Ariana Grande is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her now-iconic Christmas song, “Santa Tell Me” — and its recent Top 10 placement on the Hot 100. On Monday, the pop star shared a sweet, live rendition of the holiday track on her Instagram, just in time for Christmas Eve.
“Celebrating ten years of Santa Tell Me!” Grande captioned the video of herself performing the song in a festive white dress and backed by a full band. “Thank you so much for all of the love you have shown this record over the past decade.”
“Wishing you all a happy, happy holiday!” Grande added.
The celebratory post comes just a day after Spotify declared “Santa Tell Me” as the most-streamed Christmas song released in the 2010s decade, and the third most-streamed holiday song of all time.
On Monday, the song also landed at Number Nine on the Billboard Hot 100, trailing behind Christmas classics like Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” and Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock.”
“Ten years later,” she captioned the charts post on her story, tagging producers Savan Kotecha and Ilya, who worked on the song.
Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” was first released in November 2014, following her first EP of Christmas covers, Christmas Kisses, in 2013. She later included a “naughty version” of “Santa Tell Me” on her second holiday EP, Christmas & Chill, in 2015. The latter project featured original holiday songs, including “Not Just on Christmas,” “December,” and “Winter Things,” all co-written by Grande.
Rolling Stone even ranked “Santa Tell Me” as Grande’s 41st best song of all time, writing that she comes a “close second” to Mariah Carey’s Queen of Christmas title.
Earlier this year, Grande revealed in a Spotify interview that the video released for “Santa Tell Me” was actually the “backup” for the original visual for the song. “I was in weird Christmas lingerie and I was hitting Santa with a cane pole,” she said in February. “I was like, ‘That is the right vibe for this song, believe you me.’ And the label was like, ‘Hey, honey… I don’t think we can use this.’ … I was glad I was reeled in that time.”
