Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey is coming to your TV screens on Dec. 25 through Netflix and the NFL.
Carey will star within the present open for NFL Christmas Gameday on the streamer, the identical day Beyoncé will carry out dwell throughout halftime of the Ravens-Texans recreation on Netflix.
Carey, whose vacation staple “All I Need for Christmas Is You” jumped to the No. 1 place on this week’s Billboard Scorching 100 chart, is at present on her Christmas-themed music tour, which wraps on Tuesday. For the NFL present open, she’s going to carry out her festive hit because it celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. The tune resurfaces on the Billboard charts each vacation season and has formally been licensed 16x platinum by the Recording Business Affiliation of America (RIAA).
Netflix is the worldwide dwelling of the NFL’s two Christmas Day video games, together with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs towards the Pittsburgh Steelers at 10 a.m. PT and the Baltimore Ravens versus the Houston Texans at 1:30 p.m. PT. The Christmas Day video games will air on broadcast TV within the competing staff cities and be accessible on U.S. cellular units with NFL+.
Carey and Beyoncé’s upcoming performances come after Netflix took a mauling from customers following a sequence of technical issues that dogged the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson battle, and plenty of have questioned the corporate’s potential to stream dwell occasions at scale. Netflix additionally has no less than one NFL Christmas Day recreation in 2025 and 2026, in what each events hope will develop into a brand new vacation custom.
