The IFPI has published an updated list of certification levels around the world. Sweden is the only major country to have changed in certification levels, since the last time I posted about certification levels. Now Gold in Sweden is 20,000 and Platinum is 40,000. Some good news about Sweden's music market is that now album downloads will be included in certifications. Now the US, UK, Germany, Sweden and Norway are the only countries to include album downloads in album certifications, hopefully other countries will follow suit, soon.

Hey, chart people

I added Norwegian singles peaks to the site and some of her European singles
peaks to the site.

Hey, Chart fans

Mariah's Norwegian album history has been added to the site, check it out here.


I've also updated and sorted out the mess I made (LOL) on the Worldwide
album page.


Good day/night, everyone.
Michael

Hey, Chart fans

Album chart pages for Europe and Belgium have been added to the site.

Hey, Everybody.

Jason, from the Looking In blog section of this site, got a hold of Mariah's total catalogue Soundscan report and sent it to me to share with everyone. The report includes; album sales, physical single sales and even her video sales, that total 67,418,426 units as of December 31st, 2006. If we were to include digital album/single sales, record club sales, sales for her debut album and sales her singles pre-Soundscan era (March of 1991), Mariah's US career unit sales are easily over 80 million, with shipments probably close to 90 million. I'll stop writing now and let you see the Soundscan report for yourself, here.

Chart runs for Mariah's singles on the Australian singles chart have been added along with sales estimates for her singles that have not been certified.

According to Mariah Connection, All I Want For Christmas Is You has sold 405,901 copies to date. The single was certified Gold (400,000) in the UK by the BPI in December of 1994. If sales continue to do as well as they have this year for the next couple of years, Mariah could have her first ever Platinum (600,000) single in the UK.

Thanks to: Mariah Connection and Marc.

I got the idea to make this chart showing Mariah's biggest world hits by the poll about Mariah's upcoming single on the News page. This chart shows Mariah's biggest hits overall and her biggest lead singles.

11/15/06 #144 (5,266) 331,484 3.2 million
11/22/06 #59 (12,206) 343,690 16.7 million
11/29/06 #24 (24,194) 367,884 37.8 million
12/06/06 #09 (39,682) 407,556 38.1 million
12/13/06 #08 (48,979) 456,545 42.9 million
12/20/06 #07 (46,033) 502,578 49.3 million
12/26/06 #11 (46,228) 548,806 63.6 million

Column one: Date
Column two: Digital chart position (sales)
Column three: Total sales to date
Column four: Radio audience impressions

In the US, Merry Christmas is #26 on the Pop Catalogue chart. It's 12 positions higher than Celine's Dion's These Are Special Times and could have very well overtaken it in total US Soundscan sales, but don't get too excited until we see figures.

In the UK, All I Want For Christmas Is You has sold 398,328 copies to date.


Thanks: Bks, ManicKangaroo, and Thien (for the idea).

• Roughly 30,000 albums per month


• About 1000 per day


• Nearly 40 per hour


• On average a Mariah Carey album was bought every 1.5 minutes in 2006, not including The Emancipation of Mimi

Mariah's total Soundscan, BMG and pre-Soundscan sales total 56.52 million to date. Mariah could be over 60 million if other record club sales figures were released publicly.

Thanks to HolidayGuy and Marc for the Soundscan figure.

The CD/DVD version of Merry Christmas has re-entered the South Korean album charts, selling 4,031 albums for the month of November. The CD/DVD version released in October of 2005, has sold 11,500 copies, so far, with sales of the original version of Merry Christmas, the album has sold more than 532,000 copies to date.

Source: RIAK

11/15/06 #144 (5,266) 331,484 3.2 million
11/22/06 #59 (12,206) 343,690 16.7 million
11/29/06 #24 (24,194) 367,884 37.8 million
12/06/06 #09 (39,682) 407,556 38.1 million
12/13/06 #08 (48,979) 456,545 42.9 million
12/20/06 #07 (46,033) 502,578 49.3 million

Column one: Date
Column two: Digital chart position (sales)
Column three: Total sales to date
Column four: Radio audience impressions

In the US Merry Christmas has sold 4,772,786 copies to date, meaning the album has sold over 100,000 copies so far this year.

