Mariah Carey on the Rise of Her Christmas Anthem
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 24 December 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kate. |
| 0:07.3 | Today we're bringing back an episode we made last year. |
| 0:10.4 | It's about the singer Mariah Carey and her hit holiday tune All I Want For Christmas |
| 0:16.2 | Is You. |
| 0:17.2 | It's about how that song came to be, why it endures, and what its success says about the |
| 0:22.9 | larger forces shaping the music industry. |
| 0:25.9 | Plus, it's that time of year. |
| 0:28.5 | So, here it is. |
| 0:36.5 | Our colleague John Jurgensen has been living, breathing, and writing about Christmas |
| 0:41.9 | music. |
| 0:43.4 | One song in particular. |
| 0:45.1 | I've had like my ears tuned for those little bells that start the song. |
| 0:50.0 | You know, it might be in a car that's passing. |
| 0:56.0 | It might be on TV. |
| 0:59.8 | Certainly on the radio because my wife has Christmas music on. |
| 1:03.7 | Repeat pretty much from Thanksgiving through January. |
| 1:07.5 | So I hear a lot in my house also. |
| 1:10.9 | That song is Mariah Carey's smash hit All I Want For Christmas Is You. |
| 1:26.7 | This song feels like it's everywhere this time of year. |
| 1:30.7 | And the numbers back that up. |
| 1:33.5 | It is the star on top of the tree under which all other Christmas song ornaments can't |
| 1:39.7 | even get close. |
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