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Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970 in
Huntington_(CDP),_New_York|Huntington, New York)
is an United States|American popular music singer
and songwriter who rose to prominence in the
1990s, where she became America's most successful
recording artist for that decade, according to
Billboard magazine. According to the World Music
Awards, Carey was the world's biggest-selling
artist of the 1990sref|WMABestSelling90s, and in
2000, the show proclaimed her the best-selling
female pop artist of all time. 

Carey's music has been influenced by rhythm and
blues, pop music|pop, gospel music|gospel, hip hop
music|hip hop, dance music|dance, and rock and
roll.  Her singing and songwriting are structured
around her wide-ranging voice, which spans five
octaves; she makes lavish use of melisma, and her
vocal swoops and trills and jumps between octaves
are easily recognizable features of her sound. 
She has record producer|produced every one of her
ten studio albums with the exception of her debut
and music video director|directed music videos.
Since 1999, she has occasionally worked as an
actor|actress and supports a variety of charitable
organizations.

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==Early life and family, 1970–1990==

Carey is the third and youngest child of Patricia
Hickey, an opera singer and voice coach of Irish
American|Irish-American ethnicity, and Alfred Roy
Carey, an aerospace engineering|aeronautical
engineer of Venezuela|Venezuelan-African
American|African descent.  She was named after the
song "(And They Call the Wind) Maria" ,
from the musical Paint Your Wagon. Carey's mother
has mentioned that she picked her name because she
thought it would be a good stage name. She has no
middle name. Carey has a sister named Alison (ten
years older) and a brother named Morgan (nine
years older). 

As a multiracial family, the Carey household was
met with racial slurs, hostility and even
violence. Thus, the family moved around the New
York area often to find more friendly
Neighborhood|neighborhoods. The strain on the
family led to the divorce of Alfred and Patricia
when Mariah was three; Mariah and Morgan stayed
with their mother while Alison stayed with their
father.  Mariah Carey had little contact with her
father, except for sporadic visits on weekends but
even those dwindled as the years went by; Patricia
raised Mariah, often struggling with two or three
jobs and continuing to move among different towns
on Long Island, but tried to provide a spirited,
loving household. It is generally believed,
however, that she failed in a sense as a parent,
as Mariah has often mentioned that she grew up
quickly for her age, having been exposed to
traumatic incidents as a child, and learning to
deal with being alone as her mother and brother
were never home. In a sense, Mariah has often
mentioned that music helped raise her in a way
when no one else was there. Nevertheless, Mariah
and her mother still maintain a close relationship
to this day.

Carey began singing when she was three; her mother
believed early on that she had tremendous
potential. In fact, one day, when Patricia had
brought Mariah to her opera rehearsal, Patricia
had missed a vocal cue, but the young Mariah
astounded everyone by catching in and singing it
perfectly in tune. Publicly, she first performed
when she was six and first began writing songs
when she was in grade school. She attended and
graduated from Oldfield Middle School and
Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New
York|Greenlawn, but was frequently absent due to
efforts to break into the music business, netting
her the nickname "Mirage". Ironically, Mariah was
never in her school's choir. She eventually landed
a role as a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr.
Then, in 1988, Carey met Columbia Records
executive Tommy Mottola while at a party, where
her friend gave him a demo tape. He played the
tape while leaving the party and was very
impressed by what he heard. He returned to the
party to find Carey, but she had already left.
Nevertheless, he tracked her down and signed her
to a recording contract. This Cinderella-like
story became part of the standard publicity
surrounding Carey's entrance into the industry.

==Early commercial success, 1990–1992==


Mariah Carey's career began with the release of
her eponym|eponymous debut album Mariah Carey
(album)|Mariah Carey in 1990, when she was just
twenty years old. She became a commercial success
almost overnight, and the album produced four huge
#1 singles — "Vision of Love", "Love Takes
Time", "Someday", and "I Don't Wanna Cry" —
making her a superstar in the US; the album failed
to bring her to immense international prominence,
though. Ashley S. Battel called Mariah Carey
"extremely impressive", "smooth-sounding" and
"uplifting"ref|BattelMariahCarey, and Carey took
home Grammy Award|Grammy Awards in 1991 for Grammy
Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist and
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance|Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for
lead single "Vision of Love," proving that her
success was not limited to the charts. 

Beginning with this first album, Carey has been a
co-writer on every song she has recorded (except
covers and two special soundtrack projects)
throughout her career, working with songwriting
partners such as Walter Afanasieff, Jermaine
Dupri, and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis among many
others. "Vision of Love", which Bill Lamb called
"one of the best songs of Mariah's recording
career"ref|LambVisionOfLove, established the
template for many of her other songs: a hint of
swing (genre)|swing; a melody and arrangement
designed for her voice, such that her ornamented
vocals seem part of the fabric of a song rather
than an add-on; lyrics organized around themes of
dream|dreams, struggle, and self-help. 

Carey's second album, Emotions (album)|Emotions,
was released in the fall of 1991, and its first
single, Emotions (Mariah Carey song)|the title
track, was another US #1 hit, giving Carey the
distinction of being the only act ever to have had
their first five singles go to #1 on the Billboard
Hot 100|Hot 100 chart, before the string was
broken by "Can't Let Go" (which broke the top 5
even so, as did "Make It Happen"). The album did
not match the sales and chart performance of her
debut, but it was released to an equally strong
critical reception; Dan Leroy, who had criticised
Mariah Carey for being too similar to Whitney
Houston's debut album Whitney Houston
(album)|Whitney Houstonref|LeroyMariahCarey,
called the title track "undeniably winning", and
the entire album "pleasant", and "far perkier than
Whitney's been in years"ref|LeroyEmotions.



Beginning with Emotions, Carey has co-produced
almost all of the songs on her albums, in
collaboration with her songwriting and other
partners. She fought to co-produce on her first
album as well, but was only allowed to produce one
song.

