All I Want For Christmas Is You

Mariah Carey's co-writer and co-producer on 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' has challenged the star's story of when she wrote the track.

“When she started to hint at the fact that, ‘Oh, I wrote that song when I was a little girl!’ But why weren’t you saying that for 12 or 13 or 15 years prior to that?,” he said. You know what, I don’t have birthdays, but the birthing day was the greatest gift ever, when I had my twins Roc and Roe [Moroccan and Monroe], and once again I’d like to introduce you to my daughter, Monroe.” “Eleven years ago, I got the greatest gift. “I started playing a boogie-woogie, kind of a rock. “So on and on, and it was like a game of ping-pong. She doesn’t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a major seventh chord.”

For context, Walter Afanasieff collaborated with Carey on her first six studio albums and has won two Grammys: one in 1999 for Record Of The Year (for producing ...

“I am proud of this song that I wrote basically as a kid on my little Casio keyboard,” she said. The cowriter and coproducer on Mariah Carey’s much-loved Xmas song “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is refuting Carey’s claim that she wrote the song as a kid. “So the writing of ‘All I Want For Christmas’ is, I started playing a boogie-woogie, kind of a rock. He added: “So on and on, and it was like a game of ping-pong. [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/pro/mariah-carey-christmas-hot-100-top-10-reaction/) that she came up with the song when she was a kid. For context, Walter Afanasieff collaborated with Carey on her first six studio albums and has won two Grammys: one in 1999 for Record Of The Year (for producing Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”), and in 2000 he won Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical.

Longtime collaborator Walter Afanasieff played Grinch to the pop diva's claim that she basically wrote the song as a little girl.

She doesn’t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a major seventh chord.” “I am proud of this song that I wrote basically as a kid on my little Casio keyboard,” she [told Billboard in 2017](https://www.billboard.com/pro/mariah-carey-christmas-hot-100-top-10-reaction/). She doesn’t play keyboard or piano. “But she doesn’t play anything. She doesn’t understand music, she doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that. He said there was “never any alternate story ...

Mariah Carey recently lashed out at by co-writer Walter Afanasieff over taking all of the credit for the song All I Want For Christmas Is You.

So, it just sort of developed in her mind,” explained the 64-year-old. Walter revealed, “She doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that. During the interview, Walter pointed out, “So, to claim that she wrote a very complicated chord-structured song with her finger on a Casio keyboard when she was a little girl, it’s kind of a tall tale.”

With publishing royalties included, the song came to earn $6.16 million last year. The estimate did not include any official covers of the song, television ...

In 2021, it climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the fourth straight year. For the fourth consecutive time, it climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart despite being released in 1994. By 2016, she made over $72 million for the song.

Longtime collaborator Walter Afanasieff played Grinch to the pop diva's claim that she basically wrote the song as a little girl.

In a new twist, the co-writer of the song disputes Carey's origin story about the track. Carey says she wrote the song as a kid. But co-writer Walter Afanasieff ...

She said, “I am proud of this song that I wrote basically as a kid on my little Casio keyboard.” “So the writing of ‘All I Want For Christmas’ is, I started playing a boogie-woogie, kind of a rock. He added, “So on and on, and it was like a game of ping-pong. In a new twist, the co-writer of the song disputes Carey’s origin story about the track. She doesn’t play keyboard or piano. “She doesn’t play anything.

Mariah Carey and the guy she wrote 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' with have some disagreements.

99.9 percent of all musicals struggle their entire lives and never create a song as listened to and widely beloved as “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” Everyone involved should be enormously proud of themselves for creating something that lasts and [brings happiness to so many people](https://www.cinemablend.com/pop/1603450/mariah-carey-jams-out-to-all-i-want-for-christmas-at-home-because-of-course), no matter if one wrote 51% and the other 49%. Both she and Afanasieff agree she wrote basically all the lyrics and contributed to the melody, which, any way you look at it, is a significant contribution to the song. The marriage went south by the late '90s amidst a stream of accusations, and Afanasieff continued working with Mottola, while Carey moved on to new producers. Carey and Afanasieff worked together extensively during the early part of Carey's career, co-writing dozens of songs together. The popular singer’s eternal [pop culture phenomenon](https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1638169/one-of-mariah-careys-songs-is-getting-its-own-movie) “All I Want For Christmas Is You” races up the charts everytime December rolls around. [time for Mariah Carey to shine](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/its-early-days-but-mariah-carey-is-already-hyping-us-for-christmas-from-her-bathtub).

Mariah Carey set the global Spotify chart record for single-day streams with “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” According to data from the music platform, ...

[up for debate](https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/all-i-want-for-christmas-mariah-carey-songwriting-claims.html) exactly where “All I Want for Christmas” came from, we feel pretty certain about where it’s going: straight to the top of the winter charts. [Mariah Carey](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/mariah-carey-christmas-concert.html) might not [legally](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/mariah-carey-queen-of-christmas-trademark-denied.html) be the Queen of Christmas, but her reign over the festive season is undeniable. This made her the only woman to ever have three songs — “All I Want for Christmas,” “One Sweet Day” and “We Belong Together” — all top the chart for double-digit weeks. The last pre-Carey seasonal single to hit No. She did not go easy on Adele’s [“Easy on Me,”](https://www.vulture.com/2021/10/adele-easy-on-me-song-review.html) which has been bumped down to second place with 19.747 million single-day streams. The hit track now also boasts the most single-day streams on Spotify’s global chart, having [received](https://charts.spotify.com/charts/view/regional-global-daily/2022-12-24) 21.273 million streams this Christmas Eve.