Mariah Carey Promises 2024 Christmas Tour Will Be 'Grandest Holiday Spectacle To Date'
By Kelly Coffey-Behrens on August 2, 2024 at 1:15 PM EDT
Mariah Carey is gearing up to jingle all the way through her Christmas 2024 tour, and it’s sure to be a holly-jolly extravaganza.
With a sleigh-full of surprises up her sleeve, fans can expect to see her "All I Want for Christmas" dreams come true as this new tour promises to be snow much fun.
Fans of the "Queen of Christmas" can expect Mariah Carey to turn every show into a winter wonderland of festive cheer on this year's Christmas tour, titled “Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time.”
Mariah Carey To Go On Tour Later This Year
On Friday, Mariah Carey announced her new 2024 Christmas Time tour, and it looks like she’s going to sleigh!
Fans will see Mariah spreading festive cheer across 20 cities in November and December, starting at Southern California’s Yaamava Theater on November 6. She’ll then head to the Hollywood Bowl on November 8 before bringing Christmas cheer to Dallas, Nashville, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
The grand finale will take place in her hometown, New York City, on December 17 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Fans React To 'The Queen Of Christmas' Going On Tour
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After hearing the news, fans could not contain their excitement to see the "Queen of Christmas" go on tour this holiday season.
"OMG CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY. CAN'T WAIT," one fan wrote in the comments section of Mariah's announcement post.
"The queen of Christmas is coming to a town near you soon," another said.
"I am so ready to be amazed," a third wrote as a fourth commented, "There are 148 days until next Christmas! Let’s go."
When Do Tickets For 'Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time' Go On Sale?
“Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time” is set to bring joy to audiences following the success of her 2023 holiday tour, “Merry Christmas One and All!”
This year’s tour promises to be another festive fusion of classic Christmas cheer with Mariah’s non-seasonal smashes. Fans can expect a mix of holiday hits and chart-toppers, plus a medley of Mariah’s greatest hits to wrap things up--and, of course, she will perform her hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You," because the holiday season isn't complete without hearing the tune!
Tickets for this magical tour will ring in on August 9 at 10 a.m. local time, but early access is available through Verizon Up, starting August 6.
A Full List Of Tour Dates
A full list of cities that Mariah Carey will perform at is as follows:
- November 6 – Highland, CA @ Yaamava Theater
- November 8 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
- November 13 – Greater Palm Springs, CA @ Acrisure Arena
- November. 15 – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
- November 17 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center
- November 19 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
- November 21 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
- November 23 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
- November 25 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
- November 27 – Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
- November 29 – St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
- December 1 – Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
- December 3 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
- December 5 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
- December 7 – Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena
- December 9 – Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
- December 11 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
- December 13 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
- December 15 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
- December 17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
Get ready to deck the halls and "Carey" on as Mariah spreads her signature magic and holiday spirit across the globe!
Mariah Carey's Holiday Tour Promises More 'Surprises' To Come
According to Rolling Stone, the “Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time" tour promises this is the “grandest holiday spectacle to date” and marks the “first of many surprises” ahead of the 30th anniversary of the popular holiday single “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
When reflecting back on how the holiday hit came to be, Mariah told ABC, "I was working on it by myself ... on this little Casio keyboard and writing down words and thinking about, 'What do I think of at Christmas? What do I love? What do I want? What do I dream of?' and that's what started it."
"My goal was to do something timeless, so it didn't feel like the '90s, which is when I wrote it," she added of the hit, which is the most downloaded holiday song of all time, outshining classics like "Winter Wonderland," “Feliz Navidad” and “Jingle Bell Rock.”
“The crazy thing about it is, every year it tends to increase in popularity,” she told Billboard of "All I Want For Christmas."
