{"id":195455,"date":"2018-12-27T05:34:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=195455"},"modified":"2018-12-27T05:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T10:34:03","slug":"mariah-careys-christmas-classic-sets-new-record-on-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/27\/mariah-careys-christmas-classic-sets-new-record-on-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey&#8217;s Christmas classic sets new record on Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Br1K_3fnb5Y\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Br1K_3fnb5Y\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Such an amazing Christmas gift!!&#x1f384;&#x1f381;THANK YOU &#x2764; #L4L<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mariahcarey\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Mariah Carey<\/a> (@mariahcarey) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-12-26T00:42:03+00:00\">Dec 25, 2018 at 4:42pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Mariah Carey&#8217;s 24-year-old Christmas classic is so popular it set a new one-day streaming record on Spotify on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Chart Data reported that \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d released in 1994, was played 10.8 million times on Spotify on Monday. The song bested the record set by rapper-singer XXXTentacion, who logged 10.4 million streams with \u201cSAD!\u201d a day after his death in June.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify wouldn&#8217;t comment on the news when reached by The Associated Press. Carey called the new feat \u201csuch an amazing Christmas gift\u201d in an Instagram post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Every holiday season \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d begins to climb the Billboard charts as its popularity resurfaces. This year the song reached its highest peak &#8212; No. 6 &#8212; on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; it&#8217;s currently No. 7 on the chart.<\/p>\n<p>The success has helped Carey&#8217;s first Christmas album, 1994&#8217;s \u201cMerry Christmas,\u201d spend its fourth week at No. 1 on Billboard&#8217;s R&amp;B albums chart.<\/p>\n<p>The current Hot 100 chart features 20 holiday songs:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 7, Mariah Carey&#8217;s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 10, Andy Williams&#8217; \u201cIt&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 11, Brenda Lee&#8217;s \u201cRockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 12, Burl Ives&#8217; \u201cA Holly Jolly Christmas\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 13, Bobby Helms&#8217; \u201cJingle Bell Rock\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 17, Nat King Cole&#8217;s \u201cThe Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 27, Wham!&#8217;s \u201cLast Christmas\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 28, Gene Autry&#8217;s \u201cRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 32, Dean Martin&#8217;s \u201cLet It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 33, The Ronettes&#8217; \u201cSleigh Ride\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 34, Jose Feliciano&#8217;s \u201cFeliz Navidad\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 35, Gene Autry&#8217;s \u201cHere Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 41, Perry Como&#8217;s \u201c(There&#8217;s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 42, Perry Como &amp; The Fontane Sisters&#8217; \u201cIt&#8217;s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 45, John &amp; Yoko\/The Plastic Ono Band&#8217;s \u201cHappy Xmas (War Is Over)\u201d (with the Harlem Community Choir)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 47, Paul McCartney&#8217;s \u201cWonderful Christmastime\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 48, Bing Crosby&#8217;s \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 50, Darlene Love&#8217;s \u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 68, Katy Perry&#8217;s \u201cCozy Little Christmas\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; No. 90, Lauren Daigle&#8217;s \u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; View this post on Instagram &nbsp; Such an amazing Christmas gift!!&#x1f384;&#x1f381;THANK YOU &#x2764; #L4L A post shared by Mariah &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":195461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-mesfin-fekadu","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}