Bells slay, as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" rules both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts. The modern carol holds for a 10th total week at No. 1 on the former and rebounds for a fifth week atop the latter, dating to the lists' starts two years ago.
The two global charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Billboard Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the U.S.
Mariah Carey’s "All I Want for Christmas Is You" keeps at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, a week after it returned to the summit, with 85.2 million streams and 11,000 sold worldwide (up 32% in each metric) in the December 2-8 tracking week. The 1994 modern holiday classic adds a 10th week at No. 1, after it led for four weeks each in the 2020 and 2021 holiday seasons.
"Christmas" is the third song to reach double-digit weeks at No. 1 on the Global 200, after Harry Styles' "As It Was" (15, beginning in April) and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s "Stay" (11, starting in August 2021).
Wham!’s "Last Christmas" soars 9-2 on the Global 200, after the 1984 release first reached the rank, its best, during both the 2020 and 2021 holidays. It surges with 65.4 million streams (up 39%) and 6,000 sold (up 45%) worldwide.
Mariah Carey’s "All I Want for Christmas Is You" jingles from No. 3 to No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, with 53.1 million streams (up 42%) and 5,000 downloads sold (up 46%) in territories outside the U.S. December 2-8. The song adds a fifth week at No. 1, after it topped the chart for a week in the 2020 holiday season and for three frames over last year’s holidays.
Wham!’s "Last Christmas" bounds 9-2 on Global Excl. U.S., after it hit that high over both the 2020 and 2021 holidays; Sam Smith and Kim Petras' "Unholy" dips to No. 3 after eight nonconsecutive weeks on top, beginning in October; Rema and Selena Gomez’s "Calm Down" rebounds to its No. 4 best from No. 5; and Taylor Swift’s "Anti-Hero" slides 2-5, after two weeks at No. 1 beginning in November.
(Billboard)
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