Mariah Carey has just beaten Elvis...
"Touch My Body" became Carey's eighteenth number-one single on the Hot 100, pushing her past Elvis Presley into second place for the most number-one singles among all artists in the rock era, according to Billboard magazine's revised methodology (however, their statistician Joel Whitburn still credits Presley with an eighteenth)
However Carrey herself is not very excited about this rare feat of beating Elvis Priestly.Responding to her overtaking Elvis. Mariah says
"I really can never put myself in the category of people who have not only revolutionized music but also changed the world," she told The Associated Press. "That's a completely different era and time."
Touch My Body, which reaches No. 1 on a record-setting one-week total of 286,000 digital sales, extends Carey's run of chart-topping span to 17 years, longer than both the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Presley's No. 1s ran from Heartbreak Hotel in 1956 to Suspicious Minds in 1969, while the Beatles' streak came between 1964 and 1970. Presley also gets passed on the list of artists with the most Top 10 singles, as Madonna's new single 4 Minutes becomes her 37th Top 10 single, rocketing from No. 68 to No. 3.
Carey's singles have, collectively, topped the charts for seventy-eight weeks, which places her ahead of The Beatles (fifty-nine weeks), and just behind Presley, who topped the combined charts for eighty weeks. Carey has also had notable success on international charts, though not to the same degree as her native America. Thus far, she has had two number-one singles in Britain, two in Australia, and six in Canada. Her highest-charting single in Japan peaked at number-two.
Carey directed or co-directed several of the music videos for her singles during the 1990s. Slant magazine named the video for "The Roof (Back in Time)", which Carey co-directed with Diane Martel, one of the twenty greatest music videos of all time.