Mariah Carey will absolution her twelfth flat album, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel," August 25 on Island Def Jam, the accompanist appear today (June 16). The admission single, "Obsessed," is co-written and produced by Carey, The-Dream and Tricky Stewart and has alien to radio, while a music video directed by Brett Ratner is forthcoming.

Carey appear the appellation of her fresh anthology aback in May via Twitter, writing, "Bcuz I Adulation U, I appetite u to be the aboriginal to apperceive the appellation of my fresh anthology "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" Its actual claimed & committed to u." The accompanist followed up on June 9 with an aflame Tweet about the aboriginal single: "Seriously, this is one of my admired songs ever," she wrote. "I adulation the accomplished album. I’m absolutely absorbed in it. I can’t delay for you to apprehend it." Since entering the flat beforehand this year, Carey has been giving updates about the anthology with regularity to her 600,000-plus followers on the microblogging site.

Island Def Jam mogul Anotnio "L.A." Reid is accustomed as controlling ambassador on "Memoirs," while Stewart and The-Dream produced the majority of the tracks. The anthology follows 2008’s "E=MC2," which awash 1,300,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan and spawned Carey’s 18th No. 1 distinct on the Billboard Hot 100 ("Touch My Body"), as she surpassed Elvis Presley as the artisan with the second-highest account of No. 1 hits in the bedrock era.