MARIAH CAREY 2005/2006 PHOTO GALLERY

Currently, the Mariah Carey Photo Gallery features new photos of the singer (scroll down).  Click on thumbnails for a full size of the pictures in the photo gallery.  In addition, picture dimensions are shown.

Mariah Carey performing August 2006 at Madison Square Garden.

Other photos from 2005:

Mariah Carey arrives at the premiere of the film 'The Interpreter' in New York, April 19, 2005.	Mariah Carey sings from her new album, 'The Emancipation of Mimi', during the Good Morning America television show on April 12 in New York	Mariah Carey attends the autograph session for her new CD 'The Emancipation of Mimi,' held at Best Buy in New York, in this April 12, 2005	Carey performs in Tokyo, March 31, 2005
Mariah Carey arrives for a concert on ABC's 'Good Morning America' television show, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, in New York's Times Square	U.S. pop singer Mariah Carey performs during the Echo Music Awards cermony in Berlin, April 2, 2005.	U.S. singer Mariah Carey waves as she arrives for the Echo Music Awards in Berlin, April 2, 2005.	U.S. pop singer Mariah Carey performs at an event for Japanese fans in Tokyo March 31, 2005.
U.S. pop singer Mariah Carey poses for photographers upon her arrival at Narita international airport in Narita, northeast of Tokyo, March 28, 2005.	US pop diva Mariah Carey, shown taking part in a German TV show in March 2005	CD cover	Singer Mariah Carey performs 'We Belong Together' at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles June 4, 2005.

 Chart success emancipates Mariah Carey's career

Pop diva Mariah Carey, whose career had appeared in permanent decline in recent years, staged a stunning comeback this week, when her new album debuted at number one across the United States.

"The Emancipation of Mimi" sold 404,000 copies, besting Carey's previous first-week opening sales record of 323,000 copies for 1999's "Rainbow"  and ending the six-week, chart-topping reign of rapper 50 Cent's "The Massacre."

Advertised as "the return of the voice," the album's success looks set to revive a career that once seemed invincible before a series of professional and personal disasters sent it onto freefall.

"Emancipation" is the first collection of original songs Carey has delivered since 2002's tepidly received "Charmbracelet." And it is packed with her trademark power ballads and collaborations with hip-hop heavyweights such as Nelly, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West.

Carey's path to superstardom began after she famously slipped a demo tape to future Sony Entertainment CEO Tommy Mottola at a party when she was 18.

Mottola became her mentor and later her husband, and her career soared.

The couple divorced in 1998, but Carey's star power remained undimmed and, in 2000, she signed a record-breaking five-year contract with EMI Group that made her 117 million dollars.

The problems began when she embarked on her first lead actress role in the rags-to-riches movie "Glitter," which was pilloried by critics and tanked at the box office.

In July 2001, Carey was hospitalized for exhaustion, and the failures of the film and its soundtrack led to a second hospital stay that September.

In January 2002, EMI terminated her record deal with a 28-million-dollar payoff.

"The Emancipation of Mimi" was released on the Island Def Jam label, owned by Universal.

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