{"id":480241,"date":"2018-12-26T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=772688"},"modified":"2018-12-26T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:55:30","slug":"mariah-carey-song-from-1994-breaks-music-streaming-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/mariah-carey-song-from-1994-breaks-music-streaming-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Song From 1994 Breaks Music Streaming Record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drake, Ariana Grande and their modern pop ilk may seem to reign supreme on music-streaming services. But a Mariah Carey<\/a> song from 1994 \u2013\u2013 you know the one \u2013\u2013 just broke the all-time single-day streaming record on Spotify.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You,\u201d the sprightly holiday song that reportedly took just 15 minutes to write, hit 10,819,009 streams on Spotify on December 24th, 2018, according to the streaming service\u2019s official global charts<\/a>. The song\u2019s Christmas Eve figure beats out the 10.4 million streams of XXXTentacion\u2019s single \u201cSad!\u201d on June 19th, 2018, which was the day after the rapper was shot and killed, as well as any single-day individual track records from Drake\u2019s blockbuster LP Scorpion<\/em>\u00a0released earlier this summer. So now, two decades and a half after its release, \u201cChristmas\u201d boasts the biggest single-day audience in Spotify\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

The record is a pristine example of the long-tail effects of streaming, under which older songs have just as much a shot as freshly-dropped tracks at spiking in popularity \u2014 and of course revenue \u2014 at any given time. For other points of proof, just see the unexpected longevity of Green Day\u2019s \u201cWake Me Up When September Ends\u201d which spikes on streaming services just when you would expect it<\/a> each year, or the evergreen appeal<\/a> of Queen\u2019s \u201cBohemian Rhapsody.\u201d The fact that Carey\u2019s 1994 track garnered 11 million streams in 2018 is also a sign of music-streaming\u2019s still-soaring adoption, as Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music and other services continue to add millions of new users each year, albeit at a slightly more modest pace nowadays.<\/p>\n

Money-wise,\u00a0\u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You\u201d didn\u2019t exactly earn Carey or the label a fortune on the day it broke the record. At around $0.006 a stream, 11 million streams translates to only $66,000 (and that\u2019s before it\u2019s split amongst the various rights-holders of the song, which include co-writers, producers, label executives and publishers). But considering that the single earned that amount on Christmas Eve alone, not counting the trickle of streams coming in on any other day in the holiday season \u2014 and also noting that the track reentered the iTunes download chart in November \u2014 the net profits of \u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You\u201d this year are very much outsized.<\/p>\n

In the CD era, a fan listening to their favorite old songs on repeat would net those artists exactly $0; while that number isn\u2019t a massive sum with streaming, the fractions of pennies do add up.\u00a0 As of 2017, Carey\u2019s Christmas single was reported to have earned around $60 million in royalties. As long as streaming is around to reward continuously replayed music, that number will only keep climbing.<\/p>\n

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Wait\u2026 What?! ??? https:\/\/t.co\/C2zw3hGQeK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) December 25, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drake, Ariana Grande and their modern pop ilk may seem to reign supreme on music-streaming services. But a Mariah Carey song from 1994 \u2013\u2013 you know the one \u2013\u2013 just broke the all-time single-day streaming record on Spotify. \u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You,\u201d the sprightly holiday song that reportedly took just 15 minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 23:55:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}