"All I Want for Christmas Is You" Is No Longer the Most-Played Holiday Song

[MzKittyKath]

If you're anything like me, the moment Thanksgiving is over is the moment you shift full-force into holiday music mode and stay that way through December 25. Inevitably, this around-the-clock approach to Christmas tunes means options are exhausted quickly and overplayed to the point of annoyance. There's only so many times you can hear "Santa Baby" or "Feliz Navidad" before you want to gouge your ears with candy canes to make it stop. That said, there is one song I can listen to on repeat, year after year, without ever growing sick of it, and that's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey. 

 

For those of you with me on Team Mariah who totally relate to the above, I have some bad news. To those of you who hate this holiday hit and probably also hate people like me who are obsessed with it: 1. Bah humbug to you, too. 2. Consider this your Christmas miracle. 

Paste magazine reports "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which has topped the holiday music charts every year since its initial release in 1994, has been dethroned. (*Sob*) According to PlayNetwork, a company that provides "branded entertainment media experiences in retail and beyond," (i.e. they curate the music stores play while you shop), Mariah Carey's iconic track has dropped to 2nd place this season, bringing an end to its 20-year reign. Taking over the top rank for 2015 is The Shin's cover of Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime." 

 

Cr Cosmopolitan

[Kaity]

I was PISSED when I heard this like are you kidding me

[Tiramisu.]

This is not okay.

[MzKittyKath]

i feel you i was pissed and sad this is the best christmas song ever

[shimmering]

what the fuck is this

mariah is the queen of christmas and music who the fuck is the shins?

[Dasom's Nose]

i don't even celebrate christmas but i love all i want for christmas is you so much.

[WonderJoyous]

thank God i hate that song, altough nobody listens to it on Holidays where i live but still lmfao

 

i have no idea who the fuck The Shin is tho and im not looking that up bc christmas songs are boring. i still love christmas tho, my fav holiday but i like to listen to The Killers' christmas albums instead

[sudsy]

This makes me irrationally sad. Also I've never even heard of that other song.

[SAYAKA]

that's so surprising. All I Want For Christmas is You is iconic on an unreal level. The other is just a cover!

[NELLO-HOPE]

All I want for Christmas is you is a classic Christmas Bop. I never heard that other song

[myreflections]

while I did grow tired of the song... the knowledge it's no longer nr.1 Christmas Song makes me feel weird...and sad... and old. and weird

 

i take it all back. make it nr. 1 again. i don't like that The Shin song

[_____asd]

It's one of the best Christmas songs still though

[ScarletWhimsy]

Awww

[ETB5]

OMG, I thought this was going to be the new #1 song

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...but it turns out it's the Swho??

[MzKittyKath]

I saw paul mcartney's name on the article

 

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[Holke]

I've never even heard that song tbh

[Puremystic]

I've only heard like one line from this song on a Coke commercial and other ads... other than that part this song sucks~

Mariah come through with the bop of the ages~!!

[ruppi]

never heard that song befor oO

[Vaelin]

>Hello audience, this is your new #1 song chosen by YOU

>audience: wtf is this song never heard of it

 

useless stat. Mariah still queen.

 

 

 

where is Eartha though

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFMyF9fDKzE

 

[internalizedhomophobia]

Sue them!

[DocumentaLy]

I've never even heard that song tbh

[ImInCloud13]

1) The Shins "Wonderful Christmastime"

2) Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is You" 

3) Christina Aguilera "Christmas Time"

4) Waitresses "Christmas Wrapping"

5) Jack Johnson "Someday At Christmas"

6) Kelly Clarkson "Underneath The Tree"

7) Michael Buble "A Holly Jolly Christmas" 

8) Bing Crosby "White Christmas" 

9) Train "What Christmas Means To Me"

10) Ella Fitzgerald "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"

 

Yasss at Legend X getting some promo tho

 

[SheeraEtheral]

This is not okay.

[WinWin_at]

mess

[Myth]

 

According to PlayNetwork, a company that provides "branded entertainment media experiences in retail and beyond," (i.e. they curate the music stores play while you shop),

So... it has nothing to do with actual radio spins or digital downloads? Seems like The Shin's cover is still irrelevant to me...