"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a Christmas song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. She co-wrote and co-produced it with Walter Afanasieff for her fourth studio album and first holiday album, "Merry Christmas" (1994). Columbia Records released it as the lead single from the album on October 28, 1994. The track is an uptempo love song that includes bell chimes, heavy back-up vocals, and synthesizers. Upon release, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has been critically acclaimed, with "The New Yorker" calling it "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon." The song remains Carey's biggest international success, reaching number one in numerous countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States.
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All I Want for Christmas Is You | Introduction
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"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a 1994 song by Mariah Carey. All I Want for Christmas Is You may also refer to:
All I Want for Christmas Is You (disambiguation) | Introduction
In the United States, in the first week of January 1995, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" peaked at No. 6 on the "Billboard" Hot Adult Contemporary and at No. 12 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. The song placed on these two charts again in December 1995 and in December 1996. The song was ineligible for inclusion on the "Billboard" Hot 100 during its original release, because it was not released commercially as a single. This rule lapsed in 1998, however, allowing the song to chart on the "Billboard" Hot 100 (peaking at No. 83 in January 2000).
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Chart performance
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a mid-tempo in triple meter, featuring lead vocals from Lisa Burgess Stewart, who now records under the name Lisa Layne. In it, the singer explains that she does not want Christmas decorations or gifts from Santa Claus. Instead, all she wants for Christmas is her lover. The melody used in the song is based on Bobby Vinton's number 9 pop hit single from early 1964, "My Heart Belongs to Only You," with a few minor alterations.
All I Want for Christmas Is You (Vince Vance &amp; The Valiants song) | Content
Sammy Kershaw covered the song on his 1994 album "Christmas Time's A-Comin". Santa's Doo Wop Helpers (Joel Katz, Johnny Maestro, Bobby Jay and Larry Chance) recorded the song in 1996 for various compilation Christmas CDs. LeAnn Rimes covered the song for her 2004 Christmas album "What a Wonderful World".
All I Want for Christmas Is You (Vince Vance &amp; The Valiants song) | Other versions
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a Christmas song recorded by American novelty act Vince Vance & the Valiants. Initially released as a single in 1989, Vince Vance's version of the song has charted several times on the "Billboard" country singles charts. It is Vince Vance & the Valiants' only chart entry.
All I Want for Christmas Is You (Vince Vance &amp; The Valiants song) | Introduction
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a Christmas song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. She co-wrote and co-produced it with Walter Afanasieff for her fourth studio album and first holiday album, "Merry Christmas" (1994). Columbia Records released it as the lead single from the album on October 28, 1994. The track is an uptempo love song that includes bell chimes, heavy back-up vocals, and synthesizers. Upon release, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has been critically acclaimed, with "The New Yorker" calling it "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon." The song remains Carey's biggest international success, reaching number one in numerous countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Introduction
"All I Want (For Christmas)" is a song by British singer Liam Payne. It was released as a single on 25 October 2019 by Capitol Records and appears as a bonus track on Payne's debut studio album "LP1".
All I Want (For Christmas) | Introduction
Jones' recording, "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth", with a piping vocal by George Rock, was a number-one hit in 1948. (Dora Bryan recorded a 1963 variation, "All I Want For Christmas is a Beatle".)
Spike Jones | "All I Want for Christmas"
The song first charted in early 1994 based on airplay from the 1993 Christmas season, peaking at #55 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts on the chart week of January 8, 1994. It re-entered in December 1994, reaching a new peak of #52 on the chart week of January 7, 1995. The song re-entered the country charts again every January afterward, each time peaking higher than the last (confusion with the Mariah Carey hit song of the same name, released in 1994, may have accounted for increased exposure); it did not appear in the 1998-99 holiday season but again charted for the final time in January 2000, reaching its peak on that chart of 31.
All I Want for Christmas Is You (Vince Vance &amp; The Valiants song) | Chart performance
All I Want For Christmas Is You (also known as Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You) is a 2017 direct-to-video computer-animated Christmas film based on the song by Mariah Carey and the book by Carey herself and Colleen Madden. The film stars the voices of Mariah Carey, Breanna Yde, and Henry Winkler.
All I Want for Christmas Is You (film) | Introduction
All I Want for Christmas is a 1991 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Lieberman, and starring Harley Jane Kozak, Lauren Bacall, Thora Birch, Ethan Randall, and Leslie Nielsen. The score was composed by Bruce Broughton, including a theme-setting song by Stephen Bishop.
All I Want for Christmas (film) | Introduction
1 on the Holiday 100 since the chart's launch in 2011. It returned to its No. 3 Hot 100 peak on the chart dated December 14, 2019. On the chart dated December 21, 2019, "All I Want For Christmas Is You" topped the Hot 100 in the United States with 45.6 million streams and 27,000 digital sales sold. It reached the top spot after 35 cumulative weeks on the chart, making it the slowest climb to the top spot in the chart's history, surpassing "Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix)" by Los del Río which reached number one in August 1996 after 33 weeks on the chart.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Chart performance
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" has charted every holiday season since its original release. In December 2017, the song reached number nine on the "Billboard" Hot 100, making it the first holiday song to enter Hot 100's top ten since Kenny G's cover of "Auld Lang Syne" in January 2000. It became Carey's 28th top ten single in the Hot 100. In December 2018, the song became the second holiday song in the 60-year history of the Hot 100 to reach the top five when it reached number three, with only The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) by David Seville and The Chipmunks having a higher rank (peaking at number one for four weeks in 1958–1959).
