Mariah Carey

THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI (Coming April 12th). In the process, he went from a niche audience to worldwide fame. GUEST APPEARANCES. He left behind his classic formulation of rhythm and blues to sing country music, pop songs, and soft-drink commercials. CHARMBRACELET. From the time of his switch from straight rhythm and blues with a combo, Charles was often accused of selling out. GLITTER. The saying was, "To be a Raelet, you've got to let Ray.".

RAINBOW. In a 60 Minutes profile, he admitted to Ed Bradley that he "auditioned" his female back-up singers. NUMBER ONES. A notorious ladies' man, Charles was married twice and fathered twelve children by seven different women. BUTTERFLY. In response to criticism, his manager, Roy Adams, commented: "For that kind of money he would have sung "America the Beautiful" at a Ku Klux Klan rally.". DAYDREAM. president Ronald Reagan's second inaugural ball.

MERRY CHRISTMAS. The United Nations agency supporting the boycott asked him to apologize and promise not to visit South Africa until the abolition of apartheid to which he responded that they could "kindly kiss (my) far end." Despite having described himself as a "Hubert Humphrey Democrat," Charles accepted $100,000 to perform "America the Beautiful" at former U.S. MUSIC BOX. He faced pickets in South Africa and in 15 North American cities he toured subsequently including Albany, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. MTV:UNPLUGGED. Despite his support of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 1960s and his support for the civil rights movement, Charles courted controversy when he toured South Africa in 1981 despite an international boycott of the country because of its apartheid policy. EMOTIONS. He is also a member of the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, the Blues Hall of Fame, the Songwriters' Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Jazz Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, and the Playboy Hall of Fame.

MARIAH CAREY. He was an original inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Note: Bold are Billboard Hot 100 or UK Top 40 singles that reached #1). The film's credits note that he is survived by 12 children, 21 grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. US Sales Total : 61,000,000 Worldwide Sales Total: 179,000,000. Charles was able to "see" the completed film, but he died before it opened in theaters. The next single will be released about the same time as the album, is titled "We Belong Together" is a mid-tempo ballad as critics call it "a return to the days when Mariah made great songs that where very well recieved by the general public...she's going back to her roots..." It is already receiving moderate airplay through-out the country and is expected to put Carey back on the map in terms of Hit singles. For two hours, Charles challenged Foxx, who revealed the depth of his talent, and finally, Charles stood up, hugged himself, and proclaimed, "He's the one...he can do it," thus giving his blessing.

"The Emancipation Of Mimi" will be released on April 12, 2005 (tentative). Before shooting could begin, however, director Taylor Hackford brought Foxx to meet Charles, who heard that the younger man was an accomplished pianist and insisted that they sit down at two pianos and jam. Billboard wrote "After years of underwhelming singles, Mariah Carey finally returns with a hot track..." and put it in their list of the week's essentials. Foxx won the 2005 Best Actor Academy Award for the role. Media sources hailed the song a triumphant return for Carey. Charles was significantly involved in the critically-acclaimed biopic Ray, an October 2004 film which portrays his life and career between 1930 and 1966 and stars actor Jamie Foxx as Charles. Within weeks, it zoomed into the top 20. Unlike a similar Frank Sinatra album, the duets were recorded face-to-face, with both performers in the studio at the same time.

It was her highest debut in nearly five years. King, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, and Johnny Mathis. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #53 on January 22. His final album, Genius Loves Company, released after his death, consists of duets with various admirers and contemporaries, including B.B. The song, "It's Like That" received a positive response and began receiving airplay a day later. He was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. On New Years Eve, Carey premiered a Jermaine Dupri production at the Pure Club in Las Vegas. He died at age 73 of liver disease at his home in Beverly Hills, California, surrounded by family and friends.

