten, complimenting her vulnerability, particularly on the title track
• Juzwiak described her vocal candidness as a 'realistic portraiture of where she is now as a singer'
• AllMusic's Andy Kellman gave it three and a half out of five stars, calling it 'uneven' compared to Caution
• Kellman praised the '70s soul influences brought to the project by Anderson .Paak
• Paste's Andy Steiner gave it seven out of ten, calling it more 'generalist' than Caution
• Steiner praised Carey's imperfect vocals as the album's 'central musical element'
• Rolling Stone's Tim Chan, Slant Magazine's Alexa Camp, and The Arts Desk's Joe Muggs each gave it three out of five stars
• Chan described the album as 'relaxed, yet restrained' and highlighted 'My Love', 'Nothing Is Impossible', and 'I Won't Allow It'
• The Times' Will Hodgkinson gave it two out of five stars, criticizing the production as 'an excess of synthetic beats'
• Metacritic gave a weighted average score of 73 out of 100 from 8 critic scores
• AnyDecentMusic? averaged 6.9 out of 10 from seven reviews

Records

• Debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200, with 47,000 album-equivalent units, of which 39,000 were pure sales
• Carey's nineteenth top ten album on the Billboard 200
• Reached number one on the Top Independent Albums chart
• Debuted at number 31 on the UK Albums Chart, with 3,376 album-equivalent units
• Became her eleventh number-one album on the UK R&B Albums chart
• Debuted at number 18 on the Scottish Albums Chart
• Reached number 19 on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart in Australia
• Top twenty in Wallonia and Switzerland; top forty in Croatia, Flanders, Germany, Poland, and Spain

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Carey named the album after its title track because it was her favorite song and she 'didn't want it to get lost'.
• The lead single 'Type Dangerous' samples Eric B. & Rakim's 1986 song 'Eric B. Is President'.
• Anderson .Paak played the drums when Carey first performed 'Type Dangerous' at the 2025 BET Awards.
• 'Play This Song' was first performed live with Paak on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on September 29, 2025.
• 'Nothing Is Impossible' was performed in a medley with a cover of 'Volare' at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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