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Legacy
"All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day" is a song by British synthpop duo Hurts. In the first week of its release, the song was made as a free download on iTunes in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and was "Single of the Week". The single charted at number 67 in Austria.
All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day | Introduction
"All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" is a novelty Christmas song written in 1944 by Donald Yetter Gardner while teaching music at public schools in Smithtown, New York. He asked his second grade class what they wanted for Christmas, and noticed that almost all of the students had at least one front tooth missing as they answered in a lisp. Gardner wrote the song in 30 minutes. In a 1995 interview, Gardner said, "I was amazed at the way that silly little song was picked up by the whole country." The song was published in 1948 after an employee of Witmark music company heard Gardner sing it at a music teachers conference.
All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth | Introduction
The song topped the "Billboard" Hot Digital Songs chart in December 2005, but it was unable to attain a new peak on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart because it was considered a recurrent single and was thus ineligible for chart re-entry. Every December from 2005 to 2008, the song topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 Re-currents chart. In 2012, after the recurrent rule was revised to allow all songs in the top 50 onto the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, the single re-entered the chart at No. 29 and peaked at No. 21 for the week ending January 5, 2013. In December 2017, the song reached No.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Chart performance
All I Really Want for Christmas is the third Christmas album by Steven Curtis Chapman, released on September 27, 2005. The album includes traditional holiday favorites such as "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Silver Bells", as well as some of Chapman's own Christmas songs, some of which had appeared on his previous Christmas albums. Chapman's adopted daughter, Shaohannah, appears with her father on the album cover. On the first track, she reads the passage of the Nativity of Jesus (Luke 2:7-14) with the music of "The Night Before Christmas" (track 13) in the background.
All I Really Want for Christmas | Introduction
Although released in 1994, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was the last number-one single of the 2010s decade, as well as the first number-one of the 2020s decade, spending a third week atop the Hot 100 chart dated January 4, 2020, and in doing so, Carey became the first artist in history to rule the chart in four separate decades: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s & 2020s chart. With the end of the holiday season, the song broke yet another record the following week by becoming the first song to fall completely off the chart from No. 1.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Chart performance
There are four music videos for "All I Want for Christmas Is You". The first, primary video was shot in the style of a home movie using Super-8mm film; it was directed and filmed by Carey during the Christmas season of 1993. The video begins with Carey placing holiday ornaments on a Christmas tree and frolicking through the snowy mountainside. Outdoor scenes were shot at the Fairy Tale Forest in New Jersey, where Carey's then-husband Tommy Mottola made a cameo appearance as Santa Claus. It continues with scenes of Carey getting ready for her album cover photo shoot and spending time with her dog Jack.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Music videos
Although it never charted on the country charts again, it peaked at #23 on the Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay chart in 2002 (despite having never entered or bubbled under the "Billboard" Hot 100 or Hot 100 Airplay charts), and has re-appeared on the Hot Country Recurrents chart every Christmas since late 2000-early 2001.
All I Want for Christmas Is You (Vince Vance &amp; The Valiants song) | Chart performance
The song incorporates various instruments, including piano, drums, violin, oboe, flute, bell chimes, bass effect, and cowbells. The song layers background vocals throughout the chorus and sections of the bridge.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Composition and lyrics
We would write the nucleus of the song, the melody primary music, and then some of the words were there as we finished writing it. I started playing some rock 'n' roll piano and started boogie woogie-ing my left hand, and that inspired Mariah to come up with the melodic [Sings.] 'I don't want a lot for Christmas.' And then we started singing and playing around with this rock 'n' roll boogie song, which immediately came out to be the nucleus of what would end up being 'All I Want For Christmas Is You.' That one went very quickly: It was an easier song to write than some of the other ones.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Background and writing
In his review of the album "All I Want for Christmas Is You", Allmusic reviewer Jason Birchmeier referred to the song as a "holiday favorite within the country community during the '90s" but noted that the rest of the album was not "remotely worth bothering with." Having received frequent rotation on country radio and adult contemporary radio during the Christmas season since its 1993 re-release, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is also the most-played country music Christmas song. The song was also made into a music video directed by Steve Dunning.
All I Want for Christmas Is You (Vince Vance &amp; The Valiants song) | Reception
The show is entitled All I Want For Christmas Is You, A Night of Joy & Festivity. During "The Late Late Show" with James Corden on December 15, 2016, Mariah Carey sang this song on the popular feature Carpool Karaoke. Fellow singers Adele, Lady Gaga, Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, Elton John, Selena Gomez, Gwen Stefani, Chris Martin and the band Red Hot Chili Peppers were featured in the video. It quickly went viral, achieving over 2 million views in less than 24 hours, and 25 million views in less than three weeks. In December 2019, Carey returned to "The Late Late Show" to perform the song for its 25th anniversary.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Live performances
"All I Want for Christmas Is You", the album's debut single, was released on October 28, 1994. It was written by Carey and Afanasieff, and was sent to top-forty and adult contemporary stations, with the video having been filmed the year before. Another track they wrote, "Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)", was sent to R&B stations in November 1994 as the album's second single. "Jesus Born on This Day", another original song, was sent to Christian and gospel radio stations in 1994 as the first promotional single.
Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album) | Singles
9 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, giving Carey her 28th top 10 in the country and first since "Obsessed" in 2009. "All I Want For Christmas Is You" subsequently rose to No. 3 on the chart dated January 5, 2019, becoming the second holiday track to reach its top 5 after "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" by David Seville and the Chipmunks peaked at No. 1 in 1958. As of January 4, 2020, it has topped the "Billboard" Holiday 100 chart for a record-extending 40 cumulative weeks. No other song has spent more than two weeks at No.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Chart performance
The song was introduced in 1948 by singing group The Satisfiers on Perry Como's radio show, and originally recorded by Spike Jones & His City Slickers on December 6, 1947, with lead vocal by George Rock. That version (released by RCA Victor) reached the top of the pop charts in 1948, and again in 1949. The song has also been recorded by numerous other singers and performers, including Ray Stevens, George Strait, Danny Kaye with The Andrews Sisters, Urbie Green, The Platters, Dread Zeppelin, The Kelly Family, Nat King Cole (reportedly Gardner's favorite version), The Chipmunks, the Hampton String Quartet, The Three Stooges and Count von Count of "Sesame Street." In the versions by Spike, The Chipmunks (Theodore on lead vocals), and Ray Stevens, the song ends with the performer shouting the words "Happy New Year!!!"
All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth | Introduction
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is an uptempo song, composed with pop, soul, R&B, gospel, dance-pop and adult contemporary influences and stylings. By early August, Carey already had two original songs written alongside Afanasieff: the "sad and ballad-y" "Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)" and the "Gospel-tinged and religious" "Jesus Born on This Day". The third and final original song the pair planned to write was to be centered and inspired and in the vein of a "Phil Spector, old rock 'n roll, sixties-sounding Christmas song". The song begins with a "sparking" bit of percussion "that resembles an antique music box or a whimsical snow globe." After Carey's a cappella style vocal introduction, the song introduces other seasonal percussive signifiers including; celebratory church-like bells, cheerful sleigh bells, and "an underlying rhythmic beat that sounds like the loping pace of a horse or reindeer.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Composition and lyrics
All I Want for Christmas Is You (SuperFestive!) is a duet between Carey and Canadian singer Justin Bieber. The song was recorded on his holiday album, "Under the Mistletoe", and released as a radio airplay only single in Italy on December 9, 2011, as the second single from the album. The music video for the duet featuring Bieber was filmed in Macy's department store in New York City, and features Bieber shopping with his friends whilst Carey is seen singing in the background. In December 2019, Carey released a new music video for the track to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the song.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber version
MTV's Kyle Anderson wrote that "it's difficult to improve perfection," but that the remix "does dress up the song in a disco thump that should make your office Christmas party 28 percent funkier than it was last year." Idolator's Becky Bain praised the song's catchiness. In 2010, Carey re-recorded the song for her thirteenth studio and second holiday album, "Merry Christmas II You". Titled "All I Want for Christmas Is You (Extra Festive)", the new version featured re-recorded vocals, softer bell ringing and stronger drumming, and an orchestral introduction that replaced the slow vocal introduction. Steven J. Horowitz from "Rap-Up" wrote that the new version "sound[ed] just as enjoyable as it did in 1994." While the song was praised, it drew criticism for being too similar to the original.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Remixes
While reviewing the 2009 remix version, Becky Bain from Idolator called the song a "timeless classic" and wrote, "We love the original song to pieces—we blast it while decorating our Christmas tree and lighting our Menorah." Shona Craven of Scotland's "The Herald", said, "[it's] a song of optimism and joy that maybe, just maybe, hints at the real meaning of Christmas." Additionally, she felt the main reason it was so successful is the subject "you" in the lyrics, explaining, "Perhaps what makes the song such a huge hit is the fact that it's for absolutely everyone." Craven opened her review with a bold statement: "Bing Crosby may well be turning in his grave, but no child of the 1980s will be surprised to see Mariah Carey's sublime All I Want For Christmas Is You bounding up the charts after being named the nation's top festive song."
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Critical reception
In the song, Spears laments her loneliness during the holidays and asks Santa Claus to bring her a lover, in lines such as "He's all I want, just for me/Underneath my Christmas tree". Since its release, the song has been included in more than eight Christmas music compilations, including "Now That's What I Call Christmas!" (2001), "Super Christmas Hits" (2006) and "Christmas Top 100" (2009).
My Only Wish (This Year) | Background and composition
In December 2019, the song became Carey's 19th record-extending number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100. With global sales of over 16 million copies, the song remains Carey's biggest international success and the 11th best selling single of all time. As of 2017, the song was reported to have earned $60 million in royalties. In 2010 "The Daily Telegraph" named "All I Want for Christmas Is You" the most popular and most played Christmas song of the decade in the United Kingdom; by 2015 "Fairytale of New York" had become the UK's most-played Christmas song of the 21st century.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Legacy
In addition to this, she performed "Oh Santa!" and "Christmas Time Is in the Air Again".
