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Mariah Carey performs at the BET Awards at Nokia Theater on Sunday, June 30, 2013, in Los Angeles.
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 | 6 a.m.
Mariah Carey made it official herself this morning, announcing during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” her series of performances at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace.
All the shows are for this spring and summer, from May 6 through July 26. Tickets are available now at the Colosseum box office at (866) 320-9763 and online at TheColosseum.com and AXS.com.
Some figures to note about Carey as she enters her first extended run in Las Vegas:
$55: Her lowest-priced ticket.
$250: Her highest-priced ticket.
18: Number of dates in her Caesars run. They are May 6, 9-10, 13, 16-17, 20 and 23-24 and July 8, 11-12, 15, 18-19, 22 and 25-26.
18: Number of No. 1 hits she has amassed.
18: Age when she met Columbia Records — later to become Sony — exec Tommy Mottola, whom she signed to a deal instantly.
5: Years she was married to Mottola, from 1993-’98.
5: Range, in octaves, of her voice.
5: Number of days she was engaged to Nick Cannon before the two married in April 2008.
5: Number of Grammy Awards she has won.
200 million: Number of records sold, making her the top-selling female recording artist of all time.
80 million: Number of records sold just in the 1990s.
32 million: Number of copies of the album “Music Box” that have sold around the world.
16: Number of weeks “One Sweet Day,” with Mirage headliners Boyz II Men, topped the Billboard singles charts, a record for a single at No. 1.
25: Years since the release of her self-titled debut album.
45: Age she will be when she opens at Caesars.
3: Her age when her parents divorced.
1987: Year of graduation from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, N.Y.
500: Number of hours of beauty school and hair salon training she studied before deciding to become a singer.
72,000: Number of tickets up for purchase during Carey’s announced run.
$600,000: Amount she paid for a white baby-grand piano, once owned by Marilyn Monroe, at auction in 1999.
$500,000: The reported cost of Carey’s wedding to Mottola.
1: Number of seasons spent as a judge on "American Idol."
1: Number of feather dusters used during a prank for “Ellen,” in which she dressed as a maid and entered rooms of fans being interviewed for the show.
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