Mariah Carey "Love Takes Time" RIAA Gold Single Award Tony Connor Note that a Gold level

Note that a Gold level record award for this album should have been issued as a RIAA "flower hologram" style award (made from 1986-89) since by 1990 the album was already 2x Multi-Platinum

RIAA 4x Multi-Platinum album award

The album contained the hit tracks ""If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree"

The result is both a personal memoir and a study of songwriting craft

Mariah Carey "Love Takes Time" RIAA Gold Single Award Tony Connor Note that a Gold levelRIAA Gold Single Award for Mariah Carey track "Love Takes Time". Released on Aug. 21, 1990, it was certified Gold by the RIAA for 500,000 copies sold on Nov. 6, 1990.* Carey's second hit single topped the Billboard Hot 100 and also topped or placed in the top 10 on many charts worldwide. It won a BMI R&B Award for Song of the Year and also a Soul Train Music Award in 1991. By 2023 the track was certified Platinum by the RIAA for one million copies