Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" jingles all the way back to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, jumping four spots for a record-tying 19th total week atop the chart. It matches the reigns of two hits that led over one release cycle each - Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)", in 2024, and Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road", featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, in 2019 - for the longest command over the chart's 67-year history.
The carol rules the Hot 100 in a record-extending seventh holiday season. It was originally released on Carey's album Merry Christmas in November 1994 and, as streaming has grown and holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services' playlists, it hit the top 10 for the first time in December 2017 and the top five for the first time in the 2018 holiday season. It led at last, prior to this week, over the holidays in 2019 (for three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three), 2022 (four), 2023 (two) and 2024 (four).
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" became Carey's 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists and one away from the Beatles' overall record 20. It also made Carey the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades (1990s, 2000s, '10s and '20s).
Holiday hits decorate seven of the Hot 100's top 10 spots, including the top four. Most notably, Wham!'s "Last Christmas" dashes 6-2, as the 1984 single hits a new high.
"All I Want for Christmas Is You", on Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings, drew 33.7 million streams (up 52%) and 22.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 37%) and sold 3,000 downloads (up 86%) in the U.S. November 28 - December 4, according to Luminate.
The single rises 3-1 on the Streaming Songs chart for a record-extending 23rd week on top; bounds 40-21 on Radio Songs, where it has hit a No. 7 best; and soars 19-4 on Digital Song Sales at No. 6, following six weeks at the summit. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" ties for longest domination among the 1,184 total No. 1s dating to the Hot 100's August 4, 1958, start.
Now up to 19 weeks, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" extends its mark as the holiday song with the most time logged atop the Hot 100, among three Yuletide No. 1s. "The Chipmunk Song", by the Chipmunks with David Seville, led for four weeks beginning in December 1958, followed by Brenda Lee's three weeks in the 2023 holiday season with "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree".
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is the first song to top the Hot 100 in seven distinct runs on the chart, as its latest coronation follows its commands in the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 holiday seasons. Just one other song has led in each of even two stays: Chubby Checker's "The Twist", in 1960 and 1962.
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" extends the longest span from a song's first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 to its latest to one week shy of six years (charts dated December 21, 2019 - December 13, 2025). Carey also has the second-longest span for an artist atop the Hot 100: 35 years, four months and two weeks, dating to her first week at No. 1 (August 4, 1990) with her debut smash "Vision of Love". Only Brenda Lee boasts a longer career stretch of topping the chart: 63 years, five months and three weeks, from "I'm Sorry" (July 18, 1960) through "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (January 6, 2024).
Carey collects her record-extending 98th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, across her 19 leaders, dating to the chart's inception. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" concurrently crowns Billboard's multimetric Holiday 100 chart, leading for a 68th week, of the chart's 76 total weeks since the list originated in 2011. The anthem also rules as the top title on Billboard's Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.
(Billboard)
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