Mariah's 18th #1!
MARIAH CAREY'S "TOUCH MY BODY" – – HER 18TH #1 SINGLE !
HISTORIC NEW BILLBOARD HOT 100 SINGLES CHART RECORD
FIRST HIT FROM NEW ALBUM - E=MC² - SURPASSES ELVIS PRESLEY's 17 #1's
International superstar Mariah Carey reaches a once-in-a-lifetime career achievement as her current single "Touch My Body" goes to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week and becomes her 18th career #1 hit –
surpassing one of the most enduring chart records in Billboard Hot 100 history, Elvis Presley's 17 #1's. Mariah is now positioned as the only active recording artist in the 50 years of the Hot 100 (which began in 1958) with the potential to surpass the Beatles' all-time high of 20 #1 hits.
"Touch My Body" takes over #1 with an all-time record-setting 286,000 debut week at #1 on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart. The best debut-week of digital sales by any artist. Rihanna's "Umbrella" held the previous record with sales of 277,000.and a Hot 100 Airplay radio audience now over 115 million.
SAVE THE DATES:
• April 9th: Mariah joins all-star international cast on FOX's second annual Emmy-winning IDOL Gives Back two-hour charitable TV special
• April 14th: Mariah special guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show
• April 15th: E=MC² new album arrives in stores
• April 16th: Mariah performs on American Idol as musical mentor to finalists
- Mariah talks about this achievement:
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"I really can never put myself in the category of people who have not only revolutionized music but also changed the world," Carey told The Associated Press on Tuesday via phone from London. "That's a completely different era and time ... I'm just feeling really happy and grateful.
"For me, in my mind the accomplishment is just that much sweeter," she said. "In terms of my ethnicity, always feeling like an outsider, always feeling different ... for me it's about saying, 'Thank you Lord, for giving me the faith to believe in myself when other people had written me off.'"
"I've gone through enough of my life worrying about that kind of thing," said Carey.
"I want to encourage anyone else out there who feels like maybe they can't overcome an obstacle, I feel like I'm living proof ... never lose your faith," she added. "I'm seriously a grateful individual right now."
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- And Mazen said.. (Thanks to DANCEFLOOR for the reminder)
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Originally posted by when TMB leaked..
Eh. I'm all over the "it sucks , flop" first reaction. Once the video comes out and this reaches number 1. So many people here will eat their words or in more appropriate words, will change their minds. LMAO. I've seen it all before.
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- EAT IT!
- Message To The Fans: "Thanks 4 #18! I love you!!! Love, Mariah":
CONGRATULATIONS, Miss MORAIH!
