Mariah Carey’s Christmas blockbuster smash All I Want For Christmas is You will be the gift that keeps on giving, for eternity.
After 27 years of ruling the airwaves, the song’s magic touch keeps on growing, what with the increased streams and popularity by the day. Speaking of, the song has just crossed over its Platinum status to a Diamond status – which translates to 10, 000, 000 units sold. That is no mean feat, for a song originally recorded in 1994.
As if its huge figures are not enough, the song just broke another record as the most streamed Christmas song in Spotify history, by racking up 1 billion streams on the streaming giant. The song also sits atop the Billboard Hot 100 for the 3rd year in a row: It first cracked #1 on the chart for the first in 2019 (3 weeks), then in 2020 (2 weeks) and now this year. This milestone makes the Christmas Queen’s hit the first song to lead in three distinct chart runs in the chart’s 63-year history.
The perennial Christmas banger was released on Mariah’s Merry Christmas album in 1994 and has surged exponentially in popularity over the years. It is indisputably the biggest Christmas song of all time. Carey rakes in $ 1,000,000 every year from the song alone, per Celebrity Net Worth.
Fun Facts:
1.The song has been re-released severally, owing to its unrelenting appeal to fans and Christmas buffs
2.The song has three videos
3.Carey wrote and composed the song in a record 15 minutes!