Is Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas overrated? Song is Spotify's most streamed holiday song

It's become the soundtrack to the holiday season, and if you were in any doubt about the popularity of Mariah Carey's hit track 'All I Want For Christmas' look no further than Spotify's latest official ratings. 

The Queen of Christmas' classic belter is the most streamed festive song of the holiday season so far, racking up 1.3 million listens (despite a recent Ipsos poll finding many believe it to be the most annoying Christmas track of all time).  

The song first emerged in October 1994, joining a world where Top 40 radio holiday programming was still dominated by the cool crooning of Bing Crosby and the familiar yet electrifying spunk of Brenda Lee.

'All I Want for Christmas' soared to the top of the charts and helped Carey score one of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time, with The New Yorker calling the tune 'one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon.' Indeed, that holiday canon was soon to change.

Today, holiday tunes from Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, and Michael Bublé, dominate the airwaves and the tiled floors of Macy's stores across the country. 

Radio stations host WHAM! competitions to see how long listeners can go without hearing 'Last Christmas' (to hear it is to suffer a Whamageddon).

Despite this, Wham's classic is still the second most streamed song on Spotify with 1,053 million listens, followed by Ariana Grande and Michael Bublé with 773 and 747 million respectively. 

Brenda Lee just scrapes into the top rankings in fifth place, with 694 million. But what happened to Bing? And what is Christmas without Jimmy Durante's 'Frosty the Snowman' sung with a voice like a gravel-filled snowball? 

Are the classics better off shunted aside like unwanted underwear on Christmas morning while Mariah sings her songs, or should they be hung high on the tree for all to see? Have your say. 

Mariah Carey's 'All I want for Christmas Is You' has topped the charts on Spotify's most played Christmas songs this holiday season. Bing Crosby is nowhere in sight