Which Mariah Carey song did Billboard compare with Taylor Swift’s recurring August success for “august”?

Billboard compared Taylor Swift’s recurring August success for “august” with Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Both songs receive predictable annual streaming boosts tied to a particular season.

Carey’s holiday song became a recurring Christmas phenomenon, while Swift’s track resurges each August because its title directly names the month. Billboard called “august” a seasonal streaming perennial, emphasizing the unusual repeatability of its listening pattern.

The comparison does not mean the songs have identical chart histories or audiences. Carey’s recording is a Christmas standard released in 1994, whereas Swift’s song is a fictional summer-romance ballad from Folklore. Their similarity is the calendar-driven return in public listening.