In 1992, Carey gave her first real concert
performance on the MTV Unplugged program.  Her
whistle register workout on "Emotions" showed that
her vocal abilities were not confined to the
studio, and Shawn M. Haney noted that Carey was
"quite electric and charismatic within her vocal
presence", in what he described as "an inspiring
event"ref|HaneyUnplugged. Entertainment Weekly
listed her performance among their "Great
Performances" of 1992. Carey premiered a cover of
the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There (Mariah Carey
song)|I'll Be There" (featuring Trey Lorenz) on
the special, and the performance was called
"breathtaking" by Haney. The performance of the
song was subsequently released as a single, and it
became Carey's sixth #1 hit in the U.S. The
program was popular enough that the songs were
compiled onto the commercially successful EP MTV
Unplugged (EP)|MTV Unplugged.

At this point, Carey also started writing and
producing songs for other artists. For Trey
Lorenz' self-titled debut album, Carey co-wrote
two songs ("Someone To Hold" and "Always In Love")
and co-produced several of the album's tracks. For
Daryl Hall's Soul Alone album, Carey wrote the
track "Help Me Find A Way To Your Heart". A song
that she co-wrote with Narada Michael Walden, "I
Lose Control," ended up on Penny Ford's
self-titled debut album.

==Worldwide success, 1993–1996==

Carey, then 23, and Tommy Mottola, 43, had become
romantically involved, and in June 1993 they were
married in an Episcopal|Episcopalian ceremony
followed by a lavish wedding reception in
Manhattan.



Carey's next studio album, Music Box (album)|Music
Box, was released in 1993, and saw her at the apex
of her popularity, becoming her largest selling LP
worldwide. Lead single "Dreamlover" was her
longest stayer yet at the #1 spot; its bouncy and
easily appealing rhythm was praised by Ron Wynn
for its "personality and
intensity"ref|WynnMusicBox, and would be reused in
several of her future hits. Two more of her
Signature song|signature songs followed: "Hero
(Mariah Carey song)|Hero", Carey's bid to create a
big inspirational ballad, went to #1 in the US and
in the years to follow became her most played old
hit on US radio, while her remake of the Harry
Nillson hit "Without You (Mariah Carey
song)|Without You" went to #1 in the UK and firmly
established her popularity internationally.
Carey's attempt at a mellower work than her
previous efforts raised eyebrows with critics; Ron
Wynn said Carey "blended into the background and
let the tracks guide her, instead of pushing and
exploding through them", and another reviewer
observed that Carey's latest sounds "seems like
she was less invested in the
music"ref|LambMusicBox, but the response was good
overall. Stephen Holden thought the only weakness
of Music Box was "Carey's lyrics, which are made
up entirely of pop and soul
clichés"ref|HoldenMusicBox.

Carey's Music Box hits, together with her duet
with Luther Vandross of Diana Ross' "Endless Love
(Mariah Carey song)|Endless Love", made her one of
the most-played musicians on the radio in 1993 and
1994. During the Christmas season of 1994, Carey
released the album Merry Christmas (album)|Merry
Christmas. In addition to the expected covers of
classics, it contained a very successful original
holiday song, "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
which gained her a large fanbase in Japan and was
described as "a well-crafted Phil Spector tribute"
by Roch Parisien, although he dismissed the rest
of the album as an "otherwise vanilla
set"ref|ParisienMerryChristmas.



In 1995, Carey released Daydream (album)|Daydream,
which combined the pop sensibilities of her
previous album with modern R&B/hip-hop influences.
At this time in her career, Carey realized that
she had a higher potential for massive crossover
hits if she employed the use of various
genre-specific remixes for each single. It ended
up becoming a very successful technique for her as
the singles from Daydream turned out to be record
breakers: "Fantasy (Mariah Carey song)|Fantasy"
became the second single to debut at #1, and
became famous for making the pop/rap collaboration
a staple of modern pop music; "One Sweet Day"
spent a still-record 16 weeks at #1; and "Always
Be My Baby" not only made #1 but topped the Hot
100 year-end airplay charts in 1996. Critics such
as Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Bill Lamb embraced
Daydream as her finest album yet at the
timeref|ErlewineDaydreamref|LambDaydream, and many
consider the album to be her creative peak. The
album finished was named one of the ten best
albums of the year by sources such as New York
Times, People (magazine)|People, and TIME.

Carey was also instrumental in the success of
Babyface's top 10 single "Everytime I Close My
Eyes", arranging and singing the background vocals
for the song.

While Carey's music was hugely popular, it also
had its detractors as well. Some thought that her
compositions were too homogeneously commercial;
others thought that her lyrics were too full of
repetitive, simplistic imagery (a line of
criticism that would be further debated with her
next few albums); still others thought her voice
was beginning to wear down (also an observation
that would intensify in the coming decade).

==Independence and new image established,
1997–2000==

Carey and Mottola separated in 1997; although she
had often projected the image of a happy marriage
to the public, in reality, she had felt
emotionally and psychologically abused by Tommy.
He was often described as possessive even to the
point of spying on Carey when she had friends
over, and telling their live in servants not to
look at her in the eye to intimidate her. Their
divorce became final the following year.



Carey's 1997 album, Butterfly (album)|Butterfly,
was her second consecutive #1 debut, and saw her
continuing to move in an R&B/hip-hop direction.
Its butterfly|titular motif was interpreted as a
relation to Carey's feelings about escaping what
she saw as the controlled, cocoon-like environment
of her marriage. Lead single "Honey (Mariah Carey
song)|Honey" displayed a much more sexual Carey
than before in both its lyrics and music video.
The autobiographical Butterfly (Mariah Carey
song)|title track was widely praised, and "My All"
became her thirteenth #1 single, an unprecedented
feat for a female artist. J.R. Reynolds said the
sultry Butterfly "pushes the envelope", a move
that he thought "may prove disconcerting to more
conservative fans", but Reynolds still praised the
album as "a welcome change"ref|ReynoldsButterfly.
Another reviewer felt that Butterfly illustrated
"that Carey is continuing to improve and refine
her music, which makes her a rarity among her '90s
peers"ref|ErlewineButterfly. In 2004, Butterfly
was named one of the 50 Essential Pop Albums by
Slant (magazine)|Slant magazineref|SlantButterfly.