Another Neptunes production, "Tonight," which featured rapper Nelly also leaked on to the Internet around this time. Ray Charles' final public appearance came on April 30, 2004, at the dedication of his music studio as an historic landmark in the city of Los Angeles. The song was planned as the first single, but was met with a lukewarm response. He performed "Georgia On My Mind" and "America the Beautiful," though the singer was a bit slower and had some more vocal difficulty than in his younger days. In November, a new song from her upcoming album entitled "Say Something" featuring rappers Snoop Dogg and Pharrell leaked on to the internet. One of Charles' last public performances was in 2003 at a televised annual electronic media journalist banquet held in Washington, DC. Although the song was not as great of a success as her Busta Rhymes collaboration, it managed to hit the Top 10 of Billboard's R&B chart. Their song "Here We Go Again" was nominated for Best Song.

That Fall she was featured on Jadakiss's hit single "U Make Me Wanna". They won Album of the year and record of the year. Carey spent the majority of 2004 preparing for the release of her tenth studio album, entitled "The Emancipation of Mimi". In 2004 he did a new album, Genius Loves Company, with Norah Jones which got nominated in the Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album, Album of the year and Record of the year. That year, she was awarded the World Music Awards "Diamond Award" in honor of over 150 million album sales worldwide. He also appeared (with Chaka Khan) on long time friend Quincy Jones' hit I'll Be Good To You in 1991. However, in 2003, a duet with Busta Rhymes entitled "I Know What You Want" fared considerably better, having reached the top five (#3) of Billboard's pop singles chart and the top five in rap radio airplay. It is also featured on the latest release The Remixes, a double CD containing a series of remixes. These included the INXS song "Please (You've Got That...)," on the Full Moon, Dirty Hearts album, as well as the theme song for Designing Women in its sixth season.

None of the three singles really took off with radio though fans continued to buy her singles in the thousands, leading to the conclusion that Carey had lost her "radio magic" after a decade of one radio hit after another. In this highly successful advertising campaign, Charles popularized the catchphrase "You've got the right one, baby!" At the height of his newfound fame in the early nineties, Charles did guest vocals for quite a few projects. The album included the singles "Through The Rain", "Boy (I Need You)" featuring rapper Cam'ron, and a cover of Def Leppard's '80s hit "Bringin' On The Heartbreak". Charles performed the song, "Always a Friend." Charles' new connection with audiences helped secure a spokesmanship for Diet Pepsi. She's interested in writing music that is more profound having meaning to her and her fans. In 1987, Charles guest-starred in the episode "Hit the Road, Chad," of Who's the Boss. Mariah released a new album, Charmbracelet in December 2002, it debuted at #3. In 1986, he collaborated with Billy Joel on "Baby Grand" for Joel's album The Bridge.

After that, she checked into a mental health facility and announced that she was taking a break from performing. Cast members used the song to perform a wildly popular lip-synch that helped the show secure its wide viewership. Finally, Mariah made an appearance on MTV's TRL, where she was scantily clad and acting strangely. In 1985, "Night Time is the Right Time" was featured in the episode "Happy Anniversary" of The Cosby Show. To date, it has sold 3 million copies worldwide, which is about what "Rainbow" sold in the US. In the late 1980s, a number of events increased Ray's recognition among young audiences. The album peaked at #7, Carey's lowest peaking album ever, despite being hailed as some of Mariah's best work. He also had success with his unique version of "America the Beautiful." In 1980 Charles made a musical cameo appearance in The Blues Brothers.

However, sales were disappointing and airplay almost nonexistant. He concentrated largely on live performances, although his version of "Georgia On My Mind," a Hoagy Carmichael song originally written for a girl named Georgia, was a hit and soon was proclaimed the state song of Georgia, with Charles performing it on the floor of the state legislature. The lead single "LoverBoy" reached #2 in the Hot 100 thanks to Virgin's massive campaign to sell the single for only 99 cents across America. After the 1960s, Charles' releases were hit-or-miss, with some massive hits and critically acclaimed work, and some music that was dismissed as unoriginal and staid. She left her longtime label to sign a contract with Virgin Records, under which her 10th album "Glitter" was released. He spent a year on parole and defiantly released Ashford and Simpson's "Lets Go Get Stoned." (1966). She complained her record label wasn't promoting her albums. It was his third arrest for the offense, but he avoided prison time after kicking the habit in a clinic in Los Angeles.

