There's Got to Be a Way

"There's Got to Be a Way"
"There's Got to Be a Way"
Single by Mariah Carey
from the album Mariah Carey
B-side	"Vision of Love"; "I Don't Wanna Cry"; "Someday";
Released	May 20, 1991
Recorded	February 1990
Studio	Cove City Sound; Power Station, New York City;
Genre	Pop; gospel; R&B;
Length	4:52
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Mariah Carey; Ric Wake;
Producer(s)	Ric Wake; Narada Michael Walden;
Mariah Carey singles chronology
Music video
	"There's Got to Be a Way" on YouTube

"There's Got to Be a Way" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey for her eponymous debut studio album (1990). Columbia Records released it as the fifth and final single from the album in the United Kingdom and several European countries on May 20, 1991. The song became a minor hit in the UK (reaching #54 on the UK Singles Chart) as well as becoming a minor hit in many European countries. A five-track digital extended play containing remixes of the song was released in July 2020 as part of the 30th-anniversary celebrations of her debut album.

"There's Got to Be a Way" is a socio-political conscious R&B-pop song which denounces the existence of poverty, racism and war in the world which gradually becomes aspirational and hopeful as it progresses. The track garnered a mixed reception upon the album's release in 1990 and as a single; it was seen as too political. Also at this time, although Carey had some success in a few countries worldwide, she did not have an extremely large following outside of the United States. Her international profile on the music scene would begin to rise somewhat with the release of her third album. An accompanying music video for the song highlights social injustices. In May 2020, Carey performed a snippet of the song in a video posted online in response to the murder of George Floyd.