Caution (2018)

 

Caution is the fifteenth studio album by American R&B singer Mariah Carey. It was released on November 16, 2018, by Epic Records, her final release with the label. Her first studio album in four years, Carey collaborated with Ty Dolla Sign, Slick Rick, Blood Orange, and Gunna on the album's songs and worked with a variety of producers. Musically, Caution is a R&B, pop and hip hop record. The album was supported by the singles "With You" and "A No No", both failed to enter major charts worldwide.

The album performed modestly in the United States where it debuted and peaked at number 5 on the US Billboard 200, with 51,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, but had minor impact elsewhere, reaching the top forty in Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The album received critical acclaim, with many critics calling it Carey's most cohesive work in over a decade, and appeared on several year-end music lists of 2018. Carey embarked on the Caution World Tour in support of the album, which failed to boost sales for the album, which had sold only around 80,000 copies worldwide by 2019.

In 2022, the song "Runway" from the album's Japanese edition was released onto all streaming platforms as a re-issue of the album. In May 2024, Carey released "Portrait" as an extended play which included three remixes of the song.