"All I Want For Christmas" Charted Again This Year

Huffington Post
Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Looks Like It Just Broke Another Record"The song from Carey’s 1994 album “Merry Christmas” soared to the No. 1 spot on Spotify’s global top 200 chart on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day."

Yeah it did but here's the thing that annoys me. While by-and-large Mariah gets all the credit it's not hers alone. It was co-written by Walter Afanasieff who seldom is mentioned.

Walter Afanasieff's interview in 2014...
ASCAP writer-producer Walter Afanasieff has won multiple Grammys and written and/or produced some of the best-selling singles of all time, including Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On."

AND hundreds more! Including some for Kenny G, Michael Bolton, Savage Garden and Barbra Streisand to name a few.

The take away on this.
Whether it be in music, the movies or on stage it takes lots of people to make so-called stars look good. Composers, costume, makeup, writers, sound/lighting, set/stage designers, editors, computer programmers and all so many more. Without these working behind the scenes, unknown except to the insiders, there'd be practically no stars.

In other words it takes a hellva lot of people to make any one person look good. Same as it does in every other kind of endeavor whether it be in entertainment, the military, politics or any other situation where people appear larger then life.