| rdfs:comment | - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is the 12th studio album by Mariah Carey released on September 25, 2009 by Island Records. After Carey's previous album, "E=MC²", Carey began to work in a new album, producing with The-Dream and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, and revealed the album's title through Twitter. Carey said that Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel would have "big ballads", and that "each song is its own snapshot of a moment in a story."
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| abstract | - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is the 12th studio album by Mariah Carey released on September 25, 2009 by Island Records. After Carey's previous album, "E=MC²", Carey began to work in a new album, producing with The-Dream and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, and revealed the album's title through Twitter. Carey said that Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel would have "big ballads", and that "each song is its own snapshot of a moment in a story." Three singles were released to promote the album; the lead single, "Obsessed", became the most successful among the three, reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, and reaching the top twenty in Japan, Canada and Australia and the top ten in Italy and France; the song was subject of controversy, because many people thought that Carey was indirectly referring to American rapper Eminem, who claims having a relationship with Carey. The follow-ups, "I Want to Know What Love Is", reached number 60 on Billboard Hot 100, and topped the Brazilian chart by twenty-seven non-consecutive weeks and "H.A.T.E.U." was Mariah's 50th single to enter on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Upon its release, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel garnered positive reviews from music critics. They felt that "their team-up with Carey is canny; Stewart and Nash loosen up the diva’s sometimes overblown on-record persona", and also "one of her most sonically consistent." Commercially, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200, selling 168,000 copies in its first week. Internationally, the album peaked within the top 10 in five countries, including Canada and Denmark. To promote the album, Carey made a pre-show in Madison Square Garden in 2009, before embarking on the Angels Advocate Tour (2010), and performed in several programs as "America's Got Talent", "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Today."
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