Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Inducted Into Library Of Congress Recording Registry
Written by bioncatate@1073vip.com on April 13, 2023
Mariah Carey was just bestowed the honor of a lifetime, after her 1994 classic “All I Want For Christmas Is You” was among the 25 songs selected this year for preservation by the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry.
The 54-year-old singer reacted to the honor by taking to Twitter and subtweeting the 1-minute video of a Library of Congress official informing Carey of the honor. She tweeted, “I’m honored beyond belief! I definitely did not even imagine this would happen when writing and recording this song! Thank you so much Ms. Hayden and the @thelibraryofcongress.”
In selecting Carey’s holiday classic, the Library of Congress described Carey this way:
“For the past 40 years, the lower rungs of the pop chart have been littered with attempts to launch a new Christmas standard, a song for the season to modernize the feelings that Bing Crosby and Mel Torme had so resoundingly put onto disc decades before. None of them had ever endured, however, nor taken their place with those previous hits and all the classic Christmas hymns and carols. That was until 1994 when, for her fourth collection, Carey went into the studio to make the now almost obligatory holiday album.”
