It was certified Platinum, it's a smash. I mean, We Belong Together is Platinum...
But to answer the question it was a smash for her - first Top 20 in 4 years. Top 20 is a smash in U.S., if you don't live here.
It also was the key to her breakthrough success for the rest of the era as it went #14 on Airplay, her best Airplay for a single since Heartbreaker - at a time where for the past 5 years her highest peak on Airplay was #50 (Loverboy).
Airplay is what really ruined her career 2001-2004 so the fact the song got her back on the radios makes it a success in her book, and it also lead to one of the Biggest U.S. Airplay Songs of All-Time : We Belong Together.
It was also kinda lucky to peak at #16 considering it was #14 on Hot 100 Airplay, #18 on Hot Single Sales (Physical Sales) and #54 on Hot Digital Tracks.
At the time, Mariah hadn't had a hit in years and wasn't that well-liked by the public. It's like That was her reintroduction to radio.
I remember watching a video of a radio DJ talking about the song and he said that there were people that called and told him to "stop playing wh0re music".
I remember when this song came out and a DJ said it was her highest Top 40 radio debut to date. It turned out to be a minor hit, but the beginning of her comeback.
She was coming off of a bad couple of years and this paved the way for TEOM to properly smash. She led with a slow burner then boom We Belong Together exploded. Considering how her previous singles had done, this was a hit.
It was a mid-sized global hit, I was abroad at that time and heard it everywhere too.
She just came back from two big underperforming era's, no one thought she'd ever come back "like that"
so radio simply did not give her much of a Chance
I've always been puzzled as to why it wasn't a smash in the US
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Did you just stanning like recently I would think most of her fans would know about the intensely negative perception about her in the public back then and her lack of airplay
I would think most of her fans would know about the intensely negative perception about her in the public back then and her lack of airplay
