By now, everyone in the English-speaking world knows Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" - to borrow a line from Mean Girls, only with one holiday classic swapped for another. The song is one of the most successful tunes of all time, and it certainly ranks among the top performers when looking only at seasonal, jolly tracks. Despite its many years of conquering the charts, there are still, to this day, rankings where the smash is only reaching new peaks now.
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" hits the top 10 on one specific Billboard list, and it's one of the most important. Carey's behemoth leaps into the loftiest tier on the Radio Songs chart, the ranking of the most successful tunes across all radio formats in the U.S., for the first time. This week, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" flies from No. 16 to No. 7. That's a new high for the single, which needed 65 stays somewhere on the airplay roster to crack the top 10.
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" was released in 1994, on Carey's simply-titled album Merry Christmas. The smash enters the top 10 on the Radio Songs chart shortly after turning 30 years old. That's an incredibly rare feat for any tune on the list, which almost exclusively caters to new singles and current favorites.
The tune is Carey's first new top 10 hit on the Radio Songs roster in 15 years. She last pushed a single into the uppermost space on the list in 2009, when "Obsessed" reached No. 6. The seasonal comeback tune is her twenty-fourth career top 10 on the radio chart.
Of course, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has performed much, much better on many other Billboard charts, and it didn't need 30 years to enter the top 10 on many of them. The song currently rules the Hot 100 for an eighteenth nonconsecutive frame. It's just one stint away from tying the all-time record for the most stays in that ranking's penthouse. It will likely match the historic showing, already managed by both Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus' "Old Town Road" and Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)", when it returns to the summit in late 2025.
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" becomes a radio staple every December, as many stations trade one regular format for holiday songs. The track also earns some love on those spots on the dial that don't focus only on Christmas, as it has become an American staple, and the public never seems to tire of hearing it.
(Forbes)
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