Mariah Carey will celebrate the 30th anniversary of her “Merry Christmas” album — and the classic single that came wrapped up inside it, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — with a 20-city Christmas tour this fall, under the banner of “Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time.”
The Live Nation-produced tour will kick off in early November with three shows in southern California and wrap up with a trio of concerts in the New York/New Jersey area in mid-December. In the Los Angeles region and environs, she’ll be doing a tour premiere Nov. 6 at Highland’s Yaamava Theater, an intimate teaser for a much bigger show she’ll be doing Nov. 8 at the Hollywood Bowl, to be followed by a Nov. 13 gig at the Acrisure Arena in the Palm Springs area.
“Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time” follows the success of a shorter, 13-city holiday tour Carey did in 2023, “Merry Christmas One and All!,” and will follow a similar template of mixing Christmas fare with the singer’s non-seasonal hits. On last year’s tour, the bulk of the setlist consisted of holiday songs but had a run of other material that included “Hero,” “We Belong Together” and a massive hits medley in the last stretch of the show.
Although it’s now been three decades since the release of her first and biggest Christmas album, Carey did not begin commemorating that material with special live concerts until 2014, when she did a themed residency at the Beacon Theater in New York. That turned into a series of short tours in subsequent years, including a four-date mini-tour in 2019 that was filmed for a CBS special, “Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!”
The focus on Christmas tours has coincided with the gradual, belated rise of “All I Want for Christmas Is You” as a perennial No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 each December. The song did not make it to the top position on that chart until 2019, 20 years after its release, but it has peaked at No. 1 every year thereafter.
Carey will bring a special edition of the „Merry Christmas“-CD to the market in the next days to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her smash hit. She is expected to be Number 1 of all Charts in the world again this year starting latest in the first week of December
For anyone who wants to see Carey but not deal quite so much with Christmas, there have been and will be plenty of opportunities this year, as the singer is doing an intermittent “Celebration of Mimi” residency in Las Vegas, at Dolby Live at Park MG returning in January and February 2025
Mariah Carey’s 2024 Christmas tour dates:
Wed Nov 06 | Highland, CA | Yaamava Theater
Fri Nov 08 | Los Angeles, CA | Hollywood Bowl
Wed Nov 13 | Greater Palm Springs, CA | Acrisure Arena
Fri Nov 15 | Phoenix, AZ | Footprint Center
Sun Nov 17 | Austin, TX | Moody Center
Tue Nov 19 | Houston, TX | Toyota Center
Thu Nov 21 | Dallas, TX | American Airlines Center
Sat Nov 23 | Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena
Mon Nov 25 | Nashville, TN | Bridgestone Arena
Wed Nov 27 | Rosemont, IL | Allstate Arena
Fri Nov 29 | St. Louis, MO | Enterprise Center
Sun Dec 01 | Washington, DC | Capital One Arena
Tue Dec 03 | Philadelphia, PA | Wells Fargo Center
Thu Dec 05 | Boston, MA | TD Garden
Sat Dec 07 | Baltimore, MD | CFG Bank Arena
Mon Dec 09 | Raleigh, NC | PNC Arena
Wed Dec 11 | Pittsburgh, PA | PPG Paints Arena
Fri Dec 13 | Newark, NJ | Prudential Center
Sun Dec 15 | Belmont Park, NY | UBS Arena
Tue Dec 17 | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center
