{"id":191627,"date":"2025-12-19T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/191627\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:46:12","slug":"vintage-pop-stardom-on-greatest-pop-stars-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/191627\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Pop Stardom on Greatest Pop Stars Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThis week, Mariah Carey<\/a> makes unprecedented history <\/a>on the Billboard charts with a 20th combined week atop the Billboard Hot 100 for her signature seasonal staple \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You.\u201d The song is now the all-time longest-reigning Hot 100 No. 1 on the chart, a mark that should only increase not just in the coming weeks but in subsequent holiday seasons. However, it\u2019s not the first time Mariah\u2019s held the mark: She first set it with a 1995 single that served as a linchpin for her Daydream era, and the climax of perhaps the greatest pop stardom run of the entire decade.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn this week\u2019s\u00a0Vintage Pop Stardom episode<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Greatest Pop Stars podcast<\/a>, host Andrew Unterberger is joined by Chris Hine, writer for the Minnesota Star Tribune and a 30-year member of the Lambily, to talk all about Mariah Carey\u2019s historic 1995. We go over the half-decade-long run of superstardom that led up to Carey\u2019s mid-\u201990s peak, and how she managed to hit yet another new level of mega-success in \u201995, thanks to her most accomplished album to that point and a pair of absolutely gargantuan smash hit singles. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlong the way, we also answer all the most pressing questions about Mimi\u2019s 1995: Was Mariah already the greatest pop star of the 1990s by its midway point \u2014 and did she still have a lot left to prove anyway? When did \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d go from being considered great for a Christmas song to simply being considered one of the greatest pop songs ever? Is the \u201cFantasy\u201d remix really better than the original? How did \u201cOne Sweet Day\u201d go from being one of the biggest events in pop music history to sometimes being disregarded within her catalog of hits? Are we ever gonna hear Alt-Rock Mariah in full? And perhaps most importantly: Is Daydream-era MC as good as it gets for \u201990s pop stardom in general?<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck it out above \u2014 along with a YouTube playlist of some of the most important moments from Mariah Carey\u2019s 1995, all of which are discussed in the podcast \u2014 and subscribe to both the\u00a0Greatest Pop Stars podcast<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Apple Music<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0(or wherever you get your\u00a0podcasts<\/a>)\u00a0<\/a>for great new episodes every Thursday!<\/p>\n

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