Mariah Carey is here for all the triumphant and turbulent times on her 16th studio album Here for It All, which dropped on Friday (Sept. 26) via gamma.
On her first album in seven years, she turns up the braggadocio on “Mi” and “Type Dangerous,” luxuriates in confections on “Sugar Sweet” (featuring Shenseea and Kehlani) and “Confetti and Champagne,” and gives glory to the Highest One on “Jesus I Do” (featuring The Clark Sisters) and the closing title track.
Since 2018’s Caution, she’s kept her finger on the pulse of the hottest singles by hopping on remixes of Latto’s “Big Energy” (which flips Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love,” like her own “Fantasy” did), Ariana Grande’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Yes, And?” and Muni Long’s “Made For Me.” She’s also released anniversary editions of past albums on an almost yearly basis, including The Emancipation of Mimi (20th Anniversary Edition) earlier this year. And while she still doesn’t subscribe to the passage of time, Carey’s latest addition to her legendary catalog showcases a tried-and-true auteur who’s not concerned with chasing charting hits or critical praise (because she’s had more of both than most artists will get in their entire lifetimes) but rather chasing the high of doing the thing she loves most and is best at.
The elusive chanteuse’s new album was preceded by two singles: “Type Dangerous,” which samples Eric B. & Rakim‘s 1986 track “Eric B. Is President,” and “Sugar Sweet.” And the rollout for Here for It All has run parallel to the separate red carpet that’s been rolled out for Carey and the iconic career that’s gotten her to this point. In March, she received the Icon Award at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards. Then she performed “Type Dangerous” alongside Rakim and Anderson .Paak at the 2025 BET Awards in June, when she received her first BET Award ever: the Ultimate Icon Award. And earlier this month, she performed “Sugar Sweet” at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, when she received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
Carey still has nothing left to prove, but she insists on getting back in the booth and recording another reminder of who she is and why she gets to make such an eclectic, free-wheeling album 35 years in.
Read Billboard‘s preliminary ranking of all 11 songs from MC’s Here for It All below.
The post “Mariah Carey’s ‘Here for It All’: All 11 Tracks Ranked” by Heran Mamo was published on 09/26/2025 by www.billboard.com