Underneath the Stars (song)

"Underneath the Stars"
"Underneath the Stars"
Single by Mariah Carey
from the album Daydream
A-side	"Forever" (Australia)
Released	November 19, 1996
Recorded	December 1994
Genre	Soul; R&B;
Length	3:33
Label	Columbia
Composer(s)	Mariah Carey; Walter Afanasieff;
Lyricist(s)	Mariah Carey
Producer(s)	Walter Afanasieff; Mariah Carey;
Mariah Carey singles chronology
Music video
	"Underneath the Stars" on YouTube

"Underneath the Stars" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. The song was written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, for her fifth studio album, Daydream (1995). It was released on November 19, 1996, through Columbia Records, as the sixth and final single from the album and as a B-side to "Forever" in Australia. The R&B-influenced song, which has been considered by Carey as one of her personal favorites, features a soft and retro-style melody and had music critics drawing comparisons to earlier works from Minnie Riperton, one of Carey's vocal inspirations.

"Underneath the Stars" received a limited number of pressings in the United States and was ineligible to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100. However, the song did manage to chart at number sixty-nine on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay component chart in 1996, as well as at number thirteen on the R&B Digital Songs chart in 2020. Critically, it was considered one of the best songs on Daydream by music reviewers. A music video was shot in Europe which Carey released on November 13, 2020.^[1] The song was performed throughout the Daydream World Tour and the performance at the Tokyo Dome was later included on The Rarities.

^ "The long lost video for Underneath The Stars is finally here!..." Twitter.com. November 13, 2020. Archived from the original on November 13, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

[1] "The long lost video for Underneath The Stars is finally here!..." Twitter.com. November 13, 2020. Archived from the original on November 13, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

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