It’s not just the Christmas tree that is getting lit this year, because the team down at a Sydney bar is getting into the festive season of giving with a holiday hoedown.

While there will be plenty of fun to be had at Jolene’s, there will be one big thing that absolutely won’t be present.

Bar owner Simon Rose-Hopkins told “We’ve got a Country Christmas playlist, but we won’t be playing Mariah.”

Yep, so if you’re a fan of Carey’s warbling classic ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’, then we regret to inform you that the country and western watering hole will be a Mariah-free zone.

That being said, the Christmas cheer is well and truly here at Jolene’s.

“We are doing Christmas on steroids,” Rose-Hopkins said.

“We’ve got lights, reindeers, Christmas trees and Christmas cocktails like a Gingerbread Manhattan and a Pavlova Christmas slushie.”

But, guess what else is also missing under Jolene’s mistletoe this year? Michael Bublé.

That’s right, there will be zero clichéd Christmas crap to be found at all at Jolene’s.

But that doesn’t mean that Rose-Hopkins is a Grinch.

Instead, the bar will opt for covers by classic country artists like Lee Kernaghan, who has a western cover of ‘Jingle Bell Rock’, Blake Shelton’s tune ‘Two Step ‘Round the Christmas Tree’, and of course, Dolly Parton’s ‘A Smokey Mountain Christmas’.

Parton did write the song the bar is named for, after all.

So far, there have been no Navidad naysayers descending on the bar in Sydney’s CBD, with the owner revealing they have received precisely zero complaints over their Christmas bop ban.

“We get a lot of retailer workers coming in after their stores close and say thank you because they are so over hearing the traditional retail Christmas music,” Rose-Hopkins told 

He added that the bad music boycott has ‘been met with giggles and admiration’.

Despite Jolene’s refusal to partake in a clichéd Christmas, Mariah Carey is still sitting on top with the classic tune.

The song, originally released in 1994, returned to the UK  last week, as per  and is now sitting at number one.

It is also placed at number three on the Australian which just goes to show that there are  that still enjoy the Christmas classic.

Research indicates about $2.5 million per year for ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’.

The study also said the artist had earned $60 million by 2016 from the that released more than two decades earlier.

If the song is just as successful this holiday season, Carey could be looking at a staggering $75 million from just that one

So, we’re pretty sure that the Grammy Award winner will be fine if she’s copped a Christmas ban from a bar for the holiday season

There’s no denying that cruise ships are a very popular way to travel. So popular in fact some people actually choose to live on them.

And while some passengers are to enjoy the lifestyle, others are getting.

Plenty of cruise ship workers have taken to give an insight into employee life – from to what they

And one has shared the incredible amount of they make per hour while onboard.

documents his time as a musician working on cruise ships like Virgin Voyages.

He spends 10 months a year working onboard, travelling the world ‘and getting paid at the same time’.

In one video, he worked out the ‘hourly wage of a cruise ship musician’.

Jack explained that musicians tend to earn $4,000 (£3,129) a month while working for one and a half hours a day, six days a week.

So, in total, he said he does ‘just nine hours ‘work’ a week’, which equates to approximately just 36 hours a month.

“In other words that’s $111.11 an hour!” Jack explained. “And by the way, it’s an awesome job.”

Yep, the musician said he earns around £86.90 per hour of work he does. Although, he did explain that rehearsal and practice time isn’t included in those hours he’s counted – that typically happens before they embark.

And of course, Jack has to live on board for this job – something he lists in another video as a major perk.

“I can easily save thousands each month,” he said. “Because two of life’s biggest outgoings in rent and food are totally free – even the flights are paid for.”

He also added in the comments that it’s ‘not compulsory’ to do other jobs during the day on the ship, but you ‘can volunteer and help out other departments like a side hustle’.

Another cruise ship worker, called Amber, previously explained the things they do have to pay for.

Obviously it depends on the cruise liner but the entertainer said they do have to pay for alcoholic drinks but they have access to their own ‘crew bar’ where the drinks are ‘heavily discounted’.

