Mariah Carey, "All I Want for Christmas Is You": the covers

Mariah Carey, “All I Want for Christmas Is You”: the covers

ByJohn

With over 16 million copies sold “All I Want for Christmas Is You” Of Mariah Carey it is not only one of the best-known Christmas songs in the world, but it is also in the Top Ten best-selling singles in the history of music.

The song, written by Walter Afanasieff and from the same Mariah Carey arrived in record stores on October 29, 1994 and was part of the singer’s fourth album “Merry Christmas”. In the USA at the time it was not officially released as a single and therefore did not enter the Billboard Hot 100. It reached the top of the American chart only in December 2019. Since then in the United States it has entered the chart every year and in 2022 it reached the number one position for the third time, the first song in the history of the stars and stripes chart to reach the top in three different years.

But “All I Want for Christmas Is You” it also entered the Guinness Book of Records as the female song that had the most streams in a single day (over 10 million in December 2018) and as the Christmas single that spent the most weeks in the UK Top 10. Not bad for a song that, according to legend, was composed in a quarter of an hour and which is estimated to have earned its authors over 60 million dollars in royalties. In the famous video of the song (which to date has over 780 million views) Santa Claus is played by Tommy Mottolathe singer’s husband at the time and CEO of Sony Music.

Maurilio Giordana (blog owner “MyWay”)

In 2011 Mariah Carey released a new version of the song with Canadian singer Justin Bieber.

Jamie Cullum, jazz version for Christmas 2018

Cee Lo Green, R’nB version for Christmas 2012.

My Chemical Romance, punk version for Christmas 2004

Michael Buble. The “king” of Christmas sang the Mariah Carey song again in 2011.

Giuliano Palma, rocksteady version for Christmas 2017.

Cristina D’Avena published it at Christmas 2009 on the album “Magie di Natale”.

Lady Antebellum, ballad version for Christmas 2010.

Puppini Sisters, swing version released by the female trio in 2010.

Mumford & Sons and Kylie Minogu, live version for Christmas 2015.

Postmodern Jukebox, the musical collective led by Scott Bradlee, specialized in retro reinterpretations of contemporary hits, has rearranged Mariah Carey’s classic for Christmas 2025.

In 2016 Elio e le Storie Tese with Luca Mangoni included their irreverent version in the album “All the beautiful Christmas songs”.

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