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Live performances
A music video to accompany the release of "All I Want (For Christmas)" was first released onto YouTube on 29 November 2019.
All I Want (For Christmas) | Music video
It was very formulaic, not a lot of chord changes. I tried to make it a little more unique, putting in some special chords that you really don't hear a lot of, which made it unique and special.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Background and writing
Thomas Connor from the "Chicago Sun-Times" wrote that the new version "just seems to add a few brassy backup singers to exactly the same arrangement." Caryn Ganz from "Rolling Stone" agreed, writing that it was "hard to figure out what's 'extra festive'" about the new version. Dan Hancox, editor of "The National", also felt the new version was unnecessary.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Remixes
Additionally, it broke the record for the longest trip to the number one position, reaching the spot 25 years after the song's original release. It was only the second time in the over 6-decade Hot 100 history a Christmas song hit number one on the main chart and the first to do so since “The Chipmunk Song” in 1958. With "All I Want For Christmas Is You", Carey extended her record of having the most number-one songs for a solo artist on the Hot 100 with nineteen and Carey achieved a record-extending 80th week at number-one on the Hot 100.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Chart performance
It makes use of the singer's "deeper, throatier tones" and "octave-scaling high notes". It is followed by "One Child", written by Carey and Marc Shaiman, a retelling of the nativity of Jesus. It encompasses a range of genres, including Christmas, adult contemporary, urban contemporary and religious music. "All I Want for Christmas Is You – Extra Festive" is a re-recording of the original, which makes use of extra chimes, "beefier" production with softened bell rings and an added kick drum and new vocals. The final track is a rewrite of "Auld Lang Syne" by Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns, which was written in 1788 and published in James Johnson's "Scots Musical Museum" in 1796.
Merry Christmas II You | Composition
All I Want for Christmas Is You, a Night of Joy and Festivity is the first concert residency by American singer Mariah Carey. Performed annually at the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan, New York, the residency began on December 15, 2014, and ended on December 15, 2019, after completing eight legs and fifty-six shows. "Billboard" revealed that the six dates had sold out with a total of 16,196 tickets while grossing $1.5 million during the first leg of the residency. The main set list for the show encompassed songs from "Merry Christmas" and "Merry Christmas II You", with additional non-holiday tracks.
All I Want for Christmas Is You: A Night of Joy and Festivity | Introduction
A soundtrack was released alongside the release of the movie. It features Christmas classics by Carey as well as a brand new song called "Lil Snowman". In Japan, it was released on November 22, 2017.
All I Want for Christmas Is You (film) | Soundtrack
Instead, the video is animated and based on a scene in the video from Carey's "Heartbreaker" (1999). It features cartoon cameo appearances by Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Bow Wow, Luis Miguel (Carey's boyfriend at the time), Carey's dog Jack, and Santa Claus. In 2009 and 2010, the song was included in a music video accompanying ESPN's (and their sister station, ABC) Christmas Day coverage of the NBA. In 2009, a remix produced by Carey and Low Sunday, called "Mariah's New Dance Mix", was released. The mix laid the original 1994 vocals over new electronic instrumentation. The remix garnered a positive response.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Remixes
are just plain cute". In his review of classic Christmas songs, "The Sydney Morning Herald" Richard Jinman said that this track and Mariah Carey's 1994 single "All I Want for Christmas Is You" were "ho-ho-horrible singles", and Adam Graham of "The Detroit News" also commented that the "sleigh bells and holiday cheer abound on this bouncy teen-pop ditty ... follows in the tradition" of Carey's single. Sam Lansky of PopCrush included the song on his list of Top 10 Original Christmas Pop Songs, writing, "another millennial teen pop jam, Britney Spears' 'My Only Wish (This Year)' follows the time-honored tradition of asking Santa Claus for love", and finding it "a sweet throwback to the simpler days of [Britney]".
My Only Wish (This Year) | Critical reception
In doing so, Carey felt she could capture the essence and spirit of what she was singing and make her vocal performance and delivery more emotive and authentic. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was recorded that August, and took Carey and Afanasieff a total of fifteen minutes to write and compose. At first, Afanasieff admitted that he was puzzled and "blanched" as to where Carey wanted to take the melody and vocal scales, though she was "adamant" in her direction for the song. In an interview with "Billboard," Afanasieff described the type of relationship he and Carey shared in the studio and as songwriters for the song and in general: It was always the same sort of system with us.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Background and writing
These sounds echo religious and secular musical touchstones, without veering blatantly too much in either direction, and give the song an upbeat, joyous tone." In an interview in 1994, Carey described the song as "fun", and continued: "It's very traditional, old-fashioned Christmas. It's very retro, kind of '60s." Afanasieff went further in breaking down the song's musical elements: "A lush bed of keyboards, reminiscent of a small-scale Wall of Sound, cushions the song's cheery rhythms, while a soulful vocal chorus adds robust oohs, tension-creating counter-melodies, and festive harmonies. Most notably, however, the song's jaunty piano chords and melody keep the song merrily bouncing along." Lyrically, the song describes the yearning desire to be with a loved one for Christmas, regardless of whether they have to forgo the usual commercial aspect of the holiday season such as ornamental lights, trees, snow and presents.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Composition and lyrics
Christmas for All is a Christmas album by European-American pop group The Kelly Family. It was released on October 1, 1995 by Kel-life Music.
