Here for It All

Following the release of Carey's fifteenth studio album, Caution (2018), she went on to release various special anniversary editions of past albums from her discography. In November 2023, Carey revealed to Entertainment Tonight that she was working on a new album, and had about 10 songs ready to release. She noted that the album would reflect her personal journey particularly over the past decade, describing it as "summer-y". She released the lead single, "Type Dangerous", that same month, and its second single "Sugar Sweet" a month later. On July 20, 2025, she released a 37-second montage on her social media platforms celebrating her discography. A day later, Carey revealed the album artwork through a short teaser video in which she appears strutting in spike heels before singing a snippet of the album's title track. Carey discussed the creative process behind the album during an Apple Music conversation with American singer-songwriter SZA, explaining that she selected "Here for It All" as the title track and final song early in the project. She emphasized that the placement and choice were intentional, aiming for a satisfying conclusion to the album. It includes guest appearances from Shenseea, Kehlani, Anderson .Paak, and the Clark Sisters. The album is Carey's first independent album, released under her own imprint, Mariah, and media company Gamma. ==Composition==

Genres and influences Musically, Here for It All is an eclectic album that showcases Carey's embrace of various sounds, expanding beyond the R&B of Caution to include sounds from the past. This is followed by "Play This Song" with American singer Anderson .Paak which described as a throwback to 1970s soul and disco music. and sampled Eric B. & Rakim's 1986 song "Eric B. Is President". "Sugar Sweet" followed and featured American singer Kehlani and Jamaican singer Shenseea. The song saw Carey delivering her signature whistle vocals against an R&B track. This is followed by the gospel track, "Jesus I Do" with the gospel-vocal group the Clark Sisters. The album ends with the title track, "Here For It All", a six-minute ballad which turns into a gospel-infused climax. ==Promotion==

As part of the album's promotion, Amazon launched an official artist merchandise shop featuring a collection of Carey-branded items. The line included T-shirts printed with the Here for It All cover artwork, a butterfly-themed hoodie, a baseball cap displaying the album title on the front and Carey's butterfly icon on the back, as well as accessories and limited-edition vinyl. During an Apple Music conversation in New York City with American singer-songwriter SZA, Carey previewed a snippet of the song "In Your Feelings". Live performances On June 9, 2025, Carey attended the 2025 BET Awards, where she was honored with the Ultimate Icon Award. During the ceremony, she performed "Type Dangerous" for the first time, joined by Anderson Paak, who played the drums during the performance. An appearance at the Capital Summertime Ball followed on June 15, where she performed a setlist of songs that included "Type Dangerous". On August 2, Carey headlined Brighton Pride, where she performed "Sugar Sweet" for the first time. This was followed by a performance at the Sandringham Estate on August 15, as part of the Heritage Live Festivals concert series, where Carey performed a setlist that included "Sugar Sweet" and "Type Dangerous". On September 7, Carey attended the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, where she was honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, and performed a medley of her hits, opening with "Sugar Sweet". On September 29, Carey appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she sang a live version of "Play This Song" with Anderson .Paak, which was also the first performance of the song. Carey also performed two concerts in Brazil in September 2025 featuring "Type Dangerous" and "Sugar Sweet" in the setlist, headlining The Town festival in São Paulo on September 13, and the Amazônia Live concert in Belém on September 17. According to Gil Kaufman of Billboard magazine, the latter concert took place on the Guama River, and featured Carey "performing on a floating stage as part of the show intended to raise awareness about the importance of preserving the rainforest". On February 6, 2026, Carey performed "Nothing Is Impossible" as a part of a medley with a cover of Italian singer Domenico Modugno's song "Volare" at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics, and on March 27 this version of the song was released to streaming services. Singles and videos In early June 2025, Carey began to tease the lead single for her upcoming album. The single, "Type Dangerous" was released on June 6, 2025, alongside a music video directed by Joseph Kahn, which premiered a week later. The song debuted at number 95 on the US Billboard Hot 100 marking Carey's 50th entry on the chart, while reaching number 24 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Four remixes of the song were released including features from Busta Rhymes, Redman, Method Man, Big Sean, DJ Snake, and Luísa Sonza. The song won an MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B, marking Carey's first win. On July 21, 2025, Carey teased a second single titled "Sugar Sweet", which also appears as the fourth track on the album. The track peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. On September 23, 2025, Carey announced that the music video for the track "Play This Song", featuring Anderson .Paak, would be released on the same day as Here for It All. Writing for Billboard, Hannah Dailey noted that the video is a "black-and-white visual [which] shows Carey and the Silk Sonic musician looking glamorous in chic blazers while singing to one another inside a luxurious mansion". The track was later revealed to be the third single from Here for It All, and debuted at number 11 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. It reached number 25 on the Adult Pop airplay chart in March 2026. On January 27, 2026, Carey was a guest on the Atlanta-based radio station V-103, where she announced "In Your Feelings" as her brand new single. The track reached number 5 on the US Hot Gospel Songs chart and number 3 on the Gospel Airplay chart. ==Critical reception==

