{"id":122063,"date":"2024-12-23T15:09:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T20:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/23\/could-mariah-careys-christmas-hit-be-the-song-of-the-century\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T15:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T20:09:59","slug":"could-mariah-careys-christmas-hit-be-the-song-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/23\/could-mariah-careys-christmas-hit-be-the-song-of-the-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Mariah Carey\u2019s Christmas Hit be the Song of the\u00a0Century?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tHit songs come and go \u2014 artists last. What lasts even longer, though, are Christmas songs, which stream every year \u2014 and generate revenue accordingly.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe biggest example is Mariah Carey<\/a>\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d which reemerges on the Billboard Hot 100 toward the end of every year \u2014 it has hit No. 1 annually since 2019 \u2014 heralded by a Carey video announcement that \u201cIt\u2019s Tiiiiime.\u201d How popular is it? It is the No. 16 biggest song of all time by U.S. consumption, a weighted measure of digital sales and streaming used by Luminate for about a decade. It is also the No. 42 song of all time in U.S. on-demand audio streaming.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe steadiness of the song\u2019s popularity suggests that there\u2019s a chance it could be the biggest hit of the 21st century, although it\u2019s obviously impossible to know, or even figure out how such things might be measured in the future. There is a precedent, though. Bing Crosby<\/a>\u2019s 1942 recording of \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d is said to be the best-selling single of all time<\/a>, with 50 million copies worldwide, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Is \u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d emerging as a next-century successor of sorts?<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s possible. Most hits get big fast, stay big for a while, and remain big-ish for years, sometimes with a boost from an artist\u2019s subsequent releases. Holiday hits get big every year and disappear like Frosty the Snowman, only to come back the following fall, as predictable as the holiday season itself. Carey released \u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d as a radio single from her 1994 album Merry Christmas<\/em>, but it didn\u2019t hit the top 10 of the Hot 100 until December 2017. By then, the charts reflected rising streaming listenership, as well as radio play and decreasing sales. Streaming fueled the song\u2019s rise to No. 1 in 2019 (for three weeks), then in 2020 (for two weeks), 2021 (three weeks), 2023 (two weeks) and now 2024 (three weeks as of the chart dated Dec. 28). It has now spent <\/strong>17 weeks at No. 1<\/a> on the Hot 100 in total \u2014\u00a0the most of any song except Shaboozey<\/a>\u2019s \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy)\u201d and Lil Nas X<\/a>\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road\u201d (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a>), each of which occupied the top spot for 19 weeks. Unlike those songs, though, \u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d may continue to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 for years to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe list of songs with the most on-demand streams skews toward songs from a few years ago, since they have had a few more years to generate streams, and toward music that appeals to younger listeners, who were early adopters of Spotify and other services. Of the top 100, most of the songs came out after 2010, and almost all of them after 2000. The only older songs that have been streamed more than Carey\u2019s are Fleetwood Mac<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDreams\u201d (No. 27) and Journey<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Believin\u2019\u201d (No. 31), according to Luminate; the only other older songs in the top 100 are the Eagles<\/a>\u2019 \u201cHotel California,\u201d Queen<\/a>\u2019s \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d and, at 95, Brenda Lee<\/a>\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLike most holiday hits, \u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d does well worldwide \u2014 especially in English-speaking markets like the U.K. and Canada, where this year it hit No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100. It\u2019s also popular beyond the Anglosphere: This year the song topped the German Top 100 Single Chart, as well as the Austrian chart and the Swiss chart, and its popularity is growing elsewhere. (At a time when Anglo-American recordings are losing market share to local-language music in most European markets, English Christmas songs still do well. For the chart week of Dec. 20-26, for example, nine of the top 10 singles on the Official German Charts were English-language Christmas songs.) \u201cAll I Want\u201d is No. 48 on the songs with the most on-demand streams internationally, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOne reason for the song\u2019s success is how much Carey leans into the song\u2019s seasonal success. She is far more popular than any of the other acts with big Christmas songs: She has had 19 No. 1 Hot 100 hits, second only to The Beatles<\/a>, with 20, and she has hit No. 1 in a record 20 different years. Some artists with that kind of career would blanch at the idea of being identified with holiday music, but Carey embraced it \u2014 to the point that she applied for a trademark on the title \u201cQueen of Christmas,\u201d albeit unsuccessfully. In addition to her annual video announcement of the season, now something of an event in itself, she does an annual Christmas tour, which this year included 18 arena shows. In 2023, \u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d accounted for 23% of her streams, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s impossible to predict whether the song will become the most popular of the century \u2014 or even how Billboard<\/em> might measure such things by then. \u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d certainly isn\u2019t going anywhere: Its on-demand streams grew 15% and 8.3% in 2022 and 2023, respectively, according to Luminate, compared to overall on-demand streaming growth of 12.1% and 12.7%. But it\u2019s also not gaining ground on the current on-demand streaming champion, Post Malone<\/a> and Swae Lee<\/a>\u2019s \u201cSunflower,\u201d which had 333.12 million on-demand streams in the U.S in 2023, compared to 249 million for \u201cAll I Want for Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThen again, holiday songs are nothing if not evergreen. For the past few years, the top four songs on Billboard\u2019s Holiday 100 chart have been Carey\u2019s, \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree,\u201d \u201cJingle Bell Rock\u201d and \u201cLast Christmas.\u201d Carey\u2019s is by far the newest of the four. The second-biggest holiday hit, \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree,\u201d which hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 for three weeks last holiday season, was recorded in 1958 \u2014 66 years ago. If \u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d has the same kind of run, it could still be No. 1 in 2060 \u2014 whatever kind of listening that might include 35 years from now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hit songs come and go \u2014 artists last. What lasts even longer, though, are Christmas songs, which stream every year \u2014 and generate revenue accordingly. The biggest example is Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d which reemerges on the Billboard Hot 100 toward the end of every year \u2014 it has hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}