As soon as Halloween ends Mariah Carey makes it clear that her moment has begun. For many it is premature, but it is beginning to show in searches, and the charts are beginning to include the hit of the season: All I Want For Christmas is You. A song that was released in 1994 and 27 years later is still the main soundtrack for millions of homes around the world. So much so, that the singer continues to this day accumulating records and figures that very few other songs have achieved. As announced this Friday, it was the first seasonal-themed song to receive diamond certification in the United States.
– Mariah Carey, the diva who reinvents Christmas every year
In the United States for a song to become certified diamond it has to have exceeded at least 10 million sales, an amount that has changed in value only a few years ago because the reproductions have been added in streaming. But Mariah’s success is like no other, because it took her 10 years to get her first mention, gold, and 9 years later she doubled the figure, reaching platinum. Since then has multiplied the figures by nine, as published Forbes, and has become the single most popular singer, with a lot of difference. To get an idea of the quantities we talked about with real examples, in May Bruno Mars became the first singer to achieve a total of five diamond certifications in the United States for his songs That’s what I like, When i was your man, Just the way you Are, Grenade and Uptown funk.
But what do these buoyant numbers really mean? In Spain we are the seventh country with the most searches for this song And, we also help the figure (and Mariah Carey’s heritage) grow year after year. According The Economist, until 2019 the singer would have pocketed about 60 million dollars (about 53 million euros), an amount that currently rwould wave 2.2 million euros per year, only for the rights and reproductions on various platforms during this month of loop listening. Of course, this figure does not include the cache that he charges for his appearances, concerts, and other acts and events that he attends as part of the almost inevitable promotion of All I Want for Christmas.
Among those events is the Christmas special that premieres this Friday on Apple TV +, The magic continues with Mariah Carey, where he will perform his new singles for the first and only time, Fall in love at Christmas, and will have different guests among which are the artist Khalid, 23 years old and author of songs such as Young, Dumb & Broke. It is the second consecutive year that Mariah is part of this event, since last year she was invited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the theme that It is already part of the Christmas identity. Perhaps the best is yet to come for her, because each season adds new figures: if this time it is the platinum certificate and last time the anniversary, in 2019 she was proud to have achieved three Guinness records: the holiday song (Christmas / New Year ) higher on the US Hot 100 list. The most streamed song on Spotify in 24 hours by a female soloist and most weeks on the UK’s top 10 singles chart for a Christmas song, titles which of course it still holds.
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Mariah Carey, the queen of Christmas and records, surpasses herself again