If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

Although now anyone is free to use this idea the success of "The Emancipation of Mimi" suggests that it still belongs to Carey. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart making it only the second Christmas album to top that chart.

In 1998 Mariah Carey was honored as the world's best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the World Music Awards. Aside from her commercial accomplishments Carey has won five Grammy Awards 17 World Music Awards 11 American Music Awards and 31 Billboard Music Awards. During the recording of the album Carey began to deviate from her R&B and pop beginnings and slowly traversed into hip hop.