What was Mariah Carey's first top ten entry (1990)
"on the kind of melisma that became de rigueur in American pop after the ascendance of Mariah Carey."" In an article titled ""Out With Mariah's Melisma, In With Kesha's Kick"", writer David Browne of ""The New York Times"" discusses how the once ubiquitous melisma pop style suddenly lost in favor of the now ubiquitous autotune in which the former was heavily popularized by the likes of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. Browne had commented ""But beginning two decades ago, melisma overtook pop in a way it hadn't before. Mariah Carey's debut hit from 1990, ""Vision of Love"", followed two years"
"as the best-selling female artist of the US Nielsen SoundScan era (from 1991) with album sales of 55.2 million. Her albums ""Mariah Carey"", ""Music Box"", ""Daydream"", and ""The Emancipation of Mimi"" are among the top 100 certified albums according to the RIAA. Carey released her self-titled debut album in June 1990; it was certified nine-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of nine million copies in the United States. Additionally, the album spawned four consecutive US number-one singles. Her second album, ""Emotions"", was released a year later and sold eight million copies worldwide. In 1993,"
"this category. ""Someday"" became her first in March 1991, which was followed by ""Emotions"" in November the same year. ""Dreamlover"" and ""Anytime You Need a Friend"" from her third studio album ""Music Box"" (1993) became Carey's third and fourth chart-toppers in October 1993 and August 1994, respectively. In October 1995, ""Fantasy"" became her fifth number-one, a position it held for three weeks; it is her only song to have spent more than one week atop the chart. Carey achieved two more number-ones on the chart in the late 1990s; ""Honey"" in October 1997 and ""I Still Believe"" in April 1999."
"her in second place for most charted songs among women in the 1990s and 2000s (decade) (the first being Mary J. Blige). Carey made her 29th appearance on the Pop Songs/Mainstream Top 40 radio chart, with ""Obsessed"" debuting at number 39, and peaking at eight. The arrival extends her lead for the most overall chart entries in the tally's nearly 17-year history. She is now three titles ahead of the second-place Madonna (26). On August 11, 2009, it was announced that the single would be released as a CD single at Wal-Mart store locations in the United States, her first"
"amount in the holiday season. ""Oh Santa!"" became Carey's seventh number-one hit on the chart, and her first in fifteen years since ""One Sweet Day"" (1995–96), a duet with Boyz II Men. The singer also topped the chart with her debut single ""Vision of Love"" (her first) and ""Love Takes Time"" in 1990, ""I Don't Wanna Cry"" in 1991, and ""Can't Let Go"" and ""I'll Be There"" in 1992. ""Oh Santa!"" remained atop the chart for four consecutive weeks altogether. It finished at number 42 on the 2011 Adult Contemporary year-end chart. For the week ending October 30, 2010, Carey"
"adopts a homeless dog. Mariah Carey Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer and songwriter. Referred to as the ""Songbird Supreme"" by the ""Guinness World Records"", she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style, and signature use of the whistle register. She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the US ""Billboard"" 200 for 11 consecutive weeks. Carey became the first and only artist to have their first five singles reach number one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, from"
"It replaced ""Good Vibrations"" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway, and was replaced by Karyn White's ""Romantic"". It remained in the top 40 for 20 weeks and was one of four singles from Carey on the Hot 100's 1991 year-end charts, ranking 22. The song topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and became her second number 1 single on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. The RIAA certified it gold. Outside the U.S., it was Carey's most successful single since ""Vision of Love"" (1990), the lead single from her debut album. It reached the top five"
"""Here Is Mariah Carey"" (1993). At the VH1 Divas taping in 1998, Carey was the opening performer of the event, and after ""My All"", her single at the time, she followed with ""Make It Happen"". As during the usual live performances of the song, a gospel choir accompanied her. On July 2, 2005, a benefit concert was held in Hyde Park, London, titled Live 8. The televised event was watched by over 9.6 million Britons and attended by over 200,000. Carey performed a three-song set list, opening with ""Make It Happen"" followed by ""Hero"" and ""We Belong Together"", featuring a"
