Blast from the past # 6 (All I want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey)
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When Disney invited Mariah Carey in 2004 to be the Star of their "Annual Christmas Parade" they couldn't have made a better choice in my opinion. Mariah was given the chance to perform one of her biggest hits which she wrote herself instead of singing some of Disney's Classics... "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a song written and produced by the American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, and recorded for Carey's fifth album Merry Christmas (1994). Its protagonist declares that she doesn't care about Christmas presents or lights; all she wants for Christmas is to be with her lover. It is unrelated to the 1989 Christmas hit single by novelty act Vince Vance and the Valiants. It was released as the album's first single in December 1994 (see 1994 in music) and reached the top ten in several non-U.S. countries, and it is one of the most commercially successful Christmas singles of the modern era. According to The New Yorker, it is "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon". Because the song has achieved such success and acclaim in a relatively short time period, many are unaware that it is an original song written by Carey. It has been covered by singers such as Shania Twain and Samantha Mumba, and bands such as My Chemical Romance. It was performed by Olivia Olson in the film Love Actually (2003). By late 2006, it had become the best-selling holiday ring tone of all time in the U.S. Because of Billboard magazine rules at the time, the song did not chart on the U.S. Hot 100 during its original release because a commercial single was not issued. It was popular on U.S. radio and peaked within the top twenty on the Hot 100 Airplay chart, and was also a big hit elsewhere. It reached number two in the United Kingdom for three weeks and has been certified for selling over 400,000 copies there, losing out to East 17's "Stay Another Day" for that year's Christmas number-one single. The single also peaked at number two in Australia and Japan, where it was used as the theme song to the drama 29-sai no Christmas (29才のクリスマス), and was titled "Koibito-tachi no Christmas" (恋人たちのクリスマス; "The Christmas of my loved-ones"). It sold 1.3 million units in Japan, and remains her best-selling single there. In 2000 the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number eighty-three for one week. This was because after 1999, singles were capable of charting on the Hot 100 without a commercial release and the song had received enough radio airplay to appear on the chart. Billboard magazine has since added restrictions to Christmas songs, but with the growth of all-holiday-music formats in the U.S., the song is played on the radio at the end of every year. Although the song is ineligible for the Hot 100, it peaked high on the Hot Digital Tracks chart during the 2003 and 2004 Christmas seasons. In 2005 it rapidly ascended to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Recurrent chart (for songs no longer eligible for the Hot 100), giving it a new peak. During the same period it became Carey's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart, on which it reappeared in 2006. In December 2006 "All I Want for Christmas Is You" became the first holiday ring tone to receive a gold certification from the RIAA for sales of over 500,000.
Here's a link to that fantastic Mariah Carey performance at Disney World, Florida, December 2004.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLzXU7XJEw&search=Mariah%20Carey%20all%20II%20want%20for%20christmas%20Live%20at%20Disney%20World
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When Disney invited Mariah Carey in 2004 to be the Star of their "Annual Christmas Parade" they couldn't have made a better choice in my opinion. Mariah was given the chance to perform one of her biggest hits which she wrote herself instead of singing some of Disney's Classics... "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a song written and produced by the American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, and recorded for Carey's fifth album Merry Christmas (1994). Its protagonist declares that she doesn't care about Christmas presents or lights; all she wants for Christmas is to be with her lover. It is unrelated to the 1989 Christmas hit single by novelty act Vince Vance and the Valiants. It was released as the album's first single in December 1994 (see 1994 in music) and reached the top ten in several non-U.S. countries, and it is one of the most commercially successful Christmas singles of the modern era. According to The New Yorker, it is "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon". Because the song has achieved such success and acclaim in a relatively short time period, many are unaware that it is an original song written by Carey. It has been covered by singers such as Shania Twain and Samantha Mumba, and bands such as My Chemical Romance. It was performed by Olivia Olson in the film Love Actually (2003). By late 2006, it had become the best-selling holiday ring tone of all time in the U.S. Because of Billboard magazine rules at the time, the song did not chart on the U.S. Hot 100 during its original release because a commercial single was not issued. It was popular on U.S. radio and peaked within the top twenty on the Hot 100 Airplay chart, and was also a big hit elsewhere. It reached number two in the United Kingdom for three weeks and has been certified for selling over 400,000 copies there, losing out to East 17's "Stay Another Day" for that year's Christmas number-one single. The single also peaked at number two in Australia and Japan, where it was used as the theme song to the drama 29-sai no Christmas (29才のクリスマス), and was titled "Koibito-tachi no Christmas" (恋人たちのクリスマス; "The Christmas of my loved-ones"). It sold 1.3 million units in Japan, and remains her best-selling single there. In 2000 the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number eighty-three for one week. This was because after 1999, singles were capable of charting on the Hot 100 without a commercial release and the song had received enough radio airplay to appear on the chart. Billboard magazine has since added restrictions to Christmas songs, but with the growth of all-holiday-music formats in the U.S., the song is played on the radio at the end of every year. Although the song is ineligible for the Hot 100, it peaked high on the Hot Digital Tracks chart during the 2003 and 2004 Christmas seasons. In 2005 it rapidly ascended to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Recurrent chart (for songs no longer eligible for the Hot 100), giving it a new peak. During the same period it became Carey's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart, on which it reappeared in 2006. In December 2006 "All I Want for Christmas Is You" became the first holiday ring tone to receive a gold certification from the RIAA for sales of over 500,000.
Here's a link to that fantastic Mariah Carey performance at Disney World, Florida, December 2004.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLzXU7XJEw&search=Mariah%20Carey%20all%20II%20want%20for%20christmas%20Live%20at%20Disney%20World
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posted by Patrick at Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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