It’s been over two decades since Mariah Carey dropped her hit single “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” and she’s still making the headlines thanks to this song. Her timeless holiday anthem set a new record at Spotify after generating over 10 million streams in a single day!
The festive tune is the biggest single-day streaming hit on the service, thanks to a total of 10.8 million people re-playing it on Christmas Eve. It broke the record previously held by XXXTentacion, who received over 10.4 million streams with his song “SAD!”
Mariah Carey generally isn’t known as a humble person, but this enormous success took her by surprise. She reacted by writing, “Wait… What?!” after reading she’s a holder of a new Spotify record, but this wasn’t the first time “All I Want for Christmas Is You” made an epic comeback just in time for holidays.
This festive track continues to surge in popularity each holiday season, and it even made it to top 10 at Billboard’s chart this year. It’s often been hailed as the best modern Christmas song and is currently the 11th best-selling single of all time.
