Does it matter if you like the song? (Full disclosure: I don’t.) No! It is the omnipresent anthem of holiday happiness. 1 hit-putting her above Elvis and one away from tying the Beatles. Who cares how long it took? It’s her 19th No. 1 on “The Hot 100” chart, after a record-breaking (for its slowness) 25-year journey. It’s stayed relevant, thanks to fans, of course a cover on the 2003 Love Actually soundtrack an album reissue an annual “All I Want for Christmas Is You” holiday-concert series that sold out a show at Madison Square Garden last year an animated film an Amazon Music mini-doc about the undying meaning of the song and streams on streams on streams. Frank Sinatra might have made the holiday classically jolly, Sufjan Stevens might have made it indie whiny, and Ariana Grande might have made it horny, but no artist has come to define our commercially driven holiday fantasies more than Carey has with “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Since the song dropped on her 1994 holiday album, it’s made an estimated $60 million-plus in royalties.
(Did you have an actual reindeer at your holiday festivities last year? Did you hang out with Santa? Didn’t think so.) Christmas is also a cornerstone of the Carey complex. She loves it like no one has ever loved Christmas before. She loves it with a fanatic’s strict adherence to the laws of Christmas joy.
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