Mariah Carey: The Undisputed Queen of Christmas
Mariah Carey has a new Christmas single, a new AppleTV Christmas special, a high-profile Christmas collaboration with McDonald’s, and a classic Christmas song that is continuing to break records. Here, I take a look at the many contributions that the undisputed Queen of Christmas has made to the Holiday Season with a ranking and review of all of her Christmas songs and television specials.
In December 2019, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” finally reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — a full 25 years after its release. I wrote an article about how that accomplishment came to be and all the records she smashed along the way. (Click here for to view that article.) Now, two years later, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is continuing to hit new milestones and smash new records.
- It was just certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America, representing sales of 10 million units. It is only the third song from the 20th century to receive this distinction, following Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind 1997” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” She is the first woman to have a diamond single from the 20th Century and it is the first holiday song ever to be certified diamond.
- It just surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. It is the first holiday song to ever achieve this.