Her acting debut in the film Glitter, panned by many popular movie critics, coupled with her many years of excessively hard work appeared to have taken a toll on her. In 1965, Charles was arrested for possession of heroin, a drug to which he had been addicted for seventeen years. Carey suffered physical and mental exhaustion in 2001. At ABC, Charles had a great deal of control over his music, and broadened his approach, not on experimental side projects, but with out and out pop music, resulting in such hits as "Unchain My Heart" and "Hit the Road, Jack." In 1962, Charles surprised his new, broad audience with his landmark album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, which included the numbers "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "You Don't Know Me." This was followed by a series of hits, including "You Are My Sunshine," "Crying Time," "Busted" and "Unchain My Heart.". Most of her recent singles have also been remixed as dance music, where she worked with DJs such as David Morales and Junior Vasquez. Then, he did move on, to ABC Records. Though her release singles are usually in the pop genre, she has also combined her talents with rap artists such as Lord Tariq, Peter Gunz, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. He recorded with large orchestras and with jazz artists like Milt Jackson and even made his first country music cover with Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On.".

To date, Rainbow has sold over 3 million copies in America and another 6 million internationally. Charles had already begun to go beyond the limits of his blues-gospel synthesis while still at Atlantic, which now called him The Genius. This led to widespread speculation that Carey's career was in massive decline. This album also features the first public performance of "What'd I Say." It broke out as a hit in Atlanta from the tape, months before it was recorded in the studio in a two-part version with better fidelity. Even with a commercial single release "Crybaby" only managed to peak at 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, Carey's lowest peaking single up to that point. After an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival he achieved mainstream success with "(The Night Time is) The Right Time" and his signature song, "What'd I Say." The essence of this phase of his career can be heard on his live album Ray Charles In Person, recorded before a mostly African-American audience in Atlanta in 1958. The album's next two singles, "Crybaby" and "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)", were released almost simultaneously. "Crybaby", a hip-hop song which featured Snoop Dogg, was promoted to urban and hip-hop radio, while "Mariah's Theme", a ballad in the vein of "Hero", was promoted to top 40 and adult contemporary radio. Neither song really took off with any audience. Solomon Burke and Little Richard also moved between the two styles.

Like "Heartbreaker", following in the trend that Carey seemed to use at the time for each new single, a video for a remix of "Thank God I Found You"--which contained a sample from Keith Sweat's "Make It Last Forever" and featured Joe and Nas--was released. See Thomas A. Dorsey, one of the founders of gospel music, who also had a significant career in secular music. The song didn't fare as well on the radio as Carey's earlier songs, but solid sales assured that the song became a chart hit. Although Charles was criticized for singing gospel songs with secular lyrics, there is a long tradition of putting religious lyrics to popular songs and vice versa. The song was a duet with Joe and featured 98 Degrees singing background vocals on the chorus. He had another hit with the rap-like urban jive of "It Should Have Been Me," but went into high gear with the gospel drive of "I Got A Woman." (1955) This was followed by "This Little Girl of Mine," "Drown in My Own Tears," "Hallelujah I Love Her So," and "Lonely Avenue," half of them gospel songs converted with secular lyrics, and the others blues ballads. Rainbows second single, "Thank God I Found You" became Carey's fifteenth #1 single on the Hot 100. His first hit in this mode was "Mess Around," which was based on the 1929 classic "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" by Pinetop Smith and written by Ahmet Ertegun, his producer at Atlantic Records.

Combined, both versions of "Heartbreaker" spent 65 days on TRL and become her first and only TRL-"retired" video. For example, Charles controversially adapted secular lyrics to many gospel songs, and then played them with jazz backgrounds. The remix video, which has cameo appearances by Brat, Elliott, and Snoop, also became popular on TRL. After joining Atlantic Records, Charles' sound became more original. A video was also filmed for a remix to "Heartbreaker", which was much more hip-hop oriented than the original, featuring a sample of Snoop Dogg's "Ain't No Fun" and guest raps by Missy Elliott and Da Brat. He toured with Lowell Fulson and worked with Guitar Slim and Ruth Brown. With a cost of over $2.5 million, the video is Carey's most expensive to date and one of the top 5 most expensive music videos in history. While his first recordings were only skillful imitations of his heroes, Charles' music soon became more innovative.

