Sales and charts achievements for Mariah Carey

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Mariah Carey

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This page includes the sales and chart achievements for R&B singer, Mariah Carey.

Disclaimer: The singles marks here are based on the Billboard charts. U.S. record sales figures are certified by the RIAA and may be considered reliable. However, no process exists to certify worldwide record sales.

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[edit] Sales

Carey receiving the Millennium Award for being the best-selling female pop artist of all time at the 2000 WMA show

According to World Music Awards, Carey is the biggest-selling recording artist of the decade (1990-2000) [1]. In 2000, she received the Best Selling Pop-Female Artist of the Millennium award [2] for being the best selling female pop artist of all time ^[3]. In 2003, she also became the first female artist to receive the Chopard Diamond World Music Award, for sales surpassing 150 million records [4]. She has sold a total of about eighty-five million records in the U.S. (64 million albums and 18.5 million singles) and over 220 million records worldwide including the U.S. sales, (170 million albums plus 50 million singles); (according to mariahcarey.com [5] and Mariah Carey Discography)

Carey is the most successful international artist in Japan, with sales of over twelve million. She has achieved six number-one singles and six number-one albums. #1s is also the biggest selling foreign album in that country, and Glitter is the first international soundtrack ever to achieve number-one status [6].

Carey's album Music Box is 14 x platinum in Australia, on par with Delta Goodrem's Innocent Eyes only behind Shania Twain's Come On Over which is 15 x platinum

Carey's album Music Box became the first international female album to pass 500,000 legal sales in China. Daydream, Butterfly, #1's and Charmbracelet also sold 500,000 copies or more in the country. Carey's recent album The Emancipation of Mimi was named the top selling international album of 2005, its legal sales exceed 200,000 copies.

Music Box was the biggest selling album of 1994 in:Japan (Int.), Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Greece (int.), Poland, Italy (int.) South Africa,Korea (int.), China(int.), Taiwan, Israel, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brazil (int.)

According the RIAA, Carey's 5X Platinum Merry Christmas is the second biggest selling Christmas album of all time, second to the 1970 version of "Elvis Christmas Album", which has been certified 9X Platinum by the RIAA. Worldwide, however, Carey's Merry Christmas has sold nearly sixteen million copies worldwide, [7], making it the biggest selling Christmas album of all time.

Carey has the most platinum singles in the U.S. by a female artist (thirteen platinum singles).

Carey is the second female artist in history to have three studio albums sell in excess of nine million copies ( one spot behind Whitney Houston in the U.S.; Mariah Carey, Music Box and Daydream [8] and the first female artist to have two studio albums go Diamond. Shania Twain has since gotten a third Diamond album since Carey established her record.

In the U.S., Carey, Madonna, Jewel, Britney Spears, Céline Dion, Whitney Houston, Shania Twain, and the Dixie Chicks are the only female artists with multiple Diamond (sales of over ten million copies) albums.

With sixteen years in the music industry, Carey has the following RIAA achievements: albums — seventy-seven certifications, singles — thirty-five certifications (as of August 2005), home videos — twelve certifications (as of August 2005); total: 124 certifications.

RIAA Certifications: albums — fourteen gold, all of which platinum, ten of which multi-platinum, two of which Diamond; singles — (when counting digital downloads certification by RIAA): twenty gold, ten of which platinum, three of which multi-platinum; videos — six gold, all of which platinum.

[edit] Charts

[edit] Billboard Hot 100 achievements

Carey ("We Belong Together"; 2005) and Whitney Houston ("I Will Always Love You"; 1992) are the only female artists to have a solo song spend fourteen weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Houston's "I Will Always Love You" was the longest running number one female solo song of the 1990s, and "We Belong Together" is currently the longest running number one of the 2000s. However, if you count duets, Mariah Carey scores with an impressive 16 weeks (4 months) at #1 with One Sweet Day released in 1995. The song was performed in duet alongside Boys II Men

Carey holds the record for the largest jump for a single to the number two position on the Hot 100 with "Loverboy" which jumped 60-2.

Carey has the most number-one singles on the Hot 100 (seventeen) for a female solo artist and for any active recording artist, behind only The Beatles (twenty). Diana Ross has the most overall number ones for a female artist; she achieved twelve with The Supremes, and another six as a solo artist, which gives a total of eighteen. However, on Billboard they count them separately, making Mariah the most successful female artist on the Hot 100. It should also be noted that venerable Billboard Magazine statistician Joel Whitburn officially credits Elvis Presley with an 18th #1 single, owing to the double-sided "Don't Be Cruel"/"Hound Dog" chart-topper. However, this 45 is officially considered a single entry by the magazine.

