Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” Awards Her 3 Guinness World Records
Mariah Carey thrives during the holidays.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mariah’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has given her the highest-charting holiday song on the Hot 100 by a solo artist, the most streamed track on Spotify in 24 hours as well as the most weeks in the U.K. singles Top 10 chart. As you can see in the image below, Mariah accepted her plaque during her Christmas show at the Colosseum in Las Vegas with a Guinness representative joining her for the finale as well as her two children.
“I wanted Christmas to be perfect, but for a lot of different reasons, it didn’t always end up working out well, coming from such a dysfunctional family,” Mariah previously stated of her beloved song. “So I think when I wrote [“All I Want for Christmas Is You”], I just put every ounce of longing for that perfect moment in it.”
