Greatest Hits - Mariah Carey > Reviews > Mariah Carey - GREATEST HITS album

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Definitely a cut above the rest
Lyrics	Dire
Quality and consistency of tracks	A couple of weak links
Value for Money	Good

Advantages:	One of the greatest singers  -  29 greatest songs ( if like 2disc cd's)
Disadvantages:	To many songs for album(i think)

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Mariah Carey was born in Long Island, NY on 27th March 1970 to an Irish-American mother and Venezuelan-America father and she is the third child. As a school girl she began singing R&B in NY with Ben Margulies who was her songwriter and best friend and as time went on singing soul, gospel and pop it showed of her amazing voice range that we all know and love today. Before Carey hit the big time with 'VISION OF LOVE' which was massive NO.1 hit in USA she was a struggling waitress untill a friend of her's handed in a demo to Sony Music who were impressed and signed her to Columbia Records!.

In her first year she picked up 2 Grammy awards for Best female and Best new act.

Although Carey is a huge star she has only managed one number 1 hit in the UK with cover of 'WITHOUT YOU' which is one of my favourate song's of her's but Carey has amassed a number of NO.1 singles and albums like 'DAYDREAMER' which sold over 6million in three months in the USA. By the end of the 90's Carey sold over 110 million albums making her one of the biggest sellinf solo female artist and in 2001 Virgin Records signed her for $80 million... not bad for 31 year old hey??. Then 'GLITTER' came along and film and album flopped and they parted and 2005 came back with top spot album and back to her best!.

Carey has dueted with numerous people like fellow diva Whitney Houston which sang the soundtrack to animated film ''the prince of egypt', boyz2men, Trey Lorenz, Luther Vandross and ...Westlife.

The Album, MARIAH CAREY - GREATEST HITS (2001) is a excelant CD with all the songs we love, with her amazing voice some songs could bring a tear to the eye and 1 or 2 you wished you skiped but thats what i thought but thats just me. There is 2CD to this album which i thought was to much for one Album.

Here i rated each song out of 10 and what position they rached in the UK/US single charts and how long stayed in UK top 10.

VISION OF LOVE(1990)- Highest pos.UK.9 / US.1 - in UK top 10 for 2 weeks.
7/10
LOVE TAKES TIME(1990) pos. UK 37 / US 1
6/10
SOMEDAY(1991) pos.UK 38 / US 1
6/10
I DON'T WANNA CRY(1991) pos. N/A / US 1
7/10
EMOTIONS(1991) pos. UK 17 / US 1
8/10
CAN'T LET GO(1991) pos. UK 20 / US 2
6/10
MAKE IT HAPPEN(1992) pos UK 17 / US 5
7/10
I'LL BE THERE feat Trey Lorenz(1992) pos UK 2 / US 1 - in UK top ten for 3 weeks.
9/10
DREAMLOVER(1993) pos UK 9 / US 1 - UK top 10 4 weeks.
8/10
HERO(1993) pos. UK 7 / US 1 - UK top 10 3 weeks.
10/10
WITHOUT YOU(1994) pos. UK 1 / US 3 - UK top ten 8 weeks.
10/10
ANYTIME YOU NEED A FRIEND(1994) pos. UK 8 / US 12 - UK top ten 2 weeks.
7/10
ENDLESS LOVE feat.luther vandross(1994) pos. Uk 3 / US 2 - UK top ten 4 weeks.
9/10
FANTASY(1995) pos. UK 4 / US 1 - UK top ten 5 weeks.
8/10
ONE SWEET DAY(1995) pos. UK 6 /US 1 - UK top 2 weeks.
6/10
ALWAYS BE MY BABY(1995) pos. UK 3 / US 1 - UK top ten 3 weeks.
7/10
Forever(1995) pos. UK N/A / us n/a * AIRPLAY ONLY*
6/10
underneath the stars(1995) UK N/A / US N/A
6/10
HONEY(1997) pos. UK 3 / US 1 - UK top ten 2 weeks.
8/10
BUTTERFLY(1997) pos. UK 22 / US *AIRPLAY ONLY*
8/10
MY ALL(1998) pos. Uk 4 / US 1 - UK top ten 1 week.
9/10
SWEETHEART feat JD.(1998) pos. UK / US *AIRPLAY ONLY*
6/10
WHEN YOU BELIEVE feat. Whitney Houston(1998) pos. UK 4 / US 15 - UK top ten 1 week.
7/10
I STILL BELIEVE(1999) pos.UK 16 / US 4
7/10
HEARTBREAKER feat. Jay-Z(1999) pos. UK 5 / US 1
6/10
THANK GOD I FOUND YOU feat. Joe & 98 Degrees(2000) pos. UK 10 / US 1 - UK top ten 1 week.
6/10
CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY(Mariah's Theme)(2000) pos. UK N/A / US 28
5/10
AGAINST ALL ODDS(2000) pos. UK 1 / US N/A
8/10
"Bonus Track"
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU(original release 1994 UK 2 / US 83, album track never released).
9/10 original 6/10 so so Def Remix.

So, there is what i thought about the album, I think it's a great album overall so go out and buy and see for yourself!!.. I won it from auction site( duno if suppose mention site so wont but you know which one im on about!) so did'nt cost much and you can aswell.

Hope you enjoyed my review and helped you in some way! . I'll be seeing ya! bye ;o)

Paul-x-