Carey has the most cumulative weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (seventy-seven) for any female and active recording artist behind Elvis Presley (seventy-nine). [9]

Carey is the artist with most Christmas number one hits in the Billboard Hot 100, three: "Hero" (1993), "One Sweet Day" (1995) and "Don't Forget About Us" (2005).

Carey has the most cumulative weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (seventy-seven) for any female and active recording artist behind Elvis Presley (seventy-nine). [10]

Carey wrote or co-wrote 16 of her 17 #1 hits, the most for any female composer. This ties her with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, who wrote seven #1 songs for other artists besides his own group's nine. John Lennon has 26 #1 hits as a writer or co-writer, and Paul McCartney has 32. The only song she did not write or co-write was her rendition of the Jackson 5's I'll Be There.

With "One Sweet Day" spending sixteen weeks at number one and "We Belong Together" spending fourteen weeks, Carey joins Carlos Santana and Boyz II Men as the only artists to have two or more double-digit runs at number one on the Hot 100. Interestingly, as of today, Mariah, Whitney Houston, Brandy, Monica, Toni Braxton, Destiny's Child, Debby Boone, Olivia Newton-John and Ashanti are the only female artists to have at least one double-digit run at #1 on The Billboard Hot 100.

When "Fantasy", "One Sweet Day", and "Honey" debuted at number one on the Hot 100, Carey became the artist with the most singles to debut at number one (only fifteen songs have ever debuted at pole position, all since 1995). She also became the first female artist (and second artist, behind Michael Jackson) to ever have a number-one debut with "Fantasy" in 1995. However she also set records by 1) Debuting with 2 singles in a row at the top (Fantasy and One Sweet Day), 2) Only artist (male/female) to have more than 1 single debut at top, and 3) Only artist (male/female) to have 3 single debuts at the top. Before September 1995, Billboard used a methodology that in practical terms made chart-topping debuts impossible for any artist.

Carey is also the only artist to have two consecutive number-one debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 ("Fantasy" and "One Sweet Day").

Carey has the most consecutive years with a number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 (eleven) from 1990 to 2000. She is also the only artist to have a single reach number one on the Hot 100 every year of the 1990s.

Carey has the record for the best debut on the Hot 100. The first five singles that she released went to number one; ("Vision of Love", "Love Takes Time", "Someday", "I Don't Wanna Cry", and "Emotions"). She later achieved another five consecutive number-one singles ("Fantasy", "One Sweet Day", "Always Be My Baby", "Honey", and "My All"). The singles "Open Arms", "Forever", "Butterfly" and "Breakdown" were also released to the radio during this time.

With twenty-one songs (seventeen number ones, plus: "Can't Let Go", "Endless Love", "Loverboy", and "Shake It Off") that have reached the top two of the Hot 100. Elvis Presley has twenty-four top-two hits (eighteen number ones, plus "Love Me", "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck", "A Fool Such As I", "Can't Help Falling in Love", "Return to Sender", and "Burning Love"), but many of these predate the switch from the Top 100 chart to the Hot 100 chart in August 1958. However, Billboard considers 1954/1955 to be the line of demarcation; 1955–58 chart totals are included by Billboard in tabulating their "Top Artist Achievements".

Carey is the only artist to have entered the Billboard Hot 100 at least once every year from 1990 to 2006. Other artists such as Elton John, Madonna and Elvis Presley have had longer streaks of this kind, but not during this same period.
Carey is the only artist to have the first singles from all her studio albums top the charts in the 1990s. (Her run was broken in 2001 when "Loverboy", the lead single from Glitter, peaked at number two). The compilation album #1's never had a number one single released during its time.

Carey is the only female artist credited as a lead artist to occupy the top two positions on the Hot 100 with "We Belong Together" and "Shake It Off" which were number one and two respectively on the week ending September 10, 2005. During the rock era, it had only been done by The Beatles (1964), the Bee Gees (1978), Nelly (2002), OutKast (2004), and Akon (2006). In 2002, female singer Ashanti also appeared on her own number-one "Foolish" single as well as in a "featured" credit on Fat Joe's concurrent number-two single "What's Luv?". However, as she was only a featured artist on "What's Luv", she is usually not grouped with these other artists.

