High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! MTV Unplugged +3 is Mariah Carey`s second live DVD/video release by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, released in the United States on June 26, 1992 by Columbia Records. Following the success of Carey`s previous two albums and the growing critical commentary on her lack of concert tours and unsubstancial televised performances, Sony BMG organized a performance show at the Kaufman Astoria Studios, New York on March 16, 1992. The show, titled MTV Unplugged, originally aired on MTV to help promote Carey`s then album Emotions (1991). However, after its success, the show was released to the public as an EP, with an accompanying VHS titled MTV Unplugged +3.