"Hot 100, as well as spending 19 weeks on the UK singles chart. ""I Get Lonely"" peaked at number three on the Hot 100. ""The Velvet Rope"" sold over ten million albums worldwide and was certified three times platinum by the RIAA. Céline Dion achieving worldwide success with the song My Heart Will Go On from Titanic soundtrack. In the early 1990s, Mariah Carey's hit singles such as ""Vision of Love"" (1990) and ""Love Takes Time"" (1990), and Whitney Houston's ""All the Man That I Need"" (1990) and ""I Will Always Love You"" (1992) topped the radio charts for the"
"to its peak position and charted for five weeks. ""Make It Happen"" was awarded a BMI Pop Award in 1992. The music video for ""Make It Happen"" was directed by Marcus Nispel and features Carey performing at a closing church. Alisa Reyes, best known from Nickelodeon's ""All That"" appears on stage with Mariah. A benefit being depicted within, titled ""Save Our Church"", involves several other churchgoers who have congregated there to raise money through song. As the video begins, inspectors enter the building, searching the premises prior to its closing. Soon after, however, Carey makes her way to the stage"
"song peaked on the US ""Billboard"" Adult Contemporary chart at number 10 bringing Carey's total number of Top Ten hits on that chart to 20, one short of Celine Dion's record. She has since surpassed this and is now tied with Celine Dion after her single ""Oh Santa!"" reached number one in 2010. However, it peaked at #60 on the US Hot 100. On the UK Singles Chart, the song debuted at number 19 on the week ending November 29, 2009, becoming her highest debuting and peaking song since 2008's ""Touch My Body"", which peaked at number five. The song"
"a Look at Me Now)"" (1999) (with Westlife) became her second chart-topping single in the UK. Following a tumultuous period in the singer's personal life, her ensuing albums/soundtrack ""Glitter"" (2001) and ""Charmbracelet"" (2002) failed to gain significant commercial traction, and led to a series of unsuccessful singles. Largely considered her come-back album, Carey's tenth studio effort ""The Emancipation of Mimi"" (2005) revived faith in the singer's stock, with single ""We Belong Together"" becoming her strongest international showing in years, and topping the chart in the US for 14-weeks and breaking several radio airplay records. In 2010, ""We Belong Together"" was"
"popularized by Mariah Carey's song ""Vision of Love"", which was released and topped the charts at number one in 1990, and went on to be certified gold. As late as 2007, melismatic singers such as Leona Lewis were still scoring big hits, but around 2008–2009, this trend reverted to how it was prior to Carey and Houston's success – singers with less showy styles such as Kesha and Cheryl Cole began to outsell new releases by Carey and Christina Aguilera, ending nearly two decades of the style's dominance of pop-music vocals. The French carol tune ""Gloria"" arranged by Edward Shippen"
"chart momentum as ""I'm Your Baby Tonight"" would become her 11th top-ten hit and eighth number-one single. The single had an impressive debut at number 42 the week of October 20, 1990. Six weeks later it hit the number-one spot, ending Mariah Carey's three-week run at the top with ""Love Takes Time"". ""I'm Your Baby Tonight"" spent one week at number-one, being knocked off by Stevie B's ""Because I Love You (The Postman Song)"". Altogether, the single spent 14 weeks in the top-ten, 19 weeks in the Top 20, and 23 consecutive weeks in the Top 40. It also reached"
"her prime."" ""Fantasy"" achieved strong commercial success around the world. The song became Carey's ninth number one single on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It became the first single by a female artist to debut atop the chart, and only the second single to do so after ""You Are Not Alone"" by Michael Jackson. It debuted at the top of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 due to the strong sales, which were expected to exceed 229,000 copies. It spent eight weeks at the top of the chart, from September 24 to November 18, 1995, Carey's longest stay at the time"
"the song peaked at number 88 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, with 32,000 digital downloads accounting for 62% of its charting points. It became Carey's 46th chart entry since her debut in 1990; it was also her first song since ""Obsessed"" in 2009 to chart on the Hot 100 which was neither a festive/holiday song nor a collaboration nor a cover song. ""You're Mine (Eternal)"" became her seventeenth number-one song on the Dance Club Songs chart since her 1991 single ""Someday"" topped the chart, placing her in joint fifth place with Donna Summer for artist with the most number-one"
"on February 20, 1991: Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, winning the latter. Additionally, the song received the Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female and a Song of the Year Award at the BMI Pop Awards. Devon Powers from Popmatters has stated during the release of Carey's ""Greatest Hits"" album that ""Mariah's Greatest Hits moves chronologically through that remarkable career, beginning with “Vision of Love”, the 1990 single that introduced the singer to instant stardom. Still, after so many years and songs, it’s by far among her best, if"
