![]() Though fueled by strong media attention regarding Carey's return to music, as well as her new deal with Island Records, the albums failed to deliver the type of success she had been accustomed to throughout the 1990s, and only managed sales of 3 million copies globally. ![]() Carey performed the song while on The Adventures of Mimi Tour and the song has been on every tour set list since then.Ĭarey had produced back-to-back commercially and critically unsuccessful albums, Glitter (2001) and Charmbracelet (2002). In Europe the song was performed at the Live 8 charity concert, the Fashion Rocks in Monaco, and the German Bambi Awards. Carey performed the song on several award shows and television appearances around the world, namely MTV Movie Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Macy's Fourth of July Parade, The Oprah Winfrey Show and the 48th Grammy Awards. Rumors arose of the video's connection to her 1993 marriage to Sony CEO Tommy Mottola, as they did for Carey’s 1997 video for the song “Honey”. The video for "We Belong Together" is a continuation, focusing on Carey's wedding to an powerful older man and ending with the singer eloping with her younger ex-lover (played by actor Wentworth Miller of the TV show Prison Break). The song's music video was filmed as a two-part story with " It's Like That", which featured Carey at her bachelorette party. "We Belong Together" also topped the charts in Australia and reached the top-five in more than ten countries, including Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom. Additionally, it broke several airplay records, gathering both the largest one-day and one-week audiences in history. Billboard listed it as the "song of the decade" and the fifteenth most popular song of all time. After staying at number one for fourteen nonconsecutive weeks, it joined four other songs in a tie as the third longest running number one song in US chart history, behind Carey's own 1995 collaboration with Boyz II Men titled " One Sweet Day". The song broke chart records in the United States and became Carey's sixteenth topper on the US Billboard Hot 100. "We Belong Together" earned her several music industry awards and nominations throughout 20. The lyrics chronicle a woman's desperation for her former lover to return.įollowing a relatively unsuccessful period between 20, critics dubbed the song her musical comeback, as many had considered her career over. "We Belong Together" is built on a simple piano arrangement with an understated backbeat. Since the song interpolates lyrics from Bobby Womack's " If You Think You're Lonely Now" (1981) and the Deele's " Two Occasions" (1987), the songwriters of those respective songs are credited. ![]() "We Belong Together" was written by Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal, and Johntá Austin, and produced by the former three. The song was released on March 15, 2005, through Island Records, as the second single from the album. " We Belong Together" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey from her tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). For other uses, see We Belong Together (disambiguation). ![]()
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