Titled “Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All,” the two-hour concert will capture Carey’s December 13 performance at New York City’s Madison Square Garden arena, and feature Carey performing a repertoire of her Christmas songs — including, of course, the inescapable behemoth that is “All I Want for Christmas is You.” The concert is one of two stops on the singer’s mini-Christmas tour; Carey is also scheduled to perform at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto December 11.
“All I Want for Christmas is You” was released in 1994 as the lead single for Carey’s “Merry Christmas” holiday album and quickly became a modern Yuletide standard, receiving consistent airplay during November and December. The song remained popular for years, but received a new surge of attention in 2019, its 25th anniversary, when it broke records by hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the longest trip to No. 1 in the chart’s history. The song repeated its ascension to the top during the 2020 and 2021 Christmas seasons and looks set to maintain its death grip on the charts this year. The singer has also started leaning into memes about how the holiday season is really “Mariah Season.” On November 1, the singer posted a video depicting her as a witch on a Peleton bike, before transforming into her recognizable Santa garb as the first notes of “All I Want for Christmas is You” plays, in recognition of the common Twitter joke about her “defrosting” during Christmastime.
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) November 1, 2022 “Merry Christmas to All” will air on CBS December 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Paramount+ Premium subscribers can stream the special live via a live feed of their local CBS affiliate as well as on-demand. Other subscribers will be able to stream the special the next day. Following its initial premiere, MTV will air additional encore presentations of the special, to be scheduled in the coming weeks. Carey executive produces “Merry Christmas to All” with Joseph Kahn, Charleen Manca, and Nicola Doring. The special is a co-production of Sony Music Entertainment and Supply & Demand, with Sony Music Entertainment distributing the special. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
