Rainbow is the seventh studio album by American singer Mariah Carey, released valentines for him 2021 November 2, 1999, by Columbia Records. B and hip hop, into her musical repertoire.
In order to further push her musical horizons, Carey featured Jay-Z on the album’s lead single, the first time in her career that another artist was featured on one of her lead singles. The album spawned five singles, two of which became number-one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, making Rainbow her seventh-consecutive studio album to produce one or more number-one hits. B and hip hop in her music. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, with first week sales of 323,000.
It was her first album in years to not reach number one. Since her debut in 1990, Carey’s career was heavily calculated and controlled by her husband and head of her label Sony Music Entertainment, Tommy Mottola. During the recording and production of Carey’s Butterfly in 1997, she and Mottola separated, giving Carey an extended amount of control over the unfinished album. During the spring of 1999, Carey began working on the final album of her record contract with Sony, her ex-husband’s label.
Carey’s lover at the time, Luis Miguel, was in the midst of a European tour. But if I’m there, I want to go out, friends come to the studio, the phone rings constantly. But in Capri, I am in a remote place, and there is no one I can run into. I felt that in Capri I would be able to effectively finish the album on a shorter schedule.
I made it in three months, I was like ‘Get me off this label! The situation there was becoming increasingly difficult. She told us the title of the song, the concept and sang us the melody. We usually have Big Jim Wright sit in on those kind of sessions to work out the chords.