'People are so over hearing it': Bar bans Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas' ahead of holidays
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: A Sydney bar has banned Mariah Carey's song 'All I Want For Christmas' ahead of the holidays. Simon Rose-Hopkins, the owner of country and western bar Jolene's, has apparently banned the popular song, along with the Christmas crooner Michael Bublé. The bar will still play several Christmas songs except those from these two singers, Rose-Hopkins informed his clients.
"We are doing Christmas on steroids. We've got lights, reindeers, Christmas trees and Christmas cocktails like a Gingerbread Manhattan and a Pavlova Christmas slushie. We've got a Country Christmas playlist, but we won't be playing Mariah," he told The Daily Telegraph on Monday. Instead, Christmas songs by artists like Lee Kernaghan, Dolly Parton, and Blake Shelton will be played in the bar.
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"It's been met with giggles and admiration," he added. "We get a lot of retail workers coming in after their stores close and say thank you because they are so over hearing the traditional retail Christmas music!" Due to its popularity during the Christmas season, the well-known Mariah holiday song earns $4 million annually.
According to research by The Economist, Carey makes roughly USD $2.5 million (AUD $3.9 million or £2.1 million) every year from 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'. The singer had made $60 million (AUD $93 million or £52 million) on the 1994 song by the time it was re-released in 2016. Carey probably made an additional $12.5 million (AUD $19 million or £10.8 million) after the song ranked first on the Billboard 100 for a third consecutive year in 2021, bringing her total revenue from the song to around $72 million (AUD $112 million or £62 million). She was set to receive another $72 million this year if the song returned to the top spot.
Just days after dominating the UK charts for the second time in history, the hitmaker, 52, set a new Billboard record when the classic holiday single returned to the top spot for a fourth consecutive year.