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White Christmas
"White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and first performed publicly by Bing Crosby on Christmas Day 1941, became the best-selling single of all time by some measures, a distinction it has held for over eight decades despite the enormous growth of the recorded music industry since its release. Berlin reportedly wrote the song's wistful, nostalgic lyrics while staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, composing an ode to a snowy Christmas from the middle of a Southern California winter, a contrast later commentators have often noted as part of the song's enduring emotional appeal. Crosby's version, featured in the films "Holiday Inn" and later "White Christmas," became so closely associated with the song that Berlin himself reportedly considered Crosby's recording the definitive version, and it has been re-released and charted repeatedly during the Christmas season for decades since. Its combination of its record-setting sales status and Bing Crosby's definitive vocal performance has made "White Christmas" widely regarded as the greatest and most commercially significant Christmas song ever written.
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All I Want for Christmas Is You
"All I Want for Christmas Is You," written and recorded by Mariah Carey with co-writer Walter Afanasieff and released in 1994, became the most successful and commercially significant Christmas song of the modern pop era, eventually reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 2019, 25 years after its original release. Recorded at Right Track Recording studio in New York City, the song combined Carey's vocal range with a deliberately vintage, 1960s girl-group-inspired production style, giving it a nostalgic sonic quality despite being written and recorded decades after that era's peak. The song's enormous and continuing annual streaming and sales resurgence every holiday season, decades after its release, has made it one of the most consistently lucrative recordings in modern music, generating an estimated multi-million-dollar royalty windfall for Carey and her co-writer every year. Its combination of its unprecedented modern commercial success and its status as the definitive contemporary pop Christmas song has made "All I Want for Christmas Is You" the most significant Christmas song written in the last half-century.
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