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"Can't Let Go" is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey for her second album, '' Emotions ''. It was co-written and co-produced by Walter Afanasieff , and was released as the album's second Single in the fourth quarter of 1991 in the United States and the first quarter of 1992 elsewhere (see 1991 In Music and 1992 In Music ). The protagonist of this synthesizer-heavy Ballad laments an ex-lover who has moved on, as though she tries she "can't let go". Carey had fallen out with her songwriting partner Ben Margulies following a financial dispute, and her record label suggested that she work with the other producers of her debut album such as Rhett Lawrence , Ric Wake and Narada Michael Walden . She chose Walter Afanasieff, who had produced her second single " Love Takes Time " (1990), and "Can't Let Go" was one of the songs they created. Carey's first five U.S. singles (most recently " Emotions ") had reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 , and although she was the only act to achieve this, Carey had not broken other records such as the highest number of consecutive number-one singles ( Whitney Houston had released seven). "Can't Let Go" peaked at number two and spent seventeen weeks in the top forty, and the RIAA certified the single Gold . The only ''Billboard'' magazine chart it topped was the Adult Contemporary chart, where it became Carey's fourth consecutive number-one single. It was still another big hit for Carey in the U.S., and was ranked twenty-third on the 1992 Hot 100 year-end charts. "Can't Let Go" reached the UK top twenty and the Canadian top ten. It became her lowest peaking single at the time in all of the major anglophone singles markets (with the exception of the UK), and failed to make the Australia n top fifty. The single's Video , directed by Jim Sonzero , features Carey wearing an evening gown and her hair in a bun. Filmed in black and white, the video starts and closes with shots of a rose open and closed respectively. A radio edit of the song was promoted to radio and used for the video instead of the original song, and the edit eliminates the lengthy pre-intro and removes all of Carey's high notes at the beginning and at the end of the song. Like Carey's previous U.S. singles, "Can't Let Go" won a BMI pop award in 1993. TRACK LISTINGS
#"Can't Let Go" (edit) #"To Be Around You" (album version)
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