‘My Filipino lambs’: Mariah Carey shouts out Filipino fans preparing for Christmas
September 6, 2023
Mariah Carey recently gave her seal of approval to all her Filipino fans who are already preparing for Christmas.
What she wrote: On Saturday, Carey, 54, replied to an X post by Mariah Carey Charts (@chartmariah), a fan account.
“@MariahCarey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ received 316K streams on Spotify yesterday, a 75% increase compared to the same day in 2022,” the fan account wrote.
“Not yet!!!!” Carey wrote in her reply. “I’ll allow it for my Filipino lambs [Carey’s fans] though! (I don’t make the rules!)”
Why she wrote it: Although it is only September, several people around the world — especially Filipinos — start getting ready for Christmas once the “ber” months arrive. Around the Philippines, Christmas trees are put up, decorations are hung and Christmas songs — including Carey’s 1994 hit “All I Want For Christmas is You” — are played in homes, restaurants, shopping malls, grocery stores and more starting on Sept. 1.
Carey is seemingly aware of this — although it may seem too early to start preparing for the festive season for most of the world, the superstar’s Filipino fans get a pass.
Recent statistics: “All I Want For Christmas is You” was streamed over 316,000 times on Spotify on Friday. Around 112,000 of those streams were from the Philippines, making Carey’s holiday hit the 82nd most-streamed song in the Southeast Asian nation that day.
As of this writing, “All I Want For Christmas is You” has garnered over 1.45 billion streams in total on Spotify.
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