Mariah Carey is kicking off the holiday season and a new Christmas tour by thawing out!
It’s…… TIME!!! 🎃🧊🎄 #MariahSZN pic.twitter.com/dp6xEs7LTT
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) November 1, 2023
On the last night of October, just as Nov. 1 approached, Carey posted a video of herself being defrosted to sing “It’s time!”
Suddenly, Christmas time took over, and she was dancing and singing her hit single “All I Want for Christmas” among friends and family.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Carey has been dubbed “The Queen of Christmas” due to the longevity of her famous Christmas song, which has become a classic among other traditional carols like, “Silent Night,” and Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song.”
She is the only singer to ever have a number mone single on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts for the same song spanning through four different decades.
Carey spends each Christmas season celebrating the joy this song brings. Although Nov. 1 tends to be the start of the song’s continual climb to number one, she takes her time celebrating and stated to Entertainment Weekly, “I personally like to wait till after Thanksgiving to really get gung-ho.”
In 2019, she described the original release response from 1994 to Entertainment Weekly. She said, “When it first came out, it was more of a gradual thing.”
“It was popular, but it didn’t have what it has now. I feel like people have grown up with the song and it’s become a part of people’s lives in terms of the way they celebrate the holidays,” she added.
Then Carey concluded, “That makes me feel really proud as someone that loves Christmas so much.”
Happy to announce more dates on my Merry Christmas One And All! tour 🎙️🎄Come celebrate with me in Cleveland on 12/7 and in New York on 12/9. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am at https://t.co/D6M70nWnqA pic.twitter.com/1Jmcb2VUuS
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) October 30, 2023
Carey’s Christmas tour starts on Nov. 15 and she is traveling all over North America to spread Christmas music cheer.
She even posted a little clip of herself getting a call from Santa Claus asking to travel to all of the cities on her tour.
I gotchu Santa! Merry Christmas One and All! 🎅🏼🎄On sale now 🔥 https://t.co/EpDIxcg0W4 pic.twitter.com/eBZeaVPqzu
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) October 6, 2023
She noted that she is going to Kansas City, Missouri, right around Thanksgiving and proclaimed, “That’s a first!”
Then she said, “See you soon,” and blew everyone a kiss.