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- The Ballads
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Mariah Carey
Released 2008

One Sweet Day
04:42
992 plays

Dreamlover
03:53
934 plays

I Still Believe
03:55
874 plays

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- 1
- Hero
- 04:18
- 1,491 plays

- 2
- Vision of Love
- 03:29
- 801 plays

- 3
- Without You
- 03:34
- 1,156 plays

- 4
- Always Be My Baby
- 04:18
- 1,302 plays

- 5
- My All
- 03:51
- 782 plays

- 6
- How Much
- 03:30
- 693 plays

- 7
- Dreamlover
- 03:53
- 934 plays

- 8
- Thank God I Found You [Make It Last Remix]
- 05:09
- 760 plays

- 9
- The Roof
- 05:14
- 623 plays

- 10
- One Sweet Day
- 04:42
- 992 plays

- 11
- Anytime You Need a Friend
- 04:27
- 643 plays

- 12
- I'll Be There
- 04:43
- 1,873 plays

- 13
- I Still Believe
- 03:55
- 874 plays

- 14
- Reflections (Care Enough)
- 03:21
- 474 plays

- 15
- Open Arms
- 03:28
- 525 plays

- 16
- Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
- 03:20
- 624 plays

- 17
- Endless Love
- 04:20
- 771 plays

- 18
- All I Want for Christmas Is You [*]
- 04:02
- 472 plays

album review

In 1998, it would have been a cheap joke to say that Mariah Carey had no other kind of hits than ballads, but in the ensuing decade she steadily remade herself into an R&B diva, obscuring if not quite erasing the well-mannered adult contemporary singer of the '90s. The 2009 compilation The Ballads -- released just before Valentines Day 2009 -- attempts to turn back the clock by focusing just on those AC tunes -- 18 of them, in fact, including such mammoth hits as "Hero," "One Sweet Day," "Vision of Love," "I'll Be There," "I Still Believe," "Dreamlover," and "Always Be My Baby." Of course, this concentration on middle of the road ballads is a side effect of label affiliation: The Ballads is a product of Sony, who had Mariah during the '90s, before the club R&B overshadowed these office-friendly hits, so it's easier for them to cobble together a comp of Carey at her most sentimental. And that's what The Ballads is: nothing but big love songs sung in a big voice. For fans who have missed this side of Mariah in the 2000s, this is a welcome reminder of what they used to love. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide