Mariah Carey Announces New Compilation Album Titled ‘The Rarities’
Mariah Carey is releasing a new album really soon.
The 50-year-old star took to her Twitter on Tuesday evening (August 18) to announce that she is releasing a new compilation album called The Rarities, which will be out on October 2.
“This one is for you, my fans,” she tweeted. “It’s to celebrate us, and to thank you for years of pure love and support. I am so grateful to you. THE RARITIES album is out October 2.”
The Rarities will feature unreleased materials, including demos and b-sides.
The first single, featuring Lauryn Hill, has dropped today, on Friday, August 21.
The Grammy-awarded singer has started working on “Save the Day” with early collaborator Jermaine Dupri years ago, she told Good Morning America.
While the song’s genesis began a long time ago, its sentiment is fitting for the current climate.
“Basically, I found stuff in my vault, that I either started to work on a long time ago and never released, or, you know, that I kind of wanted to finish mixing or do whatever,” she explained to GMA of her upcoming The Rarities. “But they’re songs that have previously not been released.”
Mariah‘s upcoming memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey will be released a few days before the album on September 29,via Andy Cohen Books.
“It’s been a labor of love but there are a lot of very personal stories about my childhood that I think, you know, those were difficult but they’re very cathartic as well,” she said to GMA.
“And the cool thing about this project is that there are songs that I talk about writing or recording even as a little kid until now that I found in the vault, and so we’re kind of putting this out at the same time.”
The Rarities will also contain a second disc of never-before-released full-length audio from Live at the Tokyo Dome, Carey’s first live performance in Japan during her 1996 Daydream World Tour.
