All I Want for Christmas Is You is a song originally performed by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released by Columbia Records in 1994 as the lead single from her fourth studio album, Merry Christmas. Carey co-wrote and co-produced the song with Walter Afanasieff. An uptempo love song, the instrumentation includes bell chimes and heavy back-up vocals, as well as use of synthesizers. The songs lyrics declare that the narrator does not care about Christmas presents or lights; all she wants for Christmas is to be with her lover. All I Want for Christmas Is You has been critically praised, with The New Yorker calling it one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon.The song was commercially successful, reaching the number-two position on the singles charts of Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, and the top 10 in several other countries. The Daily Telegraph hailed All I Want for Christmas Is You as the most popular and most played Christmas song of the decade in the United Kingdom. Rolling Stone ranked it fourth on its Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs list, calling it a holiday standard. With global sales of over 14 million copies, the song remains Careys biggest international hit and one of thebest-selling singles of all time. - Wikipedia
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