At some point after the release of Butterfly,
Carey had a falling out with Walter Afanasieff,
the man who had helped co-create Carey's albums
since her debut release. He had travelled and
toured with her, playing piano live. He appeared
in Carey's home videos talking about their
creative process. The two reportedly had creative
differences, and they have not worked together
since. Apparently, much of their falling out was
due to Walter being caught between Carey and Tommy
Mottola during their divorce with each asking him
to take a side; Walter was also a bit sick of
being pigeonholed as Carey's producer, and wanted
to expand his production horizons. Even after the
falling out, Carey continued to release songs the
pair co-wrote in the past, such as Glitters "Lead
The Way". After Carey's breakdown, E!
Entertainment interviewed Afanasieff, who spoke
highly of Carey, noting her hard work ethic and
musical talent. When interviewed about Afanasieff,
Carey too has spoken highly of him, and has
expressed an interest for them to one day work
together again.

1997 also marked the year that Carey became a
major songwriter and producer for other artists.
For Allure (group)|Allure's self-titled debut
album, Carey wrote two songs ("Head Over Heels"
and "Last Chance") and produced several of the
album's tracks, including the Top 10 hit "All
Cried Out". For the Men in Black (movie)|Men in
Black soundtrack, Carey wrote and produced Trey
Lorenz' "Make You Happy."

In the next few years, Carey would write and
produce more songs for other artists. She wrote
and produced "After" for 7 Mile's self-titled
debut album, and "Don't Go Looking For Love" for
Blaque's self-titled debut album. She also wrote
"Where Are You Christmas" for How The Grinch Stole
Christmas soundtrack, which Faith Hill sung in the
movie's closing credits.



During 1998, Carey had a highly public romance
with New York Yankees baseball star Derek Jeter,
who also had a multiracial upbringing.  She would
state later that while the timing was not right
for them to sustain the relationship, it did teach
her that multiracial families could function
well.ref|DerekJeterRomance

In 1998, Carey released the album Number 1's
(Mariah Carey album)|#1s, a collection of all her
American #1 singles up to that point.  Carey had
not wanted to release the album. She was planning
on her movie/soundtrack project known at the time
as All That Glitters. But when it was delayed,
pressure was put on her to release some sort of an
album to host a duet with Whitney Houston. The
album included four new songs, the most successful
internationally being the aforementioned "When You
Believe", the duet with Whitney Houston, and the
most successful at home being "I Still Believe", a
cover of the 1980s song by Brenda K. Starr. The
compilation was not welcomed by some reviewers;
Amy Linden pointed out that "while these may be
the tracks that sold the most and charted the
highest, these aren't necessarily Mariah's best
songs", though admitted that Carey's fans would be
pleased with itref|LindenNumberOnes.

Also in that year, Carey appeared on the first
televised VH1 Divas program, a joint benefit
concert appearance with Aretha Franklin (her
favorite singer alongside Stevie Wonder), CĂ©line
Dion, Gloria Estefan, Carole King, and Shania
Twain.  Carey's statuesque appearance (she is 5'
9" / 175cm tall), vocal and stage presence, career
twists and turns, and alleged prima donna behavior
had already led many to consider her to be a diva.



In 1999, Carey released Rainbow (album)|Rainbow,
which like Butterfly, was comprised of pop and
more hip hop oriented songs. Carey intended the
album to express her feelings about her divorce
two years previouslyref|DivorceRainbow, and the
aptly-titled lead single "Heartbreaker (Mariah
Carey song)|Heartbreaker" was a #1 commercial
success, helped by the accompanying music video,
one of the most expensive ever made. Despite
several collaborations with other artists such as
Joe Thomas|Joe and 98 Degrees (on her 15th US #1
single, "Thank God I Found You") and Westlife
("Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)"), the
album was her lowest seller up to that point, and
reached #2 on the U.S. charts. Decent reviews
accompanied Rainbows release, but there were
complaints that Carey was suffering a case of
repetition; words such as "formulaic" and
"predictable" frequently came up from even the
most impressed
criticsref|ErlewineRainbowref|LambRainbowref|Berge
rRainbow.
Although being the recipient of several awards in
recognition for her decade-spanning career,
including Billboard Music Awards|Billboard's
Artist of the Decade Award and the World Music
Award for the Best-Selling Female Artist of the
Millennium, warning signs began to appear as her
final release from Rainbow, "Crybaby"/"Can't Take
That Away (Mariah's Theme)" became her first song
ever to not make the Top 20. Signs of internal
drama were starting to rise, as Carey (via her
website) publicly accused Sony of sabotaging the
two singles and the album.

While her influence in pop music was starting to
wane, Carey soon became a prominent figure in
hip-hop music. She was a featured artist in
Jay-Z's single "Things That U Do," as well as in
Da Brat's single "Got A Thing For You." Soon, she
was collaborating with new, as well as
established, rappers. This was an expected outcome
given that it was Carey who started the
pop-hip-hop style with "Fantasy (Bad Boy Remix),"
which featured O.D.B.

==Personal and career struggles, 2001–2003==

Carey had ended a very successful decade in music,
however, things took a sudden downward turn for
her. Her one victory was in finally ending her
contract with Sony after which she signed a huge
contract with EMI's Virgin Records. Both parties
appeared to be enthusiastic about the deal and
Carey received a hefty signing bonus.

Just a few months later, in July and August 2001
it was widely reported that Carey had suffered
physical and mental exhaustion. She had left
voicemail messages on her website (which were
quickly removed) to her fans complaining of being
overworked; her many years of concurrent singing,
writing, producing, and now acting in two movies
seemed to have finally taken their toll. In
addition, her three-year relationship with singer
Luis Miguel was coming to an end. Carey made a
notorious appearance on MTV's Total Request Live,
where she was acting strangely and began taking
her clothes off; host Carson Daly covered his eyes
and asked, "What are you
doing?"ref|VH1TRLref|IMDbTRL. After that, she
checked into a mental health facility and
announced that she was taking a break from public
appearances.ref|CNNPublicBreak 



Her acting debut, in the semi-autobiographical
film Glitter (movie)|Glitter, was scheduled for
later in August but had to be delayed; the film
was finally released on September 21, but panned
by most movie critics and became a box office
failure (see Mariah_Carey#Acting|below). When
Virgin Records released her tenth album, Glitter
(Mariah Carey album)|Glitter, Carey was unable to
do much promotion due to her ill health and the
album, having been released on a dark day in
American history, September 11, 2001
attacks|September 11, 2001, peaked at #7 (Carey's
weakest showing ever). Reviews of the album were
not enthusiastic either; Rob Sheffield of Rolling
Stone was generally pleased, but criticised
Carey's ballads for having "zero melodic or
emotional punch"ref|SheffieldGlitter, and E!
thought that even the most serious tracks on the
album, some of which dealt with suicide and stormy
relationships, were "as glossy as her latest
publicity shot"ref|EGlitter. A similar criticism
was levelled at lead single "Loverboy (Mariah
Carey song)|Loverboy" by a critic for NME, who
said "the song is over almost as quickly as it
starts", and was "not memorable"ref|NMELoverboy.
"Loverboy" reached #2 on the Hot 100 thanks to
Virgin's massive campaign to sell the single for
only 99 cents across the United States, however,
airplay was almost nonexistent.

