Mariah Carey has landed a new award from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Her 1999 single “Heartbreaker,” featuring Jay-Z, has been certified 2x platinum with over two million equivalent units sold.
The smash hit, produced by Carey, DJ Clue, and Ken “Duro” Ifill, was first certified gold in October 1999, before the release of its parent album, Rainbow.
Carey’s latest RIAA update comes on the heels of releasing Rainbow: 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition on June 14. The deluxe album features 14 bonus tracks, including “Rainbow’s End,” an upbeat continuation of the “Rainbow (Interlude).”
“When the Rainbow album was first released, the title track was a dream-like interlude that I felt was a hopeful ending to an emotional roller-coaster ride,” Carey wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “I always hoped that one day I would get to find my rainbow’s end… I’m not sure if I have, but with #Rainbow25, I tried!”
Additionally, Rainbow 25 includes a So So Def remix of the Usher-assisted “How Much,” more remixes, live recordings, acapella tracks and a rare track titled “There For Me.”
Carey’s seventh album, Rainbow, was released on Nov. 2, 1999, and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
The album was preceded by “Heartbreaker,” which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The follow-up single, “Thank God I Found You,” featuring Joe and 98 Degrees, also reached No. 1.
Last month, Carey released a remix EP of her 2018 ballad “Portrait” from Caution. The four-track EP included a house remix, a radio edit of the remix, as well as the standard version of the song, which Carey co-wrote with Daniel Moore.
Stream Mariah Carey’s Rainbow: 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition below.
