 Following the release of Mariah Carey 's fourteenth studio album , Me . I Am Mariah … The Elusive Chanteuse , in May 2014 , she parted ways with her record label Def Jam Recordings , her publicist Cindi Berger and her manager Jermaine Dupri . She signed a new record contract with L.A. Reid at Epic Records ( who co @-@ executively produced Carey 's tenth album The Emancipation of Mimi in 2005 ) , sought a new publicist with Chris Chambers of the Chamber Group and hired new managers Stella Bulochnikov and Brian Sher . Writers Shirley Halperin and Andrew Hampp of Billboard attributed Carey 's decision to seek new a new label and management to the low sales of Me . I Am Mariah … The Elusive Chanteuse , which at a total of 117 @,@ 000 units since its release , is Carey 's lowest selling album in the United States . Carey secured a multi @-@ album record deal with Epic in January 2015 , a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment , meaning that # 1 to Infinity would be her first album since her seventh studio album Rainbow in 1999 to be released with Sony . 