Carey did rally to perform "Hero (Mariah Carey
song)|Hero" as part of the September 21 America: A
Tribute to Heroes nationally televised fundraiser
in the aftermath of the attacks, and in December
she performed before U.S. peacekeeping troops in
Kosovo.  She was also given her own CBS television
special, "At Home for the Holidays with Mariah
Carey," which aired in the U.S. on December 21,
2001.

Shortly after the disastrous release of Glitter,
Sony released a semi-authorized second compilation
album, the 2-CD Greatest Hits (Mariah Carey
album)|Greatest Hits, just before Christmas.
Although the album initially failed to make an
impact on the charts, it would eventually hold
strong, steady sales as Carey's definitive singles
collection. 

In January of 2002, EMI decided to part ways with
Carey and they bought out her contract for $28
million, giving her another round of bad
publicity. Despite this, there were several record
companies vying for her signature in the months
that followed and she eventually signed with
Island Records' Def Jam in 2002.  To further add
to Mariah's emotional burdens, her father Alfred
Roy Carey died of cancer that same year.



Following a well-received supporting role in the
independent film WiseGirls (see
Mariah_Carey#Acting|below), Carey then released a
new album, Charmbracelet, in December 2002 as part
of a new deal with Island Records; it debuted at
#3. She expressed an interest in writing music
that is more profoundly meaningful to her and her
fans. The album included the singles "Through The
Rain", "Boy (I Need You)" featuring rapping|rapper
Cam'ron and a cover of Def Leppard's 1993 hit
"Bringin' On The Heartbreak". Charmbracelet failed
to ignite critics; in addition to the poor
reception of "Bringin' On The Heartbreak" and the
conventional feel of the entire album (Angus Batey
called it "conservative, unadventurous and
uninspiring"ref|BateyCharmbracelet), the quality
of Carey's vocals, which had previously been
perceived as the singer's strong point, came under
immense fire. "Mariah's voice is shot, sounding in
tatters" declared one critic, "and there's not a
moment where it sounds strong or
inviting"ref|ErlewineCharmbracelet. "Carey's once
glorious voice is all over the place" said
anotherref|ECharmbracelet, and commenting on the
song "Yours", Barry Walters said: "Carey's lead
vocals blend into choruses of overdubbed Mariahs
cooing overlapping
phrases"ref|WaltersCharmbracelet. Carey's devoted
fan base—who sometimes go by the name
"lambs"—continued to buy her singles in the
thousands, but none of the singles took off with
pop radio, whose playlists had become less open to
maturing pop "diva" stylists such as Carey,
Whitney Houston, and CĂ©line
Dionref|USATodayRadioDivas. After a decade of one
Carey hit after another, many observers came to
the conclusion that Carey had lost her "radio
magic."

Subsequently, Carey's duet with Busta Rhymes, "I
Know What You Want" (2003), fared considerably
better, reaching #3 in Billboard
magazine|Billboard's pop singles chart; it is
featured on her 13th album, The Remixes (Mariah
Carey album)|The Remixes, a double CD which was
released on Columbia Records. That year, Carey was
awarded the "Diamond Award" by the World Music
Awards show in honour of over 150 million album
sales
worldwideref|OfficialSiteDiamondref|WorldMusicAwar
dsDiamond. During 2003, Carey staged the
"Charmbracelet World Tour: An Intimate Evening
With Mariah Carey|Charmbracelet World Tour". 
Reviews were generally favorable, although the
press often focused on Carey's large travelling
entourage, many pieces of luggage, hotel and
dressing room demands, and other diva-like
behavioursref|AbstractsCharmbraceletTour.

==Return of the Voice, 2004–present==

Carey spent the majority of 2004 making The
Emancipation of Mimi. In the winter of 2004, she
was featured on Jadakiss's hit single "U Make Me
Wanna", which managed to hit the Top 10 on
Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart.  On New
Year's Eve 2005, Carey premiered a Jermaine Dupri
production at the grand opening of the Pure
(nightclub)|Pure Club in Las Vegas, Nevada|Las
Vegas. The song "It's Like That (Mariah Carey
song)|It's Like That" received a positive
response, and within weeks it zoomed into the Top
20 of the Hot 100, peaking at #16. Media sources
hailed the song as a triumphant return for Carey.
Billboard magazine|Billboard wrote, "After years
of underwhelming singles, Mariah Carey finally
returns with a hot track..." and put it on their
list of the week's essentials. 

As of April 2005, Carey had earned an estimated
fortune of $427 million from her record sales,
world tours, and recording advances.



The Emancipation of Mimi was released in April
2005, and was heralded as "The Return of the
Voice". However, Carey maintains that "The voice
has been here all along. Even if you listen to the
oh-so-dissed Glitter, there is a song called "Lead
The Way" which is one of my best vocal
performances ever."
http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news/18015591 The
story of self-discovery and remaking one's image,
the album received generally positive reviews,
with some critics calling it Carey's best in
years; proclaiming it her comeback album after the
relatively underwhelming critical and commercial
performances of Glitter and Charmbracelet. Carey's
resurgence also hit the right notes with the
public; Mimi debuted at #1 with the highest first
week tally of Carey's career, and remained popular
throughout 2005, remaining in the top 5 of the
Billboard 200 album chart for eighteen weeks. "We
Belong Together", the album's second single,
featured a blend of quiet storm ambiance and hip
hop-style singing, and received massive radio
airplay (reversing the previous trend). It became
Carey's first #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100
in five years (and one of the biggest of her
career), currently spending twelve weeks at the
top. It was named the "song of the summer" by
Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/arts/music/04not
e.html and was voted song of the summer by Chicago
Tribune "RedEye" readers
http://www.mariahdaily.com/newsdesk.shtml. "We
Belong Together" also reached #1 in Australia and
Canada and #2 in the UK, making it a major
international hit. The third single, "Shake It
Off", impacted radio in early July and skyrocketed
to #6 after five weeks on the charts
http://www.mariahdaily.com/newsdesk.shtml.

