December 6, 2022
The undisputed queen of Christmas Mariah Carey is December’s Artist Spotlight. Here are a few Christmas-related facts about Mariah that you might not know…
– Mariah’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ broke Spotify’s single-day record on Christmas Day in 2018 with 10.82 million plays in 24 hours and in 2019 with more than 12 million streams.
– The song reached Number 1 on the Official UK Chart for the first time 26 years after its release.
– Mariah’s ‘Oh Santa’ featuring Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson is a 2020 re-record of her 2010 track for the soundtrack of her Magical Christmas Special, a holiday spectacular on Apple TV+.
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