Mariah Carey Gallery

Mariah is legend in her own time - with selling over 200 million albums worldwide, scoring the top spot with nineteen of her songs topping the Billboard Hot 100, and holding the record for the most number-one singles by a solo artist, a female songwriter, and a female producer!

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the highest-certified female artist in the United States, with 68.5 million certified album units tying with Barbra Streisand. In 2012, she was ranked second on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. In 2019, Billboard named her the all-time top female artist in the United States, based on both album and song chart performances.

Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Mariah Carey has won five Grammy Awards, nineteen World Music Awards, ten American Music Awards, and fifteen Billboard Music Awards. An inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, she is noted for inspiring other artists in pop and contemporary R&B music.

Carey's tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi, was produced with the Neptunes, Kanye West and Carey's longtime collaborator, Jermaine Dupri. The Emancipation of Mimi earned ten Grammy Award nominations: eight in 2006 for the original release (the most received by Carey in a single year), and two in 2007 for the Ultra Platinum Edition (from which "Don't Forget About Us" became her seventeenth number-one hit). Carey won Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song for "We Belong Together". The Emancipation of Mimi was the best-selling album in the United States in 2005, with nearly five million units sold. It was the first album by a solo female artist to become the year's best-selling album since Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill in 1996.

Mariah is one of the best-selling recording artists worldwide known for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style (style of vocalising where she holds a syllable and stretches it over several notes), and signature use of the whistle register. Her vocal styles are drawn from gospel and rhythm and blues. Because of her unique vocal style and her runs, Mariah Carey is referred to as the "Songbird Supreme", the "Queen of Melisma" and the "Queen of Christmas".

Mariah's second Christmas album "Merry Christmas II You" released in November 2010 debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 with sales of 56,000 copies, becoming Carey's 16th top ten album in the United States. The album debuted at number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, making it only the second Christmas album to top this chart.