The Remixes

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The Remixes is the first remix album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, released on June 25, 2003, by Columbia Record. It is primarily a collection of remixes of some of Carey's songs: disc one is compiled of club mixe, while disc two contains Carey's hip hop collaborations and remixe. Following the demise of her marriage with Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola after the release of her sixth studio album Butterfly (1997), American singer Mariah Carey negotiated her exit from record label Columbia in exchange for the release of four albums: #1's (1998; her first greatest hits album), Rainbow (1999; her seventh studio album), Greatest Hits (2001; her second greatest hits album), and "The Remixes" (2003; her first remix album). By the time of the latter's release, Mottola had resigned from Sony Music and Carey was consequently more creatively involved in the album than Greatest Hit, for which she admitted not knowing of its impending release in 2001. In a 2003 interview with the Scripps Howard News Service, Carey summed up The Remixes' release as "a contractual Sony thing". However, Carey told The Hollywood Reporter she had always wanted to put out a remix album and reflected positively about its tracklist. "The Remixes" received a staggered release worldwide as a cassette and compact disc. Sony Music Japan International released the album in Japan on June 25, 2003, to correspond with Carey's Charmbracelet World Tour dates in that country. While a United States release was scheduled for the previous day, Columbia Records delayed the album multiple times to July 1, August 5, and September 2, before releasing it on October 14. Elsewhere, The Remixes was released on October 6 in the United Kingdom, October 14 in Taiwan, October 21 in Canada, October 24 in South Korea, and November 3 in Australia. "The Remixes" is a dance, pop and R&B album. Disc one features songs with disco, electronica, gospel, house, and techno influence, while disc two contains hip-hop collaborations with rapper. The album features Carey's duet with Busta Rhyme, I Know What You Want (2002), originally recorded for Rhymes' album "It Ain't Safe No More". It also includes two tracks previously only available in Japan: the So So Def Remix of "The One", a canceled single from Carey's Charmbracelet (2002) album; and the remix of "Miss You" featuring Jadaki, which was originally recorded for "Charmbracelet" and samples "It's All About the Benjamins", which featured Jadakiss as part of The Lox alongside Diddy, Lil' Kim and The Notorious B.I.G. .

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