She also said that on the ships we works on, the crew have to pay to use the WiFi and that there isn’t actually a lot of freebies for them.

Amber added: “If we want to buy any snacks, souvenirs, we do have to pay for it.

“But once again, it is at a discounted price to what the guests pay and we get about 20 percent off, which helps so, so much.

While some of us might still be picking away the spooky treats following Halloween, we have finally launched into the beginning of as the iconic jingle is already being played by people around the world.

At the time of writing, the song has already reached number 28 on the iTunes chart, according to

All eyes will be on whether the legendary track climbs to the top of the charts.

Last year, the song reached number one on Billboard’s Top 100, with 37.6 million streams in the US alone, as per.

Just yesterday (Wednesday, November 1),declared that the is finally upon us by posting a video to her Twitter.

In the hilarious clip, it shows the legendary dive quickly changing out of her Halloween costume and springing into a full-blown Christmas frock sitting on a reindeer.

I mean, would we expect anything less from the Queen of Christmas herself?

She had the internet extremely pumped ahead of December 25, as one person wrote: “Annnnnnnd with that… @MariahCarey has officially started the holidays. #MariahSZN.”

Another said: “My tree went up at 12:01am.”

A third commented: “Ok I’ll give her this, she tweeted this literally a minute into November. She disrespected thanksgiving but she gave halloween it’s time.”

While another shared: “Honestly the fact she’s made the meme part of her brand is respectable as hell xD.”

And if we were hit with, we’d be beaming with glee too.

Thanks to a study by, it was revealed that Carey earns about USD $2.5 million (AUD $3.9m or £2.1m) per year for ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’.

The study also said that by 2016 the artist had earned $60 million (AUD $93m or £52m) from the song released in 1994.

Additionally, after the song reached number one on the Billboard 100 for the third year in 2021, Carey has likely raked in another $12.5 million (AUD $19m or £10.8m), taking her earnings on the song to over $72 million (AUD $112m or £62m).

And if the song reaches number one again, Carey could be looking at another $72 million as a sweet, sweet Chrissy present this year

Halloween is over and you know what that means…? Yes, Christmas is now right around the corner.

And with the festive season brings one indisputable reality: you’re going to start hearing a lot more Mariah Carey.

Her legendary song ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ has already broken into the charts even though we’re still a few weeks away from the big day.

But you can bet your bottom dollar that it will slowly climb through the ranks until it cracks the top 10.

Some might get annoyed, upset, or devastated at having to listen to it on repeat at your home, office or shopping centre.

But just know that it brings joy to many around the world.

And also brings a lot of money to Mariah’s bank account.

It was that the singer has earned a jaw-dropping $75 million as a result of the track.

A study from The Economist explained how Carey earns about $2.5 million per year from ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’.

The study showed that by 2016 the artist had earned $60 million from the 1994 song.

If the song is just as successful year on year, then she will have been laughing all the way to the bank.

While it hits the charts every trip around the sun, it was only in 2020 that the song went to number one in the UK.

At the time, she said: “Happy Christmas UK!! We finally made it!!! We are keeping the Christmas spirit alive together despite how dismal the year’s been. Love you always! Joy to the world!”

Funnily enough, the song already cracked the charts in one specific part of the planet this year and it’s due to an odd phenomenon.

how the song entered the top 100 in the Philippines back in September.

The song had more than 300,000 streams at the start of that month, which is a 75 per cent increase from last year.

Mariah Carey said: “Not yet!!!! I’ll allow it for my Filipino lambs though! I don’t make the rules!”

While you might not start getting in the festive mood until December at the earliest, it’s worth noting that things are a little different in the Philippines.

The holiday season starts in September and Christmas music can even be played in August in anticipation.

According to, there’s no real reason why people in the Philippines celebrate Christmas so early compared to the rest of the world.

Christmas is referred to the ‘ber’ months in the country as every month until the end of the year have that suffix