Mariah Carey’s Studio Albums Ranked: Staff Picks

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The five-time Grammy victor archetypal burst connected the country successful 1990 with her self-titled debut album.

9/30/2025

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The Voice is back. 

After a seven-year hiatus, Mariah Carey released Here for It All past Friday (Sept. 26). The 11-track project, issued via gamma., is the latest section successful the five-octave singer’s storied, record-setting career. In summation to the singles “Type Dangerous” and “Sugar Sweet” featuring Shenseea and Kehlani, the medium includes further impermanent appearances by Anderson .Paak (“Play This Song”) and The Clark Sisters (“Jesus I Do”) arsenic good arsenic a screen of the Paul McCartney and Wings gem “My Love.” (Check retired Billboard’s ranking of the album’s 11 tracks HERE.)

Here for It All brings to 16 the full fig of workplace albums that Carey has released since bursting onto the country successful 1990 with her self-titled debut medium connected Columbia Records. And on the way, the singer-songwriter has racked up a big of illustration and manufacture accolades that unsocial could instrumentality up a full page. 

Among those connected the Billboard front: 19 Hot 100 No. 1s (18 self-penned), the astir of immoderate solo artist; astir weeks astatine No. 1 connected the Hot 100 with 97 (Rihanna is 2nd with 60); most years ranking astatine No. 1 connected the Hot 100 with 21 (no 1 other has much than 10); and the lone creator with No. 1s successful each twelvemonth of a decennary (‘90s, positive into 2000). 

That’s not counting Carey’s 5 Grammy Awards, induction into the Songwriters Hall of fame, a prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame and being presented with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award astatine the caller 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. Plus this winter, her acquisition that keeps connected giving — “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — could go the longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1 ever. 

But first, to commemorate the merchandise of Here for It All, members of the Billboard staff person ranked each 15 of Carey’s preceding workplace albums.