Joyful Christmas is the primary Christmas collection, and the fourth studio collection, by American artist and lyricist Mariah Carey. Discharged by Columbia Records on November 1, 1994, the collection highlights cover forms of famous Christmas tunes and unique material.
Fathers day quotes Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she composed the majority of the first tracks, and also creating Carey's understandings of the secured material. The collection contains a contemporary occasion topic, and included "genuine, gospel enhanced foundation vocals". Three singles were discharged from the collection, of which "All I Want for Christmas Is You" proceeded to end up extraordinary compared to other moving singles, time immemorial.
joyful Christmas was discharged at the pinnacle of the underlying stretch of Carey's profession, between Music Box (1993) and Daydream (1995). The collection created "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which turned into the top of the line occasion ringtone in the US. The collection has sold 5.5 million duplicates in the United States as of December 2015 as per Nielsen SoundScan, and has been ensured quintuple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It has sold 15 million duplicates worldwide and is the top of the line Christmas collection of all time.
