Throwback Of The Day..Mariah Carey Can't Let Go'

"Can't Let Go" is a ballad written and produced by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, and recorded for Carey's second album Emotions (1991). It was released as the album's second single in the fourth quarter of 1991 in the United States and the first quarter of 1992 elsewhere.


Carey's first five American singles (most recently "Emotions") had reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. "Can't Let Go" ended the streak when it reached number two (kept from #1 by "All for Love" by Color Me Badd), and spent seventeen weeks in the top forty. The song topped was the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, where it became Carey's fourth number one single. The next single Make it Happen would break that streak. Can't Let Go ranked twentieth on the 1992 Hot 100 year-end charts.