Mariah Carey fans are reminded every year that she “doesn’t care about the presents under the Christmas tree” when they listen to her perennial holiday hit, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” But she sure cares about real trees.
The five-time Grammy winner told PEOPLE in her recent digital cover interview that two specific Christmas trees are filling her home with holiday spirit this year.
“One is more magnificent, you know, the kind of gold and cream and glittery angels and butterflies tree that I have every year and it makes me really happy,” Carey, 54, said in Los Angeles at her Merry Christmas One and All! concert tour.
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“The other one is kind of like the Charlie Brown tree, where we take Polaroids of ourselves and put them on the tree,” Carey added. “It’s fun because it’s a sad little tree, but we decorate it, and it’s cute, and it has colorful lights. Some of my fans made decorations for me, so we try to save them and put them on the tree. peanut forever!”
Mariah Carey.
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As peanut, Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has stood the test of time since its 1994 release. Although always a holiday favorite, the song did not enter the top 10 of Billboard’s all-genre Hot 100 chart until 2017. The song first reached No. 1 in 2019, becoming her 19th No. 1 song of her career. She has the most number 1s of any solo artist in history.
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The Library of Congress inducted “All I Want for Christmas Is You” into the National Recording Registry in April 2023. At the time, Carey chirped, “I am incredibly honored! I definitely never imagined this would happen when I was writing and recording this song!”
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