"and wrote, ""the backup dancers’ moves would have probably received a big red 'X' from at least one of the judges."" In the United States, on October 2, 2009, Carey began promotion of the album on ""Today"", in the form of a four piece outdoor concert. Wearing a ""black leather trench coat and accessorized with a glittery microphone"", Carey performed ""Obsessed"", ""I Want to Know What Love Is"", ""H.A.T.E.U."" and her 1991 single, ""Make It Happen"". The performance of ""Obsessed"" featured similar choreography as on ""America's Got Talent"", in which Carey was carried around by her dancers several times. Carey"
"at number four, becoming Carey's highest charting single there since ""Without You"" (1993), which peaked at number two. The song charted for twenty-five weeks, and was certified gold by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP), denoting shipments of over 400,000 units. In Germany, ""Heartbreaker"" peaked at number nine, spending twenty weeks inside the singles chart. On October 2, 1999, it entered the Dutch Single Top 100 at number sixteen, eventually peaking at number seven, and spending a total of eighteen weeks in the chart. In Norway, the song's success was limited, only peaking at number fourteen and spending only"
"Pop Vocal Performance, losing to ""Something to Talk About"" by Bonnie Raitt. It won a BMI R&B Award, continuing Carey's unbroken streak of wins for this award. ""Emotions"" became Carey's fifth consecutive number one hit on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100, giving her the distinction of being the first (and, to date, only) act to have their first five singles make number 1 on the Hot 100. (She had previously shared a record of four with The Jackson 5.) It reached number 1 in its seventh week and spent three weeks at the top, from October 12 to 26, 1991."
"her fourth chart-topper in Canada and first in the Netherlands. With the release of Carey's third studio album, ""Music Box"" (1993), the singer's international popularity surged upon release of ""Hero"" and the album's third single, her cover of Harry Nilsson's ""Without You"", which became the singer's first number-one single in several countries across Europe. Carey's holiday album ""Merry Christmas"" (1994) produced the singer's perennial yule-tide classic ""All I Want for Christmas Is You"". With its continual expanding legacy, the song remains her highest seller and one of the best-selling singles of all time, with global sales of over 14 million"
"to Carey's previous singles (the single was not released in New Zealand, despite Carey's popularity in that country at the time). On the May 10, 1992, Australian Singles Chart, ""Make It Happen"" debuted at number 45. The following week, it rose to its peak of number 35, and spent five weeks within the chart. Similarly, in the Netherlands, the song attained a peak of 59 and spent only five weeks in the Dutch Top 100. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 20 on the week ending April 18, 1992. The following week, the song rose three spots"
"debuted at number one, making Carey the first artist to have more than one number-one debut, and one of the three artists ever to have two consecutive singles debut at the top of the chart, along with Britney Spears, with ""3"" (2009) and ""Hold It Against Me"" (2011), and Drake, with ""God's Plan"" (2018) and ""Nice for What"" (2018). ""One Sweet Day"" was the third best-selling single of 1995 in the US, with sales of over 1,300,000, with the second best-selling single being Carey's ""Fantasy"". The song spent 26 weeks in the top 40, was certified double platinum by the"
"on the 1992 Hot 100 year-end charts. ""Can't Let Go"" reached the UK top 20 and the Canadian top ten. It became her lowest peaking single at the time in all of the major Anglophone singles markets (with the exception of the UK), and failed to make the Australian top 50. The single's video, directed by Jim Sonzero, features Carey wearing an evening gown and her hair in a bun. Filmed in black and white, the video starts and closes with shots of a rose open and closed respectively. A radio edit of the song was promoted to radio and"
"in Canada and New Zealand, and became her first single to reach the United Kingdom top 20 since her debut. It was a modest hit in Australia, where it just missed the top ten, but its success in Europe was limited. Carey performed ""Emotions"" live for the first time at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards, backed by several male and female back up vocalists. Following the award show appearance, she sang ""Emotions"" on ""The Arsenio Hall Show"", airing on September 23, 1991. Carey opened every show with ""Emotions"" during her Music Box Tour in 1993, Daydream World Tour in"
