{"id":6735,"date":"2019-12-05T15:14:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:24:34","slug":"all-i-want-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/12\/all-i-want-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Is Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 years after we were first introduced to Mariah Carey&#8217;s now famous Christmas tune &#8220;All I Want For Christmas Is You&#8221;\u00a0Amazon has announced the song will be getting it&#8217;s own mini documentary, &#8220;Mariah Carey is Christmas!&#8221;, and released a trailer.<\/p>\n<p>It will tell the story of how the song came to be.\u00a0 A song that was released on October 29, 1994\u00a0 it was the lead single from her fourth studio album and first holiday album, Merry Christmas (1994). It is the best-selling modern day Christmas song.\u00a0\u00a0With global sales of over 16 million copies, the song remains her\u00a0 biggest international success and is the 12th best-selling single of all time, and the best selling Christmas single by a female artist overall. As of 2017, the song was reported to have earned $60 million in royalties.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, people really like the song.\u00a0A special\u00a0 &#8220;Merry Christmas 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition,&#8221; was released last month, which includes the original album, plus a disc featuring previously unreleased live tracks from her 1994 St. John The Divine Benefit Concert, rare remixes, a new rendition of the &#8220;Sugar Plum Fairy&#8221; and additional seasonal tracks.\u00a0\u00a0And she just released a video with previously unseen video footage.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary will premiere on Amazon later this month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zmkaSvu8P_Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_aiaYkcSDo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"25 years after we were first introduced to Mariah Carey&#8217;s now famous Christmas tune &#8220;All I Want For Christmas Is You&#8221;\u00a0Amazon has announced the song will be getting it&#8217;s own mini documentary, &#8220;Mariah Carey is Christmas!&#8221;, and released a trailer. It will tell the story of how the song came to be.\u00a0 A song that","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3724,3725,2077,405,314,3727,3726],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-all-i-want-for-christmas","tag-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you","tag-amazon","tag-christmas","tag-mariah-carey","tag-mariah-carey-is-christmas","tag-music-special"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 21:38:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/12\/all-i-want-for-christmas\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}