Here for It All received generally positive reviews from music critics upon release. The review aggregator site AnyDecentMusic? compiled seven reviews and gave the album an average of 6.9 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. Puah Ziwei of NME and Adam White from The Independent rated Here for It All four out of five stars. Ziwei complimented Carey for "[going] for it all with gusto and confidence", despite her voice "not being what it was". He singled out "My Love" and "Jesus I Do" for praise, describing the former as "[showcasing] how inimitable her gorgeous tone is", and the latter as "a modern-day version of 1991's 'Make It Happen'" where Carey's "lightness and joy shine through". White wrote the singer had "a lovely grit to her vocals across Here for It All". He highlighted the title track as being "full of heavenly vocal runs", while noting that the lyrical content of the album is "immaculately well-written". Rich Juzwiak of Pitchfork gave Here for It All a rating of 7 out of 10, writing that the album "[is a] pleasant collection of well-constructed melodies", and highlighted Carey's vulnerability on the project, particularly on the album's title track. Juzwiak also praised Carey's candidness on the album pertaining to her vocals, describing them as a "realistic portraiture of where she is now as a singer", and that "[Carey's vocal] grit is alluring, bringing a tear-stained realness to her vulnerable lyrics". Rolling Stone writer Tim Chan, Slant Magazine contributor Alexa Camp, and The Arts Desk editor Joe Muggs gave Here for It All three out of five stars. Chan wrote that the album "[leans] into a decidedly retro vibe" with "soulful ballads reminiscent of Motown greats" and "uptempo tracks that draw from disco and funk". He highlighted the tracks "My Love", "Nothing Is Impossible" and "I Won't Allow It" as album standouts, praising their lyrical content and production, although described the overall project as "relaxed, yet restrained". Camp felt that its title song and "Nothing Is Impossible" were the album's best tracks, though added they were reminders of Carey's past material, and said that the singer "seems stuck in her own past" with the lyrics. She also felt the vocals overall "are at turns reedy and husky, and, perhaps as a result, over-processed". While Muggs wrote that Carey did not express "particularly new things" musically, he declared her voice to be "still an incredible instrument", especially for "the more subtle tracks, where you really get to see how totally she and her collaborators understand the place of that voice in amongst virtuosic playing and production, than when belting it out." Rating the album two stars out of five, Will Hodgkinson of The Times praised Carey's voice on Here for It All, describing her range as "impressive as ever", particularly on the track "Nothing Is Impossible", and noted that the track "My Love" was "given the full treacle treatment". However, he criticized the album's production, describing it as "an excess of synthetic beats, syrupy R&B and the odd Seventies disco moment". Accolades ==Commercial performance==

In the United States, Here for It All debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200, selling 47,000 album-equivalent units, which consisted of 39,000 pure sales, 7,000 streaming-equivalent units (translated from 9.53 million on-demand streams) and 1,000 track-equivalent units. The album became Carey's nineteenth top ten album on the Billboard 200, surpassing Taylor Swift as the artist with the third-most top 10s among women. In the United Kingdom, Here for It All debuted at number 31 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 3,376 album-equivalent units, and became Carey's twentieth top 40 album in the country. Additionally, it became her eleventh number-one album on the UK R&B Albums chart. In Scotland, the album debuted at number 18 on the Scottish Albums Chart, becoming Carey's highest charting album in the country since E=MC² (2008). In Australia, the album reached number 19 on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart, becoming her third consecutive top twenty studio album in the country, following Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse (2014) and Caution (2018). ==Track listing==