"appearance during their joint performance of Newton-John's song, ""Hopelessly Devoted to You"". The video was commercially successful, being certified platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and gold in Brazil by the Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPD). Since her debut in 1990, Carey had not journeyed on a large or extensive tour. In fact, she had not embarked on a tour until her third studio effort, ""Music Box"" (1993), when she performed six arena shows in the United States during the Music Box Tour. The opening night of the tour received scathing"
"100, making it her 27th top 10 hit, the second greatest amount among female artists, and tying her achievements to those of Janet Jackson. The song stayed in the top 40 for 20 weeks, longer than her number-one hit ""Touch My Body"" (2008). In terms of total top 10 chart entries amongst all artists in the chart's history, Carey is now tied for fifth place with Jackson and Elton John. The song made an early debut at number 52 on the ""Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs"" chart and has since peaked at number 12, marking Carey's 40th chart entry and placing"
"Carey's previous singles, ""We Belong Together"" (2005). In the United States, ""You're Mine (Eternal)"" reached number 88 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, but it experienced greater success on the Dance Club Songs chart, becoming her seventeenth number-one song. Elsewhere, it reached the top 20 in Hungary and on the UK R&B Chart and the top 30 in Spain. Carey co-directed the music video with photographer Indrani, which depicted the singer as a mermaid swimming around the lakes at the El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico. Recording artist Trey Songz appears as a love interest in the video. He"
"artist of the 1990s in the United States, while the World Music Awards honored her as the world's best-selling recording artist of the 1990s. After 11 consecutive years charting a number-one single, Carey parted with Columbia in 2000 and signed a record-breaking $100 million recording contract with Virgin Records. However, following her highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the failure of her film ""Glitter"" (2001) and its accompanying soundtrack, her contract was bought out for $50 million by Virgin and she signed with Island Records the next year. After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the"
"released from the album and became one of the most popular and critically praised songs of Carey's career. Additionally, ""Vision of Love"" is credited with bringing the use of melisma to the 1990s and inspiring various future talents. ""Vision of Love"" was nominated for three 1991 Grammy Awards: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (which it won), Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The song received the Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female and a Songwriter Award at the BMI Pop Awards. In the United States, it peaked at number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot"
"Nielsen SoundScan. Throughout her career, the singer has spent a record 79 weeks at the number one position on the Hot 100, becoming the artist with the most weeks at number one in US history. Overall, she has 24 top-ten singles in the UK and 28 top-ten songs on the US chart, placing her in fifth place for the most top tens since its inception. Mariah Carey singles discography American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey has released sixty-three official singles, six promotional singles, and has made eight guest appearances. Carey's self-titled debut album in 1990 yielded four number-one singles on"
"""Billboard"" Hot 100. It extended Carey's lead as the female artist with the most number one singles in the country. The only acts still ahead of Carey were Elvis Presley with seventeen (a record she surpassed in 2008 with Touch My Body becoming her eighteenth number one single) and The Beatles with twenty. The song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Additionally, ""Heartbreaker"" finished at number thirty-five on the ""Billboard"" Year-End of 1999. In Canada, the song peaked at number one on the Canadian Singles Chart, becoming Carey's tenth chart topper in the country. In"
"""one of my favorite 'old school' songs."" Music Box Tour The Music Box Tour was a concert tour in 1993 by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, in support of her Diamond-certified album, ""Music Box"" (1993). It is Carey's first headlining tour, visiting six cities in the United States. The outing started on November 3, in Miami, Florida and ended on December 10, in New York City. Carey did not do a significant amount of public performing in her early years in the music industry, partially due to stage fright. Despite this, she became a successful musician with two top-selling albums and"