Merry Christmas
by Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey bestography
Merry Christmas is ranked 10th best out of 23 albums by Mariah Carey on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Mariah Carey is Butterfly which is ranked number 2669 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 593.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Merry Christmas track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Merry Christmas rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 29 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | fabm0 | All Time Pt 4 | 12/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum albums Pt 2 | 84/100 | - |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | 1994 Honorable Mentions | 21/28 | - |
| 2026 | jtrizzle35 | Top 49 Music Albums of the 1990s | 48/49 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 1990s | 76/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1994 | 13/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Wanted Others | 4/15 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List Zone 32 America Usa 2 | 76/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum Zone 32 America Usa 2 | 7/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Decade 1990s | 94/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 33 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 64 | |||
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Merry Christmas ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/07/2026 12:43 | Fritz | 1,372 | 77/100 |
| ! | 12/23/2025 16:59 | fabm0 | 7,009 | 58/100 |
| ! | 11/16/2025 21:47 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,905 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.7/100, a mean average of 63.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 63.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 24.2.
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CharlieBarley 12/02/2021 18:59 in What album are you listening to right now?Merry Christmas comments
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eclab 04/26/2014 04:05 | #110098
"All I Want For Christmas" is amazing, and "Hark!" is quite nice, but in general the album is over-sung and over-produced.
Mariah might over do it a bit on melisma and her choirs, but this is still easily one of the best Christmas albums around. She's great at just slowly letting a song grow(Born On This Day, O Holy Night,Hark!). And that three song stretch of All I Want For Christmas Is You -> O Holy Night -> Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is amazing, three 10/10, tour de forces right after each other. I'm not a big fan of all the religious songs, but more power to people who are moved by them. They just aren't as good at gripping me lyrically/thematically.
Certainly one of the best Christmas albums out there.
Over bloated showboating. I wish she would stop showing off and just sing the damn song.
Talented singing that doesn't save the poor, poor songwriting.
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