Average: 8.955
Highest: 10[Ace Reject, Honey, Mariah4life, Soda Pop Queen, EJQL8, Beyond Say, Wil, Neptune, nicklada, waryofothers, Sawdust, tcweh, berberocka, StateoftheWorld, Great Username, Damien M, Praise Mariallah, Taste of Honey, dreamloverfantasy, alkralkra]
Lowest: 5[Strangergab, Kworb]
Of all the things that this rate has gotten right, this is the rightest. Mariah's best ballad - at least, of those released as singles - is her highest placer. Brava y'all.
Mariah's first U.S. single to not go number one, perhaps it didn't work for the same reason some of our European/Latin American users did not get it (Hello Kworb and Strangergab!) - it is unmistakably Rhythm & Blues. [A perfect Quiet Storm song, to be specific.] But by tethering itself to a specific time, place, and genre, Mariah created something truly special. Unlike the rather generic boilerplate adult contemporary ballads, Can't Let Go doubles down in "black music" signifiers of the time. It also presents a more youthful Mariah, one the audience had never encountered. For the first time, she sounds like a 21/22 year old girl, transitioning into young womanhood. Notice the first verse, so gentle in vocal execution and lyrical detail; she sounds as if she's in any high school, watching the boy of her dreams walk down the hallway with his new girl. Her pain feels real, and the vocal is spot on. No adlibs or runs for the sake of her ego, EVERYTHING is germane to lyric and music. Stunning.
Thanks so much for righting what the charts didn't.
There you aaa-a-aare holding ha haaa-aand
I am loooost, trying to u-u-understand
Didn't IIII-I-I cherish you riii-iight?
Don't you knoow you were my liii-i-i-ife?
Emotions should've left before this. 
