{"id":117770,"date":"2024-05-23T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/23\/mariah-carey-on-being-one-away-from-the-beatles-its-astonishing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T18:02:10","slug":"mariah-carey-on-being-one-away-from-the-beatles-its-astonishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/23\/mariah-carey-on-being-one-away-from-the-beatles-its-astonishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey on being “one away from the Beatles”: “It’s astonishing”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ABC\/Lou Rocco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most music fans know\u00a0Mariah Carey<\/strong> has a ton of #1 hits, but one particular statistic is mind-blowing to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mariah has scored 19 #1 hits on the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100. That’s the most of any solo artist and just one fewer than the all-time record holders, The Beatles<\/strong>, who had 20. Asked what that means to her, Mariah tells Billboard<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, “I don\u2019t know what I think about that! I don\u2019t know. I think it\u2019s astonishing.”<\/p>\n

She continues, “On one level it\u2019s like, ‘[I] don\u2019t really care.’ But it\u2019s not. To have 19 #1 singles and be one away from The Beatles \u2026 I don\u2019t know how I can\u2019t acknowledge that.\u00a0One away from The Beatles\u00a0<\/em>\u2026 that\u2019s a lot. I think it\u2019s a little hard to wrap my head around.”<\/p>\n

Speaking about songwriting in general, Mariah tells Billboard,<\/em> “I wouldn\u2019t be happy with my life if I didn\u2019t do. And I don\u2019t just do it for the credit or anything else. I do it because I love to do it.”<\/p>\n

Here are some other fun Mariah chart stats: She’s the only artist to have three songs top the Hot 100 for at least 14 weeks each with the Boyz II Men<\/strong> collaboration “One Sweet Day,” “We Belong Together” and “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” All told, she’s spent 93 total weeks on top of the Hot 100 \u2014 the most of any act.<\/p>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC\/Lou Rocco Most music fans know\u00a0Mariah Carey has a ton of #1 hits, but one particular statistic is mind-blowing to her.\u00a0 Mariah has scored 19 #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. That’s the most of any solo artist and just one fewer than the all-time record holders, The Beatles,Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427,428,429],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}