Mariah Carey reveals favorite Christmas songs while promoting new book during talk show appearance

Mariah Carey revealed her favorite Christmas songs Monday during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

The 50-year-old singing superstar looked ready for the holidays in a festive red dress during her remote appearance on the NBC talk show to promote her new book The Meaning Of Mariah Carey.

Jimmy, 46, congratulated Maria on the everlasting popularity of her 1994 song All I Want For Christmas Is You that reached Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2019 for the first time – 25 years after it was originally released.

‘What other songs are on your playlist?,’ Jimmy asked Mariah, who is an unabashed fan of Christmas.

‘So many. Every year it’s a constant. No one that’s with me at Christmas is allowed to listen to anything but Christmas music until after New Year’s,’ Mariah said.

She volunteered to offer up a top three list of her favorite Christmas songs and started with This Christmas by Donny Hathaway, followed by Nat King Cole and The Christmas Song.

‘I love all the classics. Bing Crosby, White Christmas. There’s so many good ones. I even like, there are so many great soundtracks, like The Elf soundtrack is great,’ Mariah said.

She joked that she couldn’t ‘give away all my things’ before also recommending the Jackson 5 Christmas Album released in 1970.

Mariah was promoting her new memoir The Meaning Of Mariah Carey that was published in September and became a #1 New York Times Best Seller after its first week of release.

Jimmy asked her if the rumors were true that her memoir was going to be adapted into a movie or TV series.

‘We’re talking about some things,’ Mariah confirmed. ‘I really feel like it should be, that was always my goal, but it was important to write the book first because there’s so much and then kind of pick and choose how we translate that’.

Jimmy followed up by asking about rumors that Lee Daniels, 60, was circling the project after working with Mariah on Precious and The Butler.

‘We love Lee, we love Lee. Lee is one of my dearest friends and he gets me in a way that most people don’t. But I’m not allowed to say yes, no, maybe so. Only Lee tells little leaks about things,’ Mariah said.

Mariah currently stars in Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special streaming on Apple TV+ and told Jimmy one of the highlights was performing with Peanuts characters.