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Having sold 220 million records globally, Mariah is one of the best-selling artists in musical history. She was presented with the Millennium Award at the 2000 World Music Awards for becoming the best-selling female artist of the millennium. According to the RIAA, she is the third best-selling female artist and sixteenth overall recording artist with shipments of over 63.5 million albums in the US. She is also ranked as the best-selling female artist of the US Nielsen SoundScan era (since 1991) with album sales of over 54 million. Her albums Mariah Carey, Music Box, Daydream and The Emancipation of Mimi are among the top 100 certified albums according to the RIAA.
Impressively, Mariah is the only artist to ever hit number one with a single during every year of an entire decade. Accomplishing this feat in the 90's gave her the ability to notch so many, ending with 14 to her name. She began the next decade continuing that streak by earning her 15th number one hit with Thank God I Found You. We Belong Together and Don't Forget About Us followed a few years later in both 2005 and 2006 respectively. With the release of Touch My Body, she gained her 18th number one single in the United States, which is more than any other solo artist. In 2012, Carey was ranked second on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Mariah is one of the most awarded women in music; having received Grammy Awards, World Music Awards, American Music Awards, and Billboard Music Awards, among other honors. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by the Guinness World Records, she is famed for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style and signature use of the whistle register.
Impressively, Mariah is the only artist to ever hit number one with a single during every year of an entire decade. Accomplishing this feat in the 90's gave her the ability to notch so many, ending with 14 to her name. She began the next decade continuing that streak by earning her 15th number one hit with Thank God I Found You. We Belong Together and Don't Forget About Us followed a few years later in both 2005 and 2006 respectively. With the release of Touch My Body, she gained her 18th number one single in the United States, which is more than any other solo artist. In 2012, Carey was ranked second on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Mariah is one of the most awarded women in music; having received Grammy Awards, World Music Awards, American Music Awards, and Billboard Music Awards, among other honors. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by the Guinness World Records, she is famed for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style and signature use of the whistle register.
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STANDING O: THE WOMAN OF THE HOUR
ALBUM ACHIEVEMENTS
- Sold over a quarter of a million records every week during the 90's!
- The best selling female artist of the Soundscan era (US sales since 1991).
- The only female artist to have 8 albums sell 5 million (5x Platinum) or more in the US.
- The only female artist to have 9 consecutive albums sell 3 million (3x Platinum) or more in the US.
- The fastest selling female artist in the US of all time, selling over 63 million albums in the US in 16 years.
- One of three women (Madonna and Barbra Striesand are the others) to sell in excess of 60 million albums in the US.
- The best selling (non-Japanese) artist of all time in Japan, selling over 17 million albums. She's sold more than twice as much as any other non-Japanese female artist (Madonna, Celine Dion and Whitney Houston are respectively the 2nd, 3rd and the 4th best selling non-Japanese female artists in Japan).
- The only (non-Japanese) artist to sell 1 million copies of an album in a single week, with '#1's'.
- One of the two (non-Korean) women (Whitney Houston is the other) to have a million seller in Korea, with 'Music Box'.
- One of six women (Madonna, Shania Twain, Delta Goodrem, Alanis Morissette and P!nk are the others) to have an album sell in excess of 700,000 copies in Australia (10x Platinum).
- Music Box is the best selling studio album by a female R&B artist of all time.
- Music Box was the best selling album of 1994 in Australia.
- Music Box is one of the two (non-Dutch) female albums (Celine Dion's Falling Into You is the other) to sell in excess of 600,000 copies (6x Platinum) in the Netherlands.
SINGLE ACHIVEMENTS
- Has more #1 singles (18) on the Billboard Hot 100 than any female or active artist ever.
- Her #1 singles have cumulatively spent 79 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100. That's more than any other artist in history.
- Reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with her original cover of the Jackson 5 hit, I'll Be There, in 1992.
- The only artist to have her first 5 singles reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- Had a second string of 5 singles to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- The only artist to have a #1 single for every year of a single decade.
- Has more #1 airplay hits (13) than any artist.
- Has the #1 and #2 longest running #1 singles of all time, spending 16 and 14 weeks at #1, respectively, with One Sweet Day and We Belong Together.
- The only artist to have 3 singles debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- Has the longest running #1 airplay hit by a solo artist spending 16 consecutive weeks on top, with 'We Belong Together'.
- Holds the record for the most heard single in radio history by a female (third overall), getting more than 200 million listeners in a single week, with 'We Belong Together.
- The only artist to hit #1 on four formats (Pop, Urban, Rhythmic and Adult Urban) simultaneously, with 'We Belong Together'.
- Was the first female artist to have a single debut at #1 with Fantasy (second artist ever, behind Michael Jackson).
- The first artist to have a seasonal ringtone certified by the RIAA with All I Want For Christmas Is You going Gold (500,000 copies sold).
- The only female to simultaneously top the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalog chart, with 'Daydream' and 'Merry Christmas'.
- The only female artist to have her singles from one album spent over 25 weeks (26 total) at #1.
- The only female artist to occupy the #1 and #2 position on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same week with 'We Belong Together' at #1 and 'Shake It Off' at #2.
- Tied with Janet Jackson for the most #2 singles for an R&B female artist.
- Has more #1 singles on the New Zealand singles chart than any female artist ever with 7.
- The only (non-Japanese) artist to have 6 albums debut and reach #1 on the Overall Japanese Charts.
AWARD ACHIEVEMENTS
- Has more World Music Awards (18) than any artist.
- Won Billboard's Artist of the Decade Award in 1999.
- Awarded with the World Music Award for World's Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium in 2000.
- Received The Congressional Award, which was handed out in Washington for her contributions to youth charities and nonprofit organizations.