Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Is World’s First Double Platinum Holiday Ringtone

“Mariah
Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ has become one of the
essential musical hallmarks of the holiday season and continues to set
records each year,” said Adam Block, GM/VP, Legacy Recordings. “Legacy
is proud to be part of the ongoing success of this holiday classic.”

Mariah
Carey and Legacy Recordings are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the
original release of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” with the digital
release of brand new full-length dance mixes of the track, executive
produced by Mariah Carey and remixed by Low Sunday (Ron Haney, Bart
Schoudel and Joey Arbagey), available for purchase now through all
major digital music providers and all US wireless carriers.

Fans
wanting to order the “All I Want For Christmas Is You” (Original)
ringtone directly may text MARIAH1 to 66555 from a mobile device.
($2.99/tone | Not a Subscription | Opt Out: text STOP to 66555)*

New
holiday ringtones of Mariah’s 2009 Dance Mix of “All I Want For
Christmas Is You” were made available on Tuesday, November 24.

“All
I Want For Christmas Is You,” has been America’s #1 holiday ringtone
for the past three consecutive holiday seasons (2006, 2007, 2008),
reaching cumulative sales of more than 1.6 million copies prior to this
year. The top-selling seasonal ringtone of all-time, Mariah’s holiday
gem became the very first seasonal Mastertone to be awarded an RIAA
certification in 2006 and was awarded an RIAA platinum certification in
2007. The song has hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Recurrents
chart every year from 2005 – 2008.

A
perennial radio and record chart-topper every holiday season since its
original release in 1994, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” was written
by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff and is currently the most popular
holiday track on America’s seasonal radio playlists.

“All
I Want For Christmas Is You” was first heard as a key track on Mariah
Carey’s Merry Christmas album. Originally released in 1994, Merry
Christmas has gone on to become one of the top-selling holiday
collections of all time, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide
while earning 5x platinum certification from the RIAA.

Mariah’s original “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is available on iTunes.

Fans looking for Merry Christmas and other Mariah Carey titles may visit www.legacyrecordings.com/artists/mariah-carey

Sasha
Frere-Jones, writing in The New Yorker (April 3, 2006), heralded the
song as “…one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday
canon….”

Mariah fans can hear a personal holiday greeting from the artist at 917-388-9223.

About Legacy Recordings

The
multiple Grammy-winning Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment’s
catalog division, produces and maintains the world’s foremost catalog
of historic reissues, an unparalleled compendium of thousands of
digitally remastered archival titles representing virtually every
musical genre including popular, rock, jazz, blues, R&B, hip-hop,
folk, country, gospel, Broadway musicals, movie soundtracks, ethnic,
world music, classical, comedy and more.

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