On July 2, 2005, Carey performed for Live 8 at the
Live 8 concert, London.  "Make It Happen" and
"Hero" were sung with the African Children's
Choir; she finished with "We Belong Together". 
Old friend and now American Idol judge Randy
Jackson was one of her band members. 
On July 4, Carey was shown performing three songs
for the Macy's Fireworks Spectacular in New York
in a pre-recorded segment. 
Later that month, new controversy arose as Carey's
former mentor and best friend (and the person who
helped her get a record deal), Brenda K. Starr,
publicly called out Carey on both the Wendy
Williams radio show and the "Page Six" section of
the New York Post for abusing their friendship;
Starr feels that Carey only calls her when she
needs her for publicity reasons, and that Carey
does not treat her with respect. Carey's manager
Benny Medina, however, counters: "Over the years,
Mariah has generously provided thousands in loans,
never seeking repayment, to Brenda and her family,
as well as a variety of gifts to both her and her
children. No request from Brenda has ever been
denied by Mariah."
http://www.themariahnetwork.com/news/archives/2005
_07.html#000924

==Acting==


Carey had participated in theatre workshops as a
child and began to study acting again in 1997
http://www.mariahdaily.com/jun99.html with acting
coach Sheila Gray, but it was not until 1999 in
film|1999 that she made her big screen debut. The
Bachelor (film)|The Bachelor, a romantic comedy
film|romantic comedy starring Chris O'Donnell and
Renée Zellweger, saw Carey in a cameo appearance
as an opera singer and one of the ex-girlfriends
of Jimmie (O'Donnell), who is proposed to by him
as he tries to find a woman to marry so he can
inherit his father's fortune. Despite protests
from the film's film director|director, Carey
insisted she do her own stunts for a scene where
her character, Ilana, falls to the ground and
plays dead in a performance of La Traviata but
later came to regret it: after filming the scene
"30 times over", she said, "My hips and legs
hurted like hell and I had to walk all day with an
ice-bag. I will never do that again."
http://www.mariahdaily.com/may99.html Her
demonstration of physical endurance was for nought
as far as film critic|critics were concerned;
Berge Garabedian called Carey's presence
"distracting" http://www.joblo.com/bachelor.htm,
Paul Tatara from CNN derisively said Carey's
casting as a talentless diva was "letter-perfect"
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9911/09/review.b
achelor/, and Tony Lee simply stated "no, she
can't act" http://movies.dowse.com/bachelor.html.
Bill DeLapp, however, said Carey handled her part
"with a brisk flourish, especially when her diva
disses both Jimmy and their eminently forgettable
relationship"
http://newtimes.rway.com/films/bachelor.htm, and
Rob Blackwelder commended Carey and co-star Brooke
Shields for managing to "easily outshine" star
Chris O'Donnell
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/film.nsf/reviews/b
achelor.



Carey's first starring role was in Glitter
(movie)|Glitter, a 2001 in film|2001 film that had
been in development hell|development as a vehicle
for Carey since 1997. In it, she played Billie
Frank, a struggling singer and songwriter who
breaks into the music industry after she meets
disc jockey|DJ Julian Dice (Max Beesley), and in
many ways the film's storyline echoed Carey's own
early career. Reviews were scathing; while Roger
Ebert gave mild praise for Carey's performance,
saying that "Her acting ranges from dutiful
flirtatiousness to intense sincerity"
http://web.archive.org/web/20020202201433/http://w
ww.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2001/09/092301
.html, most other critics panned it. Stephanie
Zacharek called Carey "numbingly bland" in her
role
http://dir.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/09/20/
glitter/index.html, and Michael Atkinson observed,
"when she tries for an emotion—any emotion—she
looks as if she's lost her car keys"
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0139,atkinson,284
70,20.html. Mimicking the sales of the
accompanying soundtrack album, Glitter was a box
office failure
http://www.boxofficeguru.com/092401.htm, and
Carey, who won a Worst Actress Golden Raspberry
Awards|Razzie Award for her trouble, has since
referred to the film as "a diva moment"
http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-04-12#celeb10.
The film is often cited as List of films that have
been cited as being among the worst ever made|one
of the worst ever made.



Carey next appeared co-starring with Mira Sorvino
and Melora Walters in the independent film
WiseGirls, which premiered at the Sundance Film
Festival in 2002 in film|2002 and received a
standing ovation. Partly due to the fallout from
Glitter, the film was not given a theatrical
release
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndweb
pages/carey%20sad%20over%20wisegirls%20flop and
went straight-to-cable in the United States, but
those critics who saw the film lauded Carey for
her efforts. Mick LaSalle proclaimed Carey as
"just perfect" for the role of Raychel, a
tough-talking waitress at an Italian restaurant
run by mobsters
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2
003/05/30/DD308699.DTL. Roger Freidman, referring
to her as "a Thelma Ritter for the new
millennium", said "her line delivery is sharp and
she manages to get the right laughs"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42928,00.html.
Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywood Reporter|The Hollywood
Reporter predicted "Those scathing notices for
Glitter will be a forgotten memory for the singer
once people warm up to Raychel"
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_displ
ay.jsp?vnu_content_id=1257566, while Variety
(magazine)|Variety said Carey displayed "charm and
relaxed assurance"
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_rev
iew&reviewID=VE1117916757&categoryID=31&cs=1. The
film's star, Mira Sorvino, was impressed as well:
"She's very talented actually. I don't think
people have yet given her credit as an actress,
but they will when they see this"
http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2002-08-16#celeb8.
Film producer|Producer Anthony Esposito,
meanwhile, likened Carey to Cher
(entertainer)|Cher, and went so far as to cast
Carey in another film, The Sweet Science, about an
unknown but talented boxing|boxer who is recruited
by a determined female boxing manager
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1452473/20020220/
nullcarey_mariah.jhtml. However, due to a
Bond|bonding problem caused by the schedule for
Carey's Charmbracelet tour in 2003, production was
delayed, and the project remains stuck in
development as of 2005|as of July 2005
http://lovemariah.com/news/2004/01/truth-behind-sw
eet-science.shtml