Christmas for All | Introduction
All songs written by Scotty Morris, except where noted.
Everything You Want for Christmas | Track listing
Carey's then-husband Tommy Mottola makes a cameo appearance as Santa Claus, bringing Carey a gift and leaving on a red sleigh. The second video was filmed in black and white, and features Carey dressed in 1960s style in homage to The Ronettes, alongside back up singers and female dancers. A third music video directed by Joseph Kahn was released in 2019 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the song.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Introduction
In 2019, the song topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the first time, 25 years after its original release, thus breaking several records, including the longest trip to number one. With an estimated sales of over 16 million copies, it remains the best selling Christmas single by a female artist and one of the best-selling singles of all time. As of 2017, the song was reported to have earned $60 million in royalties. Two music videos were originally commissioned for the song. The primary video features grainy home-movie-style footage of Carey, her dogs and family during the holiday season, as well as Carey dressed in a Santa suit frolicking on a snowy mountainside.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Introduction
Fraser McAlpine wrote for BBC's Chart Blog that the song was "mournful" and "dignified", complimenting the "amazing" chorus and "the tubular bells, the sleighbells, the twinkling piano and the booming drums, and all of that mournful huffing, and it sounds both magical and deep." Digital Spy reviewer Robert Copsey rated "[t]he Christmas tearjerker" five stars, maintaining that it "blossoms into an uplifting anthem".
All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day | Critical reception
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" received critical acclaim. Parisien called the song "a year-long banger", complimenting its instrumentation and melody. Steve Morse, editor of "The Boston Globe", wrote that Carey sang with a lot of soul. According to Barry Schwartz from "Stylus Magazine", "to say this song is an instant classic somehow doesn't capture its amazingicity; it's a modern standard: joyous, exhilarating, loud, with even a hint of longing." Schwartz praised the song's lyrics as well, describing them as "beautifully phrased," and calling Carey's voice "gorgeous" and "sincere." Kyle Anderson from MTV labeled the track "a majestic anthem full of chimes, sleigh bells, doo-wop flourishes, sweeping strings and one of the most dynamic and clean vocal performances of Carey's career".
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Critical reception
He sang "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" and "I'm Forever Blowing Bubble Gum," during the recording of which Jones addressed him as "George".
George Rock | Introduction
His book, "All I Want for Christmas ...", a reference to his gap-toothed appearance, prompted both controversy and praise when it was published in 2004.
Iwan Roberts | Introduction
The first featured an unreleased footages of the first primary video. The second, directed by Joseph Kahn was a 'revamped' version entitled, 'Make My Wish Come True Edition' with new scenes of Carey in 2019.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Music videos
All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan is the seventh studio album by country music singer Kenny Chesney, released on October 7, 2003. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 500,000 copies in the United States. As of December 2016, the album has sold 922,900 copies in the United States . In addition to original tracks and tropical renditions of traditional Christmas music, the album features three covers. "Christmas in Dixie" was originally recorded by Alabama and features Alabama's lead singer, Randy Owen, as a duet partner.
All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan | Introduction
Afanasieff recalled his sentiments during initial discussions for a holiday record: "Back then, you didn't have a lot of artists with Christmas albums. It wasn't a known science at all back then, and there was nobody who did new, big Christmas songs. So we were going to release it as kind of an everyday, 'Hey, you know, we're putting out a Christmas album. No big deal.'" Ultimately, with Mottola's persistence, Carey and Afanasieff began writing and composing songs for its parent album, "Merry Christmas", during the summer of 1994. Carey began decorating the home she then shared with Mottola in upstate New York (which also came equipped with a personal recording studio) with Christmas ornaments and other holiday-inspired trinkets.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Background and writing
The album features a mix of classic Christmas covers from Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas" to Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (renamed "All I Want for Christmas") as well as a mash up of "Joy to the World" and "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and four original songs.
Finally It's Christmas | Composition
Everything You Want for Christmas is the fifth studio album by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. "Rockabilly Christmas", "Is Zat' You Santa Claus?", and "Christmastime in Tinseltown" previously appeared on the band's first EP, 1997's "Watchu' Want for Christmas?".
Everything You Want for Christmas | Introduction
"My Only Wish" received mixed reviews from music critics. It has been compared to "All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey. Grace Cicciotti of iphone.funweek, commented, the two items in question, in fact, closely resemble, perhaps too much. "My only wish", written by "The-Dream" has the same melody of "All I Want for Christmas is You ', the same high note and even the same meaning: not change much between all the phrase 'All I want for Christmas is you baby "and" My only wish for Christmas is you'. In summary, it appears that much of Jessica suffers a lack of inspiration ...
My Only Wish (song) | Reception
Donald Yetter Gardner (August 20, 1913 – September 15, 2004) was an American songwriter who is best known for writing the classic Christmas novelty song "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth". Gardner wrote the song in 1944 while teaching music at public schools in Smithtown, New York. He asked the class what they wanted for Christmas, and noticed that almost all of them had at least one front tooth missing as they answered in a lisp. Gardner wrote the song in 30 minutes. In a 1995 interview, Gardner said, "I was amazed at the way that silly little song was picked up by the whole country." The song was originally recorded by Spike Jones & His City Slickers on December 6, 1947 (that version reached the top of the charts in early 1949), but also recorded by numerous other singers and performers, including George Strait, The Platters, The Andrews Sisters, Nat King Cole, and the cast of "Sesame Street."
