Darlene Love’s last holiday shows of year sell out

• This year, Darlene Love is anything but “All Alone on Christmas.”
• She is indeed surrounded by admirers, in part because of Mariah Carey!
• Darlene Love’s last holiday shows of year sell out

Darlene Love and fellow prominent holiday singer Elizabeth Chan opposed Carey’s bid to trademark the moniker “Queen of Christmas” months prior, but the “All I Want for Christmas Is You” hitmaker applauded Love in an Instagram video posted earlier this month.

For her classic 1994 Merry Christmas album, one of the best-selling holiday music collections of all time, Carey, 52, reflected on recording a cover of Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

Carey exclaimed, “I listened to that song every year — like, every year — and it was a tribute to Darlene Love, the beloved Christmas Queen. “We are driven by her. She can keep that title indefinitely. Let’s say we adore the music.”

The remaining dates of the 81-year-old performer’s holiday concert tour have all been totally sold out after Carey dubbed Love the “Queen of Christmas,” her rep Len Evans confirmed to PEOPLE. (TMZ broke the news first.)

The two singers haven’t spoken to one another in person since the “Queen of Christmas” controversy earlier this year, but Love appreciated Carey’s sweet comments, the spokesperson.

Love is well-known for holiday songs including “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” “All Alone on Christmas,” and her interpretations of “A Marshmallow World” and “Winter Wonderland,” which are all from the 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

According to CBS News, Carey submitted an application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in March 2021 in an effort to formally advertise herself as the only “Queen of Christmas.”

Chan, who asserts she too has connections to the “Queen of Christmas” appellation, had her lawyers submit a formal declaration of opposition against Carey’s trademark claim when the proposal became known in July 2022.

Love posted on Facebook the next month, “Does Mariah Carey really own the trademark for “Queen of Christmas”? Why am I not allowed to use that title, exactly?”

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She said, “I was crowned the Queen of Christmas by David Letterman 29 years ago, one year before she published ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You,’ and at 81, I’m NOT changing a thing. “I have earned it after 52 years in the business and can still reach those notes. Call David or my attorney if Mariah has a problem!”

On November 15, Chan revealed that Carey’s attempts to trademark “Princess Christmas,” “QOC,” and the title itself had been rejected by the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

In a press release at the time, Chan, who has put out a holiday album every year since 2011, said, “Christmas is a season of giving, not the season of taking. It is unacceptable for an individual to attempt to possess and monopolise a nickname like Queen of Christmas for the reasons of abject materialism.”

She stated, “My life’s job is to bring people together for the holiday season as an independent artist and small business owner, which is how I came to be called the Queen of Christmas. I wear that designation as a badge of honour while also being well aware that it will eventually be given to others, as it should.

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