Christmas came early for Mariah Carey with a new Billboard career high after she was spotted holding hands with fellow singer Anderson .Paak.
All I Want For Christmas broke Mariah’s other records with 17 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The Queen of Christmas shared Billboard’s post on her Instagram Stories and made sure to let her fans know how grateful she is for this honor.
‘This is amazing!!!! I will never ever take this for granted. Merry early Christmas!!!!’
Billboard reported that another song held a spot on the number one song chart.
The new album eclipsed the 16 weeks of his song One Sweet Day with Boyz II Men in 1995-96.
Christmas came early for Mariah Carey with a new Billboard record for her career.
All I Want for Christmas is You leads the Hot 100 for the third consecutive week this year.
The song has the third longest record at number one in the chart’s 66-year history.
The Christmas classic debuted in 1994, and the craziest thing about the song is that the self-proclaimed Queen of Christmas didn’t set out to write a Christmas song, much less a lasting classic.
Maria was married to Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola at the time and was coming off her hit album Music Box.
It was Mottola’s idea to follow up her successful third pop album with a Christmas album.
Mariah was adamantly opposed to the idea. She felt that a Christmas album was something an artist made at the end of their career, not the beginning.
It felt desperate at worst and extremely strange at best that Mariah’s next album would be a Christmas album, but Mottola insisted.
And I didn’t want an album full of covers of classic Christmas songs, I wanted at least one new original Christmas song.
All I Want For Christmas broke Mariah’s other records with 17 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Mariah shared Billboard’s post on her Instagram Stories and made sure to let her fans know how grateful she is for this honor.
When she and her co-writer Walter Afanasieff reluctantly got to work, they spent less than 15 minutes on both lyrics and melody.
In the summer of 1994, they began preparing an album that would eventually be titled Merry Christmas.
In August 1994, Mariah and Walter began playing around with a ‘boogie woogie, rock and roll’ riff (as he would later describe it). Mariah came up with some lyrics that were popping into her head.
Less than 15 minutes later, they had composed the words and music for what eventually became All I Want For Christmas is You.
And although Mariah’s marriage to Mottola ended bitterly, she has him to thank for most of her wealth.
His idea of recording a Christmas album and having an original song translates to $600,000 in royalties each December on the low end. On the high end, it grosses $1.2 million.
Annually, the song earns Mariah between 2 and 4 million dollars each year.
To date, All I Want for Christmas has generated at least $80 million in total royalties. As co-writers and co-producers of the song, Mariah and Walter enjoy the majority of that income. Celebrity Net Worth reported.
‘This is amazing!!!! I will never ever take this for granted. Merry early Christmas!!!!’
The new album eclipsed the 16 weeks of his song One Sweet Day with Boyz II Men in 1995-96. Seen here on December 21, 2024.
All I Want for Christmas is You is also the first Christmas song to reach two billion streams on Spotify.
‘This is beyond incredible. I’m honored that ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ is the first Christmas song on Spotify to reach 2 billion streams!
“I’m so grateful to all the Spotify listeners around the world who have made the song part of their Christmas tradition year after year,” Carey said. People in a December 13 statement.
All this praise and the end of her Christmas tour ensure that Mariah will have a very Merry Christmas.