Throughout her career, Carey has earned numerous awards and honors. She has won six Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Global Impact Award), nineteen World Music Awards, ten American Music Awards, and twenty Billboard Music Awards. Carey is one of the best-selling recording artists in history, with more than 220 million records sold. She is also an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, according to whom she is "the all-time most successful female songwriter in chart history", and The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. Carey was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015, and a Billboard Icon Award in 2019. In 2023, she became one of the first 13 recipients of the BRIT Billion Award, for surpassing the milestone one billion streams in the United Kingdom.
Throughout her career Carey has earned numerous awards and honors She has won six Grammy Awards (including a Grammy Global Impact Award) nineteen World Music Awards ten American Music Awards and twenty Billboard Music Awards Carey is one of the best-selling recording artists in history with more than 220 million records sold She is also an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame according to whom she is "the all-time most successful female songwriter in chart history" and The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame Carey was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015 and a Billboard Icon Award in 2019 In 2023 she became one of the first 13 recipients of the BRIT Billion Award for surpassing the milestone one billion streams in the United Kingdom