The Voice is back.
After a seven-year hiatus, Mariah Carey released Here for It All last Friday (Sept. 26). The 11-track project, issued via gamma., is the latest chapter in the five-octave singer’s storied, record-setting career. In addition to the singles “Type Dangerous” and “Sugar Sweet” featuring Shenseea and Kehlani, the album includes additional guest appearances by Anderson .Paak (“Play This Song”) and The Clark Sisters (“Jesus I Do”) as well as a cover of the Paul McCartney and Wings gem “My Love.” (Check out Billboard’s ranking of the album’s 11 tracks HERE.)
Here for It All brings to 16 the total number of studio albums that Carey has released since bursting onto the scene in 1990 with her self-titled debut album on Columbia Records. And along the way, the singer-songwriter has racked up a host of chart and industry accolades that alone could take up a whole page.
Among those on the Billboard front: 19 Hot 100 No. 1s (18 self-penned), the most of any solo artist; most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with 97 (Rihanna is second with 60); most years ranking at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with 21 (no one else has more than 10); and the only artist with No. 1s in every year of a decade (‘90s, plus into 2000).
That’s not counting Carey’s five Grammy Awards, induction into the Songwriters Hall of fame, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and being presented with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the recent 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. Plus this winter, her gift that keeps on giving — “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — could become the longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1 ever.
But first, to commemorate the release of Here for It All, members of the Billboard staff have ranked all 15 of Carey’s preceding studio albums.