Mariah Carey was born: Mar. 27, 1970 / Top 40 Songs

Happy birthday, Mariah Carey! In celebration, Dave’s Music Database offers up its list of her top 40 songs. As with all DMDB lists, this one has been created by aggregating multiple best-of lists along with chart data, sales, airplay, and awards.

1. We Belong Together (2005)
2. One Sweet Day (with Boyz II Men, 1995)
3. Vision of Love (1990)
4. Fantasy (1995)
5. Hero (1993)

We Belong Together

6. Dreamlover (1993)
7. Without You (1993)
8. Always Be My Baby (1995)
9. Love Takes Time (1990)
10. Someday (1990)

One Sweet Day

11. Emotions (1991)
12. I’ll Be There (live, 1992)
13. When You Believe (with Whitney Houston, 1998)
14. Anytime You Need a Friend (1994)
15. Make It Happen (1991)

Vision of Love

16. I Don’t Wanna Cry (1990)
17. Can’t Let Go (1991)
18. Touch My Body (2008)
19. My All (1998)
20. All I Want for Christmas Is You (1994)





21. I Still Believe (1999)
22. Endless Love (with Luther Vandross, (1994)
23. Honey (1997)
24. Shake It Off (2005)
25. Heartbreaker (with Jay-Z, 1999)

Fantasy

26. Don’t Forget about Us (2005)
27. Thank God I Found You (with Joe & 98 Degrees, 1999)
28. Butterfly (1997)
29. It’s Like That (with Fatman Scoop, 2005)
30. Loverboy (with Cameo, 2001)

Hero

31. I Know What You Want (with Busta Rhymes & the Flipmode Squad, 2003)
32. I Want to Know What Love Is (2009)
33. Breakdown (with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, 1997)
34. Obsessed (2009)
35. Through the Rain (2002)

Dreamlover

36. Forever (1995)
37. Bye Bye (2008)
38. Crybaby (with Snoop Dogg, 1999)
39. U Make Me Wanna (with Jadakiss, 2004)
40. Never Too Far (2001)

Always Be My Baby

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Awards:

• one of the top 100 acts of all time
  
• Hollywood Walk of Fame stars for people in the recording industry
  
• one of the top 100 singers of all time
  

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Resources and Related Links:

• Mariah Carey’s DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry
  

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CSNY released Déjà Vu

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Déjà Vu Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Released: March 11, 1970 Peak: 11 US, 5 UK, 1 CN, 12 AU Sales (in millions): 8.0 US, -- UK, 13.5 world (includes US and UK) Genre: folk rock/classic rock

Tracks: Song Title (Writers) [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. Carry On/Questions (Stills) [4:25] (5 CL) Teach Your Children (Nash) [2:53] (6/6/70, 16 US, 16 CB, 16 HR, 28 AC, 4 CL, 8 CN, 11 AU) Almost Cut My Hair (Crosby) [4:25] (14 CL) Helpless (Young) [3:30] (31 CL) Woodstock (Mitchell) [3:52] (3/21/70, 11 US, 13 CB, 10 HR, 3 CL, 3 CN, 19 AU) Déjà Vu (Crosby) [4:10] (19 CL) Our House (Nash) [2:59] (9/19/70, 30 US, 20 CB, 20 HR, 20 AC, 9 CL, 13 CN, 51 AU) 4 + 20 (Stills) [1:55] (14 CL) Country Girl: Whiskey Boot Hill/Down, Down, Down/ “Country Girl” (I Think You’re Pretty) (Young) [5:05] Everybody I Love You (Stills/Young) [2:20] Total Running Time: 36:24 The Players: David Crosby (vocals, rhythm guitar) Stephen Stills (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, organ, piano, percussion) Graham Nash (vocals, piano, organ, rhythm guitar, percussion) Neil Young (vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica) Dallas Taylor (drums, tambourine) Greg Reeves (bass)

Rating: 4.364 out of 5.00 (average of 30 ratings) Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album: When Crosby, Stills & Nash released their debut album in 1969, they effectively became one of the first supergroups. David Crosby had worked with The Byrds, Stephen Stills had been with Buffalo Springfield, and Graham Nash was previously in The Hollies. After their collaboration proved a success, the follow-up became “one of the most hotly awaited second albums in history.” AMG The expectations were ratched up all the more by the addition of Neil Young, who had worked with Stills in Buffalo Springfield and already was off to a great start as a solo artist. He “transformed the folk-rock CSN into a powerhouse;” RS500 his presence “added to the level of virtuosity” AMG upped “the range of available voices,” AMG and “and added a uniquely idiosyncratic songwriter to the fold.” AMG In addition, he and Stills rose “to new levels of complexity and volume on their guitars.” AMG However, egos and problems both emotional and relational made the recording of the sophomore effort difficult. With the exception of Carry On and the group’s take on Joni Mitchell’s Woodstock, most of the recording was done in individual sessions. AMG Through some 800 hours of work AMG thanks to continuous reworking of material CRS some members wondered if the album would ever be finished. CRS However, the talents of the collective and “some very skilled production, engineering, and editing” AMG not only produced a second effort, but the group “have yet to follow it up with material and performances as powerful.” CRS In fact, the album has been called “one of the greatest folk-rock albums of all time.” RV As far as individual achievements, “Teach Your Children, the major hit off the album, was a reflection of the hippie-era idealism that still filled Graham Nash’s life, while Our House was his stylistic paean to the late-era Beatles.” AMG Stills paired Questions with the “vocal-choir gallop” RS500 of Carry On to make “it more substantial” AMG and 4 + 20 “was a gorgeous…blues excursion that was a precursor to the material he would explore on the solo album that followed.” AMG Crosby delivered Almost Cut My Hair, “a piece of high-energy hippie-era paranoia not too far removed in subject from the Byrds’ ‘Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man,” AMG and the title track, which took some 100 hours to complete. AMG Young contributed “the exquisitely harmonized” AMG and “achingly plaintive Helpless” RS500 “and the roaring country-ish rockers that ended side two.” AMG “His seeming throwaway finale, Everybody I Love You, was a bone thrown to longtime fans as perhaps the greatest Buffalo Springfield song that they didn’t record.” AMG “All of this variety made Déjà Vu a rich musical banquet for the most serious and personal listeners, while mass audiences reveled in the glorious harmonies and the thundering electric guitars, which were presented in even more dramatic and expansive fashion on the tour that followed.” AMG Notes: A 50th anniversary edition added a second disc of demos, a third of outtakes, and a fourth of alternate takes.

Resources and Related Links: DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Crosby, Stills & Nash DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Neil Young AMG All Music Guide review by Bruce Eder CRS Tim Morse (1998). Classic Rock Stories: The Stories Behind the Greatest Rock Songs of All Time. New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin. RV The Review “100 Greatest Albums of All Time” by Clarke Speicher (October – November 2001; Vol. 128: numbers 12-23). RS500 Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time WK Wikipedia Other Related DMDB Pages: First posted 3/2/2008; last updated 9/4/2021.