[edit] Billboard Hot 100 Airplay/BDS Airplay achievements

At sixteen weeks at number one, "We Belong Together" is the longest running single on the Hot 100 Airplay chart by a solo artist. The song is also the second longest running overall single on that chart, tying with No Doubt's "Don't Speak" (1996) and behind Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris", which spent eighteen weeks at number-one in 1998. [11]
"We Belong Together" officially became the song with the most measured impressions on American radio when it reached 192.3 million listeners and over 23,000 spins in the week ending June 7, 2005. In the following weeks, the single continued to break its own record as it peaked at 195.8 million, 202.1 million, 212.2 million, and 223 million impressions. It is the first song in history to break the 200 million one-week BDS audience barrier. Radio impressions are a rough measurement, formulated by taking the Arbitron-rated listening audience, and multiplying that number by the amount of times a given song is played.
"We Belong Together" has recorded the best-ever one day listener figure after it registered with 32.8 million listeners on American radio in a single day. (Unlike TV ratings, this figure does not represent 32.8 million separate people; BDS impressions are a rough estimate of the number of times a song was heard by anyone, without factoring for possible multiple hearings per person.)
Carey is the artist with most weeks at number one on the Hot 100 Airplay charts with a total of 89 weeks. It must be noted that the Hot 100 Airplay chart was first published in the Dec. 8, 1990 issue of Billboard. That means that Mariah Carey's "Vision of Love" never appeared on this tally, because it was a hit before the chart existed. The chart's first No. 1 was "Love Takes Time," which would have had two more weeks at No. 1 had the chart been published earlier. The only other artist with 50 or more weeks at number one are Boyz II Men with 50 weeks
Carey is the artist with most singles at number one on the Hot 100 Airplay charts.

[edit] Other Billboard accomplishments

In 1999, Carey was named The Most Successful Pop Artist of the decade and The Most successful R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the decade by Billboard Magazine [12],[13]. "One Sweet Day" was also deemed the #1 song of the decade, based on its longest-ever run atop the Hot 100 chart. [14]
Carey has topped the most individual Billboard charts in history with twenty-six charts. She has had at least one number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100 Airplay, Hot 100 Singles Sales, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales, the Pop 100, the Pop 100 Airplay, Hot Dance Music/Club Play, Hot Dance Singles Sales, Dance Radio Airplay, Mainstream Top 40, Rhythmic Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Adult Top 40, Adult R&B, Hot Ringtones, Hot Videoclips, Hot 100 Singles Recurrent, Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Recurrent, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Recurrent Airplay, Adult Contemporary Recurrents, Top 40 Adult Recurrents, Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, and Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles. As the names suggest, many of these charts first appeared in Billboard in the 1990s or 2000s.
"We Belong Together" holds the record for topping the most Billboard charts simultaneously, when it occupied the top position on nine charts on the week ending August 6, 2005. It went to number one on The Billboard Hot 100, the Hot 100 Airplay, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Pop 100 Airplay, the Mainstream Top 40, Rhythmic Top 40, Hot Dance Music/Club Play, and the Hot Ringtones. The week before, it broke its own record of topping eight Billboard charts. However, it must be noted that the subdivision of Billboard charts has greatly increased over the years, and thus the multiple charts did not exist in decades past. [15]
"We Belong Together" is also the song to top the most Billboard charts in history —it has occupied the pole position on thirteen charts altogether.
Carey's "We Belong Together" has charted across the most individal genres of music on the Billbord charts. It has charted on nine indiviual genres which include Pop (Pop 100), R&B (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks), Rhythmic (Top 40 Rhythmic), Hot AC (Adult Top 40), AC (Adult Contemporary), Urban AC (Adult R&B), Dance (Hot Dance Music/Club Play), Latin (Latin Tropical Airplay), and Jazz (Smooth Jazz).
Carey has six number-one singles on the Mainstream Top 40, the most for any artist on that chart. [16] [17]
Carey has the most top-ten singles (eighteen) on the Rhythmic Top 40. [18]
"We Belong Together" is the second longest running number-one single on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (fourteen weeks). It is behind Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" (fifteen weeks) and tied with Deborah Cox's "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here". [19]

[edit] Billboard 200 achievements

Carey has five number-one albums on The Billboard 200 (three debuts at number one). She is tied with Janet Jackson (five number ones) and behind Madonna (six number ones) and Barbra Streisand (eight number ones).

Carey holds the record for most consecutive top-ten album debuts in the U.S. (ten).

With the exceptions of Emotions (which reached number four) and Glitter (which reached number seven), all of Carey's studio albums have reached number three or better on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.

Carey has had the most consecutive top-five album debuts in the U.S. (nine).

Carey is one of only four female singers (the others are Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Whitney Houston) to have an album reach every position in the top five on the Billboard Hot 100.