"Heartbreaker" featured a popular music video which got heavy airplay on MTV's TRL. Early influences on his work were Nat King Cole (both his vocals and piano playing) and Charles Brown. The single went on to achieve platinum (1,000,000 copies sold) status and was one of the last singles to do so in America, once the Napster craze took off in 2000 and decimated the American singles industry. After he left school, Charles began working as a musician in Florida, eventually moving to Seattle, Washington in 1947. He soon started recording, achieving his first hit song with "Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand" (1951). Nevertheless, it managed to crack the top 20 in overall radio airplay, garnering smaller amounts of airplay from a combination of different formats, and was Carey's fourteenth #1 on the Hot 100, thanks to a commercially available single, which sold over 300,000 copies in its first week alone. While he was there, his mother, who had raised him, died. With people unsure what to make of her changing sound, style, and image, and several types of radio stations--including adult contemporary, pop, and urban--unsure whether the song fit their format and their audiences, "Hearbreaker" was not the smash that first singles from new Carey albums had always been prior. Augustine, Florida as a charity case; he learned how to read Braille, as well as to write music and play various instruments.

At this point in Carey's career, adult-contemporary fans were feeling betrayed by Carey, while urban fans felt that she was just jumping on the rap bandwagon. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. In the case of "Heartbreaker", it received criticism for sounding like her previous singles "Dreamlover" and "Fantasy", and many people viewed the guest rap from Jay-Z as a desperate attempt to get the single airplay on urban radio, since Carey could no longer depend on adult contemporary or even top 40 radio to necessarily play her new singles as they once had. He attended school at the St. By this point, Carey had begun to alienate audiences by striving to create songs that tried too hard to appeal to all people. Just before his eyes began to fail, he had seen his younger brother, George, drown in a washtub. During the late summer of 1999, Carey began promoting her upcoming album, Rainbow by releasing a single and video for "Heartbreaker". He said that the causes were undiagnosed, but many believe it was as a result of glaucoma.

Starr; and "Whenever You Call," a duet with popular R&B singer Brian McKnight. Charles began going blind at around age five and was totally blind by age seven. It also included the new singles "When You Believe," a duet with Whitney Houston which featured in the DreamWorks animated film The Prince of Egypt; "Sweetheart," a hip-hoppy duet with Jermaine Dupri; "I Still Believe," a cover of the '80s song by Brenda K. He was born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia, shortening his name when he entered show business to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. In 1998, Carey released the album #1s, a collection of all her American number one singles up to that point. Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), commonly known as Ray Charles, was a pioneering pianist and soul singer who helped shape the sound of rhythm and blues and brought a soulful sound to everything from country music to pop standards to a now-iconic rendition of "America the Beautiful." Frank Sinatra has called him "the only genius in the business". Other singles and videos off the album included "Butterfly;" "The Roof;" "Breakdown," a duet with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony featuring Carey singing in a style similar to the way the Bone Thugs rap; and the #1 hit "My All". Doubleday; (October 1, 1978).

Its video, filmed shortly after her divorce from Tommy Mottola, VP of Sony Records, displayed a much more sexual and sultry Carey than any previous video. Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story by Ray Charles & David Ritz (Da Capo, ISBN 0306813351). It was also her 3rd single to debut at #1 on the Hot 100. (2004) Genius Loves Company. The first single, "Honey" was huge a number one hit and featured a remix with rappers Puff Daddy, The Lox, and Mase. (1991) The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings. Carey's 1997 album, Butterfly Carey's second consecutive album debut at #1, saw her continuing to move in an R&B/hip hop direction. (1962) Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.

"Forever," and "Open Arms" were the last singles off of the album, did not make #1 but were still top 10 hit's in America. (1959) The Genius of Ray Charles. "Always Be My Baby" received huge airplay from pop, adult contemporary, and adult top 40 radio, and its urban remix which featured rhymes by Da Brat and a more soulful sounding chorus, sung by R&B group Xscape got huge airplay on urban, rap, and R&B radio stations. Download OGG sample of "What'd I Say". It still holds the record for the longest consecutive stay at #1 in the US. Anything I’ve fantasized about, I’ve done." — (Los Angeles Times, 1989). "One Sweet Day" spent 16 consecutive weeks at #1 in the US, beating the original record of 14 held by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and Boys II Men's "I'll Make Love To You". "The fact of the matter is, you don’t give up what’s natural.

