With “Touch My Body” taking the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart this week, Mariah Carey now has 18 No. 1 singles to her record, more than any act except the Beatles, unless the estate of Elvis Presley tries to get some celebrity remixers on that, stat. “Vision Of Love,” “Someday,” “Emotions,” “I’ll Be There,” “Hero,” “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day,” “We Belong Together”–over the last 18 years she’s made a lot of blockbusters. But surely there are some of these smashes that people have forgotten. I know I don’t know all seventeen of the King’s.
“Love Takes Time,” her second No. 1 in America, didn’t really take off anywhere else, especially compared to “Vision Of Love.” I was honestly surprised to see this was a No. 1 while “Make It Happen” only made it to No. 5.
I can’t say I really forgot the 1997 No. 1 “Honey,” the Tommy Mottola-esque mobsters, or Carey sitting on Ma$e’s lap in the remix, while he rapped about making her scream into a pillow. I did forget that, at 1:15, two years before Episode One, Eddie Griffin did a pretty good Jar Jar Binks.
“Thank God I Found You,” featuring Joe and 98 Degrees, her 15th No. 1. I swear to God I’ve never heard this song before. Probably because no one’s played it ever since.
Her next single features T-Pain, so she’s only an Akon and a Sean Kingston from knocking the Beatles off their perch. You can do it, Mimi!
Carey nudges the king to one side [The Press Assocation]
“My All.” Remember that one? Yeah, exactly.
1. Love Takes Time
2. Honey
3. One Sweet Day
4. My All
5. Someday
6. Vision of Love
7. Emotions
8. Touch My Body
9. Hero
10. Fantasy
11. Always Be My Baby
12. Dreamlover
13. We Belong Together
14. I’ll Be There
15. Thank God I Found You
16. ?
17. ?
18. ?
Who owns Mariah Carey’s #1’s disc?
This guy.
what’s the one where the kid plays the buckets?
“Heartbreaker”?
[didn't that song also feature Jay-Z]
“…unless the estate of Elvis Presley tries to get some celebrity remixers on that, stat.”
Do NOT go giving will.i.am ideas.
@Rob Murphy: [the "Heartbreaker" video featured the awesome site of Mimi catfighting herself at a movie theatre]
Also: “Butterfly”
What was that Xmas song called, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” — did that go to #1? Surely it must have…
@Rob Murphy:
Heartbreaker. Ah, yes. It also featured unfortunate choreographed dancing atop a countertop [complete with crossed legged ass slap] in a movie theatre.
[Sorry Mariah but you should never dance. Stick to the frollicking and prancing around luxury homes that's oh so prevalent in many of your music videos].
Butterfly, as great as it is, was not a #1 single believe. I might be wrong. But I don’t think it was. Was Loverboy a #1 hit?
@Rob Murphy: “All I Want For Christmas Was
You” didn’t qualify for the chart at the time, as it wasn’t available
as a commericial single. It peaked at #12 on the Airplay chart, though.
@Tauwan: ditto “Butterfly,” oddly enough.
What about the “I’ll Be There” remake from Un-plugged?
@rina:
I’ll Be There is on the list. That’s the jam. Especially when that Trey “Forget his last name fella” comes in and just kills it.
(Cheating.)
Didn’t she do a collaboration with Boyz II Men or someone like that? What was that called?
Let me help you guys out. These are Mariah’s number 1’s in order of release
Off Mariah Carey:
1. Vision of Love
2. Love Takes Time
3. Someday
4. I don’t Wanna Cry
Off Emotions
5. Emotions
Off MTV Unplugged
6. I’ll Be There
Off Music Box
7. Dreamlover
8. Hero
Off Daydream
9. Fantasy
10. One Sweet Day
11. Always Be My Baby
Off Butterfly
12. Honey
13. My All
Off of Rainbow
14. Heartbreaker
15. Thank God I Found You
Off Emancipation of Mimi
16. We Belong Together
17. Don’t Forget About Us (Off the re-release)
Off E=MC2
18. Touch My Body
“And if you don’t know, now yuh know”
Peace
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@Rob Murphy: One sweet day
Also… does it still count as 18 hits if she’s used the same damn melody for, like, four of them?
I was gonna say that she used “Genius of Love”, but it’s more like she used the song once, then used the copy to make additional copies.
@Tauwan: And so it is. Her extraordinarily long list of #1’s outlasted my short attention span!
Too bad it’s already been bumped on iTunes’ top ten by Ma-DAW-NUH.
anytime you need a friend didn’t make #1? that’s the only one i still like, now that i’m not nine.
@bcapirigi:
and Make It Happen.
Damn this woman has released a SHITON of singles.
@burtbushell: That was what Lou Banjawi’s comment was for.
I love Mariah, but is One Sweet Day even a song? That is one of the worst POS’s I’ve ever heard.
Too bad her own song stopped her from getting “Shake It Off” to number 1 - “We Belong Together”.
@rad_matter:
the difference is i did that off of my own knowledge. I did not even read his post. I don’t cheat.
My favorite was the one where she threatened to kill herself because her records weren’t selling as well. That was the jam.