Mariah Carey Returning With a New Christmas Tour in 2024 - MASHAHER

Mariah Carey 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 Nov. 6 at Highland’s Yaamava Theater, an intimate teaser for a much bigger show she’ll be doing Nov. 8 at the Hollywood Bowl, to be followed by a Nov. 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 Dec. 13 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, Dec. 15 at the UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY, and finally, Dec. 17 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

In-between, she’ll be visiting Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Nashville, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Boston and other cities. (See the full itinerary below.)

Tickets for “Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time” will be made available via the usual staggered presale dates, beginning with a Verizon presale that starts Aug. 6, and other early offerings that lead up to a general on-sale Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. 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.