Charmbracelet

Charmbracelet
Studio album by Mariah Carey
Released	December 3, 2002 (2002-12-03)
Recorded	March–September 2002
Studio	Various Henson Studio, Enterprise 2 Studios, The Record Plant, The Village Recorder, Westlake Audio, The Womb, Studio Atlantis (Los Angeles, California) SouthSide Studios, Zac Recording (Atlanta, Georgia) Capri Digital Studios, Capro Studio (Capri, Italy) Quad Recording, Right Track Studios (New York, New York) Compass Point Studios (Nassau, Bahamas) Flyte Tyme Studio (Edina, Minnesota) The Studio (Philadelphia, Philadelphia)
Genre	R&B hip hop pop
Length	64:45
Label	MonarC Island
Producer	Mariah Carey (also exec.) Lyor Cohen (exec.) Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Just Blaze Randy Jackson Jermaine Dupri Damizza Dre & Vidal James "Big Jim" Wright Bryan-Michael Cox
Mariah Carey chronology
Greatest Hits (2001) Charmbracelet (2002) The Remixes (2003)
Singles from Charmbracelet
"Through the Rain" Released: October 17, 2002 "Boy (I Need You)" Released: March 24, 2003 "I Know What You Want" Released: May 17, 2003 "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" Released: November 25, 2003

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	43/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Billboard	favorable
Entertainment Weekly	C
The Guardian
The New York Times	favorable
New York	unfavorable
NME	unfavorable
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine
USA Today
Yahoo! Music UK

Charmbracelet is the ninth studio album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, released on December 3, 2002 through MonarC Entertainment and Island Records. The album was her first release since her breakdown following the release of her film Glitter (2001) and its accompanying soundtrack album, both of which were critical and commercial failures from the previous year. Critics described Charmbracelet as one of her most personal records, following 1997's Butterfly, Throughout the project, Carey collaborated with several songwriters and producers, including Jermaine Dupri, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, 7 Aurelius and Dre & Vidal.

According to Carey, love is the album's main theme, and the songs combine introspective and personal themes with celebration and fun. The album contains a mixture of pop ballads and R&B beats, and the songs incorporate elements of other genres, such as gospel and soul. Compared to Glitter, which featured a variety of sampled melodies from the 1980s, Charmbracelet has a softer hip hop and R&B sound to it. Cam'ron, Jay-Z and Freeway also appear on the album.

Charmbracelet debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, and sold 241,000 copies in its first week. The album peaked within the top 40 in seven countries, and attained top ten positions in Japan and Switzerland.

Three singles were released to promote the album. The lead single, "Through the Rain" reached the top ten in Canada, Switzerland, Sweden and Italy and the United Kingdom. In the US, it topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart, but stalled at number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100. Carey embarked on the Charmbracelet World Tour, and performed 69 shows in over eight months. She also performed on televised shows and promotional tours like the 30th annual American Music Awards, Today and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

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