Following the abrupt cancellation of Mariah Carey’s sold-out Pittsburgh concert, Netflix has announced that the pop diva will kick off its Christmas Day football broadcast. The streaming platform on December 19 revealed that Carey is set to perform her holiday hit, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” in a prerecorded performance before the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers face off at 1 p.m. ET.
“Fresh off of her largest and most spectacular Christmas tour to date, Carey is set to dazzle fans this year with a taped performance of her record-breaking single,” Netflix said in its announcement. In a promotional clip, the 55-year-old Grammy winner said: “This Christmas we all get our wish. The NFL is live on Netflix, and I’ll be there, too.”
For football fans without Netflix subscriptions, the Christmas Day games will air on broadcast TV in the competing team cities (CBS affiliates in Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Houston) and be available on US mobile devices with NFL+.
In November, the NFL announced Beyoncé would perform a special halftime show on Christmas Day game when the Baltimore Ravens face off against the Houston Texans in the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer’s hometown.
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Carey, who’s in the midst of a multicity Live Nation tour, cited a bout of the flu for the cancellation of her Christmas Time concert at Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena on December 18, just hours before showtime.
The disputable “Queen of Christmas” has concerts scheduled in the New York City area on December 20 at Newark’s Prudential Center, December 22 at the UBS Arena in Belmont, and December 24 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News (TNS)
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