Mariah Carey looked stunning while singing her Christmas classic All I Want for Christmas is You as part of Netflix’s coverage of the NFL on Christmas Day.
The Christmas Queen was dressed in a red suit with epaulets and gold buttons which she paired with black boots and a beautiful blowout.
He photographed the location on a rooftop decorated to look like a winter wonderland high above the Los Angeles skyline.
The video shows shots of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as people celebrating festively at home and at a bar.
“This Christmas, we’ll all get our wish,” Carey said in a video when Netflix first announced her performance earlier this month.
“The NFL is live on Netflix, and I’ll be there too.”
Mariah Carey looked stunning while singing her Christmas classic All I Want for Christmas is You as part of Netflix’s coverage of the NFL on Christmas Day.
Her pre-recorded performance comes as All I Want for Christmas is You celebrated 17 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 charts, setting a new record for Mariah.
She 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!!!!’
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.
Mariah 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.
The Christmas Queen was dressed in a red bodysuit with epaulets and gold buttons that she combined with black boots and a beautiful blowout.
The video shows shots of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as people celebrating festively at home and at a bar.
He photographed the location on a rooftop decorated to look like a winter wonderland on a rooftop high above the Los Angeles skyline.
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 Christmas, we’ll all get our wish,” Carey said in a video when Netflix first announced her performance earlier this month. “The NFL is live on Netflix, and I’ll be there too”
Her pre-recorded performance comes as All I Want for Christmas is You celebrates 17 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 charts, setting a new record for Mariah.
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.