Elizabeth Chan: Last News

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The word “contested” shows up a lot lately in singer-songwriter Elizabeth Chan’s world, as she made headlines this summer for going to court to try to ensure that Mariah Carey is not legally granted sole possession of the “Queen of Christmas” tag, which has also been applied to her. But there’s at least one aspect of what Chan does that will likely continue to go unchallenged. With her 12th album, “12 Months of Christmas,” coming out this week, Chan further breaks her own record for having the most all-original Christmas albums in circulation of any nationally established pop artist. Although “most Christmas albums” is not the sort of record where Santa is keeping an official list and checking it twice — nor the Guinness Book, for that matter — it seems safe to say that no one else is even close when it comes to self-penned, all-new Yuletide collections, thanks to the one-a-year pace established by Chan, the only nationally recognized artist who does nothing but Christmas albums.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Chan set yet another benchmark in the annals of holiday music by issuing her 14th straight annual Christmas release, “Shatterproof,” this month. No one is likely to come close to shattering that record for the highest number of consecutive seasonal albums or EPs, but Chan — who is known for having a claim on the “queen of Christmas” title — dealt with plenty of events in the past year that put some cracks in her mostly cheerful holiday façade.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Elizabeth Chan continues to be the most prolific recording artist in the Christmas music space, and certainly the only singer of any notoriety doing a new release each year, having just released her 13th consecutive holiday album, “Songs From Noelle.” Variety is already on record as calling the singer-songwriter “Christmas’ one-woman Brill Building.” But if a new holiday collection from Chan seems inevitable every fall, there was nothing clockwork-like about this one’s making — since for Chan, unlike Taylor Swift, the number 13 actually seemed unlucky in 2023. The title “Songs From Noelle” refers to Chan’s 6-year-old daughter, who co-sang and even co-wrote a few songs on the album.

Mariah Carey is going to be one angry elf.

Mariah Carey is not the Queen Of Christmas. It’s important you all know that.

Mariah Carey has been blocked from exclusively trademarking the title, 'Queen of Christmas', by festive singer Elizabeth Chan in a landmark victory.All I Want For Christmas Is You singer Carey, 52, filed an application to trademark the phrase in March 2021 -  a move which infuriated festive singers Chan, 42, and Darlene Love, 81, with the former heading to court in an attempt to block Carey.On Tuesday, the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled against Carey’s attempt to trademark 'Queen of Christmas'. It also rejected and denied Carey’s concurrent attempts to register the trademarks 'Princess Christmas' and 'QOC'.The It's Like That singer had applied for the exclusive right to use the titles on everything from music, to perfume, to sunglasses, and even coconut milk - in perpetuity and globally.

Mariah Carey has maintained she never called herself the "Queen of Christmas". The superstar is known around the world for her hit song All I Want for Christmas Is You as well as for her obsession with the festive season. But in an interview for Variety, Mariah maintained that she didn't give herself the title.

attempt to officially trademark the term “Queen of Christmas.”Carey filed her trademark last March and the news was made public in July. According to the application that was filed with the U.S.

Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," has become one of the biggest songs of the holiday season, but Carey wants to take things to the next level with her attempt to officially trademark the term "Queen of Christmas." Carey filed her trademark last March and the news was made public in July. According to the application that was filed with the U.S.Trademark Office, the trademarked term would cover a large range of items like lotions, fragrances, jewelry, mugs, clothes, food, ornaments and of course, music.  A lot of singers have come forward showing their resistance to the trademark claim.

Mariah Carey has faced pushback from two singers known for recording holiday music after the star attempted to register the term “Queen of Christmas” as a trademark.Carey’s 1994 song ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ made her synonymous with the festive season, and has led to her being popularly dubbed “Queen of Christmas”. In March 2021, she filed an application to trademark the exclusive usage of the title, along with “QOC”, “Princess of Christmas” and “Christmas Princess”.

‘Tis the season … for a feud. Singers Darlene Love and Elizabeth Chan are fighting back against Mariah Carey attempting to register the title “Queen of Christmas” as a trademark.

Mariah Carey is getting a frosty response from a few women after trying to trademark the title "Queen of Christmas."It appears that Mimi wants the title as an extension of her massive hit "All I want For Christmas Is You." However, according to Variety, full-time holiday singer Elizabeth Chan has raised an objection, claiming nobody should hold the legal rights to the title. "Christmas has come way before any of us on earth, and hopefully will be around way after any of us on earth," Elizabeth, who released an album titled "Queen of Christmas" in 2021, told Variety. "And I feel very strongly that no one person should hold onto anything around Christmas or monopolize it in the way that Mariah seeks to in perpetuity.

Mariah Carey is not the “Queen of Christmas”, according to Darlene Love and Elizabeth Chan.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticNo one has to wait till December for a holiday squabble. Mariah Carey’s attempt to register the term “Queen of Christmas” as a trademark only she can use is meeting fierce resistance from two singers who have also been associated with that term over the years, Darlene Love and Elizabeth Chan.

Despite telling Zoe Ball on Radio 2 last year that the Virgin Mary is clearly the ‘queen’ of Christmas, Mariah Carey’s company has been seeking to register the trademark ‘Queen Of Christmas’ in the US ever since March 2021. But that registration is being opposed by another music-maker who calls herself a ‘Christmas recording artist’, runs a company that specialises in Christmas music, and released an album called ‘Queen Of Christmas’.Elizabeth Chan says that – although she has never trademarked the phrase Queen Of Christmas – she has used it commercially since 2014.