Mariah Carey Acting career
 Carey's tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005), contained contributions from producers such as The Neptunes, Kanye West and Carey's longtime collaborator, Jermaine Dupri. Carey said it was very much like a party record... the process of putting on makeup and getting ready to go out... I wanted to make a record that was reflective of that. The Emancipation of Mimi became 2005's best-selling album in the U.S., and The Guardian reviewer defined it as cool, focused and urban ... [some of] the first Mariah Carey tunes in years I wouldn't have to be paid to listen to again. The album earned Carey a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and the single We Belong Together won Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song. We Belong Together held the Hot 100's number-one position for fourteen weeks (Carey's longest run at the top as a solo lead artist), and Shake It Off made Carey the only solo female artist to occupy the Hot 100's top two positions simultaneously. Don't Forget About Us became her seventeenth number-one in the U.S., tying her with Elvis Presley for the most number-ones by a solo act according to Billboard magazine's revised methodology (their statistician Joel Whitburn still credits Presley with an eighteenth). The Beatles had twenty number-ones. Carey's singles have, collectively, topped the charts for seventy-seven weeks, which places her ahead of The Beatles (fifty-nine weeks), and behind Presley, who topped the combined charts for seventy-nine 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. Carey's highest-charting single in Japan peaked at number-two.
Carey began a concert tour, The Adventures of Mimi Tour, in mid-2006. She appeared on the cover of the March 2007 edition of Playboy magazine on a non-nude photo session. In early 2007, she was featured with Bow Wow on the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony single Lil' L.O.V.E.. Later in the year, Carey received a recording star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and she will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on October 21, 2007. According to an interview with Entertainment Tonight in mid-2006, she had already begun work on her next studio album.
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