Streaming record on Christmas Eve: Mariah Carey leads the Christmas ranking!

Streaming record on Christmas Eve: Mariah Carey leads the Christmas ranking!

Baden-Baden, Deutschland - On Christmas Eve 2024, a new record was set up in music streaming in Germany. In total, the users reached 927 million music streams, which is almost 100 million streams more than in the previous year, when 830 million streams were counted. For comparison: in 2022 the streams were 802 million.

The most streamed song on this special day was “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey, who achieved impressive 6.57 million streams. In the previous year, the song had booked 6.09 million streams. In the second place of the charts is “Last Christmas” by Wham !, that generated 6.54 million streams this year, after 5.74 million streams in 2023. Both titles were able to achieve best brands this year.

music streaming in the upswing

The massive increase in music streams on Christmas Eve underlines the growing trend of digital music streaming in Germany. Like Radio Hochstift and Augsburger Allgemeine have reported both Mariah Carey and Wham! The top positions for the most streams of songs on this holiday. The trends of recent years show a clear preference for listeners for festive music, especially on special holidays such as Christmas.