In the UK, if All I Want For Christmas Is You has sold 384,196 copies to date and if it were able to chart it would be able to make the Top 10 again.


Thanks: Bks, Colson, The Whole Story, ManicKangaroo, MariahConnection and Thien (for the idea).

11/15/06 #144 (5,266) 331,484 3.2 million
11/22/06 #59 (12,206) 343,690 16.7 million
11/29/06 #24 (24,194) 367,884 37.8 million
12/06/06 #09 (39,682) 407,556 38.1 million
12/13/06 #08 (48,979) 456,545 42.9 million

Column one: Date
Column two: Digital chart position (sales)
Column three: Total sales to date
Column four: Radio audience impressions


In the UK, if All I Want For Christmas Is You were allowed to chart, it would be in the Top 10 this coming up week (Sunday).


Thanks: Bks, Colson, The Whole Story, ManicKangaroo and Thien (for the idea).

11/15/06 #144 (5,266) 331,484 3.2 million
11/22/06 #59 (12,206) 343,690 16.7 million
11/29/06 #24 (24,194) 367,884 37.8 million
12/06/06 #09 (39,682) 407,556 38.1 million

Column one: Date
Column two: Digital chart position (sales)
Column three: Total sales to date
Column four: Radio audience impressions (Billboard Airplay position)


In the UK, if All I Want For Christmas Is You were allowed to chart, it would be in the Top 15 this coming week (Sunday).


Thanks: Bks, Colson, The Whole Story, ManicKangaroo and Thien (for the idea).

According to Universal Music's annual report, The Emancipation of Mimi sold 8 million copies worldwide in 2005, making it the top selling album under the Universal Music Group. The right column shows the top selling albums of 2004.

11/15/06 #144 (5,266) 331,484 3.2 million
11/22/06 #59 (12,206) 343,690 16.7 million
11/29/06 #24 (24,194) 367,884 37.8 million (#53 Airplay)

Column one: Date
Column two: Digital chart position (sales)
Column three: Total sales to date
Column four: Radio audience impressions (Billboard Airplay position)

All I Want For Christmas Is You is the only Christmas song on the Billboard Digital and Airplay charts.

Thanks: Bks, Colson, The Whole Story and Thien (for the idea).

Hey, Mariah chart fans

A chart friend of mine sent me airplay peaks for Mariah's singles in the UK. However, chart peaks for the Mariah Carey singles and her singles released between 1999 and 2002 are missing. As soon as I find information for those singles, I'll be sure to write a blog entry (like this one) about them being added to the site.

UK Singles Page


Thanks: Brian/BoroButch

This week, Mariah's holiday classic moves up a massive 85 spots on the download chart, from #144 to #59. The track increased 132% in sales this week, from 5,266 copies last week to 12,206 copies this week, bringing it's total sales to 343,690.


Thanks: Bks/Colson

Hey, Mariah chart fans

I know some people would like to know which songs kept Mariah's #2 singles from being #1 singles, so I decided to do a blog entry on the topic.

As well all know, Mariah has four #2 Billboard Hot 100 singles; Can't Let Go, Endless Love, Loverboy and Shake It Off.



Can't Let Go spent one week at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was kept from #1 by Color Me Badd's All For Love.






Endless Love spent one week at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was kept from #1 by future collaborators Boyz To Men with their song I'll Make Love To You.





Loverboy spent two weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was kept from #1 for both weeks it was at #2, by Destiny's Child's Bootylicious.





Shake It Off spent six weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was kept from #1, by Mariah's own We Belong Together and Kanye West's Gold Digger.

Hey, Mariah chart fans

I just updated the German singles page. I added the chart runs for all The Emancipation of Mimi singles, including the peak and chart run of Don't Forget About Us, which was not on the site until today. With The Emancipation of Mimi singles Mariah's sold an estimated 3 million singles in Germany to date.

Mariah's timeless holiday classic All I Want For Christmas Is You has re-entered Billboard's Digital download chart for the third consecutive year, this week at #144. To date, All I Want For Christmas Is You has sold 331,484 digital downlads in the US.

Hopefully we'll see the parent album (Merry Christmas) will follow suit by re-entering the US, Japanese and South Korean album charts, where it's re-entered every year as well.


Thanks to Bks and Jason (from the Looking In section).