Daydream's second and third singles, "One Sweet Day," a duet with Boyz II Men, and "Always Be My Baby," respectively, were arguably even bigger hits than "Fantasy". If I’m trying to sing something and I can’t get it, I’m going to keep at it until I get where I want it." — (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, 1998). She realized that she had a higher potential at having massive crossover hits if she employed the use of various genre-specific remixes for each single. If there’s something I want to do, I’m one of those people that won’t be satisfied until I get it done. This also marked the start of a new trend for Carey's singles. That comes from my mom. It's lead single, "Fantasy", got heavy play on urban radio, thanks to a remix which featured a rhyme by the Wu-Tang Clan's Old Dirty Bastard. "Do it right or don’t do it at all.

This album and her previous studio album, Music Box, would eventually go on to sell over 20 million copies each worldwide, making them Carey's two best selling albums. I got a lot of criticism for it." — (San Jose Mercury News, 1994). In 1995, Carey released Daydream. It was very controversial. During the Christmas season of 1994, Carey released the album Merry Christmas, and had a perennial hit with her original holiday song, "All I Want For Christmas Is You". It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. These songs, and Carey's duet with Luther Vandross of Diana Ross' "Endless Love," made Carey one of the most-played musicians on the radio in 1993 and 1994. "When I started to sing like myself — as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while — when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound.

Carey's next studio album, Music Box, was released in 1993 and spawned the hits "Anytime You Need A Friend," "Never Forget You," and the hugely popular number one songs "Hero" and "Dreamlover". It, too, rose quickly to the top of America's pop charts. In 1992, Carey perfomed all of her hits on MTV Unplugged, as well as a new song, a cover of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There". Emotions had several other top five singles, such as "If It's Over," "Can't Let Go," and "Make It Happen".

This song gave Carey the record of being the only musician or band ever to have had their first five singles all hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in America. Carey's second album, Emotions, was released in the fall of 1991 and its first single, the title track, also was an American #1 hit. She became a commercial success almost overnight, and the album produced four huge #1 hit singles: "Vision Of Love," "Someday," "Love Takes Time," and "I Don't Want To Cry". Her career began in with the release of her debut album in 1990, when she was just twenty years old.

On July 4th, 2002, Alfred Roy Carey died from cancer. Mariah's family denied this, and in fact it was Mariah who took care of Alison's children when Alison lost custody. Alison Carey is undoubtedly the black sheep of the family, she was a drug addict for a long time, was diagnosed with HIV and promised to write a tell-all book of how she worked as a prostitute to support Mariah's career at the beginnings. Mariah and Morgan stayed with their mother while Alison stayed with their father.

The Carey family experienced racism and this brought so much tension that by the time Mariah was three, her parents divorced. She has a sister named Alison and a brother named Morgan, both of them are about ten years older than her. Mariah is the third and youngest child of Patricia Hickey, an opera singer of Irish ethnicity, and Alfred Roy Carey, a aeronautical engineer of Venezuelan of African decent. Mariah Carey has no middle name.

Carey was named after the song "They Call The Wind Mariah" from Paint Your Wagon. With 61 cumulative weeks at #1, she is also the artist with the second-most weeks spent at #1, beating the Beatles by two weeks and falling only behind Elvis Presley (80 weeks). She is also the only female artist to have a #1 song on the US charts in every year of the 1990s, the most Hot 100 #1's of any female artist in history, and also lays claim to only the second song in history ("Fantasy") to ever debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (the first being Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone"), however her debut was more amazing as while "You Are Not Alone" managed only a week at the top, "Fantasy" spent 8 weeks at the top. She is famed to have a 5 octave vocal range.

Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970 on Long Island, New York), who is one of the best selling female recording artist of all time, is an American pop music singer. 2005 "We Belong Together" (To Be Released). JD & Fatman Scoop) #16 US. 2005 "It's Like That" (f.

