Caution is the fifteenth studio album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released on November 16, 2018, through Epic Records. Carey collaborated with Ty Dolla Sign, Slick Rick, Blood Orange and Gunna on the album's songs and worked with a variety of producers. It is her first studio album in four years, Caution was praised upon release and appeared on several year-end lists and to promote the album Carey went on the Caution World Tour

Track listing

Notes
  signifies a co-producer
  signifies additional production

Sample credits
 "GTFO" contains a sample of "Goodbye to a World" by Porter Robinson.
 "A No No" contains a sample from "Rain Dance" by the Jeff Lorber Fusion, and "Crush on You" by Lil' Kim featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Lil Cease.
 "Giving Me Life" contains dialogue from the film Trading Places, performed by Eddie Murphy and James D. Turner.
 "Runway" contains a sample from "Butterfly" and an interpolation of "We Belong Together", both by Carey.

Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.

Performance
 Mariah Carey – primary artist, strings , executive production, production 
 Ty Dolla Sign – featured artist 
 Dev Hynes – featured artist (as Blood Orange) , production 
 Slick Rick – featured artist 
 Gunna – featured artist 
 KOHH – featured artist 
 Mary Ann Tatum – background vocals 
 Priscilla Renea – background vocals 
 Timbaland – background vocals , production 

Instrumentation
 Larrance Dopson – keyboards , co-production 
 Angel Lopez – keyboards , co-production , programming , engineering assistance 
 Federico Vindver – keyboards , co-production , programming , engineering assistance 
 Ray McCullough II – bass 
 Ray Romulus – drums 
 Jeremy Reeves – percussion 
 Jonathan Yip – synthesizer 
 Daniel Moore II – piano 
 Josh Baker – percussion 
 Serena McKinney Göransson – strings , violin 

Production
 Nineteen85 – production 
 DJ Mustard – production 
 Luca – production 
 No I.D. – production 
 SLMN – production 
 Shea Taylor – production 
 Lido – production , programming 
 Poo Bear – production , additional production 
 Skrillex – production , mixing 
 Fred Ball – production 
 WondaGurl – production 
 The Stereotypes – production 
 Daniel Moore II – production 
 Jermaine Dupri – additional production 
 Jordan Manswell – co-production 

Technical
 Brian Garten – mixing , recording 
 Phil Tan – mixing 
 Chris Gehringer – mixing , mastering 
 Jaycen Joshua – mixing 
 Tom Norris – mixing 
 Mikaelin Bluespruce – mixing 
 Chris Galland – mixing 
 Manny Marroquin – mixing 
 James Royo – recording 
 Bill Zimmerman – engineering assistance 
 Jeremy Nichols – engineering assistance 
 Will Quinnell – engineering assistance 
 Brendan Morwaski – engineering assistance 
 Richard Evatt – engineering assistance 
 Jacob Richards – engineering assistance 
 Mike Seaberg – engineering assistance 
 Rashawn McLean – engineering assistance 
 Zach Brown – engineering assistance 
 Jason Patterson – engineering assistance 
 Matt Anthony – engineering assistance 
 Robin Florent – engineering assistance 
 Scott Desmarais – engineering assistance 
 Jared Schuerman – engineering assistance 
 Colin Leonard – mastering 
 Herb Powers, Jr. – mastering

Charts

Related pages

 List of Billboard number-one R&B/hip-hop albums of 2018
 List of UK R&B Albums Chart number ones of 2018

References

2018 albums
Mariah Carey albums
Electronica albums
Hip hop albums
R&B albums