Donald Yetter Gardner | Introduction
Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You" was declared "the UK's favourite Christmas song," narrowly beating out "Fairytale of New York" according to a "points system" created by The Independent in 2017. Both score well ahead of all others on the list of top twenty Christmas songs in the U.K.
Christmas music | Most played songs
Melinda Newman of HitFix wrote, "It's a finger-popping, bell-ringing pleaser that could achieve that rare feat of becoming a new Christmas standard. That hasn't happened since Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" in 1994;" while "The Independent"s Hugh Montgomery applauded it as having a sass, jingle and a sax solo, saying that it is "a winner on all fronts."
Underneath the Tree | Critical response
MTV said, we know that Mariah Carey has returned to the yuletide jam with her Merry Christmas II You. And now we get some Christmas spirit from Jessica Simpson, with the jaunty, playful "My Only Wish." Not unlike Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", Simpson's track covers up some heartache with a buoyant and peppy track, complete with Salvation Army Christmas bells and fireside pianos. GAWKER commented, "Is Jessica Simpson's New Christmas Song a Complete Mariah Carey Rip Off?". Jessica Simpson debuted the first single from her upcoming Christmas album, called, "My Only Wish (For Christmas Is You)." One problem: it's a total rip off of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You."
My Only Wish (song) | Reception
"Rolling Stone" ranked it fourth on its Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs list, calling it a "holiday standard." In a UK-wide poll in December 2012, it was voted fifth on the ITV television special "The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song". Due to the song's lasting impact, Carey was dubbed the "Queen of Christmas", a title she is hesitant to accept. "I don't accept that name because I feel like it's [too much]," she said. "I humbly thank them and I do have an extraordinary love for the holiday season, and it is the best time of the year." On November 24, 2019, the song won three records in "Guinness World Records" for one of the best-selling and most recognizable Christmas songs, most streamed song on Spotify in 24 hours (female) (10,819,009 streams in December 2018) and most weeks in the UK singles Top 10 chart for a Christmas song (20) titles.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Legacy
Following the success of the singer's 1993 career best-selling album "Music Box", Carey and her management at Columbia Records began devising ideas and strategies for subsequent projects. Carey's then-husband, Tommy Mottola, head of Columbia's parent label Sony Music Entertainment, began mapping out possible follow ups for the singer during the pinnacle years of her career. During initial discussions regarding the thought of doing a Christmas-themed album with Carey and her songwriting partner of over four years, Walter Afanasieff, the fear arose that it was not commercially expedient or wise to release holiday music at the peak of one's career, as it was more often equated with a release towards the end of a musician's waning career.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Background and writing
Carey said in an announcement "I can't imagine being anywhere more special than live on stage, in my hometown, celebrating with my fans during the Christmas season, my most treasured time of the year, I can't wait!"
All I Want for Christmas Is You: A Night of Joy and Festivity | Background and development
Critics also approvingly compared it to Mariah Carey's modern Christmas classic "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (1994), a track that RCA chief executive Peter Edge described as the song's inspiration. Williot added that "Underneath the Tree" is strong enough that it could enter the pantheon of modern Christmas staples like Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and 'N Sync's "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays". Jenna Hally Rubenstein of MTV News remarked, "if we may be so bold, it is definitely on par with other impeccable Christmas originals—namely Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You"." Sal Cinquemani of "Slant Magazine" noted the similar themes of two songs, and that "Underneath the Tree" is likely to become Clarkson's very own contemporary standard.
Underneath the Tree | Critical response
When the song was first released as a single in 1994, no remixes were commissioned. Carey re-released the song commercially in Japan in 2000, with a new remix known as the So So Def remix. The remix contains new vocals and is played over a harder, more urban beat that contains a sample of Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force's "Planet Rock;" it features guest vocals by Jermaine Dupri and Bow Wow. The remix appears on Carey's compilation album "Greatest Hits" (2001) as a bonus track. A video was created for the So So Def remix, but it does not feature Carey or the hip-hop musicians that perform in the song.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Remixes
Carey released a children's book based on "All I Want for Christmas Is You" on November 10, 2015, which went on to sell over 750,000 copies. She later released an animated family film called "Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You", based on the book and song on November 14, 2017. On March 21, 2017, Carey announced via her Twitter account that a film based on "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was in development. A musical film based on "Merry Christmas", the plot revolves around a small town—perhaps not unlike Carey's hometown of Huntington, New York—where a ruthless developer wants to turn the land into a large shopping plaza.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Adaptations
"(I Want a) Rockin' Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Jimmy Manzie and Glenn A. Baker and recorded by Australian band Ol' 55. The song was released in November 1976 and peaked at number 7 on the Australian Kent Music Report, becoming the band's second top ten single.
