Mariah Carey’s “Christmas” No. 1 on the Hot 100 for 16 weeks

Mariah Carey’s “Christmas” No. 1 on the Hot 100 for 16 weeks

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for the 16th time this week. The song matches their longest run on the chart, first set by “One Sweet Day” with Boyz II Men in 1995-96.

The holiday song, which tops the Hot 100 for the second straight year this holiday season, also represents the third-longest overall dominance in the chart’s 66-year history, following just 19 weeks at No. 1 for Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song.” (Tipsy)” this year and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” with Billy Ray Cyrus in 2019.

In particular, Carey has recorded the two longest-running No. 1s by a female artist on the Hot 100 with “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and “One Sweet Day.” She’s also the third-longest reign among women, thanks to 14 weeks at No. 1 for “We Belong Together” in 2005.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” also tops the Streaming Songs chart for a record-breaking 20th total week, tying “Old Town Road” for the longest No. 1 stay since the chart began in 2013.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” was originally released on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in November 1994 and as streaming increased and Christmas music became more prominent in streaming services’ playlists, it reached the top 10 of the Hot 100 for the first time in December 2017 and the top 5 for the first time during the 2018 holiday season. Most recently, before the last two weeks, it spanned the holidays of 2019 (three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three), 2022 (four) and 2023 (two).

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the highest ranking among soloists and one point shy of the Beatles’ overall record of 20. Carey also became the first artist to reach No. 1 Charted in four different decades (1990s, 2000s, ’10s and ’20s).

The Hot 100 combines U.S. streaming of all genres (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the latter metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; Digital Singles sales through direct-to-consumer (D2C) websites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (as of December 21, 2024) will be updated tomorrow (December 17) on Billboard.com. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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