Hey, Mariah chart fans

I just found some information, that I think everyone would be interested in. These are latest certification requirements for all the countries in the world with national recording associations. France's certifications have been lowered a lot, due to few artists reaching platinum status in the current market. Silver is now 35,000 (was 60,000), Gold is 75,000 (was 100,000) and Platinum is 200,000 (was 300,000). If The Emancipation of Mimi was released this year, it would be certified as a Platinum album, instead of a 2x Gold album.

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Source: IFPI Yearbook

Double Platinum:
Hong Kong - 40,000*

Platinum:
Japan - 250,000 (350,000)
Thailand - 40,000*
Philippines - 30,000*
South Korea - 30,000*
Malaysia - 25,000*
Taiwan - 20,000*
Singapore - 15,000

Other:
China - 200,000+ (could be around 250k to date)
Rest of Asia - 50,000 (Estimate)

Total: 850,000

* These certifications came from a tour press release created by Universal Music International, this press release can also be found on the MTV Asia website.

+ This number came from Universal Music China in November of 2005 and the recent press release from MTV Asia, also states that The Emancipation of Mimi was the best selling album by a Universal Music artist (including Chinese artists).

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I made a pie chart of where album sales come from to show her strongest markets. I estimate that Mariah has sold around 125 million albums in North America, Asia and Europe, 3 million in the Australian continent (according to Sony Music Australia in 2005), 1 million in Brazil and around 9 million elsewhere.

The Emancipation of Mimi sold about 8.55 million in North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia and the Australian continent.

Using the percentages from the pie chart you will get sales of 8.9 million - 9.1 million, depending on which way you choose to do it, which comes close to the official figure of 9 million.

• We Belong Together helped keep The Emancipation of Mimi in the Top 5 of the Billboard Album Charts for six consecutive months (its first six months).
  
  


• We Belong Together helped keep The Emancipation of Mimi in the Top 20 of the Canadian Album Charts for over six consecutive months (its first six months).
  
  


• We Belong Together made The Emancipation of Mimi peaked at #2 in Denmark after it had debuted and looked to only peak at #44.
  
  


• We Belong Together made The Emancipation of Mimi peaked at #6 in Australia after it had debuted and looked to only peak at #13.
  
  


• We Belong Together made The Emancipation of Mimi peaked at #8 in the Netherlands after it had debuted and looked to only peak at #15.
  
  


• In the UK, We Belong Together made The Emancipation of Mimi match its debuting position for 2 consecutive weeks, months after its release. The Emancipation of Mimi actually sold more in those two weeks that its debuting week.
  
  


• We Belong Together made The Emancipation of Mimi move back to the Top 15 in France, months after release.
  
  


• We Belong Together made The Emancipation of Mimi move back to the Top 25 in Germany and Switzerland, months after release.
  
  


• We Belong Together made The Emancipation of Mimi move back to the Top 40 in Sweden, months after release.
  

• In 1994, the pinnacle of Mariah's popularity in the UK, she sold over 2.4 million albums and singles (equivalent to over 8 million in the US), making her the #2 and #3 singles and albums artist of the year. Music Box was also the biggest selling female album in the UK of 1994.
  
  
  
• Music Box was the overall best selling album of 1994 in Australia.
  
  
  
• Music Box outsold Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard becoming the first non-Dutch female album to sell over 400,000 copies. Music Box still remains as the best selling album by a non-Dutch female artist (tied with Celine Dion's Falling Into You) in the Netherlands.
  
  
  
• Music Box was the first non-Swiss female studio album to sell at least 200,000 copies in Switzerland.
  
  
  
• Music Box was the first non-Taiwanese studio album to sell at least 500,000 copies in Taiwan.
  
  
  
• Music Box tied with Michael Jackson's Thriller as the best selling non-Japanese studio album of all time, until Mariah beat her own and Michael's record with Daydream.
  
  
  
• Music Box is the only non-Korean studio album to sell at least 1 million in Korea.
  
  
  
• From March of 1994 to November of 1994, Music Box was to #1 in over 10 countries, top 10 in at least 17 countries and sold an additional 10 million copies worldwide on top of the 10 million copies worldwide it had already sold.
  
  
  
• Music Box has reached Platinum status in 32 countries, translating to over 25 million in global sales to date, placing it among the Top 10 best selling female albums of all time.