(I Want a) Rockin' Christmas | Introduction
Carey has performed the song during concerts as well as live televised performances. It was part of the setlist of several of her concert tours, including the Japanese shows of Carey's Daydream World Tour (1996), Butterfly World Tour (1998), Rainbow World Tour (2000), (2002–03), and The Adventures of Mimi Tour (2006). The first performance of the song was at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on December 8, 1994. Additionally, Carey performed the song at the 2004 Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade, which aired on ABC. Carey sang the So So Def remix version at the opening night of her Angels Advocate Tour on New Year's Eve.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Live performances
Regarding the release of the song, Hurts declared in an interview that, "[i]t's about the worst Christmas of our lives, which we're releasing on the best Christmas of our lives. Also, we used previous cast members for the video, so it's like a Hurts Christmas party... in a cemetery."
All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day | Background
The album's track listing was unveiled by Bublé on September 27, 2011. Bublé filmed several music videos in order to promote the album, including videos for the tracks "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", the lead single "All I Want for Christmas Is You", "Holly Jolly Christmas", "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", and "Jingle Bells". Bublé also appeared to perform during the final of the eighth series of "The X Factor" in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2011. Bublé's recording of "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was also featured in a montage on ABC-TV's "General Hospital" that aired on December 23, 2011.
Christmas (Michael Bublé album) | Promotion
Wilson re-recorded this song for his 2005 Christmas album, "What I Really Want for Christmas".
The Man with All the Toys | Introduction
The film was released on DVD on October 5, 2004. The film was also released in the digital format.
All I Want for Christmas (film) | Home media
"I Want to Come Home for Christmas" is a holiday song recorded by Marvin Gaye in 1972. The song was co-written by Gaye and Forest Hairston and was released on a posthumous Marvin compilation titled, "The Marvin Gaye Collection" 18 years later.
I Want to Come Home for Christmas | Introduction
The song was released on November 8, 1965, with "All I Want for Christmas, Dear, Is You" on the B-side. It placed at number 2 on the yearly Christmas singles chart issued by "Billboard" at the time. The song is about a child who has sneaked downstairs to catch a glimpse of Santa where the child sees his father in a Santa costume.
Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy | History
"One Wish" is a 1994 Christmas song by American R&B singer Freddie Jackson, from his album "Freddie Jackson at Christmas".
One Wish (for Christmas) | Introduction
On December 3, 2010, Carey performed "Oh Santa!" as well as "All I Want For Christmas Is You" at the Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade special, which featured Carey surrounded by dancers, including ballerinas and cheerleaders, and ended with fireworks at the end of the performance. A pre-recorded ABC television special called "Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to You" aired on December 13. The show included performances of "Oh Santa!" and "O Come All Ye Faithful" accompanied by her mother Patricia, and "All I Want for Christmas Is You". It was filmed at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on November 6, and executively produced by Carey and Joel Gallen.
Merry Christmas II You | Release and promotion
The top six were called back to Toronto once again around December to perform a top 6 group music video of the Christmas song "All I Want For Christmas is You".
The Next Star | Singles
All the songs from the original album were included on a 1998 EMI CD called "Winter Wonderland" in the UK and on an updated 2006 Capitol CD of "Bing Crosby's Christmas Classics" in the US.
I Wish You a Merry Christmas | Introduction
"I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" is a Christmas novelty song written by John Rox (1902–1957) and performed by Gayla Peevey (10 years old at the time) in 1953. The song peaked at number 24 on "Billboard" magazine's pop chart in December 1953.
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas | Introduction
It concludes with Santa Claus leaving Carey with a bag of presents and waving goodbye. It has more than 633 million views on YouTube as of April 2020. In the song's alternate video, inspired by The Ronettes, Carey dances in a 1960s-influenced studio surrounded by go–go dancers. For a 1960s look, the video was filmed in black and white, with Carey in white boots and teased up hair. This video was also directed by Carey. There are two edits to this version of the video. In 2019, along with the release of the deluxe 25th-anniversary edition of her album "Merry Christmas", she released two new music videos for the song.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Music videos
What I Really Want for Christmas is the sixth studio album by Brian Wilson and his first solo seasonal release. It was released by Arista Records in October 2005 and features many traditional Christmas songs, as well some of Wilson's originals, including remakes of the Beach Boys' "Little Saint Nick" and "The Man with All the Toys". As a bonus, Wilson elected to include a sampling of seasonal recordings initially available on his website a few years earlier. Critical reaction was mixed; the album eventually peaked at #200 for one week on the Billboard 200 chart in the US, though "Deck the Halls" became a Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit.
What I Really Want for Christmas | Introduction
In interviews, Daly has revealed how Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" became the team's unofficial theme song. Daly explained that some of the younger members of the team had said that the excitement and anticipation they experienced during the tournament "felt like Christmas Eve." The team subsequently began singing the song during training sessions and again during their homecoming celebrations.
Nicola Daly | Ireland international
It has been performed by Carey at her ABC 2010 Christmas special and during her 2014 Beacon Theatre residency All I Want for Christmas Is You, A Night of Joy and Festivity in December 2014.
When Christmas Comes | Introduction
Watchu' Want for Christmas? is an EP (and first Christmas album) by neo-swing group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. It was released in 1997. The three Christmas songs also appear on the band's 2004 album "Everything You Want for Christmas".
