"My All" (5.2 million), the single charted as "Breakdown/My All". The songs did not appear together on the Hot 100 because "Breakdown" was not within the top 75 on Hot 100 Airplay at the time, having reached number fifty-three in March 1998. The Recording Industry Association of America certified "Breakdown" Gold in March 2022, which denotes 500,000 units based on digital downloads and on-demand streams. The song's chart performance varied in other countries. "Breakdown" peaked at number four on the New Zealand singles chart, outperforming "Butterfly". It continued a pattern of success for Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony in the country; five of their last six singles had peaked within the top five. The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand certified it Gold, denoting shipments of 7,500 units. In Australia, "Breakdown" reached number thirty-eight and became Carey's lowest-charting single since "I Don't Wanna Cry" in 1991. The song remains Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony's most recent chart appearance in the country. Although it was not released there, the double A-side single "My All/Breakdown" appeared for one week on the UK Singles Chart at number ninety-eight. Music video Carey and Diane Martel directed the accompanying music video for "Breakdown". Martel had previously directed videos for Carey's singles "Dreamlover" (1993) and "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (1994). The "Breakdown" music video was issued in late 1997. Columbia Music Video released it as a video single on VHS with "My All" on April 21, 1998. It was later included on Carey's 1999 video album Around the World. "Breakdown" sees Carey in various roles at a Las Vegas casino. The members of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony appear, as do producer Jermaine Dupri and rapper Redman as a magician. Visuals include Carey's butterfly tattoo and her jumping onto poker chips that cover a spinning bed. In one scene performing cabaret, Carey wears a black sequin halter top on a bentwood chair. Writers for The New York Times and Ottawa Citizen felt this gave homage to Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles in Cabaret (1972). In Gender & Society, Rana A. Emerson cited the camera's focus on Carey's revealing showgirl outfit in arguing that social standards regarding the attractiveness of female R&B singers are implied. Legacy Referring to its absence from the Hot 100, a writer for BET deemed "Breakdown" yet "another casualty of the Carey–Columbia feud during the Butterfly era". In 2014, Billboard described it as a "stalled" single. Notwithstanding chart performance, "Breakdown" is