The album Daydream followed up Mariah Carey's Christmas album, which was released by Columbia Records on what date?
Daydream (Mariah Carey album) Daydream is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, released on October 3, 1995, by Columbia Records. The follow-up to her internationally successful album "Music Box" (1993) and holiday album "Merry Christmas" (1994), "Daydream" differed from the two by leaning increasingly towards hip hop and urban music. Throughout the project, Carey collaborated with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote and produced most of her two previous albums. With "Daydream", Carey took more control over the musical direction as well as the album's composition. Carey said she considered "Daydream" the beginning of her musical and vocal transformation, a change that became more apparent in her sixth album "Butterfly" (1997). During the album's production, Carey endured many creative differences with her label and husband Tommy Mottola.
The Christmas Album (Johnny Mathis album) The Christmas Album is the fifth Christmas album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in October 2002 by Columbia Records and included his first recordings of three traditional carols ("Joy To The World", "Away in a Manger", "O Little Town of Bethlehem"), three new songs ("Heavenly Peace", "A Christmas Love Song", "Merry Christmas"), and a handful of 20th-century offerings.