Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas One and All! The tour grossed $29.6 million and sold 214,000 tickets, according to figures reported by Billboard Boxscore. On a per-show basis, the tour's 15 dates sold more tickets than any Carey tour in the past 25 years, dating back to 1998's Butterfly World tour.
Carey was released Merry Christmas in 1994, with the iconic and evergreen smash single, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” That would have been enough to cement her status as the Queen of Christmas, but Carey puts in her work every year and took her throne on stage as well. For every year since 2014 (except the 2020-21 COVID years), she has toured and/or held mini-residencies honoring her holiday material.
For four years, Carey played a stint at New York's Beacon Theatre, growing from 16,200 tickets in 2014, to 20,700 in 2015 and to 23,400 in 2016. She cut back to just three shows at the Beacon in 2017, before rebuilding at the Madi Garden in 2019, 2022 and 2023. Her two shows there in December sold a combined 28,700 tickets and took in $4.5 million, both bigger than ever.
Carey not only increased her effectiveness in New York, but also across the country and in Europe. What began as a New York-only event in 2014 expanded to Europe in 2017 and 2018, as well as more North American cities in 2019. After last year's post-pandemic comeback focused only on New York and Toronto, the tour of 2023 boasts Carey's longest holiday tour yet, never playing to fewer than 12,500 fans across the US and Canada. Holiday classics or not, it's her first such major tour since 2006.
Considering “All I Want for Christmas Is You” re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 based on the tracking week of November 10-16 and remained at No. 2 through the first week of 2024, it's likely to extend beyond Nov. 17-Dec. 17th window of this season.
Merry Christmas one and all! The tour averaged $2 million and 14,200 tickets per show. These earnings figures are the biggest for Carey dating back more than 30 years since she crashed the Advertising sign diagrams.
But while the crowded concert economy and decades of inflation can explain some of her recent success, Carey's reach — the sheer number of tickets she's sold — is also very high. That average of 14,200 is the best attendance per show for any of her tours since 1998, when she supported the previous year Butterfly.
By the 1998 tour, Carey had amassed four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and 12 No. 1 songs on the Hot 100. Since then, there have been two more No. 1 albums and seven No. 1 songs, including 14 weeks at the top, spanning over the past five holiday seasons, for “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” In 2019, a month before the track peaked, Carey was ranked No. 4 Advertising signGreatest of All Time Artists chart, leader among female and black artists.
However, Carey has never toured with the same intensity as many of the acts who surrounded her on the list, such as Elton John, Madonna or Taylor Swift. Her first three concert tours, in the midst of her '90s chart spree, each spanned no more than 11 shows, nearly an eighth of Swift's 2024 calendar.
It's encouraging that Carey has arguably been busier than ever on the road over the past decade, including her annual vacation, two Las Vegas residencies, and three international tours. Far from releasing her last chart-topper, her surge in 2023 concerts, not to mention all-time highs, tells a positive story about Carey's legacy as the Queen of Christmas, using her unique position ( and 19 No. 1 hits – a record among soloists – extending their holiday chart presence) to packed arenas.
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