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Glitter is a soundtrack album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, recorded for the film Glitter and released in the United States by Virgin Records on September 112001 (see 2001 in music). It has been certified platinum by the RIAA, sold about four million copies worldwide (a relative failure for Carey) and was generally panned by many critics, though Rolling Stone declared it "a big step foward in terms of maturity for one of pop music's eternal kids" and gave it a three-star review. It was released shortly before the film Glitter, in which Carey starred, which was also a critical and commercial failure. Carey has cited the September 11, 2001 attacks as one of the reasons the album failed. In an interview, she said: "I released it around 9/11. I became a punching bag. I was so successful that they tore me down because my album was at No. 2 instead of No. 1. The media was laughing at me and attacked me." (In fact, her album debuted at number seven on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and fell rapidly after that, remaining on the chart for twelve weeks. It was actually the lead single that was at number 2, instead of number 1). The poor reaction toward Carey's film debut was also blamed for the poor sales of the album.
