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16 Dec 2024

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Around this time each year, you can be sure of three things: fruitcake, one of your co-workers will make a fool out of themselves at your holiday work party, and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” will re-enter the charts in a big way.

And it’s not even close. Nat King Cole? Wham? Brenda Lee? Bing Crosby? No way. Billboard ranked “All I Want for Christmas” as the number one Christmas song of all time. Released in 1994, the song has dominated the holiday charts for three decades, hitting number one from 2019 through 2024 (yes, this year).

Sleighbells? A triangle? A piano and Mariah Carey tricked out in harmony and Santa gear? Check. Check. And Check. Although the song borrows from numerous decades and has 15 distinct chord progressions, it isn’t too complicated. It’s simply a cheesy three-minute anthem to co-dependent holiday romance and reindeers dancing on rooftops. And it’s one heck of an earworm.

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