Which Mariah Carey song has been compared with Taylor Swift’s annual August streaming phenomenon?

Taylor Swift’s annual August streaming phenomenon has been compared with Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

The comparison is based on seasonality. Carey’s holiday song returns to streaming charts every Christmas season, while Swift’s “august” experiences a recurring rise in attention and streams each August. The two songs are not musically identical or part of the same genre; the parallel is that listeners repeatedly associate each recording with a particular time of year.

The comparison does not mean “august” was a Christmas song or that it reached the same commercial scale as Carey’s holiday classic. It describes a recurring calendar-based listening pattern. Swift’s song was originally an album track, whereas Carey’s song was promoted as a holiday single and became one of the best-known seasonal pop recordings worldwide.