Artist · chart history
Mariah Carey
Solo artist Huntington United States
Mariah Carey is an artist from Huntington. Mariah Carey has 7 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Fantasy”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #43. The station that charted Mariah Carey most often is WFPK (Louisville, KY), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1990.
Mariah Carey arrived in 1990 with a self-titled debut album and a voice that seemed to have no upper limit: five octaves, swooping melisma and those glass-shattering whistle-register notes. "Love Takes Time", a slow-burning ballad, came from that debut, and her first five singles, from "Vision of Love" through "Emotions" in 1991, all went to number one in the US, a feat no other artist has matched. The Grammys named her Best New Artist and gave her Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1991.
From there she grew into a pop superpower with Music Box in 1993 and Daydream in 1995, then reinvented herself when the remix of "Fantasy" put her alongside Ol' Dirty Bastard and pulled hip-hop into her sound, a turn she followed through on Butterfly and Rainbow. After a dip, The Emancipation of Mimi in 2005 was a full-blown comeback, and "We Belong Together" from it became one of the defining hits of the decade.
And every December she comes back around: her 1994 album Merry Christmas and its lead single "All I Want for Christmas Is You" have made her the undisputed owner of the holiday season.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Mariah Carey on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fantasy | 1 | #43 | – | – | |
| 2 | Emotions | 1 | #68 | – | – | |
| 3 | Always Be My Baby | 1 | #238 | – | – | |
| 4 | Vision of Love | 1 | #252 | – | – | |
| 5 | Hero | 1 | #317 | – | – | |
| 6 | Love Takes Time | 1 | #75 | – | 1990 | |
| 7 | We Belong Together | 1 | #737 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | Fantasy | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2025 | 68 | Emotions | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2025 | 238 | Always Be My Baby | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2025 | 252 | Vision of Love | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2025 | 317 | Hero | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2024 | 737 | We Belong Together | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) |
| 1990 | 75 | Love Takes Time | CFNY Top 90 Songs of 1990 |
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