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It’s Christmas now: Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ has entered the iTunes charts

sudshr47 November 2, 2017

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And thus, it was Christmas. For Mariah had decreed it so.

That’s right, folks: the holiday haters in your life are wrong. Even though it’s only Nov. 2 and I still have fake spiders all over my apartment, it’s officially the holiday season. 

Why? Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is on the iTunes charts.

To be fair, Mariah has known that it’s Christmas for a while — she put her tree up at the beginning of October. Now, though, we’ve finally listened to our wintry empress. Her flawless holiday bop is currently at #58 on iTunes’s “Top Songs” chart, which reflects top downloads. (You can buy the song for $1.29 — a steal if you consider it the source of all holiday spirit.) Read more…

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Target, Walmart, and Ebay are pushing Christmas way too early

sudshr47 November 1, 2017

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Halloween’s over, and Christmas is right around the corner.

At least that’s how the retail gatekeepers of America’s ever-elongating holiday shopping season now see it.

Ebay and Walmart are already breaking out the tinsel this week with yuletide promotionsAmazon’s Black Friday deals are already being teased. Meanwhile, Target has outdone them both by vowing to keep festivities within a respectable window (*at a small number of stores) and then immediately decorating its sales racks with an an odd mix of candy corn and canes days before it was even time to trick-or-treat. 

“There’s simply no reason to wait for Black Friday to find the best prices or top gifts this holiday season when shoppers can start AND finish early with eBay,” Ebay chief marketing officer Suzy Deering said in the site’s holiday deal announcement. Read more…

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