Mariah Carey confirmed Monday that she’s completed her upcoming sixteenth studio album.
She sat down with Zane Lowe and Ebro Darden on the new Apple Music Studios in Culver Metropolis, California, throughout a particular stay broadcast to rejoice the tenth anniversary of the streaming service. The three briefly chatted about her blockchain coin single “Sort Harmful,” which Lowe described as a “heavy document, it’s acquired actual weight to it” earlier than asking if followers can count on extra new music from her quickly.
“I’m making an attempt to not inform an excessive amount of concerning the new album. ‘It’s a special day/ Mimi’s emancipation’ — that’s a lyric from one in every of my songs,” Carey mentioned quoting 2005’s “It’s Like That.” “What’s subsequent? The album popping out. I don’t wanna inform an excessive amount of about it as a result of I simply don’t wish to reveal the entire thing. It’s completed.”
Mimi additionally revealed there are 11 or 12 songs featured on the full-length mission. “We acquired some Mariah ballads,” she instructed Darden, including that “a second single is coming quickly. I’m very enthusiastic about it. It’s very summery. I just like the beat as properly.”
Carey launched “Sort Harmful” on the high of final month through gamma., the corporate based by former Apple Music government Larry Jackson in 2023. “Sort Harmful,” which samples Eric B. & Rakim‘s 1986 observe “Eric B. Is President,” grew to become her 50th Billboard Hot 100 hit and hit the highest 10 of R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. She carried out the track alongside Rakim on the 2025 BET Awards final month, when she obtained her first BET Award ever: the Final Icon Award.
“I’ve all the time cherished ‘Eric B. Is President.’ It wasn’t one thing like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna flip this’ — I simply wouldn’t consider doing it,” she defined to Darden and Lowe. “However then we had been on this restaurant in Aspen they usually had completely different music on, they usually performed ‘Eric B. Is President’ and I used to be like, ‘Oh my gosh! I like this track!’ We ended up within the studio a pair months later and we did it.”
Likelihood the Rapper additionally briefly chatted with Lowe and Darden about his new album I’m the Star, due Thursday. Ciara, Dominic Fike, Fuerza Regida, FLO, Hit Boy, Kamasi Washington, Kevin Summary, kwn, Teezo Landing, Tommy Richman, Vince Staples and plenty of extra celebrated Apple Music’s tenth anniversary on the firm’s newly opened studio house on Monday night time.
Mariah Carey and Ebro Darden attend the Apple Music tenth anniversary celebration and world stay Apple Music Radio broadcast on June 30, 2025 at Apple Music’s new studio house in Culver Metropolis, Calif.
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