In the hip hop music|hip hop industry satire Death
of a Dynasty, a Damon Dash film dismissed as
"especially amateurish" by Elizabeth Weitzman
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/st
ory/304555p-260635c.html, Carey had a cameo as
herself. She followed this up with a small part in
State Property 2, another film directed by and
starring Damon Dash, as the spoiled girlfriend of
a drug dealer played by Dash. Michael Rechtshaffen
called Carey's two minute long appearance
"notable"
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/revie
w_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000882737 and
Kathryn Dresher said she was "unsurprisingly
perfect" in her role
http://www.udreview.com/media/paper781/news/2005/0
4/22/Mosaic/Movie.Review.state.Property.2-933907.s
html, 
but the film itself was met with mostly dreadful
reviews
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/statepropert
y2. Both films made it to theatres in 2005 in
film|2005, but neither was given a wide release
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=deathofady
nasty.htm
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=stateprope
rty2.htm; Death of a Dynasty had in fact been
searching for a distributor since its premiere at
the TriBeCa Film Festival in 2003 in film|2003
http://www.indiewire.com/onthescene/onthescene_030
410deat.html.

It was announced in October 2003, and later June
2004, that Carey was to star in a theatre
production on London's West End theatre|West End,
a stage adaptation of the 1957 in film|1957 film
The Prince and the Showgirl. Carey would play the
role of a showgirl originated by Marilyn Monroe,
and would also be given the opportunity to sing a
song in the show.
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/0/768F
F43D922003D280256DD0004E24B0?opendocument
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1488282/20040609/
carey_mariah.jhtml?headlines=true
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,9
94469,00.html

==Other activities==
Expandsect

===Charity work===


Carey is a philanthropist who has donated both
time and millions of dollars to organizations such
as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the National
Adoption Center, VH1's Save The Music Foundation,
and the Fresh Air Fund among many others
http://www.themariahnetwork.com/info/charity.html.
Carey is well-known nationally for her work with
the Make-A-Wish Foundation in granting the wishes
of the terminally ill Caleb Boulter as seen on
live television. Boulter, a self-confessed "loyal
fan" of Carey since listening to "My All" in 1997,
called her "a very real person who overflows with
compassion and love for others"
http://popdirt.com/article11571.html.

As part of her involvement with the Fresh Air
Fund, Carey is the co-founder of a serene camp
located in Fishkill, New York that enables
inner-city youth to embrace the arts, be
introduced to career opportunities, and build
self-esteem. The camp was named Camp Mariah in
honour of Carey's work with the Fresh Air Fund
http://www.freshair.org/summercamp.asp. Carey even
received a Congressional Award titled the Horizon
Award for her charity work on behalf of children
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426935/19990413/
carey_mariah.jhtml.

===Home===
Carey owns a three-floor apartment in TriBeCa,
Manhattan, New York City that was featured on MTV
Cribs.  A centerpiece is Marilyn Monroe's white
lacquered baby grand piano, bought at an auction
in October of 1999 for $600,000 plus commission.
Carey's friendly attitude towards her fans has
backfired a bit. After she made an announcement in
jest on Cribs for fans to visit, some fans
traveled from Spain to her apartment in New York
City and requested to stay the night citing her
offer. Carey had to turn them away for privacy
reasons, but she did give them money for a hotel.

===Fashion, reality, and family===
In 2005 it was reported that Carey was consulting
with Vogue (magazine)|Vogue editor Andre Leon
Talley to upgrade her clothing look, which since
the Butterfly era has often been criticized as
raunchy, excessively revealing, and
age-inappropriate
http://www.fashiongates.com/magazine/Mariah-Carey-
to-Change-Style-19-05-05-66081.html. A
Pan-Islamism|Pan-Islamic political youth leader
even attempted to have Carey banned from
performing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in early
2004, on the basis that she was "not an
appropriate role model for young Malaysians"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/340
2201.stm.

Ironically, her appearance is at complete odds
with her personal behavior; she has been quoted
several times as saying she has only had a handful
of intimate relationships with men
http://www.usatoday.com/life/dcovfri.htm
http://www.1st-choice-ringtones.co.uk/pages/mariah
_carey_news_and_gossip.html.  Her decisions in
this regard may have been influenced by the
counter-example of her sister Alison, who has
lived a troubled life and in 2005 was arrested for
prostitution. 
http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/news/index.php?type=e
nt&news_id=361. Although the news made headlines
with Mariah being in the spotlight again, this is
not the first time Alison has been arrested and
has been an expert in the field of prostitution
for years. Through her activities, she has
contracted the HIV virus, and her children were
taken away from her (Mariah supports the children
financially).

===Talent management===

In February of 1997, it was announced that Crave
Records, a new Sony Music Entertainment|Sony Music
label founded by Carey, would be launched.  Groups
signed to the label included female R&B quartet
Allure, who released a self-titled album featuring
the hit singles "Head Over Heals", "All Cried
Out", and "Last Chance" and male R&B trio 7 Mile,
who also released a self-titled album.  In July of
1998, Crave Records was shut down.

Years later, as part of her deal with Island Def
Jam Records, Carey created the MonarC imprint to
sign and develop new artists. Carey has signed her
good friend and backup singer, Trey Lorenz along
with Bell & Nae Nae and Sadie, also known as "Dat
Baby", to the label. However, the future of the
label is in jeopardy, and it may be inactive.