2004 "U Make Me Wanna" (with Jadakiss) #21 US. The Flipmode Squad) #3 US. 2003 "I Know What You Want" (with Busta Rhymes feat. 1994 "Endless Love" (with Luther Vandross) #2 US.

2003 "Bringin' On The Heartbreak #23 UK. Cam'ron) #17 UK. 2003 "Boy (I Need You)" (feat. 2002 "Through the Rain" #81 US, #8 UK.

2002 "Never Too Far/Hero Medley" (with Westlife) #4 Uk. Mystikal) #32 UK. 2001 "Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)" (feat. 2001 "Never Too Far".

2001 "Loverboy" #2 US, #12 UK. 2000 "Crybaby" #28 US, # 7 UK. 2000 "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)". 2000 "Against All Odds" (withWestlife) '#1' UK (Not released in the US).

Joe and 98 Degrees) #1 US, #10 UK. 2000 "Thank God I Found You" (feat. Jay-Z) #1 US, #5 UK. 1999 "Heartbreaker" (feat.

1999 "Do You Know Where You're Going To?". 1999 "I Still Believe" #4 US, #16 UK. JD) #18 US. 1998 "SweetHeart" (Feat.

1998 "When You Believe" (with Whitney Houston) #15 US, #4 UK. 1998 "Whenever You Call". 1998 "Breakdown". 1998 "The Roof".

1998 "My All" #1 US, #4 UK. 1997 "Butterfly" #12 US, #22 UK. 1997 "Honey" #1 US, #3 UK. 1996 "Underneath The Stars".

1996 "Forever" #9 US. 1996 "Open Arms" #10 US, #4 UK. 1996 "Always Be My Baby" #1 US, #3 UK. 1995 "One Sweet Day" (with Boyz II Men) #1 US, #6 UK.

1995 "Fantasy" #1(Debut) US, #3 UK. 1994 "All I Want for Christmas Is You" #2 US. 1994 "Anytime You Need a Friend" #10 US #4 UK. 1994 "Without You" #3 US, #1 UK.

1994 "Hero" #1 US, #7 UK. 1993 "Dreamlover" #1 US, #9 UK. 1992 "If It's Over" #3 UK (Not released in the US). 1992 "I'll Be There" #1 US, #2 UK.

1992 "Make It Happen" #5 US, #17 UK. 1991 "Can't Let Go" #2(#1 R&B) US, #20 UK (1992 release). 1991 "Emotions" #1 US, #17 UK. 1991 "There's Got To Be A Way" #29 UK (Not released in the US).

1991 "I Don't Wanna Cry" #1 US. 1991 "Someday" #1 US, #38 UK. 1990 "Love Takes Time" #1 US, #37 UK. 1990 "Vision Of Love" #1 US, #9 UK.

2005 The Emancipation of Mimi (coming April 12). 2003 "The Remixes" #26 US, #35 UK; US Sales: 1 million (2 million--worldwide). 2002 Charmbracelet #3 US; US Sales: 2 million (6 million--worldwide). 2001 "Greatest Hits" #52 US; US Sales: 1 million(4 million--worldwide).

2001 Glitter #7 US, #10 UK; US Sales: 1 million (5 million--worldwide). 1999 Rainbow #2 US, #8 UK; US Sales: 3 million (12 million--worldwide). 1998 "#1's" #4 US, #10 UK; US Sales: 5 million (17 million--worldwide). 1997 Butterfly #1 US, #2 UK; US Sales: 5 million (17 million--worldwide).

1995 Daydream #1 US, #1 UK; US Sales: 10 million (25 million--worldwide). 1994 "Merry Christmas" #3 US, #32 UK; US Sales: 5 million (16 million--worldwide). 1993 Music Box #1 US, #1 UK; US Sales: 11 million (28 million--worldwide). 1992 "MTV Unplugged" #3 US, #3 UK; US Sales: 3 million (15 million--worldwide).

1991 Emotions #4 US, #4 UK; US Sales: 5 million (14 million--worldwide). 1990 Mariah Carey #1 US, #6 UK; US Sales: 9 million (18 million--worldwide).