Mariah Carey has teased that details of her long-awaited new album will be announced on Monday (21.07.25).
The 56-year-old pop icon took to social media over the weekend to reveal that more information about MC16, her untitled 16th studio album, is imminent.
On July 20, Mariah posted a video that celebrated her albums, beginning with MC1 – her 1990 self-titled debut LP – through to 2018’s MC15, known as Caution.
At the end of the 37-second video montage, the Obsessed hitmaker displayed the text “MC16”, and on X, the clip showed the title “MC16 – Announcement Tomorrow”.
On her Instagram Stories, Mariah posted the same clip, but with a frozen countdown ticker, which displayed “19:06:42″.
The icon’s tease of a new album came the day after she previewed the new single, Sugar Sweet.
Mariah gave her fans a sneak peek into the light-hearted track – which features the lyrics: “Imma keep it nice, Imma keep it neat, Imma keep it sugar, Imma keep it sweet” – in a video of her baking something in a kitchen on July 19.
In June, Mariah achieved an impressive milestone with one of her hit songs.
Over 500 million people listened to the R+B-and-pop star’s 1995 track Fantasy on the music streaming platform, Spotify.
Fantasy was Mariah’s ninth Number One single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and it spent eight weeks at the top from September 30 to November 18, 1995.
It was also the first single, by a female artist, to debut atop the chart, and only the second single to do so after “You Are Not Alone” by Michael Jackson.
Fantasy – which was written by Mariah, Steven Stanley, Adrian Belew, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Dave Hall – is about how a woman is in love with a man, and every time she sees him, the woman fantasises about being in a relationship with him.
Mariah, 56, said in a recent interview that she was surprised by how many people resonated with Fantasy.
Speaking to 98.5 KRZ in June, she said: “A lot of people, they didn’t think I should do that song. And why would I work with O.D.B.? Because they didn’t understand that was my choice.
“And, anyway, it ended up being one of my favourite – one of my biggest songs ever.”
Mariah has now got four songs that have reached this milestone, with the others being the 1994 holiday classic All I Want For Christmas Is You, which has been streamed over two billion times, 2005’s We Belong Together, which has been listened to over 777 million times, and 2009’s Obsessed, which has totted almost 600 million streams.