Mariah Carey's Christmas hit will be 30: facts that you surprise!

Mariah Carey's Christmas hit will be 30: facts that you surprise!

There is no escape in the festive season: Mariah Carey's hit "All I Want for Christmas is You" celebrates its 30th anniversary! The song, which was released in 1994, has developed into an indispensable Christmas classic and is played everywhere during Advent - from Christmas markets to department stores. Every year the "Queen of Christmas" announces personally on its social media that the time has come to hear the catchy tune again. And that's not all: in 2024 Carey will start a Christmas tour that begins after the elections on November 6th and includes many big cities like Los Angeles, Dallas and New York.

curiosities around the hit

Did you know that Carey recorded the song in the middle of the summer? To create the right mood, the studio was decorated with fir green and fairy lights! The song itself has already spent 17 weeks in Germany in Germany and could break the record of Udo Lindenberg's “Komet” in 2024 if it stays at the top for four weeks. In the United States, the song only reached first in 2019, 25 years after its publication, the Billboard Charts-as the first Christmas song for 61 years.

"All I Want for Christmas is You" not only established itself as the most popular Christmas carol for the younger ones, but has also overtaken the competition of "Last Christmas". As part of the 30th anniversary, there is now even a deluxe album and numerous merchandising articles, including a limited Mariah Carey Christmas barbie, which is available for 115 euros. Carey himself has published various versions of the song in recent years, but many fans swear by the original from 1994!

The story behind the hit is not only musical, but also personally. Carey wrote the song together with Walter Afanasieff, and although there are rumors that the text was created in just 15 minutes, it was actually a longer process. Your favorite line? "I Won’t Even Wish for Snow" - although she loves snow, she often spends the winter in Aspen, Colorado to escape the California climate.