Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You sets streaming record

• All I Want for Christmas has been played more than any other song on Spotify in a single day.
• She was streamed a whopping 21.273 million times.
• Mariah’s former collaborator told the ‘Hot Takes and Deep Dives’ podcast.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey has been played more than any other song on Spotify in a single day.

The 1994 hit by The Queen of Christmas was streamed a whopping 21.273 million times in just 24 hours.

Adele’s “Easy on Me,” which had 19.747 million streams in one day in 2021, was the previous record holder.

Mariah was accused of making up a “tall tale” when she said she wrote “All I Want for Christmas” when she was a child. The news that she broke a record comes after that.

Walter Afanasieff, the 64-year-old co-writer and producer of the holiday hit, didn’t believe the singer when she said she wrote the song as a child on her Casio keyboard.

Mariah’s former collaborator told the ‘Hot Takes and Deep Dives’ podcast: “We were both on the same page about how we wrote ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’, there was never any alternate story until probably 10 years ago.

“When she started to hint at the fact that, ‘Oh, I wrote that song when I was a little girl!’ But why weren’t you saying that for 12 or 13 or 15 years prior to that? So it just sort of developed in her mind.

“She doesn’t play anything, she doesn’t play keyboard or piano. She doesn’t understand music, she doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that.

“She doesn’t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a major seventh chord.

“So to claim that she wrote a very complicated chord-structured song with her finger on a Casio keyboard when she was a little girl, it’s kind of a tall tale.”

Walter, who won the Record of the Year Grammy in 1999 for producing Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” said that he and Mariah, then 53, came up with the 1994 song while working on three original songs for her upcoming “Merry Christmas” album.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” is credited to both of them. Walter did say that Mariah did most of the melodies and lyrics, while he did most of the music and chords.

Mariah told Billboard in 2017 about the song’s creation: “I am proud of this song that I wrote basically as a kid on my little Casio keyboard.”

Then in 2019 she told Cosmopolitan magazine: “I just sat down, decorated a little tree and put on ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ and tried to get into that mood.

“Then I sat in this small room with a keyboard and started doing little melodies and stuff. I was going over all the things I think about at Christmas time that make me happy and how to turn it around and make it into a love song.”

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