--- title: "All I Want for Christmas Is You" Is Already Heating Up description: Mariah Carey's 1994 classic holiday song is already beginning to make the rounds, its YouTube statistics showing a seasonal incline. canonical: https://time.com/4556886/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-spiking/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-03T19:22:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:22.640Z og:title: "All I Want for Christmas Is You" Is Already Heating Up og:description: Mariah Carey's 1994 classic is already showing an increase in YouTube views. og:url: https://time.com/4556886/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-spiking/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: "All I Want for Christmas Is You" Is Already Heating Up twitter:description: Mariah Carey's 1994 classic is already showing an increase in YouTube views. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Proof That People Are Already Blasting Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas'  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 3, 2016 7:22 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 3, 2016 7:22 PM UTC [Angel-voiced diva Mariah Carey’s](http://time.com/4419460/mariah-carey-instagram/?iid=sr-link8) inimitable 1994 version of [“All I Want for Christmas Is You”](http://time.com/3614330/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-20-styles/?iid=sr-link2) might be the [most popular holiday song](http://entertainment.time.com/2011/12/19/top-10-overplayed-holiday-songs/slide/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-by-mariah-carey/?iid=sr-link5) of the modern era—and this year will be no different. It appears that play count spikes every year as fall turns to winter, Christmas creeps nearer, and people begin to snuggle in with their annual viewing of _Love Actually_ and a mug of cocoa. And now—just three days into November—a data chart visualizing the song’s YouTube statistics is already showing a distinctive upward trend, and people have begun commenting. Shared in a screenshot by Twitter user Zach Cole, the simple graph tells us a lot about the rabid, insatiable appetite for Carey’s dulcet tones (during the appropriate time of the year, of course). As soon as it’s societally acceptable to start blasting the jingling tune, as Cole notes, “it begins.” His tongue-in-cheek call-out tweet has been liked more than 50,000 times, including by Katy Perry. With a cumulative total of nearly 184 million views on the song’s original YouTube music video posted to the platform six years ago, it clocked about 4.5 million daily during 2015’s holiday season—and, if it holds to trend, should hit about 6 million daily this year. > [](https://twitter.com/ZachACole/status/793920311414534144) Sick of this song yet? Watch out for The Shins’ “Wonderful Christmastime,” [last year’s most-played seasonal tune.](http://time.com/4148222/mariah-carey-christmas-song-not-top-played/?iid=sr-link1) Want more Carey? She’s [releasing a children’s book](http://time.com/4011973/mariah-carey-christmas-song-book/?iid=sr-link7) inspired by the song. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4556886/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-spiking/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4556886/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-spiking/"},"headline":"Here's Proof That People Are Already Blasting Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas'","datePublished":"2016-11-03T19:22:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:22.640Z","description":"'Tis the season","url":"https://time.com/4556886/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-spiking/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4556886/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-spiking/","name":"Here's Proof That People Are Already Blasting Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas'"}}]}] ```