Mariah Carey with a Big Smile Tops Elvis & The Beatles

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In spring 2007, Mariah Carey had begun working on her eleventh studio album. E=MC². On April 2, 2008, "Touch My Body" became Carey's 18th number-one single on the Hot 100, pushing her past Elvis Presley into second place for the most number-one singles among all artists in the rock era, according to Billboard magazine's revised methodology. The Beatles, in first place, had twenty number-ones.

Mariah Carey's singles have, collectively, topped the charts for seventy-eight weeks, which places her ahead of The Beatles (fifty-nine weeks), and just behind Elvis Presley (eighty weeks).