Name:Mariah Carey
Birth Date:March 27, 1970
Birth Place:Huntington, New York, USA
Height:5'9
Education:Oldfield Middle School; Harborfields High School (graduated in 1987)
Nationality:American
Profession:Actress, singer
Claim to fame:Album:Mariah Carey (1990)
Biography!
The best-selling female performer of the 1990s,
Mariah Carey rose to superstardom on the strength
of her stunning five-octave voice; an elastic talent
who moved easily from glossy ballads to hip-hop-inspired
dance-pop, she earned frequent comparison to rivals
Whitney Houston and Celine Dion, but did them both one
better by composing all of her own ...
Charts
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Mariah is the artist with the record for most consecutive years with a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100; she is the only artist to have a single reach #1 on Billboard Hot 100 every year of the 1990s.
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Mariah is the only artist to have the debut singles from all her albums top the charts in the 1990s. (Her run was broken in 2001 when Loverboy, the lead single from Glitter, peaked at #2).
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Mariah holds the record for the largest jump for a single to the #2 poistion on The Hot 100, when Loverboy jumped from #60 to #2.
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When the single "One Sweet Day" spent 16 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, it became the longest running consecutive #1 single in history, taking the title held by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", which managed 14 weeks.
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Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" officialy became the biggest song ever in the history of American radio when it reached 192.3 million listeners and over 23,000 spins in the week ending June 7, 2005. In the three following weeks, the single continued to break its own record as it peaked at 195.8 million, 202.1 million, and 212.2 million impressions.
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Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" has recorded the best-ever one day listener figure after it registered with 32.8 million listeners on American radio in a