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Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” Just Gave Her a Christmas Gift · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Well, you know Christmas season is officially
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Speaker 1: upon us when Mariah Carey's holiday smash all I Want
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Speaker 1: for Christmas Is You re enters Billboards Hot one hundred,
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Speaker 1: and hit did just that when it claimed number twenty
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Speaker 1: five on the charts dated November, and in doing so,
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Speaker 1: it was Mariah herself who received a gift. The song
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Speaker 1: became her first to spend at least a year or
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Speaker 1: fifty two nonconsecutive weeks on the Hot one hundred. Her
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Speaker 1: two thousand five number one hit We Belong Together stands
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Speaker 1: as her second best performer, with forty three weeks on
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Speaker 1: the chart. Maria never imagined how popular All I Want
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Speaker 1: for Christmas Is You would remain in nearly thirty years
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Speaker 1: after she wrote it, telling Billboard, I had absolutely no
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Speaker 1: idea the impact the song would eventually have worldwide. I
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Speaker 1: am so full of gratitude that so many people enjoy
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Speaker 1: it with me every year. That's direct from Hollywood.