List of awards and nominations received by Mariah Carey

American singer and actress Mariah Carey has received and collected many honors and awards throughout her career. Some of her major achievements include Billboard's Special Achievement Award for the Artist of the Decade during the 1990s, World Music Awards' Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium and the Grammy's Best New Artist in 1991.[1] With sales of over 200 million records worldwide, Carey is one of the best-selling music artists of all time.[2][3] Throughout her career, Carey has won five Grammy Awards, nineteen World Music Awards and fifteen Billboard Music Awards.[4] As of September 2020, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lists Carey as the second-best-selling female artist, with shipments of over 66.5 million units in the US.[5]

Mariah Carey Awards & Honors

Carey in 1990
Awards and nominations[lower-alpha 1]
Wins	122
Honors	16
Nominations	251

With a diverse discography, Carey has accumulated 19 number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, the most for any solo aritst. Spending 84 weeks at the number-one position, the greatest number for any artist in US chart history,[6][7] Carey is the only artist to have a number-one song in each year of a single decade (1990s decade).[8] Three of her songs have debuted atop the Hot 100 chart including "Fantasy", "One Sweet Day" and "Honey". Her single "One Sweet Day", which featured Boyz II Men, spent sixteen consecutive weeks at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1996, setting the record for the most weeks atop the Hot 100 chart in history until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road".[9][10] Carey holds the record for the most number-one singles by a solo artist as well as a female songwriter, and a female producer.[11] According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Carey has amassed two diamond certified albums, Music Box and Daydream.[12] Both albums were in the top 30 of Complex's Best R&B Albums of '90s.[13]

In 2012, Carey was ranked second on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. In 2017, Carey was honoured at the VH1 Hip Hop Honors for her many contributions to music such as introducing R&B and hip-hop into mainstream pop culture, and for popularizing rap as a featuring act with her song "Fantasy".[14] In 2019, Billboard named her the all-time top female artist in the United States, based on both album and song chart performances.[15] Carey also is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[16] Dubbed the "Queen of Christmas" by the media, Carey's popular Christmas song "All I Want For Christmas Is You" set three Guinness World Records in 2019 with the same organisation crowning her the title: "Songbird Supreme".[17]

Despite music being her primary source of accomplishment, Carey has also received nominations and awards for other works in retail and film. In 2007, Carey released her own fragrance, "M", in which went on to win a Basenotes Fragrance Award for Best Celebrity Women's Fragrance as well as being nominated in three other categories.[18] She won a Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival for her work in Precious.[19]