Spotify’s Top 10 most-streamed holiday tracks of all time revealed
nypost.com2 billion streams.“I was working on it by myself … on this little Casio keyboard and writing down words and thinking about, ‘What do I think of at Christmas?
What do I love? What do I want? What do I dream of?'” Carey told ABC News about the inspiration behind the song. “And that’s what started it.
My goal was to do something timeless, so it didn’t feel like the ’90s, which is when I wrote it.”Carey has earned more than $60 million from the song in streams alone.“Last Christmas” by the British pop duo Wham!
landed in second place. The 1984 pop classic was penned by George Michael in his childhood bedroom. He died on Christmas Day in 2016 at 53.“For the song to achieve its current chart placing … George would have been utterly delighted, as I am,” his musical partner, Andrew Ridgeley, told Billboard.“Santa Tell Me” by Ariana Grande, released in 2014, took third place.The “Wicked” star revealed that her scantily clad idea for its music video was thankfully scrapped. “The original video, I was in weird Christmas lingerie and I was hitting Santa with a cane pole.
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