American singer Mariah Carey has released fifteen

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, two soundtrack albums, eight compilation albums, four

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s, and one

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. Carey is one of the best-selling music artists of all-time, having sold over 220 million records globally. She was presented with the Millennium Award at the 2000

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for becoming the best-selling female artist of the millennium. According to the RIAA, she is the highest-certified female artist and eleventh overall recording artist with shipments of 71 million albums in the US. She is also ranked as the best-selling female artist of the US Nielsen SoundScan era (1991–present) with album sales of 55.5 million. Carey released her

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debut album in June 1990; it was certified nine-time

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by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of nine million copies in the United States. Her second album, ''

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'', was released a year later and sold eight million copies worldwide. In 1993, Carey released her most successful studio album to date, ''

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'', which was certified Diamond in the United States and topped the charts in many countries around the world. ''Music Box'' is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 28 million copies sold. Carey's her first

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and fourth overall studio effort, '' Merry Christmas'', followed in 1994. After Carey's success in Asia with ''Merry Christmas'', '' Billboard'' estimated Carey as the all-time best-selling international artist in Japan. The singer's fifth studio album ''

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'' was released in 1995 and became her second Diamond certified album by the RIAA, with worldwide sales of 20 million copies. Carey's sixth studio album ''

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'', and the compilation album, '' #1's'', were both certified five-time platinum in the US; the latter remains the best-selling album in Japan by a non-Asian artist, selling 3.25 million copies. While the singer's seventh studio effort ''

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'' (1999) received triple platinum certification from RIAA, it was her first album since ''Merry Christmas'' to not reach number one in the US. Carey parted from Columbia/Sony Music in 2001 and signed a contract with EMI's

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worth a reported US$100 million, the largest record contract ever signed. She released her next album, ''

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'', which was the

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to the film of same name. The album suffered from poor publicity and became a commercial failure. Carey signed a new deal in 2002 with Island Records and released her ninth studio album ''

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'', which also fell short of Carey's earlier success. The singer then took a three-year break to record new material and introduced a hip-hop inspired album, ''

The Emancipation of Mimi ''The Emancipation of Mimi'' is the tenth studio album by American singer Mariah Carey, released through Island Records on April 12, 2005. The album was considered Carey's "comeback album" by critics and became her highest-selling release in t ...

'', which became the best-selling album of 2005 in the US. It was certified six-time platinum by the RIAA, sold 10 million copies worldwide. In 2008, Carey released her tenth studio album, '' E=MC²'', which sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. Her subsequent release, ''

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel ''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'' is the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released on September 29, 2009, by Island Records. After promotion for her previous album, '' E=MC²'' (2008) ended, Carey began to ...

'' (2009), managed sales of two million units while her second

Merry Christmas II You ''Merry Christmas II You'' is the thirteenth studio album and second Christmas album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released by Island Records on November 2, 2010. Recording began in April 2010 and continued while Carey bec ...

'' (2010) shipped over 500,000 copies in the United States. The singer's fourteenth effort, '' Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse'', became the lowest selling release of her career. After the poor reception from her fourteenth album, Carey eventually went on to secure a multi-album record deal with Epic in January 2015, a subsidiary of

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. She subsequently came out with her sixth compilation album, '' #1 to Infinity'', and a residency deal to perform at

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at the Caesars Palace hotel in

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. Her fifteenth studio album, '' Caution'', was released in November 2018 under Epic, and was given much higher praise than her most recent works at the time. In 2019, Carey released a deluxe version of her first

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featuring an extra disc of remixes, live performances and multiple tracks from her second Christmas album. In mid-2020, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Carey's debut album, Carey released a compilation album, entitled '' The Rarities'', which featured unreleased songs, B-sides, demos and live performances. A few months later, Carey announced a

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with an accompanying soundtrack, ''

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''. The album featured rerecordings of Carey's Christmas discography along with a variety of musical guests, including Ariana Grande, Snoop Dogg among others.

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