clh_hilary
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What does that have to do with Carrie, the charts, or anything in general?
To show a more complete picture, allow to state a few other Carey's achievements:
1. She has the most cheated No.1 singles in history. She's discounted most of her singles (including the failure 'LoverBoy') including 'One Sweet Day' and 'My All', with last-minute releases (eg 'We Belong Together', 'Don't Forget About Us', etc), to manipulate the system and cheat her way to No.1 on the Hot 100.
2. She is known to be one of the most desperate artists in history in obtaining No.1 singles. Her desperation could not only be seen from examples such as having 'Touch My Body' repressed so much, it crashed and burnt right after a big opening, but also from incidents such as how she was rushly sent to the mental hospital a few hours after the news of 'LoverBoy' not going No.1 on the Hot 100 broke out (It was denied by Destiny's Child's 'Bootylicious').
3. She was known for her drunken behaviour. There have been numerous occasions when she was being seen drunk while supposedly working. For example, when she was promoting her album and performing 'Heartbreaker', she was drunk on stage. When she was receiving an award earlier, she was also drunk.
4. She was famous, even within her fanbase, for her lip-syncing attempts. She has been lipping bits of her songs for years.
5. She was one of the key reasons why payola was discovered and banned. She's had her first ten singles going No.1 on pop radio, and then another one with another album ('Fantasy'). But the next No.1 did not come for her until nine years later when she released 'We Belong Together'.
6. She was the only artist in history to cheat her way to No.1 by counting free downloads as legitimate sales. When she released the remix to 'We Belong Together' to iTunes, she co-currently released a code on her official website for fans to download the song from iTunes for free. iTunes Music Store, the only time in history, could not distinguish between real sales and free downloads for the week and thus gave 'We Belong Together' its first week at No.1 with all the free downloads being counted.
7. She is one of the highest over-certified artists in the United States. DayDream, for example, sold slightly more than seven million copies but had been certified Diamond.
Needless to say, her marvelous chart history did not stop there. Her latest single, '#Beautiful', which is essentially a Miguel track, opened with a very modest 114,000 copies sold in nearly seven days despite 1. a multi-format massive Clear Channel payola exposure deal, 2. a hyped American Idol video premiere, 3. tagging a hot artist onto the track. To compare, Madonna's 'Give Me All Your Luvin'' sold 115,000 copies in THREE days, despite her being older than Carey for another 10 plus years.
I hope you have enjoyed this little chart trivial as much as you've enjoyed the post I have quoted. For more information on the legendary Mrs Mariah Cannon, such as the sales to her last remix album (the answer is 0), feel free to ask!
