Other Christmas Queens Fire Back at Mariah Carey’s Attempt to Trademark ‘Queen of Christmas’
16.08.2022 - 22:31
/ usmagazine.com
‘Tis the season … for a feud. Singers Darlene Love and Elizabeth Chan are fighting back against Mariah Carey attempting to register the title “Queen of Christmas” as a trademark.
“Christmas has come way before any of us on earth, and hopefully will be around way after any of us on earth,” Chan, 41, who has also been associated with the title, told Variety in an article published on Monday, August 15. “And I feel very strongly that no one person should hold onto anything around Christmas or monopolize it in the way that Mariah seeks to in perpetuity. That’s just not the right thing to do. Christmas is for everyone. It’s meant to be shared; it’s not meant to be owned.”
The singer — who titled her 2021 album Queen of Christmas — continued: “And it’s not just about the music business. She’s trying to trademark this in every imaginable way — clothing, liquor products, masks, dog collars — it’s all over the map. If you knit a ‘Queen of Christmas’ sweater, you should be able to sell it on Etsy to somebody else so they can buy it for their grandma. It’s crazy — it would have that breadth of registration.”
Carey, 53, has always been a chart-topper, but her track, “All I Want for Christmas (Is You),” from her 1994 album Merry Christmas, became a pop culture sensation over the years. In addition to the song being the biggest-selling holiday tune of all time by a female artist, it hit a whopping 1 billion streams on Spotify in December 2021.
Despite Carey’s holiday-centric success, Chan and her attorney, Louis Tompros, filed a formal declaration to the trademark appeals board on Friday, August 12, to stop the New York native from legally claiming the title.
Moreover, Chan’s declaration points out Carey’s previous hesitance around the