Make It Happen

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"Make It Happen"

Single by Mariah Carey
from the album Emotions
Released	April 4, 1992
Format	CD single, CD maxi single, cassette single, cassette maxi single, 7" single, 12" single
Genre	Dance-pop/R&B
Length	5:07
Label	Sony
Writer(s)	Mariah Carey, David Cole, Robert Clivillés
Producer(s)	Mariah Carey, David Cole, Robert Clivillés
Chart positions
#5 (U.S.) #16 (Canada) #17 (UK) #35 (Australia)
Mariah Carey singles chronology
"Can't Let Go" (1991)	"Make It Happen" (1992)	"I'll Be There" (1992)

"Make It Happen" is a song written and produced by Mariah Carey with David Cole and Robert Clivillés of the C&C Music Factory, and recorded for Carey's second album Emotions (1991). It is a dance/gospel hybrid in which Carey sings "if you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're going to make it happen". It was released as the album's third and final single in 1992 (see 1992 in music).

1 History
2 Track listings
3 Charts
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] History

Carey's first five U.S. singles had reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100; her sixth, "Can't Let Go", had reached number two. Pressure was put on "Make It Happen" to become Carey's next number-one hit, but it peaked at number five. It remained in the top forty for sixteen weeks and was one of the year's bigger hits, being ranked forty-second on the 1992 Hot 100 year-end charts. It received heavy radio airplay but sold moderately, and its high peak on the U.S. charts was because airplay was beginning to be weighed more heavily by Billboard magazine than sales. The single became Carey's first in the U.S. not to top any other Billboard chart, and was underperformed outside the U.S. like "Can't Let Go". It became her first single to miss the top ten in Canada, but it fared better than the previous single in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Like every earlier U.S. single release from Carey, it won a BMI Pop Award. This made every single from Emotions a BMI award winner, matching the record set by her debut album Mariah Carey. The single's video, directed by Marcus Nispel, features Carey holding an impromptu benefit concert inside a church slated for closing.

Carey performed an acoustic version of the song on the television show MTV Unplugged in 1992, and her setlist for the show was later released on the EP MTV Unplugged. Reviewing Carey's Unplugged appearance, Rolling Stone magazine wrote of "Make It Happen": "a somewhat obnoxious slice of self-help dance rhythm in its original version, is transferred into a bubbly gush of pure pop".^[1] Another version is a remix by the song's original producers, David Cole and Robert Clivillés, titled the "C+C classic version".

Carey also performed the song on the first concert of VH1 Divas Live in 1998. She was the opening performer of the event and after the first song "My All", she made a brief speech addressing the audience and performed Make It Happen then. As during the usual live performances of the song, a Gospel choir accompanied her. The performance of the song was the last song Carey sang solo.

As of 2006, the song continues to receive heavy airplay on U.S. adult contemporary radio stations such as Los Angeles's K-BIG. Carey frequently performs "Make It Happen" in concert, as well as at charity and fundraising events. One of her most widely-seen performances was at Live 8 in London's Hyde Park in July 2005, as part of the multicontinental awareness-raising project to reduce poverty in Africa. "Make It Happen" has been the usual set-closing number on Carey's 2006 The Adventures of Mimi Tour.

[edit] Track listings

U.S. CD maxi single (cassette maxi single/12" single)

"Make It Happen" (extended version)
"Make It Happen" (dub version)
"Make It Happen" (C+C classic version)
"Make It Happen" (radio edit)
"Make It Happen" (album version)
"Emotions" (Special Motion edit)

[edit] Charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	5
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	7
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	16
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	13
U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40	2
Canadian Singles Chart	16
UK Singles Chart	17
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	35