It was November 1, 1994 when for the first time we could listen to the famous Christmas song by the Canadian singer who has become legendary
Mariah Carey's Christmas hit turns 30. In fact, published in November 1994, it remains a timeless hit, one of the best known songs ever in every corner of the world. It changed forever the consideration and idea we had of the Christmas song and pushed many other artists to compose and interpret songs made specifically for this period, but above all it represented from that moment for the singer, an inexhaustible source of income.
It just is a piece of data to understand the significance of a song that literally overturned the history of pop Music. In the December 2023, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” he recorded further 12 million daily listens on Spotifyclimbing the rankings of the most broadcast songs in the world in just a few days, for a miracle that repeats itself punctually year after year.
An iconic song
The popular singer will probably never admit it either, but when Mariah Carey released the song “All I Want for Christmas Is You”he never imagined that it would become the most played song of all at Christmas for the next thirty years and one of the most popular songs in the history of music. There's no point beating around the bush, it's not Christmas without Mariah Carey. This year too, like every December, the whole world synchronizes on the same refrain:
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you
You, baby
For thirty years now, this hit has become a global phenomenon, the most listened to Christmas song in the worldwith records that are renewed year after year. Obviously favored by the explosion of social networks such as Instagram and Tik tok with stories that are based on the melodies chosen by users as the soundtracks of their videos, Carey's Christmas song breaks one record after another. And also in 2024 the song returned to the top of the most listened to charts in the United States as the Christmas period approachedsomething that has been repeated year after year since 2019. In short, a real tradition, like the tree or Santa Claus, which crosses generations, so much so that on Spotify it has just surpassed the incredible threshold of two billion streams, detaching inexorably “Last Christmas” of the Wham e “Santa Tell Me” Of Ariana Grande.
Colossal gains still after thirty years
At the time of the song's launch Mariah Carey was only 25 years old and, despite the success of his first album “Music Box” published in 1993, it wasn't all that popular even though she had already moved to the United States. But “All I Want for Christmas Is You” since its release, marked a different way of representing the Christmas song. A classic text, but at the same time heart-warmingand, no gifts but only love as a good wish for a happy Christmas and then a pop song ride, but with a series of musical references that go dalla dance, al pop, all’r&b, which define its style and identity make it contemporary and suitable for all musical tastes, without forgetting the inevitable Christmas bellsto announce it like those who announce the arrival of Santa Claus and his reindeer.
In short, the classic perhaps casual meeting of intuitions that make a song become a crazy success. A song that changed the Christmas songs to be proposed, but that it undoubtedly also changed the singer's earnings which, thanks to Billionaire on streaming in the current era, but also to reproduction rights on radio and TV and on the infinite series of covers, recorded by practically anyone in all these years, she has managed to earn only for “All I Want for Christmas Is You”, at the rate of two and a half million euros every yeara total, at the moment, of approximately 75 million euros. Next goal, to overcome “White Christmas” Of Bing Crosbythe best-selling single of all time with 50 million copies sold worldwide, another Christmas bee and only the infinite will remain for Mariah.
