Mariah Carey
Twenty-four years after it was released, pop icon Mariah Carey’s enduring and wildly popular holiday bop, “All I Want for Christmas is You,” continues to break records.
On Dec. 22, it reached the No. 6 spot of Billboard Hot 100—its highest placement yet in the said chart.
Two days later, on Christmas Eve, the song broke the Spotify record for amassing the most number of streams in a single day with 10.8 million, beating previous figures set by XXXTentacion, Ed Sheeran, Drake and Ariana Grande.
1st artist from ’90s
In the process, “All I Want for Christmas”—which has reportedly earned the pop diva around $60 million in royalties over the years—also helped Mariah become the first artist from the 1990s to garner over 40 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
She’s also the fifth female singer to achieve this feat, after Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa and Selena Gomez.
Because streaming is a new way of consuming music that’s skewed toward younger artists, musicians who rose to fame prior to its advent don’t rarely punch in big numbers in the said medium.
Amazing gift
“Such an amazing Christmas gift,” Mariah wrote on Instagram.
The song also reached No. 1 in Spotify’s Global Top 50 chart and iTunes’ Worldwide Chart.
“Thank you so much! I really don’t take this for granted,” she added. “It makes me so happy to know that so many of you all over the world are listening to this song. I wrote ‘All I Want’ for everyone in the world to have the merriest Christmases, always!”—ALLAN POLICARPIO