• Carey • the Stereotypes • 9AM }} • Carey • Brandon Paak Anderson • Kenya Rae Johnson • Jairus Mozee • Jason Pounds • Daniel Moore II }} • Carey • N.W.I. • Moore }} • Carey • Anderson • Johnson • Mozee • Pounds • Moore • Eric Barrier • William Griffin }} • Carey • N.W.I. • Moore }} • Carey • Bernard Harvey • King-Harvey • Kehlani Parrish • Chinsea Linda Lee • Donny Flores • Mikhail Wesley Miller • Darius Scott Dixson • Patrick Charles }} • Carey • Harv }} • Carey • Anderson • Johnson • Rogét Chahayed • Alissia Benveniste }} • Carey • Anderson .Paak • Rogét & Alissia }} • Carey • Moore }} • Carey • Moore }} • Carey • Harvey • King-Harvey }} • Carey • Harv }} • Carey • Anderson • Johnson • Uforo Ebong • Chahayed • Benveniste }} • Carey • Anderson .Paak • Bongo ByTheWay • Rogét & Alissia }} • Paul McCartney • Linda McCartney }} • Carey • Moore }} • Carey • Moore • Karen Clark Sheard • Dorinda Clark-Cole • Jacky Clark Chisholm }} • Carey • Moore }} • Carey • Moore }} • Carey • Moore }} }} Notes • signifies a co-producer • "Type Dangerous" samples the 1986 song "Eric B. Is President" by Eric B. & Rakim, written by Eric Barrier and William Griffin. • The Japanese CD edition includes two bonus tracks, "Type Dangerous" (DJ Snake remix) – 3:25 and "Sugar Sweet" (featuring Shenseea and Kehlani) – 3:40. ==Credits and personnel==

Recording studios and personnel were taken from the album's booklet. Recording locations • Los Angeles, California: Larrabee Sound Studios, Honeywest Studios, Conway Recording Studios, Westlake Recording Studios; • Aspen, Colorado: Honey Snow Studios; • New York City, New York: Electric Lady Studios, Second Take Sound (strings on track 6); • Connecticut: Honeyeast Studios; • Atlanta, Georgia: The Butterfly Lounge Musicians • Mariah Carey – lead vocals, background vocals, songwriter, producer • Jeremy Reeves – bass guitar, programming (track 1) • Ray Romulus – percussion, programming (1) • Jeff Baranowski – bass guitar (1) • Luke Milano – keyboards (1) • 9am – programming (1) • Jonathan Yip – synthesizer (1) • Anderson .Paak – vocals (2), drums (5), background vocals (8) • Daniel Moore II – background vocals (2), keyboards (5, 9–11) • Rae Khalil – background vocals (2, 8) • Jairus Mozee – bass guitar, guitar (2) • N.W.I – programming (2) • Maurice "Mobetta" Brown – trumpet (2) • Harv – programming (4) • Shenseea – vocals (4) • Kehlani – vocals (4) • Alissia Benveniste – bass guitar, percussion (5); background vocals (8) • José Ríos – guitar (5, 8) • Rogét Chahayed – keyboards (5, 8), programming (5) • Roy Cotton – conductor, strings arrangement (6) • Cremaine Booker – cello (6) • Kayla Williams – viola (6) • Sam Gray – viola (6) • Frédérique Gnaman – violin (6) • Grace Youn – violin (6) • Justus Ross – violin (6) • Rafaillia Kapsokavadi – violin (6) • BongoByTheWay – background vocals, piano, programming, synthesizer (8) • Julian Vasquez – programming (8) • Joshua Foster – drums (9–11), percussion (11) • Derrieux Edgecombe – bass guitar (9–11) • Bridget Sarai – background vocals (9) • Norelle – background vocals (9) • Tim Stewart – guitar (9) • Tremaine "Six7" Williams – drum programming (10) • Kyle Bolden – guitar (10) • The Clark Sisters – vocals (10) Technical • Kevin "KD" Davis – mixing (1) • Colin Leonard – mastering • Brian Garten – mixing (2–11), engineering (all tracks) • Jhair Lazo – engineering (2, 3, 5) • Julian Vasquez – engineering (5) • Chris Allen – engineering (6) • Jenna Felsenthal – Kehlani vocal mixing (4) • Jose "Paniik" Morales – Shenseea vocal mixing (4) • Mark Parfitt – engineering assistance (4) ==Charts==