Consider This from NPR - What makes a holiday song a lasting hit?

Whether you play it on loop or whether it drives you crazy, there's no question Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You," song has become a permanent fixture of the Christmas song canon.

But the holiday song canon is big, and a number of other pop artists have made their own Yuletide jingles since 1994 including John Legend, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.

But not even the woman who shattered records with her Eras tour has given us a holiday song that has had staying power worthy of The Canon.

For 30 years Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has dominated the holiday music charts. NPR's Stephen Thompson explains what makes it a lasting hit?

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Consider This from NPR - What makes a holiday song a lasting hit?

Whether you play it on loop or whether it drives you crazy, there's no question Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You," song has become a permanent fixture of the Christmas song canon.

But the holiday song canon is big, and a number of other pop artists have made their own Yuletide jingles since 1994 including John Legend, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.

But not even the woman who shattered records with her Eras tour has given us a holiday song that has had staying power worthy of The Canon.

For 30 years Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has dominated the holiday music charts. NPR's Stephen Thompson explains what makes it a lasting hit?

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The Journal. - Happy Holidays! An Interview with the Christmas Queen

Mariah Carey released "All I Want for Christmas Is You" in 1994 to moderate success. Today, the song is a megahit and Christmas playlist staple. What happened? WSJ's John Jurgensen called up the "Queen of Christmas" to find out. This episode was originally published on December 11, 2020.

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Federalist Radio Hour - The Federalist’s 2024 Holiday Movie Review

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Emily Jashinsky, Washington, D.C., correspondent at UnHerd and former culture editor at The Federalist, joins Samuel Mangold-Lenett, contributing editor at The Federalist, to discuss the biggest hits and misses of Hollywood this year. From television shows to movies, see which shows and blockbuster hits deserve air time -- and which dropped the ball. 

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Tom Holland on How Christianity Remade the World

Whether you believe in the story of the virgin birth and the resurrection, or whether you believe that those miracles are myths, one thing is beyond dispute: The story of Jesus and the message of Christianity are among the stickiest ideas the world has ever seen.


Within four centuries of Jesus’s death, Christianity had become the official religion of the Roman Empire. It had 30 million followers—half of the empire. Today, two millennia later, Christianity is still the largest religion in the world.


How and why did Christianity take off, and how did it change the world in such radical ways?


Here to have that conversation is historian Tom Holland. Tom is one of the most gifted storytellers in the world, and his podcast, The Rest is History, is one of the most popular out there. Each week, he and his co-host, Dominic Sandbrook, charm their way through history's most interesting characters and sagas. I can't recommend it more highly.


Holland's book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind chronicles thousands of years of Christian history, and it argues that Christianity is the reason we have America. That it's the inspiration to both the French and the American Revolutions. That it's the backbone of wokeness as an ideology, but also the liberal forces fighting it.


Today, Tom explains how and why the story of Christianity won, how it shaped Western culture and values, and if he thinks our vacation from religion might be coming to an end.


Merry Christmas and happy holidays!


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CoinDesk Podcast Network - COINDESK SPOTLIGHT: Kathleen Breitman on ‘Boring’ Tech as the Future of Blockchain

Insights into the past, present and future of the crypto industry with Tezos foundation co-founder Kathleen Breitman.

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Tezos foundation co-founder Kathleen Breitman joins CoinDesk Spotlight to share her crypto journey and the evolution of Tezos throughout the years. Plus, insights into the future of blockchain technologies and why it will be "deeply boring" despite the volatility across the crypto industry.

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Focus on Africa - What is behind recent stampedes in Nigeria?

Dozens of people have died in stampedes to collect Christmas hampers in Nigeria raising concerns about safety at these events. Also in the programme, why South Sudanese civil servants have not been paid their salaries for nearly a year, and what South African shop owners are saying about the government's new regulations to address food poisonings.

CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: What Trump Means for BTC Miners and Strategic BTC Reserve With Pierre Rochard

Riot’s Pierre Rochard joins the show to share his thoughts on Trump’s second administration, the potential of federal and state-level strategic bitcoin reserves, and more.


Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Riot’s VP of Research, Pierre Rochard, joins Will and Colin to discuss a variety of topics. The fellas start by talking about what a second Trump presidency and Republican Congress means for Bitcoin miners, especially in light of the last administration and Congress’ hostility toward all things Bitcoin. He also weighs the merits of a national Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, as well as one in Texas, and the pod closes on discussion of Riot’s $594.4 million convertible note and the miner’s expansion outside of Texas. 


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

03:09 Pierre's bio

15:13 Elizabeth Warren

17:03 Expecting positive regulation?

20:36 Texas mining bills

27:32 AI power demand on Texas grid

31:54 Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

33:42 National SBR?

34:45 Riot convertible note

40:24 Why not invest in infrastructure?

42:43 Why debt financing now?

45:16 Convertible debt niche

51:41 New Kentucky mining site



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