These charts show the spread of Mariah Carey's classic Christmas song.
The yuletide season, once relegated to Thanksgiving and after, has now been spotted as early as October — and the singer Mariah Carey’s perennial hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” tracks with this new phenomenon.
“Charts are dominated by the newest hit single, and the appetite for new music is the drive for climbing the charts — the only exception to that is Christmas,” said Nate Sloan, an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Southern California. “It has very much to do with the emotional support we draw from this holiday.”
He explained that the carol contained all the ingredients of what makes a Christmas song effective: sleigh bells, a well-crafted structure and a story arc.
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