Mariah Carey is an American singer who has achieved great success in the music business.Mariah Carey was born and raised in Long Island, New York.“David Letterman officially declared me the Queen of Christmas 29 years ago, a year before she released ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You,’ and at 81 years of age I’m NOT changing anything.” Love concluded her message with a direct challenge to Carey, saying, “If Mariah has a problem call David or my lawyer!” She later joked that she should trademark her name, Love, “so that you all can’t use it.”Īs the battle for the Christmas throne continues to heat up, I hope Carey considers what these actions might do to her Naughty or Nice prospects this year. “Is it true that Mariah Carey trademarked ‘Queen of Christmas’? What does that mean that I can’t use that title?” she wrote, tagging Carey’s official Facebook page. After Chan filed her declaration, Love actually responded to the news on Facebook. “I’m someone that loves Christmas, that happened to be blessed to write ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You,’” she said, adding that she believed “Mary is the Queen of Christmas.”Ĭarey’s mention of the “other people” known as the queen of Christmas is presumably a reference to Darlene Love - of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” fame - who was crowned the queen of Christmas by David Letterman three decades ago, and Brenda Lee ( “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”), who has also earned the title, per Variety. “That was other people, and I just want to humbly say that I don’t consider myself that,” she said in a 2021 interview on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. Tompros, also noted that Carey herself has previously rejected the “Queen of Christmas” title. The declaration, filed by Chan’s lawyer, Lous. It’s meant to be shared it’s not meant to be owned.” Chan wants to keep the “Queen of Christmas” name open and available to anyone who wants to use it, from singers to Etsy shop owners, and, yes, even Carey, just without the trademark. “I feel very strongly that no one person should hold onto anything around Christmas or monopolize it in the way that Mariah seeks to in perpetuity,” Chan said in an interview with Variety. Needless to say, she was less than impressed with Carey’s trademark application and recently filed a declaration to the trademark appeals board in an effort to block it from going through. Just how much does Chan love Christmas? She created a label called Merry Bright Music and named her first daughter Noelle. After a 2018 profile in the New Yorker declared her “the Queen of Christmas,” she used the moniker as the title of her 2021 album. For the last ten years, Chan has made a career out of writing and releasing Christmas music. It turns out, all she really wants for Christmas is the sole right to sell merch with the phrases “Queen of Christmas,” “QOC,” “Princess of Christmas,” and “Christmas Princess.”Ĭarey filed her trademark application in March of 2021, and now she’s officially being challenged by fellow Christmas songstress Elizabeth Chan. Mariah Carey is feuding with at least two fellow members of the musical Christmas court after she filed to trademark “ Queen of Christmas” along with a handful of other related phrases. It’s the battle of the Christmas queens, but only one can wear the crown - or wreath.
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