THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

822-Mariah Carey-All I Want for Christmas Is You.

1994-Number 2 single.It has also reached Number 2 in 2017-2018, and 2019, and finally in 2020 it peaked at Number 1.

Best Bit-At 0.54.The last truly great Christmas song, well worth it’s place among the acknowledged festive classics.

Since the introduction of digital downloading this song re-enters the top 40 every December.With sales of over 16 million, it is currently the 11th biggest selling single of all time, earning over $50 million in royalties to date.In America, on the Billboard Hot 100, it finally reached Number 1 for the first time in December 2019, 25 years after it was first released.

‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ was co-written by Mariah Carey, and long time collaborator Walter Afanasieff, in the Summer of 1994, they set out to write an uptempo Xmas track in the style of Phil Spector’s ‘Wall Of Sound.’The song was taken from Mariah’s forth studio Album ‘Merry Christmas’ which included three original songs, and seven cover versions.Walter Afanasieff (see also best songs 220) said of Mariah’s input,’She created a lyric that probably to this day is the only uptempo Christmas love song.Anybody can sing it to anybody, it’s about everybody, and it can only mean one thing, from father to child, or mother to child, or wife to husband, it’s just,’All I Want for Christmas Is You.’

‘Initially Mariah Carey didn’t want to do a Christmas Album, as it is normally done when an artists career is coming to an end.She was worried that it might damage her ‘Hip-Hop’ credibility. When she saw the now-famous cover, with her dressed in a Santa suit, she said,’What are you trying to do,turn me in to Connie Francis.’

‘I won’t make a list and send it, to the North Pole, for Saint Nick, I won’t even stay awake, to hear those magic reindeer click.’