Mariah Carey has gotten some gold and platinum presents underneath her Christmas tree.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has awarded the diva four new certifications as of Friday (December 8). According to the trade association, Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has gone fourteen-times platinum, while “O Holy Night” has gone platinum after previously going gold.
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Carey’s Christmas album has also gone nine-times platinum, while “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Gloria (In Excelsius Deo)” has gone platinum after previously going gold.
Check out all her new awards below.
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— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) December 9, 2023
Mariah Carey’s new hardware from the RIAA comes nearly one year to the day after her ubiquitous Christmas track “All I Want For Christmas Is You” broke another record by logging the most single-day streams on Spotify.
According to Spotify’s “Daily Top Songs Global” chart, the modern classic Christmas track was streamed 21,273,357 times last Christmas Eve. The record was previously held by Adele’s “Easy On Me,” which Spotify users played 19,749,704 times on its release date, October 15, 2021.
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“All I Want For Christmas Is You” previously claimed the record for most daily Spotify streams on Christmas Eve in 2017 with 10.8 million plays, in 2018 with 10.82 million, and again in 2019 with a little over 12 million streams.
In addition to earning a new record, Mariah Carey’s ode to the holidays topped the Spotify Weekly Top Songs Global chart as well, with 48,156,836 streams. Since the streaming platform launched in 2008, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has been streamed over 1.4 billion times.
In a 2019 article, CNN reported the song had earned over $2 million in royalties on Spotify alone. The same year, the then 25-year-old song topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the first time. Two years later, the song was believed to have earned between $3,249,600 and $4,332,800 just on Spotify streams.
“Mariah can sit on her ass for the rest of her life and ONLY promote AIWFC and still be a millionaire,” a source told TMZ last year. The above numbers also don’t take into account other streams such as on Apple Music.
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The song’s 25th anniversary also earned Mariah Carey three Guinness World Records: highest-charting holiday (Christmas/New Year) song on the Hot 100 by a solo artist, the most streamed track on Spotify in 24 hours, and the most weeks in the UK singles Top 10 chart for a Christmas song.
