Mariah Carey: Diva Achievement

Mariah Carey is One Of The Biggest Selling Artist Of All Time and currently The Biggest Selling Female Artist Of All Time with a total of more than 200 million records sold WORLDWIDE. Aside from that she is the SOLO artist with the most number ONE singles in the USA, with total of 18#1 hits.  She even surpassed Elvis and currently behind The Beatles that have 20#1 hits.Apart from her magnificent VOICE and 5 octave range she is the MOST SUCCESSFUL FEMALE ARTIST in the USA with a total of 12 Platinum certified singles, The MOST for a Female artists. Now lets take a look at her achievement.....



BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM


(1993) Music Box - 32 million copies Worldwide/10 million in USA alone


BIGGEST SELLING SINGLE


(1994) All I Want For Christmas is You - 7 million copies sold/ digital/ physical
Ps: Chart strongly around the world every years during Christmas season. Thus, sales keep going up.


BIGGEST SELLING CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY ALBUM OF ALL TIME


(1994) Merry Christmas - 15 million copies sold/5 million in USA alone.


BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM BY A FOREIGN ARTIST IN JAPAN


#1's - Sold more than 3 million copies in JAPAN alone.


BIGGEST SELLING MTV UNPLUGGED ALBUM SERIES


Mariah Carey: Mtv Unplugged -  6 million copies sold


OTHER SUCCESSFUL ALBUMS (sold more than 10 million copies/ exclude music box and Merry Christmas)


(1990) Mariah Carey - 15 million copies / 9 million in USA alone
(1995) Daydream - 25 million copies / 10 million in USA alone
(1997) Butterfly - 15 million copies / 5 million in USA alone.
(1998) #1's - 17 million copies sold / 5 million in USA alone.
(1999) Rainbow - 10 million copies sold / 3 million in USA alone.
(2005) The Emancipation Of Mimi - 12 million copies sold / 6 million in USA alone.


MOST VALUABLE AWARDS


World Best Selling Recording Artist Of The  90's
World Best Selling Female Artist Of The Millennium / Michael Jackson for Male category
Biggest Selling Non- Japanese Artist Of All Time
RIAA third Biggest Selling Female Artist In USA (63 million album shipment in USA)
We Belong Together- Billboard Song Of The Decade
We Belong Together- World Most Played Single
Billboard Artist Of The Decade ( US biggest selling artist of the 90's decade,beating MJ , Madonna, Celine, Whitney..who are also nominated )
Chopard Diamond Award ( for albums sales surpassing 100 million copies/ The First Female artist to receive that award by World Music Award )
World Music Award special achievement award- For Having The Most No:1 singles by a Solo artist EVER.






Record Sales

• Mariah Carey sold more than any female artist in the 1990's, selling over 150 million albums and singles worldwide (115M albums + ~ over 35M singles). That's over a quarter of a million records sold every week during the 90's!
• Mariah Carey is the best selling female artist of the Soundscan era (US sales since 1991).  53 million album sold
• Mariah Carey is the only female artist to have 8 albums sell 5 million (5x Platinum) or more in the US.
• Mariah Carey is the only female artist to have 9 consecutive albums sell 3 million (3x Platinum) or more in the US.
• Mariah Carey is the fastest selling female artist in the US of all time, selling over 63 million albums in the US in 16 years.
• Mariah is one of three women (Madonna and Barbra Striesand are the others) to sell in excess of 60 million albums in the US.
• Mariah Carey is 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 in order the 2nd, 3rd and the 4th best selling non-Japanese female artists in Japan).
• Mariah Carey is the only (non-Japanese) artist to sell 1 million copies of an album in a single week, with '#1's'
• Mariah Carey is one of the two (non-Korean) women (Whitney Houston is the other) to have a million seller in Korea, with 'Music Box'.
• Mariah Carey is 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 R&B female 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.

Chart

• Mariah Carey has more #1 singles (18) on the Billboard Hot 100 than any female or active artist ever.
• Mariah Carey's #1 singles have cumulatively spent 79 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100, most for ANY ARTIST even the Beatles.
• Mariah Carey is the only artist to have her first five singles reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Mariah Carey is the only artist to have a #1 single for every year of a single decade.
• Mariah Carey has more #1 airplay hits (13) than any artist.
• Mariah Carey 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.'
• Mariah Carey is the only artist to have 3 singles debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Mariah Carey has the longest running #1 airplay hit by a solo artist spending 16 consecutive weeks on top, with 'We Belong Together'.
• Mariah Carey holds the record for the most heard single in radio history getting more than 200 million listeners in a single week, with 'We Belong Together'.
• Mariah Carey is the only artist to hit #1 on four formats (Pop, Urban, Rhythmic and Adult Urban) simultaniously, with 'We Belong Together'.
• Mariah Carey was the first female artist to have a single debut at #1 with 'Fantasy'.
• Mariah Carey is the first artist to have a seasonal ringtone certified by the RIAA with All I Want For Christmas Is You going Gold (500,000).
• Mariah Carey is the only female to simultaneously top the Billboard 200 and Pop Catalog chart, with 'Daydream' and 'Merry Christmas'.
• Mariah Carey is the only female artist to have her singles from one album spent over 25 weeks at #1.
• Mariah Carey is the only female artist to occupy the #1 and #2 position on the Billboard Hot 100 in week with 'We Belong Together' at #1 and 'Shake It Off' at #2.
• Mariah Carey is tied with Janet Jackson for the most #2 singles for a R&B female artist.
• Mariah Carey has more #1 singles on the New Zealand singles chart than any female artist ever with seven.
• Mariah Carey is the only (non-Japanese) to have 6 albums debut and reach #1 on the Overall Japanese Charts.

Awards

• Mariah Carey has more World Music Awards (17) than any artist.