Monday 29 November 2004

All I Want For Christmas resurges in popularity

Every year around this time, Mariah's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" resurges in popularity due to the Holiday season. When it was first released ten years ago, it became an instant classic and today remains one of the most celebrated contemporary seasonal tunes ever.

Even though December hasn't began yet, the song already has about 16 million audience impressions from the thousands of spins it has been receiving on radio stations across the nation. Any track with this amount of airplay would usually merit a spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, but Billboard created a rule in 2000 (after "All I Want For Christmas Is You" entered the chart at #83) stating that Christmas songs are only current during the first year of release and are unable to re-enter the chart in their original format.

Still, the tune lives on. Sandy from the former German girl-group No Angels recently performed the song live on German channel VIVA's Christmas show, and rock band Chemical Romance also remade the song for radio station KROQ's "Christmastime in the 909" CD, which is available at Best Buy stores in the Los Angeles area.

Meanwhile, Mariah's original version is currently #2 on Launchcast's Pop Holiday Station, and was named the #1 best holiday song of all-time at tophitsonline.com.

(Mariah Daily)



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