Christmas came early for Mariah Carey with a new Billboard record for her career after she was spotted holding hands with fellow singer Anderson .Paak.
All I Want For Christmas broke another of Mariah’s records with 17 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The Queen of Christmas shared the post that Billboard made on her Instagram Stories and let her fans know how grateful she is for this honor.
‘This is amazing!!!! I will never take this for granted. Merry early Christmas!!!!’
Billboard reported that another song took a spot on the No. 1 song chart.
The new record overshadowed the 16-week run of her song One Sweet Day with Boyz II Men, set 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 week in a row 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, let alone an enduring classic.
At the time, Maria was married to Tommy Mottola, executive chairman of Sony Music, and released her massive hit album Music Box.
It was Mottola’s idea to follow up her successful third pop album with a Christmas album.
Mariah was adamantly against the idea. She felt that a Christmas album was something an artist did at the end of their career, not at 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 he didn’t want an album full of covers of classic Christmas songs, he wanted at least one original new Christmas song.
All I Want For Christmas broke another of Mariah’s records with 17 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart
Mariah shared the message that Billboard posted on her Instagram Stories and let her fans know how grateful she is for this honor
When she and her co-writer Walter Afanasieff reluctantly started work, they spent less than 15 minutes on both the lyrics and the melody.
In the summer of 1994, they began putting together an album that would eventually be titled Merry Christmas.
In August 1994, Mariah and Walter started playing with a “boogie woogie, rock and roll” riff (as he would later describe it). Mariah came up with a number of lyrics from memory.
Less than fifteen minutes later they had composed the lyrics and music for what eventually became All I Want For Christmas is You.
And although Mariah’s marriage to Mottola ended bitterly, she owes most of her wealth to him.
His idea to record a Christmas album and put one original song on it translates to the low end of $600,000 in royalties this December. On the high end, it nets $1.2 million.
Annually, the song earns Mariah $2-$4 million each year.
To date, All I Want for Christmas has generated a total of at least $80 million in royalties. As co-writers and co-producers of the song, Mariah and Walter enjoy the majority of that income. Net Worth of Celebrities reported.
‘This is amazing!!!! I will never take this for granted. Merry early Christmas!!!!’
The new record overshadowed the 16-week run of her song One Sweet Day with Boyz II Men, set 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 unbelievable. I’m honored that “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is the first holiday 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 shared. People in a statement on December 13.
All these accolades and the end of her Christmas Time tour ensure that Mariah will have a very Merry Christmas.