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For Mariah Carey's singles, see Mariah Carey singles discography.
Mariah Carey albums discography
Carey performing in Tampa, Florida during her Adventures of Mimi world tour on August 7, 2006.
Studio albums12
Live albums1
Compilation albums4
Compilation EP2

The albums discography of American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey consists of twelve studio albums, six compilation albums, one compilation EP and one live album.

In 1988 Carey began recording music for her debut album, Mariah Carey which was released in June 1990 and has been certified 9x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of over nine million copies in the United States and spawned four US number-one singles. By 1993, Carey was a global star and released her third and most successful worldwide studio album Music Box, which is certified Diamond in the United States for shipments in excess of 10 million and is Carey's second highest-selling album there.[1] Music Box was one of the best-selling albums of 1994 in Asia, selling millions of copies.[2]

Carey released a Christmas album in 1994, Merry Christmas and has become one of the biggest selling Holiday albums of all time and produced the worldwide classic "All I Want for Christmas Is You".[3][4][5] In 1995 Carey released her fifth studio album, Daydream, which became her most successful album in the United States, being certified Diamond by the RIAA, and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide.[6] Carey released her sixth studio album Butterfly, which introduced a more sexual image from lead single "Honey". Butterfly and Carey's next release Number 1's were both certified 5x Platinum in the U.S. The album remains the best-selling album in Japan by a non-asian artist, selling over 3,250,000 copies.[7] Carey's success continued with Rainbow which was released in 1999 and served as Carey's seventh studio album. Rainbow was certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA.

In 2001 Carey parted from Columbia and signed a contract with EMI's Virgin Records worth a reported US$80 million[8] and released her next studio album Glitter, which was the soundtrack album to the film of the same name. It was a commercial failure both in the US and worldwide receiving only Platinum status and is her second lowest selling album to date.

Carey signed a new deal in 2002 with Island Records and released her ninth studio album Charmbracelet which was more successful than Glitter, selling 1.3 million copies in the U.S. Carey took a 3 year break after this album to record new material and introduce a hip-hop influence she released her tenth studio album The Emancipation of Mimi, which became the best-selling album of 2005 in the United States, and was a huge success worldwide, being certified 6x Platinum by the and selling over 10 million copies worldwide. The Emancipation of Mimi produced her biggest song of the decade, "We Belong Together", which topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for fourteen weeks, and became a large success across the globe. In 2008, Carey released her eleventh studio album E=MC2, which was certified Platinum by the RIAA, and has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. It produced the #1 single "Touch My Body" which broke her tie with Elvis Presley for the most #1s in America. Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel her 12th studio album was released in 2009. It has been certified Gold (500,000+) by the RIAA.

At the 2000 World Music Awards, she received the Millennium Award for becoming the best-selling female artist of the 2000s.[9] She is also the recipient of the Chopard Diamond Award at the 2003 World Music Awards, recognizing sales of over 100 million albums worldwide. According to the RIAA, she is the third best-selling female artist and sixteenth overall recording artist with shipments of over 63 million albums in the US. She is also ranked as the best-selling female artist of the US Nielsen SoundScan era (third best-selling artist overall) with album sales of 52,600,000.[10] Carey has sold more than 175 million albums, singles and videos worldwide.[11][12][13][14][15]

