Trivias

• She and a team of songwriters did not steal the work of two other composers when she recorded the song Thank God I Found You, a federal judge has ruled.
• Songwriters Seth Swirsky and Warryn Campbell sued her in 2000, claiming her song was actually a copy of their composition One of Those Love Songs.
• The singer is back in shape after a turbulent year and is recording an album on the Mediterranean island of Capri.
• Part of her new deal with Def Jam also includes her own record imprint, which will be called MonarC that comes from Carey's well-documented fascination with butterflies, but the name ''Monarch'' already belongs to a jazz label.
• Co-writing many of the songs in her new album herself, she got to record them in pleasant locales -- the Bahamas and the Italian isle of Capri.
• By the time she was in junior high school, she had begun to write songs.
• The title track of 1991's quadruple-platinum Emotions generated her fifth consecutive #1 single, placing Mariah Carey in the Top Ten All-Time achievers of Most Consecutive #1 Hits.
• With Daydream, she became the first female artist in history to have three studio albums to each sell in excess of eight million copies.
• Mariah Carey is the only artist to have had a #1 single for every year of the 1990's.
• She bought Marilyn Monroe's white lacquered baby grand piano at auction in October, 1999 for $600,000 plus commission.
• Her highest octave is two octaves higher than normal soprano.
• She used to be a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr.
• She used to work in a hair salon sweeping up hair.
• She also states she held waitressing jobs and got fired from them all.
• Her father is half Venezuelan and mother is Irish.
• She is the only female artist to have 15 #1 songs on the U.S. Hot 100 chart. As of 2000, her albums had sold more than 125 million copies worldwide.
• She had the nickname Mirage in high school, because she never showed up for class.
• (25 July 2001) According to her spokesperson, Mariah suffered a physical and emotional breakdown, and spent the next couple weeks recovering in a Connecticut mental hospital.
• (2001) She signed a $100,000,000 million deal with Virgin Records for her next four albums.
• (2001) Mariah Carey's songs have spent more weeks at Number 1 in the Billboard charts than any other artist in history. Sixty-one weeks total, the previous record was Fifty-nine weeks held by the Beatles.
• She was named one of People Magazine's '25 Most Intriguing People of 2001'.
• Has more number one singles than any artist in history, except Elvis Presley and The Beatles.
• She owns a three floor apartment in New York City.
• If Mariah Carey ever loses her voice, she definitely shouldn't consider a career as a chef - according to staff at a top London hotel.
• Mariah Carey was nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Song from a Movie (Internet Only) in 2000 for THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (shared with Whitney Houston) and ALMA Award for Outstanding Performance by Individual in a Music Series or Special in 1999 for Mariah Carey: AROUND THE WORLD.
• After the failure of her movie debut GLITTER and the accompanying soundtrack album, Mariah plans to release her new album in December. (August 2002)
• This comeback singer has been ordered to keep her curves under wraps by the head of her new record label.