Mariah Carey, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Christmas,” just earned herself another gift this year in the form of two new Billboard records.

Carey’s upbeat holiday pop song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the 17th week, setting a new streaming record, according to the music magazine.

The singer-songwriter’s “Fantasy” and “Emotions” surpassed her own record to reach No. 1 on the multimetric chart, Billboard reported Monday. The 1994 song’s most recent peak position gives the five-time Grammy winner her longest career lead on the charts, surpassing her previous 16-week No. 1 success in 1995 and 1996 with her Boyz II Men duet “One Sweet Day.” “.

“This is unbelievable!!!! “I will never take this for granted,” Carey wrote on her Instagram Stories on Monday, which featured Billboard’s post about the longest Hot 100 reign. “Merry early Christmas!!!!”

According to Billboard, the ubiquitous song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” topped the Hot 100 chart for the third consecutive year this holiday season, making it the third-longest hold in the chart’s 66-year history. (At No. 1 this year are the 19-week run of Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and the 2019 record of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” with Billy Ray Cyrus.)

Billboard also reported that “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has spent a record 21 weeks at the top of the Streaming Songs chart since its debut in 2013, with 48 million official U.S. streams in the week ending March 19th December is at the top. With 20 weeks previously, “Old Town Road” already held the record in this chart as of April 2019.

Carey’s Guinness World Records single comes from her first holiday album, “Merry Christmas,” which she released in 1994 (and reissued for its 30th anniversary this year). It was the first Christmas song she ever wrote and was written early in her career. But the December single – a fast, wistful love song set at Christmas time – immediately shot up the charts and never left. It returns every holiday season and “takes root in the world’s collective unconscious like no Christmas song in at least half a century,” according to an earlier Times report.

“This might sound like I made it up or whatever, but it actually came from wanting to write something that was like that felt “Like Christmas,” Carey told the Times in 2020. “It wasn’t just like, ‘Oh, we’re going to add some sleigh bells to this record.’ ‘Or I’m going to talk about snow.’ I mean – of course I talk about a lot of Christmas things in this song! But I tried to do something different. I wanted to think of anything that put me in the holiday mood. I threw my thoughts back. What did I want for Christmas as a child?”

The world’s octave-hopping superstar, already one of the most successful recording artists of all time, took it further, releasing new versions of the established hit and performing it live on various platforms over the past three decades. She sang it as a duet with Justin Bieber in 2011, performed it with Michael Bublé during his third annual TV Christmas special, sang a toy instrument version with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots and delivered a “Carpool Karaoke” performance with James Corden. A children’s book and an animated film based on the song followed, in which Carey styled herself as the Christmas Monarch and also hosted an annual Christmas show or tour.

The 55-year-old artist previously told The Times that she began writing the song by sitting at a piano and “plucking notes,” which was uncharacteristic of her.

“I just sat there and came up with this melody, in a dark house with a Christmas tree,” she said, adding that she wrote the melody and bridge with “Hero” and “My All” co-writer Walter Afanasieff have worked together.

“We wanted it to feel classic. I didn’t want it to feel like the ’90s. For people who are nostalgic for the ’90s, it probably feels like the ’90s now. But in the ’90s it was something different… I wanted it to have a different feel. I wanted it to be timeless. And to feel festive. The backing vocals are a really important part of the song. It was an incredible group of singers. I stacked my own vocals there. We had the best time in the studio. It sounds cheesy, but I think you can hear it on the record.”

And this is especially true for all the records it has set.

Times pop music critic Mikael Wood and freelancer Jody Rosen contributed to this report.