On her Instagram Tales, Carey posted the identical clip, however with a frozen countdown ticker, which displayed “19:06:42″.
The icon’s tease of a brand new album got here the day after she previewed the brand new single, Sugar Candy.
Carey gave her followers a sneak peek into the light-hearted observe – which options the lyrics: “Imma maintain it good, Imma maintain it neat, Imma maintain it sugar, Imma maintain it candy” – in a video of her baking one thing in a kitchen on Jul 19.
In June, Carey achieved a powerful milestone with considered one of her hit songs.
Over 500 million individuals listened to 1995 observe Fantasy on the music streaming platform, Spotify.
Fantasy was Carey’s ninth Quantity One single on the US Billboard Sizzling 100 chart, and it spent eight weeks on the high from Sep 30 to Nov 18, 1995.
It was additionally the primary single, by a feminine artist, to debut atop the chart, and solely the second single to take action after You Are Not Alone by Michael Jackson.
Carey has now received 4 songs which have reached this milestone, with the others being the 1994 vacation traditional All I Need For Christmas Is You, which has been streamed over two billion instances, 2005’s We Belong Collectively, which has been listened to over 777 million instances, and 2009’s Obsessed, which has totted nearly 600 million streams.