Mariah Carey achieves her landmark 50th career hit on the Billboard Hot 100, as her new single, “Type Dangerous,” debuts at No. 95 on the chart dated June 21, 2025.
Released June 6, the song starts with 2.5 million official streams, 14.7 million in radio airplay audience and 5,000 sold in the United States in the week ending June 12, according to data tracker Luminate.
Boosting its profile, Carey performed “Type Dangerous” on the 2025 BET Awards on June 9, when she was also honored with the Ultimate Icon Award.
The track, which Carey co-wrote and co-produced, previews her 16th studio album, her first since Caution in 2018. The song’s official video premiered Saturday (June 14).
Carey debuts her first new title on the Hot 100 since “Oh Santa!,” featuring Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson, spent a week on the chart dated Dec. 19, 2020. “Type Dangerous” is her first nonseasonal song to reach the ranking since “I Don’t,” featuring YG, logged a week on the list dated Feb. 25, 2017. “Type Dangerous” is her first non-holiday entry without any billed artists since “Infinity,” on the May 16, 2015, chart.
Beginning in December 2019, through this past holiday season, Carey has decorated the top of the Hot 100 for 18 weeks with her evergreen (and red) 1994 classic, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” The carol became her 19th No. 1 – the most among soloists and second overall only to the Beatles’ 20.
(Carey is also heard on two Hot 100 top 10s in recent years that don’t contribute to her chart history: Drake’s “Emotionless,” which hit No. 8 in July 2018, samples her 1991 leader “Emotions,” while Carey joined for a remix of Latto’s “Big Energy,” which nods to Carey’s 1995 Hot 100-topper “Fantasy” and reached No. 3 in April 2022.)
Carey made her Hot 100 debut with “Vision of Love” on the chart dated June 2, 1990. It became her first leader that August.
Beyond the Hot 100, “Type Dangerous,” Carey’s first single on gamma., as well as on an independent label (and the latest on her MARIAH imprint), begins at No. 4 on the Digital Song Sales chart, marking her 10th top 10.
On the all-format Radio Songs chart, “Type Dangerous” debuts at No. 47. It’s her first new song to make the survey since the Miguel-featuring “#Beautiful,” which hit No. 17 in June 2013. “Type Dangerous” opens on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay at No. 7, Adult R&B Airplay at No. 15, Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay at No. 24, Adult Pop Airplay at No. 30, Rhythmic Airplay at No. 31 and Pop Airplay at No. 38. On R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, the single scores the highest entrance for a song in nearly 30 years, since Whitney Houston’s “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” started at No. 6 in November 1995.
“Type Dangerous” concurrently soars in at No. 7 on Hot R&B Songs and No. 24 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, which use the same multimetric methodology as the Hot 100.
All charts dated June 21 will update tomorrow, June 17, on Billboard.com.
