For a fifth total week on top, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” returns to No. 1, from No. 2, on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The single, originally released on Carey’s 1994 album Merry Christmas, first reigned last holiday season for three weeks and added its fourth frame two weeks ago at No. 1.
According to Nielsen Music/MRC Info, Carey’s “Christmas,” on Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings, drew 54.9 million U.S. streams (up 35 percent) and sold 12,000 downloads (up 24 percent) in the week ending Dec. 24. It also counted 33.7 million viewer impressions of radio airplay (up 11 percent) in the week ending Dec. 27.
The carol spends a ninth full week on the Streaming Songs list at No. 1 and grows on Digital Music Sales 6-2 and on Radio Songs 17-13. It also governs the 45th week multi-metric Holiday 100 chart, of the 50 cumulative weeks of the chart since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the count for 30 consecutive weeks, dating to the beginning of the holiday season 2015-16.
Here are other gifts Carey gets with the new “Christmas” coronation:
The majority of weeks at No. 1 for a holiday song: “Christmas” just claims the mark for the most time at No. 1 among holiday hits in the 62-year, five-month history of the chart as it records its fifth cumulative week atop the Hot 100. For four weeks starting in December 1958, one other Yuletide track led the list: “The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville.
First song in three different years at No. 1: Carey’s “Christmas” becomes the first song to rank in three separate years at No. 1 on the Hot 100: 2019, 2020 and, now, 2021. The lists dated Dec. 21 and 28, 2019; Jan. 4, 2020; Dec. 19, 2020; and Jan. 2, 2021 have been handled.
One more, up to 84: at No. 1 on the Hot 100, Carey adds her record-extending 84th career week, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, launch.
Last year, “Christmas” became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the best among soloists, lifting her to one of the Beatles’ overall record 20. It also made Carey the first artist in four different decades to have placed at No. 1 on the list.
“Happy new year: in a record-extending 17 different years (per Hot 100 chart dates), Carey has now put at No. 1 on the Hot 100: 1990-2000, 2005-06, 2008 and, thanks to “Christmas,” 2019-21.
Source: Billboard