There are few of the year that ring. And Christmas, if written on a staff, will be with the notes of All I Want for Christmas Is You. It’s been years since the classic snapshot of Mariah Carey It became an emblem of Easter, a Christmas anthem, a December melody although it starts playing earlier every year. It seems unthinkable that this song lacks achievements to achieve and records to break, but the truth is that it does. In fact, this year he has achieved something unprecedented.
It is not unusual for the queen of Christmas carols to be positioned as number one on all music lists. Spotify. It’s normal at this point in the year. However, it could be said that this year has been especially fruitful for the musical legend of this song: It has become the most listened to throughout a single calendar day on the music platform. To achieve this milestone, as can be seen in Spotify itself, in 24 hours it has harvested a whopping 23,700,000 reproductions.
Its indicators on the aforementioned platform are absolutely exorbitant during the last moments of the year, which will end with an average of 75 million monthly listeners. Although the song in question saw the light back in 1994, and completed, along with other Christmas carols, the well-known album Merry Chritmasthe success of this seems to escalate backwards. Wine improves with time and All I Want for Christmas Is You breaks any ceiling set by oenology.
The start of the explosion
He boom of the song, which from the beginning enjoyed brilliant success, occurred with the premiere of Love actually. Era 2003, It had been almost a decade since its release and a large part of the population already knew it. But something was different this time: the world connected with the melody and Christmas seemed to embrace Carey’s theme as its main soundtrack.
Beyond the Christmas magic there is an economic and pure business part. This to Forbes was in charge of collecting the calculations from some newspapers that had estimated, in approximate terms, the income that the New York artist received annually for, only, All I Want for Christmas Is You: The Economist marked them at 25 million dollars, while The New York Post raised the figure to 3 million. The same portal, compiling everything, concluded that since 1994 it had obtained around 60 million euros for the issue; which means 20 every 10 years or, which is the same, 10 every 5. Who knows if the last record broken raises the average.
