What is the most popular Christmas song of all time as of a year ago? Mariah Carey's 1994 hit "All I Want for Christmas is You". Last year it achieved the record for highest-charting holiday song on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 by a solo artist. It is the most-streamed track on Spotify in 24 hours by a female artist with almost 11,000,000 streams in December 2018 and most weeks in the U.. singles top 109 chart for a Christmas song. These made it to the 2020 Guinnesss World Records
There's a children's book in which the Mariah-type little girl's greatest wish for Christmas is a puppy.
The song has received much analytical attention.
"Writing at Slate, Adam Ragusea undertook an extensive analysis of the harmony behind “All I Want for Christmas,” counting at least 13 distinct chords in the song, including a minor subdominant chord, which is also found — crucially — in Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.” In short, “All I Want” is, despite its presumed simplicity, a relatively sophisticated piece of pop songwriting that has more in common with the Great American Songbook than it does with any of its peers on the charts in 1994. "
Today's picture continues my attempts to learn the new Topaz Studio software. They've replaced my favourite individual plug-ins with an integrated 'studio' and it seems to have lost most of the functionality I'd used. These are gym balls at the Y, turned to abstracts.
