As every year, the American is well on its way to reigning over the charts end of the year with his hit All I Want for Christmas Is You, released in 1994. This is not the fault of Santa Claus, but that of the streaming platforms, analyzes the British weekly The Economist.
The battle for the top of the Christmas charts has been won in recent years by Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande. But for some time now, these singers have had to face unexpected competition from the last century. Indeed, despite all the efforts of today’s young stars, the masters of charts are now, every December, artists either of a certain age or dead.
Mariah Carey, a tube that smells like fir
On Christmas Day five years ago, the top ten spots on the Billboard Hot 100 (weekly chart of the most popular songs in the United States) were filled with new titles. Then, in 2017, Mariah Carey climbed to ninth place with her huge hit released twenty-three years earlier, All I Want for Christmas Is You [“Tout ce que je veux pour Noël, c’est toi”]. Since then, the old songs have continued to climb to the top.
As of last Christmas, half of the most popular titles were over half a century old. Ms Carey, then 51, was one of the youngest performers: two of her chart-mates had retired, and three were singing with the angels [dans cette dernière catégorie figurait, bien sûr, le chanteur britannique disparu en 2016 George Michael, avec son tube Last Christmas (“À Noël, l’an dernier”), enregistré en 1984 avec le groupe Wham !].
Spotify, evil little pixie
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Great institution of the British press, The Economist, founded in 1843 by a Scottish hatter, is the bible for anyone interested in international news. Openly liberal, he generally defends free trade,
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