Albums

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US
[16] 		US R&B
[16] 		AUS
[17] 		CAN
[16][18] 		FRA
[19] 		GER
[20] 		NL
[21] 		NZ
[22] 		SWI
[23] 		UK
[24]
1990 Mariah Carey 1 3 6 1 — — 53 4 15 6
  • World: 18,000,000[25]
1991 Emotions
  • Released: September 17, 1991
  • Label: Columbia (#CK-47980)
  • Formats: LP, Cassette, CD
 4 6 8 5 — 70 59 6 15 4
1993 Music Box
  • Released: August 17, 1993
  • Label: Columbia (#CK-53205)
  • Formats: LP, Cassette, CD
 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 1 1
1994 Merry Christmas
  • Released: November 1, 1994
  • Label: Columbia (#CK-64222)
  • Formats: LP, Cassette, CD
 3 4 2 21 44 15 4 10 4 32
1995 Daydream
  • Released: October 3, 1995
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, Cassette, CD
 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 1
  • US: Diamond[1]
  • CA: 7× Platinum[26]
  • FR: 2× Platinum[30]
  • DE: Platinum[37]
  • UK: 2× Platinum[28]
  • EU: 3× Platinum[43]
1997 Butterfly
  • Released: September 11, 1997
  • Label: Columbia
  • Formats: LP, Cassette, CD
 1 3 1 1 6 7 1 4 3 2
1999 Rainbow
  • Released: November 2, 1999
  • Label: Columbia (#63800)
  • Formats: LP, Cassette, CD
 2 2 4 2 1 3 4 11 2 8
2001 Glitter
  • Released: September 11, 2001
  • Label: Virgin
  • Formats: LP, Cassette, CD
 7 6 13 4 5 7 12 11 10 10
2002 Charmbracelet
  • Released: December 3, 2002
  • Label: Island
  • Formats: LP, Cassette, CD
 3 2 42 12 12 32 30 — 9 52
  • World: 4,000,000[53]
2005 The Emancipation of Mimi 1 1 6 2 4 14 8 12 9 7
2008 E=MC²
  • Released: April 8, 2008
  • Label: Island
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 1 1 2 1 6 7 11 10 5 3
2009 Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
  • Released: September 28, 2009
  • Label: Island
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 3 1 6 5 10 27 26 25 18 23
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released

Compilation albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
US
[16] 		US R&B
[16] 		AUS
[17] 		CAN
[16][18] 		FRA
[19] 		GER
[20] 		NL
[21] 		NZ
[22] 		SWI
[23] 		UK
[24]
1998 #1's
  • Released: November 17, 1998
  • Label: Columbia (#CK-69670)
  • Formats: LP, CD, Cassette
 4 6 6 6 2 10 15 13 3 10
  • World: 20,000,000[64]
  • US: 3,703,000[29]
  • JP: 3,250,000[7]
2001 Greatest Hits
  • Released: December 4, 2001
  • Label: Columbia / Virgin
  • Formats: LP, CD, Cassette
 52 36 47 — 24 36 37 11 17 7
2008 The Ballads
  • Released: October 17, 2008
  • Label: Columbia / Legacy
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 10 7 79 16 — — 5 19 — 13
2010 Playlist: The Very Best of Mariah Carey
  • Released: January 26, 2010
  • Label: Columbia / Legacy
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — — — — — — — — —
LoveSongs[A]
  • Released: February 8, 2010
  • Label: Columbia / Legacy
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 — — — — — — — — — 54[69]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released

Remix albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Sales
US
[16] 		US R&B
[16] 		AUS
[17] 		FRA
[19] 		NL
[21] 		NZ
[22] 		SWI
[23] 		UK
[24]
2003 The Remixes
  • Released: October 14, 2003
  • Label: Columbia / Island
  • Formats: CD, Cassette
 26 25 79 60 99 36 69 35
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released

Extended plays

Year Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
US
[16] 		US R&B
[16] 		AUS
[17] 		CAN
[18] 		FRA
[19] 		GER
[20] 		NL
[21] 		NZ
[22] 		SWI
[23] 		UK
[24]
1992 MTV Unplugged
  • Released: June 2, 1992
  • Label: Columbia (#CK-52758)
  • Formats: LP, CD, Cassette
 3 16 7 11 22 30 21 1 19 3
1994 The Ballad's CD[B]
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Columbia (#659919-5)
  • Format: CD
 — — — — — — — — — —
2000 Valentines[C]
  • Released: January 1, 2000
  • Label: Columbia (#A31158)
  • Formats: CD, Cassette
 — — — — — — — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released

Box sets

Year Details Notes
1998 12s
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: Vinyl
2009 3CD Collector's Set
  • Released: October 5, 2009
  • Label: Island
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • 3CD boxset containing Charmbracelet, The Emancipation of Mimi and E=MC² and extra space for Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.

Other albums

Year Details Notes
1998 VH1 Divas Live
  • Released: October 5, 1998
  • Label: Sony
  • Formats: CD, Cassette

Notes

  • A^ The Ballads was exclusively re-released in the UK as Love Songs thus charted in conjunction with it.
  • B^ Limited edition EP released only in Austria which features "Without You", "Vision of Love", "I'll Be There" and "Love Takes Time".
  • C^ Limited edition EP sold at Wal-Mart stores.

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