===Upcoming plans===

Carey will be launching a clothing and accessories
lines known as Automatic Princess
http://www.themariahnetwork.com/info/ap.html.
Carey was also going to write her autobiography
with David Ritz
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1488282/20040609/
carey_mariah.jhtml?headlines=true, but following a
discussion with publisher HarperCollins, she
dropped the proposal. She has instead chosen to
fictionalize her story and adapt it into a series
of illustrated children's books, also titled
Automatic Princess (book series)|Automatic
Princess, about an orphaned young girl who is
biracial.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1488282/20040609/
carey_mariah.jhtml?headlines=true

==Voice==

Carey is a coloratura soprano, credited as having
a five-octave vocal range, and her vocal trademark
is her ability to hit high notes in the whistle
register. So far, the highest note that she has
hit is a G#7 (five and a half steps above C7, the
highest note on a standard keyboard, or just three
and a half steps away from the highest note on a
88 key piano).
Carey's voice is rated as one of the greatest ever
among pop singers
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_vocalis
ts-fe-pop.html. In 2003, she was voted as having
the Greatest Voice in music in MTV's and Blender
Magazine's countdown of "MTV's 22 Greatest Voices
in Music|The 22 Greatest Voices In Music", placing
ahead of such rivals as Whitney Houston (#3),
Christina Aguilera (#5) and CĂ©line Dion (#9). 
Her vocal style has influenced a generation of
singers, including Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé
Knowles as well as many American Idol competitors.


Mariah Carey's performance trademark is making
fluttering motions with her left hand while she
sings. Voice teachers have commented that this
actually helps one's singing technique. 

Carey has incorrectly been credited as having  a
7-octave vocal range. It has been suggested that
Carey's publicists falsely claimed this at the
start of her career
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/carey.htm,
although it may also be a misstatement of the fact
that Carey frequently accesses the  whistle
register, especially the notes situated in the
seventh octave. 

===Audio Samples===

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MTV Awards)|description=|format=Ogg
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(Live, Arsenio Hall in
1991)|description=|format=Ogg
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(Live)|description=|format=Ogg
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98 (live) low.ogg|title=Really Low notes - "Make
it Happen" (Live, VH1 Divas in
1998)|description=|format=Ogg



multi-listen end

==Sales and charts achievements==


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

===Sales===

*According to World Music Awards, Carey is the
biggest-selling recording artist of the decade
(1990-2000)
http://www.claypaky.it/common/press/art_musicaward
.htm. In 2000, she received the Best selling
Pop-Female artist of the Millennium award
http://web.archive.org/web/20000621043154/http://w
ww.montecarloresort.com/awards/00/w00res00.htm for
being the best selling female pop artist of all
time ref|bestselling. In 2003, she also became the
first female artist to receive the Chopard Diamond
World Music Award, for sales surprassing 150
million albums
http://www.mariahcarey.com/mariahcarey/allm/awards
.las. She has sold a total of 84 mil. records in
the US (63 mil. albums and 21 mil. singles) and
approx 230 mil. records worldwide, (180 mil.
albums plus 49 mil. singles); (according to Mariah
Carey Discography).

*Carey is the most successful international artist
in Japan, with sales of over twelve million. She
has achieved six #1 singles and six #1 albums.
Number 1's (Mariah Carey album)|#1s is also the
biggest selling foreign album in that country, and
Glitter (Mariah Carey album)|Glitter is the first
international soundtrack ever to acheive #1 status
http://www.mariahdaily.com/fancenter/rumoriah.shtm
l.

*Merry Christmas (album)|Merry Christmas is the
biggest selling Christmas album of all time. It
has been certified 5Ă— RIAA Certification|platinum
in the US and has sold nearly fourteen million
copies worldwide. http://www.mcarchives.com/

*Carey has the most platinum singles in the US by
a female artist (ten platinum singles).

*Carey is the only female artist to have twelve
consecutive albums RIAA- certified for at least
three million copies sold. She is also the first
female artist in history to have three studio
albums sell in excess of eight million copies in
the US; Mariah Carey (album)|Mariah Carey, Music
Box (album)|Music Box and Daydream
(album)|Daydream
http://www.bestofmariahcarey.com/mariah/index.php?
langue=us&rub=bio and the first artist to have two
RIAA Certification|Diamond albums.

*In the US, Carey, Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna,
Britney Spears, CĂ©line Dion, Whitney Houston,
Shania Twain, Norah Jones, and the Dixie Chicks
are the only female artists with multiple Diamond
(shipped over ten million copies) albums.

*With fifteen years in the music industry, Carey
has the following RIAA achievements: albums - 77
certifications, singles - 35 certifications (as of
August 2005), home videos - 12 certifications (as
of August 2005); total: 124 certifications.

*RIAA Certifications: albums - 14 gold, 14
platinum, 10 multi-platinum, 2 Diamond Awards;
singles - 22 gold, 10 platinum, 2 multi-platinum;
home videos - 6 gold, 6 platinum.

*Carey is the highest-selling R&B artist in
American history, male or female.

===Charts===

*In 1999, Carey was named The Most Successful Pop
Artist of the 1990s|decade and The Most successful
R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the decade by Billboard
Magazine
http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-c/mariahcarey_
main.htm,http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0878678.ht
ml. "One Sweet Day" was also deemed the #1 song of
the
decade.http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/top100_
1990s.htm

*Carey has the most number one singles on the
Billboard Hot 100 (16) for a female artist and for
any active recording artist, behind The Beatles
(20) and Elvis Presley (18). She also has three
number two singles.

*Carey has the most cumulative weeks at number one
on the Billboard Hot 100 (73) for any female and
active recording artist behind Elvis Presley (80).
http://www.billboard.com/bb/chartbeat/bonus.jsp.

*Carey has the most consecutive years with a
number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 (11)
from 1990-2000. She is also the only artist to
have a single reach number one on the Billboard
Hot 100 every year of the 1990s.

*"One Sweet Day", a duet with Carey and Boyz II
Men holds the record for longest consecutive run
at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 when it
spent sixteen uninterrupted weeks from December 2,
1995 to March 16, 1996.

*"We Belong Together" is the second longest
running number one single on the Billboard Hot
R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (13 weeks) behind
Deborah Cox's "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here", (14
weeks)
http://www.mariahcarey.com/mariahcarey/news/index.
las.

*"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 Billboard Hot Ringtones. The week before, it
broke its own record of topping eight Billboard
charts.
http://www.mariahdaily.com/corantofiles/news-archi
ve-7-2005.shtml

*"We Belong together" is also the song to top the
most Billboard charts in history —it has
occupied the pole position on 13 charts
altogether.

