Claim: Mariah Carey failed to make US chart history.
Evidence: The album became the best-selling album in the US and the second best-seller worldwide in 2005 and produced `` We Belong Together , '' which became her most successful single of the 2000s , and was later named `` Song of the Decade '' by Billboard.
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States.
Billboard magazine began publishing year-end lists for album sales in 1956.