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Glitter is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name by American R&B singer Mariah Carey. Carey's eighth studio album, it was released by Virgin Records on September 11, 2001. To date, Glitter has sold approximately 1 million copies worldwide

As a concept album of the sounds of the early 1980s, Glitter features contributions from dominant figures of the period: Rick James wrote "All My Life", Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis reworked their song "Didn't Mean to Turn You On" and wrote with Carey the retro track "Want You", and Cameo are featured on lead single "Loverboy". The album also includes collaborations with rappers Busta Rhymes, Mystikal, Da Brat, Ludacris, Fabolous, Ja Rule and Nate Dogg.

The album was released shortly before the film Glitter, and both album and film were critical and commercial failures. Entertainment Weekly stated "it's Mariah, business as usual: a few overemoted ballads, a few doses of lite-FM hip-hop, all of it as gauzy and shapeless as her previous work." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of allmusic gave the album 1.5 out of 5 stars, calling it "an embarrassment" and "an utter meltdown — the pop equivalent of Chernobyl." Rob Sheffield was somewhat kinder, giving it a three star review in Rolling Stone, writing, "damn if Glitter isn't a big step forward in terms of maturity."^[2] Carey somehow tried to attribute the low sales of the album to the September 11 attacks saying in an interview, "The talk shows needed something to distract from 9/11. I became a punching bag. They tore me down because my album was at number 2 instead of number 1 [a reference Carey should have actually been making to the peak position of the single "Loverboy" and not to the album itself, which peaked at #7]. The media was laughing at me and attacked me."^[3] Contrary to Carey's viewpoint, however, most media concerns at that time were actually focused on the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, and not on sales of Carey's album.

The album debuted at number seven on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling just over 100,000 copies in its first week of release,^[4] then it had a substantial slide: it remained in the top twenty for two weeks and on the chart itself for twelve weeks. Glitter was certified platinum by the RIAA as it was falling off the Billboard Top 200 for its combined shipment and sales, but as of October 2007, it had sold just 636,000 copies in the United States.^[5][6] The soundtrack peaked at number-one in Japan, and was certified gold in Switzerland.^[7]

Lead single "Loverboy" peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song initially stalled at a very low position on the Hot 100 chart so Virgin Records reduced the price of the single to 99 cents to intice sales. It became the first time an established and major act had a single sell for 99 cents.^[8] The tactic worked, sales increased on the very inexpensive single and the song climbed to number 2 on the Hot 100, but lack of radio play kept it out of the number one position. The two follow-up singles, "Never Too Far" and "Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)", did not chart on the Hot 100 at all. A music video was filmed for a possible fourth single, "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life", but it was not released after Virgin Records ceased promotion of the album, canceled Carey's newly signed $80 million deal, and dropped Carey from the label.

The song "If We" was later re-worked by Damizza and released as a single titled "What Would You Do" with Carey, Butch Cassidy, and Nate Dogg in 2004. Conflict between Damizza and Shade Sheist led Damizza to recruit Cassidy to replace Sheist on the single version. Sheist retaliated with his own remix titled "G-Mix", which is a re-worked version featuring Carey and Nune. "What Would You Do" failed to make the US Hot 100 and received minimal airplay in Europe.

In 2002 for the 44th Grammy Award ceremony, the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis productions of the songs "Never Too Far", "Twister" and "Didn't Mean to Turn You On" were nominated for Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, but lost to T-Bone Burnett's Down from the Mountain: Live Concert Performances by the Artists & Musicians of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Fan Dance.^[9]

The double LP release of Glitter is unique in that the ballads and dance songs are separated on both records.