Mariah Carey is celebrating Christmas in November.
The 55-year-old half-Venezuelan American Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and self-proclaimed Queen of Christmas will celebrate the 30th anniversary of her Merry Christmas album — and the classic single that came wrapped up inside it, All I Want for Christmas Is You — with a 20-city Christmas tour this fall, under the banner of Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time.
The Live Nation-produced tour will kick off in early November with three shows in southern California and wrap up with a trio of concerts in the New York/New Jersey area in mid-December.
In the Los Angeles region and environs, she’ll be doing a tour premiere November 6 at Highland’s Yaamava Theater, an intimate teaser for a much bigger show she’ll be doing November 8 at the Hollywood Bowl, to be followed by a November 13 gig at the Acrisure Arena in the Palm Springs area.
Bringing the tour to a close, closer to home for Carey, will be concerts on December 13 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, December 15 at the UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY, and finally, December 17 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
In-between, she’ll be visiting Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Nashville, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Boston and other cities.
Tickets for Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time will be made available via the usual staggered presale dates, beginning with a Verizon presale that starts on August 6, and other early offerings that lead up to a general on-sale August 9 at 10:00 am local time at LiveNation.com. Information on VIP packages can be found at Vipnation.com.
Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time follows the success of a shorter, 13-city holiday tour Carey did in 2023, Merry Christmas One and All!, and will follow a similar template of mixing Christmas fare with the singer’s non-seasonal hits.
On last year’s tour, the bulk of the setlist consisted of holiday songs but had a run of other material that included “Hero,” “We Belong Together” and a massive hits medley in the last stretch of the show.
Although it’s now been three decades since the release of her first and biggest Christmas album, Carey did not begin commemorating that material with special live concerts until 2014, when she did a themed residency at the Beacon Theater in New York. That turned into a series of short tours in subsequent years, including a four-date mini-tour in 2019 that was filmed for a CBS special, Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!
The focus on Christmas tours has coincided with the gradual, belated rise of “All I Want for Christmas Is You” as a perennial No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 each December.
The song did not make it to the top position on that chart until 2019, 20 years after its release, but it has peaked at No. 1 every year thereafter.
For anyone who wants to see Carey but not deal quite so much with Christmas, there have been and will be plenty of opportunities this year, as the singer has been doing an intermittent Celebration of Mimi residency in Las Vegas, at Dolby Live at Park MGM.
That run of shows began April 12 and has five further gigs booked in the first half of August before taking a pause and returning in January and February 2025.
Mariah Carey’s 2024 Christmas tour dates:
Wed Nov 06 | Highland, CA | Yaamava Theater
Fri Nov 08 | Los Angeles, CA | Hollywood Bowl
Wed Nov 13 | Greater Palm Springs, CA | Acrisure Arena
Fri Nov 15 | Phoenix, AZ | Footprint Center
Sun Nov 17 | Austin, TX | Moody Center
Tue Nov 19 | Houston, TX | Toyota Center
Thu Nov 21 | Dallas, TX | American Airlines Center
Sat Nov 23 | Atlanta, GA | State Farm Arena
Mon Nov 25 | Nashville, TN | Bridgestone Arena
Wed Nov 27 | Rosemont, IL | Allstate Arena
Fri Nov 29 | St. Louis, MO | Enterprise Center
Sun Dec 01 | Washington, DC | Capital One Arena
Tue Dec 03 | Philadelphia, PA | Wells Fargo Center
Thu Dec 05 | Boston, MA | TD Garden
Sat Dec 07 | Baltimore, MD | CFG Bank Arena
Mon Dec 09 | Raleigh, NC | PNC Arena
Wed Dec 11 | Pittsburgh, PA | PPG Paints Arena
Fri Dec 13 | Newark, NJ | Prudential Center
Sun Dec 15 | Belmont Park, NY | UBS Arena
Tue Dec 17 | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center