Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
Studio album by Mariah Carey
Released	September 29, 2009 (2009-09-29)[1][2]
Recorded	January 31 – August 25, 2009[3]
Genre	R&B hip hop
Length	58:01
Label	Island Def Jam Island Def Jam
Producer	Mariah Carey James "Big Jim" Wright Heatmyzer Los Da Mystro Christopher "Tricky" Stewart Terius "The-Dream" Nash
Mariah Carey chronology
The Ballads (2008) Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (2009) Merry Christmas II You (2010)
Singles from Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
"Obsessed" Released: June 16, 2009 "I Want to Know What Love Is" Released: September 22, 2009 "H.A.T.E.U." Released: November 1, 2009 "Up Out My Face" Released: February 16, 2010 "Angels Cry" Released: February 23, 2010 "It's a Wrap" Released: February 10, 2023

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released on September 29, 2009 in the United States, by Island Records, Def Jam Recordings and The Island Def Jam Music Group. After promotion for her previous album, E=MC² (2008) ended, Carey began to work on a new album, producing songs with Terius "The-Dream" Nash 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".

Five singles were released to promote the album. The lead single, "Obsessed", became the album's most successful song, peaking at 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 second single, "I Want to Know What Love Is", reached number 60 on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the Brasil Hot 100 Airplay chart for twenty-seven non-consecutive weeks. Other singles released were "H.A.T.E.U.", "Up Out My Face", and "Angels Cry", with the last two being originally intended for the subsequently-cancelled remix album, Angels Advocate. "It's a Wrap" was released as the album's sixth single in 2023 after going viral on video sharing platform TikTok.

Upon its release, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel received 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, the album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 with 168,000 copies sold in its first week, and peaked within the top-ten in other five countries. To promote the album, Carey made a pre-show in Madison Square Garden in 2009, embarked on the Angels Advocate Tour (2010), and performed on several television programs, including America's Got Talent, The Oprah Winfrey Show and Today.