Watchu' Want for Christmas? | Introduction
"Mariah doesn't want to let that happen," says her producing partner Benny Medina. "Her character uses song and love to keep the Christmas spirit alive." According to Carey, the script will be written by "High School Musical" writer Peter Barsocchini, but is still in its early stages of production. However, Carey gave "Daily News" a few more details regarding the project, saying, "Since I recorded the Christmas album, I've always wanted to make a movie to go with it, something that people could watch and hear and enjoy every year. I'm into it. I'm all about the holiday season."
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Adaptations
In 2003, Chesney recorded "All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan". The album's title track peaked at No. 30 on the country charts from holiday airplay. Other notable work Chesney did in 2003 is that he co wrote Kid Rock's single "Cold and Empty" from his self-titled 6th studio album "Kid Rock".
Kenny Chesney | "All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan" (2003)
In 2004, Roberts published an account of his last season at Norwich, entitled "All I want for Christmas ...". The title of the book was a joke based on Roberts' missing front teeth, a reference to the song "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth". The book proved controversial, because it included an admission of a deliberate stamp on Wolves defender Kevin Muscat, an incident that had taken place in 2000: "As I got up I 'lost my balance' and trod on his back. Fourteen stone through eight studs, you do the maths. He was in agony, but the ref didn't see it so I got away with it.
Iwan Roberts | "All I Want for Christmas ..."
At a local screening in 2012 it had the title "All I want is Christmas".
Switchmas | Introduction
According to statement, "This Christmas" is "the audio equivalent of those classic network TV specials hosted from the stars’ homes, an intimate, warm set of traditional holiday songs [...]". The album producer was the Grammy Award-winner composer Randy Waldman. All tracks are covers of classic Christmas songs, except "I Think You Might Like It", which was targeted as the "You're the One That I Want sequel." The song was written by Newton-John long-time collaborator John Farrar, who also wrote "You're the One That I Want", according to Newton-John: "If it wasn’t for that song, we wouldn’t be here talking about it 30 years later." The album also features the well-known musicians Kenny G, Barbra Streisand, Chick Corea, Cliff Richard, Tony Bennett, Count Basie Orchestra and James Taylor as special guests on some tracks.
This Christmas (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John album) | Background and development
Give Me Your Love for Christmas is the third Christmas album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis and was released by Columbia Records on October 13, 1969. The oldest song selected for this project was the 1934 classic "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", which meant there were not the traditional hymns that could be found on his previous Christmas outings. He did, however, cover several other contemporary Christmas favorites along with a few new and lesser-known songs, such as the title track, which was a reworking of an unreleased recording of his from 1961, and "Christmas Day", which came from the then-current Broadway musical "Promises, Promises".
Give Me Your Love for Christmas | Introduction
"For All That You Want" is the second single from British singer/songwriter Gary Barlow's second studio album, "Twelve Months, Eleven Days". The single was released on 27 September 1999. In 2003, footage of the music video was used in an Alton Towers advert, showing Gary and his friends driving bumper cars.
For All That You Want | Introduction
On November 9, 2010, Carey taped a live Christmas Special featuring the song, which aired on December 13, 2010, on ABC. Additionally, Carey performed the song alongside "Oh Santa!" airing on ESPN and ABC throughout the day on Christmas Day of 2010. On December 3, 2010, she performed both songs at the Walt Disney World Resort theme park, Magic Kingdom, in a performance that was taped and aired part of the Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade on ABC. She performed them again in a music video promoting the day's NBA games that aired on both networks. Carey also included the track as the encore to her sold out, annual Christmas concert series at the Beacon Theater in New York City.
All I Want for Christmas Is You | Live performances
From the liner notes for "The Complete Christmas Collection 1958-2010":
Give Me Your Love for Christmas | Recording dates
Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album, and the fourth studio album, by American singer-songwriter and producer Mariah Carey. Released by Columbia Records on October 28, 1994, at the peak of the initial stretch of Carey's career, between "Music Box" (1993) and "Daydream" (1995), the album features cover versions of popular Christmas tunes and original material. Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote all of the original tracks, as well as producing Carey's interpretations of the covered material. Three singles were released from the album, of which "All I Want for Christmas Is You" went on to become one of the best-selling singles of all time and the best-selling holiday ringtone in the United States.
Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album) | Introduction
Bublé also recorded covers of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", and "Blue Christmas", and a brand new track, "Cold December Night", written with his longtime co-writer Alan Chang and producer Bob Rock.
Christmas (Michael Bublé album) | Background
BBC Music's Mike Diver thought that although the album is not necessarily "clever", it is "expectedly big", and that while "Oh Santa!" is not in the "same league" as "All I Want for Christmas Is You", it's a perfect stocking filler. "Rolling Stone" writer Caryn Ganz disliked the two original ballads, "Christmas Time Is In the Air Again" and "One Child", describing them "both thick with gooey orchestration", but praised "Oh Santa!" and "When Christmas Comes" for their uptempo melodies. However, she was confused by the re-recording of "All I Want for Christmas Is You", saying that "It's hard to figure out what's 'extra festive, and quipped that it is "far easier to determine what's wrong with 'Auld Lang Syne' (an awkward dance beat)".
Merry Christmas II You | Critical reception
The music video takes place in a graveyard, where the band members and other people (characters from the music videos for "Better Than Love", "Wonderful Life" and "Stay") gather around a grave, out of which a Christmas tree emerges.
All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day | Music video