*Carey has the record for the best debut on the
Billboard Hot 100. The first five singles that she
ever released went to #1; ("Vision Of Love", "Love
Takes Time", "Someday", "I Don't Wanna Cry", and
"Emotions (Mariah Carey song)|Emotions"). She
later achieved another five consecutive #1 singles
("Fantasy", "One Sweet Day", "Always Be My Baby",
"Honey", and "My All"). She is the only female
artist to accomplish this feat.

*With "One Sweet Day" spending sixteen weeks at #1
and "We Belong Together" spending twelve weeks (As
of 2005|to date), Carey joins Carlos Santana and
Boys II Men as the only artists to have two or
more double-digit runs at No. 1 on the Billboard
Hot 100.

*Carey has five #1 singles on The Billboard
Mainstream Top 40; the most for any artist on that
chart.
http://www.ilikemusic.com/pop/Mariah_Carey-1361
http://umusic.ca/mariahcarey/index.php

*"We Belong Together" officially became the
biggest song ever in the history (of the
impressions measurement era) of 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.

*"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.

*When "Fantasy (Mariah Carey song)|Fantasy", "One
Sweet Day", and "Honey (Mariah Carey song)|Honey"
debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Carey
became the artist with the most singles to debut
at #1 in history (only fourteen songs have ever
debuted at pole position). She also became the
first female artist (and second artist, behind
Michael Jackson) to ever have a #1 debut with
"Fantasy" in 1995.

*Carey is also the only artist to have two
consecutive #1 debuts on the Billboard Hot 100
("Fantasy" and "One Sweet Day").

*Carey is the only artist to have the debut
singles from all her studio albums top the charts
in the 1990s. (Her run was broken in 2001 when
"Loverboy (Mariah Carey song)|Loverboy", the lead
single from Glitter, peaked at #2).

*Carey and Ludacris are tied for the most top 10s
on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart
(17).http://www.mariahdaily.com/newsdesk.shtml

*Carey is the only artist to have entered the
Billboard Hot 100 at least once every year from
1990 to 2005.

*Carey holds the record for the largest jump for a
single to the #2 position on The Hot 100, when
"Loverboy" jumped from #60 to #2.

*Carey has five #1 albums on The Billboard 200
(three debuts at #1). She is tied with Madonna
(entertainer)|Madonna (five #1s) and Janet Jackson
(five #1s) and behind Barbra Streisand (eight
#1s).

*Carey is one of only nine women to have had five
or more Top 10 debuts on The Billboard 200. Those
other artists are Mary J. Blige, Tori Amos,
CĂ©line Dion, Janet Jackson, Madonna
(entertainer)|Madonna, Britney Spears, LeAnn
Rimes, and Barbra Streisand.

==Awards and accolades==

For a list of awards, see List of Mariah Carey
Awards|List of Mariah Carey Awards and Accolades.

For a list of Grammy awards and nominations, see
Grammy Nominations for Mariah Carey.

==Discography==
*For Carey's detailed albums discography, see
Mariah Carey albums discography.
*For her detailed singles discography, see Mariah
Carey singles discography.
*For a list of her songs, see List of songs by
Mariah Carey.
*For a list of her unreleased songs, see List of
unreleased songs by Mariah Carey.
*For her videography, see Videography of Mariah
Carey.

{| prettytable
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Year !! Album 
|-
| 1990 in music|1990 || Mariah Carey
(album)|Mariah Carey 
|-
| 1991 in music|1991 || Emotions (album)|Emotions 
|-
| 1992 in music|1992 || MTV Unplugged EP 
|-
| 1993 in music|1993 || Music Box (album)|Music
Box 
|-
| 1994 in music|1994 || Merry Christmas
(album)|Merry Christmas 
|-
| 1995 in music|1995 || Daydream (album)|Daydream 
|-
| 1997 in music|1997 || Butterfly
(album)|Butterfly 
|-
| 1998 in music|1998 || Number 1's (Mariah Carey
album)|#1's 
|-
| 1999 in music|1999 || Rainbow (album)|Rainbow 
|-
| 2001 in music|2001 || Glitter (Mariah Carey
album)|Glitter 
|-
| 2001 in music|2001 || Greatest Hits (Mariah
Carey album)|Greatest Hits 
|-
| 2002 in music|2002 || Charmbracelet 
|-
| 2003 in music|2003 || The Remixes (Mariah Carey
album)|The Remixes 
|-
| 2005 in music|2005 || The Emancipation of Mimi 
|}

==See also==
*Biggest-selling female musician
*Best selling music artists - World's top-selling
music artists chart.
*List of number-one hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the Hot
100 (US)
*List of number-one dance hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the US
Dance chart

==Notes==
# note|WMABestSelling90s
http://www.claypaky.it/common/press/art_musicaward
.htm World Music Awards Montecarlo. 1998.
Retrieved August 17, 2005.
# note|BattelMariahCarey Battel, Ashley S.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADF
EAEE57A1FDE4BA97620C1963B5DCDA161FC08D063F2810A2D4
B5CD0FB324780115BF044D8AFADEBFC39B366ADFE31A65A0FD
686E95CF8D46C3F3A9D8EDB&uid=MIW030507211948&sql=10
:2ubyxd7bjolk~T1 Mariah Carey - Review. All Music
Guide. Retrieved August 17, 2005.
# note|LambVisionOfLove Lamb, Bill.
http://top40.about.com/od/reviews/gr/mcareyfirst.h
tm Mariah Carey. About.com. Retrieved August 17,
2005.
# note|LeroyMariahCarey Leroy, Dan.
http://music.yahoo.com/read/review/12030208 Album
Review: Mariah Carey. Yahoo! Music. June 12, 1990.
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==External links==
* http://www.mariahcarey.com/ MariahCarey.com -
official site.
* http://www.honeybfly.com/ Honey B. Fly -
official fan club.
*
http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/M/Mariah-Carey.html
Rare-Lyrics - Mariah Carey lyrics.
* imdb name|id=0001014|name=Mariah Carey
* http://www.westlord.com/mariah-carey/ Mariah
Carey Website at WestLord
* http://groups.google.com/group/MariahC Mariah
Carey Google group

==Overview==
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