Mariah Carey is the first album by American singer Mariah Carey, released in the United States on June 12, 1990 by Columbia Records. It was very successful for a debut album, selling roughly eighteen million copies worldwide and shipping nine million copies in the U.S. Although sales were initially slow, it made Carey a star in her home country and yielded four number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with the album itself spending eleven weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. The album and its combination of R&B-tinged pop ballads (including the singles "Vision of Love", "Love Takes Time" and "I Don't Wanna Cry") and up-tempo numbers ("Someday", "There's Got to Be a Way") impressed many critics, though not all reviews were favourable.