Mariah Carey‘s “All I Need For Christmas Is You” has earned the diva the title of “Queen of Christmas,” and the tune continues to be breaking data.
In accordance with TMZ, the tune was streamed a whopping 23,701,697 occasions on Sunday (December 24). This quantity smashes the earlier file for a similar tune, which was streamed 21,273,357 occasions on the identical day the earlier yr. Earlier than that, the file was held by Adele’s “Straightforward On Me,” which Spotify customers performed 19,749,704 on its launch date, October 15, 2021.
“All I Need For Christmas Is You” beforehand claimed the file for many every day Spotify streams on Christmas eve in 2017 with 10.8 million performs, in 2018 with 10.82 million, and once more in 2019 with a little bit over 12 million streams.
For the reason that streaming platform launched in 2008, “All I Need For Christmas Is You” has been streamed over 1.4 billion occasions.
That is simply the newest accolade earned by Mariah Carey for her authentic Christmas tune, which was first launched on October 29, 1994.
The Recording Trade Affiliation of America (RIAA) awarded the diva 4 new certifications as of December 8. In accordance with the commerce affiliation, Carey’s “All I Need For Christmas Is You” has gone 14x platinum, whereas “O Holy Evening” has gone platinum after beforehand going gold.
Carey’s Christmas album has additionally gone 9 occasions platinum, whereas “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Gloria (In Excelsius Deo)” has gone platinum after beforehand going gold.
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In a 2019 article, CNN reported the tune had earned over $2million in royalties on Spotify alone. The identical yr, the then 25-year-old tune topped the Billboard Sizzling 100 singles chart for the primary time. Two years later, the tune was believed to have earned between $3,249,600 and $4,332,800 simply on Spotify streams.
“Mariah can sit on her ass for the remainder of her life and ONLY promote AIWFC and nonetheless be a millionaire,” a supply informed TMZ final yr. The above numbers additionally don’t consider different streams similar to on Apple Music.
The tune’s twenty fifth anniversary additionally earned Mariah Carey three Guinness World Information: highest-charting vacation (Christmas/New Yr) tune on the Sizzling 100 by a solo artist, essentially the most streamed observe on Spotify in 24 hours, and essentially the most weeks within the UK singles Prime 10 chart for a Christmas tune.
