Daydream

This article describes Mariah Carey's music album. For Google's VR technology, see Google Daydream .

Daydream
Studio album by Mariah Carey
Publication (s)	October 3, 1995
admission	December 1994 - August 1995
Label (s)	Columbia
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Pop , Contemporary R&B
Title (number)	12
running time	46:42
production	Mariah Carey , Walter Afanasieff , Dave Hall , Jermaine Dupri , Manuel Seal , David Morales , Babyface
chronology Music Box (1993) Daydream Butterfly (1997)
Single releases September 12, 1995 Fantasy November 14, 1995 One sweet day 5th December 1995 Open arms March 9, 1996 Forever April 5, 1996 Underneath the Stars

Daydream (Engl .: " Daydream 's") is the fifth studio album by American singer Mariah Carey . It was released on October 3, 1995 on Columbia Records . As with the previous albums , Carey mainly worked with Walter Afanasieff , but also took more and more control of the songwriting. Daydream is Carey's second best-selling album to date.

Emergence

The album was very co-designed by Carey personally, it contains more influences from contemporary R&B and hip-hop . The record label gave her more freedom, but came into doubt when Carey collaborated with rapper Ol 'Dirty Bastard on a remix of Fantasy . In an interview, Carey said: “Everybody was like 'What, are you crazy?' They're nervous about breaking the formula. It works to have me sing a ballad on stage in a long dress with my hair up. " ("Everyone said, 'What, are you crazy?' They were nervous about breaking the formula for success. It worked to have me sing a ballad on a stage in a long dress with my hair pinned up.") At the same time, the new musical course led on tensions with Carey's then husband Tommy Mottola , who was also the label boss of Columbia parent company Sony Music and who had previously planned Carey's career in detail. The more Carey took the music into his own hands, the more the marriage began to break up. Carey also recorded a cover version of the 1982 Journey song Open Arms for the album . It was released as the third single.

Criticism and success

The album received positive reviews. It received 4 out of 5 stars on About.com . Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars. At Entertainment Weekly it got the grade B, which corresponds to a school grade 2. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 . Carey continued to be successful in Germany, too, where the album also reached the top position in the charts, but with 43 chart weeks it could not quite repeat the extraordinary success of Music Box (80 chart weeks).

Awards

Carey won two American Music Awards with Daydream , “Favorite Pop / Rock Female Artist” and “Favorite Soul / R & B Female Artist”. At the World Music Awards she received four awards, “World's Best Selling Female R&B Artist”, “World's Best Selling Overall Female Recording Artist”, “World's Best Selling Pop Artist” and “World's Best Selling Overall Recording Artist”. Fantasy was named “Song of the Year” at the BMI Awards and “Favorite Song” at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. Carey also won the “Top Pop Female” award in the latter. In addition, at the Billboard Music Awards there were prizes for the “Hot 100 Singles Artist of the Year”, “Hot 100 Airplay (Always Be My Baby)”, “Hot Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year” and “Special Award for 16 weeks at # 1 for One Sweet Day ”, the latter the price for One Sweet Day , which was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the longest time. However, at the 1996 Grammy Awards , Carey experienced a disappointment. Although the album was nominated for six awards and she performed One Sweet Day live with Boyz II Men , she did not win any of the trophies. The cameras showed her face in close-up, showing the disappointment. Until the album The Emancipation of Mimi , for which she won three Grammys, she no longer appeared there.

Track list

1. Fantasy - 4:04
2. Underneath the Stars - 3:33
3. One Sweet Day - 4:42
4. Open Arms - 3:30
5. Always Be My Baby - 4:20
6. I Am Free - 3:09
7. When I Saw You - 4:24
8. Long Ago - 4:33
9. Melt Away - 3:42
10. Forever - 4:00
11. Daydream Interlude - 3:04
12. Looking In - 3:35

Chart placements

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B
1995	Daydream	DE1 (43 weeks) DE	AT5 (21 weeks) AT	CH1 (27 weeks) CH	UK1 (49 weeks) UK	US1 (81 weeks) US	R&B1 (74 weeks) R&B	First published: October 3, 1995 Sales: + 25,000,000

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B
1995	Fantasy	DE17 (20 weeks) DE	AT13 (12 weeks) AT	CH10 (18 weeks) CH	UK4 (13 weeks) UK	US1 (25 weeks) US	R&B1 (25 weeks) R&B	First published: September 12, 1995
	One sweet day	DE25 (17 weeks) DE	AT25 (9 weeks) AT	CH12 (15 weeks) CH	UK6 (12 weeks) UK	US1 (27 weeks) US	R&B2 (23 weeks) R&B	First published: November 14, 1995 with Boyz II Men
	Open arms	DE65 (8 weeks) DE	-	CH30 (5 weeks) CH	UK4 (11 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: December 5, 1995
1996	Always be my baby	DE76 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK3 (15 weeks) UK	US1 (32 weeks) US	R&B1 (22 weeks) R&B	First published: March 9, 1996

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	5 × platinum	350,000
Belgium (BEA)	platinum	(50,000)
Germany (BVMI)	platinum	(500,000)
Europe (IFPI)	3 × platinum	3,000,000
France (SNEP)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
Japan (RIAJ)	diamond	1,000,000
Canada (MC)	7 × platinum	700,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	15,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	platinum	(100,000)
Norway (IFPI)	platinum	(50,000)
Austria (IFPI)	gold	(25,000)
Poland (ZPAV)	gold	(50,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold	(25,000)
Spain (Promusicae)	2 × platinum	(200,000)
United States (RIAA)	diamond	10,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
All in all	3 × gold, 26 × platinum, 2 × diamond	15,065,000

Main article: Mariah Carey / Music Sales Awards

literature

• Chris Nickson: Mariah Carey revisited: her story . St. Martin's Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-312-19512-0 .
• Marc Shapiro: Mariah Carey: The Unauthorized Biography . ECW Press, ISBN 978-1-55022-444-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ release date
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Marc Shapiro: Mariah Carey: The Unauthorized Biography . ECW Press, ISBN 978-1-55022-444-3 , pp. 140 ff.
3. ↑ Bill Lamb: Mariah Carey 'Daydream' . About.com . Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 20, 2010. 
4. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Mariah Carey: Daydream . In: Allmusic . All media guide . Retrieved October 20, 2010.
5. ↑ Ken Tucker: Daydream (1995) . In: Entertainment Weekly . Time Warner . October 13, 1995. Retrieved October 20, 2010.