Carey was named the best-selling female pop artist of the millennium at the 2000 World Music Awards

Carey was named the best-selling female pop artist of the millennium at the 2000 World Music Awards. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the third best-selling female artist and sixteenth overall recording artist with shipments of over 62.5 million albums in the US.She is also ranked as the best-selling female artist of the U.S. Nielsen SoundScan era (third best-selling artist overall).On September 9, 2009, in an official press release for her 12th studio album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, Island Records stated that Carey has sold more than 175 million albums, singles and videos worldwide.