During a special live broadcast with Zane Lowe and Ebro Darden celebrating the 10th anniversary of Apple Music, Mariah Carey revealed that her long-awaited new album is finished, and a second single will debut in the not-so-distant future.

“I’m trying not to tell too much about the new album. ‘It’s a special occasion / Mimi’s emancipation’ — that’s a lyric from one of my songs [Carey said quoting 2005’s 'It’s Like That.'] ... What is next? The album coming out. I don’t wanna tell too much about it because I just don’t want to reveal the whole thing. It’s finished.”

Carey returned last month with "Type Dangerous", her first solo single since 2019. Heavily sampling Eric B. & Rakim's 1986 track "Eric B. Is President", the song is built around the energetic bass lines and Rakim's iconic "Make 'em clap to this" lyric. With distinctive new jack swing, "Type Dangerous" also features Carey's signature flowery vocals. Released via gamma, the company founded by former Apple Music exec Larry Jackson, the single became Mimi's 50th Billboard Hot 100 hit and also reached the top 10 of R&B/hip-hop airplay.

In her chat with the famed DJs, Carey said of the track:

“I’ve always loved ‘Eric B. Is President.’ It wasn’t something like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna flip this’ — I just wouldn’t think of doing it ... But then we were in this restaurant in Aspen and they had different music on, and they played ‘Eric B. Is President’ and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh! I love this song!’ We ended up in the studio a couple months later and we did it.”

Carey also dropped the news that her upcoming album will feature 11 or 12 songs. “We got some Mariah ballads,” she told Darden, adding that “a second single is coming soon. I’m very excited about it. It’s very summery. I like the beat as well.”

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For those who cannot wait for new music, Oscar-winning icon Barbra Streisand released her latest debuts album; The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2; earlier this week, with a track featuring Carey and Ariana Grande called "One Heart, One Voice".