Mariah Carey stuns as she performs her Christmas classic All I Want for Christmas for NFL on Netflix debut

Mariah Carey looked beautiful as she sang her holiday classic All I Want for Christmas is You as part of Netflix’s coverage of the NFL on Christmas Day.

The Queen of Christmas was decked out in a red bodysuit with gold epaulettes and buttons, which she paired with black boots and a beautiful blowout.

She photographed the spot on a rooftop decorated as a winter wonderland, high above the Los Angeles skyline.

The video cut between shots of the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as people celebrating at home and at a bar.

“We’ll all get our wish this Christmas,” Carey said in a video when her performance was first announced by Netflix 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 celebrated 17 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 charts, setting a new record for Mariah.

She 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!!!!’

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, Mariah 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.

The Queen of Christmas was decked out in a red bodysuit with gold epaulettes and buttons, which she paired with black boots and a beautiful blowout

The video cut between shots of the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as people celebrating at home and at a bar

She photographed the site on a rooftop decorated to resemble a winter wonderland on a rooftop high above the Los Angeles skyline

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.

“We’ll all get our wish this Christmas,” Carey said in a video when her performance was first announced by Netflix 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 celebrated a 17-week run atop the Billboard Hot 100 charts – 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 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.