Butterfly is the sixth studio album by American pop/R&B; singer Mariah Carey, released on September 16, 1997 in the U.S on Columbia Records. Butterfly was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA and has sold an estimated 15 million copies worldwide.
Butterfly debuted at number 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with 236,000 copies sold in its first week; it remained there for one week, in the top twenty for twenty-one weeks and on the chart for fifty-fi...
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Butterfly is the sixth studio album by American pop/R&B; singer Mariah Carey, released on September 16, 1997 in the U.S on Columbia Records. Butterfly was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA and has sold an estimated 15 million copies worldwide.
Butterfly debuted at number 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with 236,000 copies sold in its first week; it remained there for one week, in the top twenty for twenty-one weeks and on the chart for fifty-five weeks (making one re-entry). The album sold more in both its fourteenth week and fifteenth week of release than in its opening week, peaking at 283,000 copies in its fifteenth (when it was at number 8). It has been certified 5x platinum by the RIAA and produced two number 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100: "Honey" and "My All". "Honey" became the sixth single (and the third by Carey) to debut at number 1 on the Hot 100. The album also yielded the airplay-only singles "Butterfly" and "Breakdown". "The Roof (Back in Time)" and "Whenever You...
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