Rainbow is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, released on November 2, 1999 in the United States, by Columbia Records. The album followed her previous album, Butterfly (1997), in which she adopted a new image and fully transitioned into the urban contemporary market. Rainbow contains a mix of hip hop-influenced R&B tracks, as well as a variety of ballads. Carey produced the album mainly with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, who replaced Walter Afanasieff, the main balladeer Carey worked with throughout the 1990s.