The Emancipation of Mimi (Ultra Platinum Edition)
The Emancipation of Mimi (Ultra Platinum Edition) (2005) is the tenth studio album by American singer Mariah Carey, released through Island Records in the United States on April 12, 2005.
Within months of its release, several music journalists began describing Carey's success as "the biggest comeback in pop music". In the updated edition for The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time published in 2020 by American magazine Rolling Stone, the album ranked at number 389.
It reached the six million sales mark in the US in October 2013, and in September 2022, the album was certified seven-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. In January 2025, The Emancipation of Mimi was ranked by Billboard as the 45th highest-performing album of the 21st century so-far on the Billboard 200, based on weekly chart performance.