This one chart shows the impending doom that is holiday music

People are already listening to Christmas music.
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Brian Koerber
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Brace yourselves, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas is You" has already been unleashed across the world once again.

It feels like there used to be this nice gap of a few holiday-less weeks between Halloween and Thanksgiving. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, used to mark the annual start of the holiday season, and with it came shopping, decorations and Christmas music.

Well, that's long gone. Nov. 1 is now the start of the holiday season and that includes Christmas music.


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Carey's Christmas album "Merry Christmas" has slipped its way into constant rotation, even though the song is well over two decades old now.

As noted by Redditor DD3566, we can track the rise in people listening to "All I Want For Christmas is You" with the analytics tab on the song's official YouTube video. Just look at that spike.

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Like it or not, this song will be everywhere soon. And it's not leaving until 2016 is over.

Here, listen to it. We know it's already stuck in your head.

Bonus: Doug the Pug - All I Want For Christmas Is Food

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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