The star earns his third leader on the chart.

Harry Styles’ “Aperture” takes the spotlight on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at No. 1.

The star (who celebrated his 32nd birthday a day earlier) earns his third Hot 100 leader, and second to debut in the top spot, after “As It Was” arrived at No. 1 in April 2022 to begin a 15-week reign. His first No. 1, “Watermelon Sugar,” spent a week atop the chart in August 2020.

“Aperture,” the top-streamed song of the week, introduces Styles’ fourth solo album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, due March 6. His first three sets all debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200: Harry’s House (2022), Fine Line (2019) and Harry Styles (2017). (One Direction, with Styles as a member, notched four No. 1 albums in 2012-14, among five top 10s; “Aperture” is Styles’ eighth Hot 100 top 10, with One Direction having scored six.)

Meanwhile, “Man I Need” by newly crowned best new artist Grammy Award winner Olivia Dean, at No. 3 on the Hot 100, takes over as the most-heard song on radio, as it ascends to No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart.

Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.

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The self-titled set marks the metal band’s final planned studio album.

After a nearly 40-year wait, Megadeth achieves its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. The metal band’s new self-titled set, which also marks its expected final studio album, debuts atop the list dated Feb. 7. Megadeth made its Billboard 200 chart debut in 1986 and has placed 23 albums on the ranking through its career. Until this week, the band had gone as high as No. 2, with 1992’s Countdown to Extinction.

The new self-titled album earned 73,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Jan. 29, according to Luminate — marking the act’s best week, by units earned, since the chart began ranking by units in December 2014. The bulk of that sum was driven by pure album sales (purchases of physical and digital copies of the album), totaling 69,000. That’s the biggest sales week for any Megadeth album since 1999, when Risk opened with 74,000 sold.

The new album was released on Jan. 23, a day after the documentary Megadeth: Behind the Mask was released in movie theaters. The band’s farewell tour kicks off on Feb. 15 in Victoria, British Columbia.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Feb. 7, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 3. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of Megadeth’s 73,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 69,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 4.23 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Sales of the album got a boost from its availability across more than a dozen vinyl variants, a Target-exclusive CD with a bonus track, and the mid-week release of deluxe digital download version of the album with another bonus track.

Of the album’s 69,000 sales, physical purchases of CD, vinyl and cassette tapes totaled 56,000, with 22,000 of that sum on vinyl. That marks Megadeth’s best week on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991).

Megadeth’s debut of 73,000 units marks the lowest sum at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since last May, when SZA’s SOS returned to No. 1 on the May 3-dated chart with 52,000 units.

Megadeth made its Billboard 200 chart debut on the Oct. 25, 1986-dated list with Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?, at No. 118. It would later peak at No. 76. The band scored its first top 40 set with its next entry, 1988’s No. 28-peaking So Far, So Good… So What! In 1992, the band landed its first top 10 with the No. 2-peaking Countdown to Extinction — the first of nine top 10s for the act.

Dating to Megadeth’s debut on the Billboard 200, the band’s 39-year, three-month and one-week wait for its first No. 1 is the longest any act has waited for a first No. 1 since 2016. That January, David Bowie hit No. 1 for the first time with Blackstar (released two days before he died). Blackstar debuted at No. 1 on the Jan. 30-dated chart, nearly 43 years and 10 months after Bowie charted his first album in April 1972 with Hunky Dory.

Before Bowie, the last longer wait for a first No. 1 was when James Taylor hit No. 1 in July 2015 with Before This World – 45 years and nearly four months after he made his chart debut with Sweet Baby James in March of 1970. The last group or band to wait as long as Megadeth for its first No. 1 was Black Sabbath. The latter hit No. 1 for the first time in June of 2013 with 13 — 42 years and 10 months after the band made its chart debut with its self-titled set in 1970.

Megadeth also brings hard rock back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the first time since last May, when Sleep Token’s Even in Arcadia opened atop the May 24, 2025-dated chart. (Hard rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart.)

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 I’m the Problem climbs 4-2 on the latest Billboard 200 with 69,000 equivalent album units earned (though down 7%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving bumps 7-3 (51,000, down 9%), Zach Bryan’s chart-topping With Heaven on Top moves 5-4 (49,000, down 30%) and A$AP Rocky’s Don’t Be Dumb falls to No. 5 (46,000, down 63%) after debuting at No. 1 last week.

Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 The Life of a Showgirl steps 8-6 (45,000 equivalent album units earned, down 15%) and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Slime Cry slips 6-7 in its second week (41,000, down 42%). Three former No. 1s round out the rest of the top 10: the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is up a spot to No. 8 (40,000, down 14%), Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS dips 3-9 (36,000, down 70%) and SZA’s SOS rises 11-10 (35,000, down 6%).

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Plus, Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” ties for the longest Radio Songs reign and Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” tops Streaming Songs.

Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” adds a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song launched a week earlier as his 10th career leader, and his first to debut in the top spot.

“I Just Might” introduces the superstar’s album The Romantic, due Feb. 27. The single also crowns the multimetric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs charts for a second week each.

Meanwhile, “Ordinary,” by Mars’ Atlantic Records labelmate Alex Warren, claims a 27th week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart, tying Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” for the longest command in the ranking’s history. “Ordinary” holds at No. 5 on the Hot 100.

Plus, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” at No. 6 on the Hot 100, ascends to No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart.

Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Jan. 31, 2026) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 27. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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Plus, ENHYPEN, YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Madison Beer bow in the top 10, while Bad Bunny jumps back to the top three.

A$AP Rocky scores his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, and first in more than a decade, as Don’t Be Dumb debuts atop the list dated Jan. 31. The set earned 123,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Jan. 22, according to Luminate.

He previously topped the list with AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP (in June 2015) and LONG.LIVE.A$AP (February 2013), both of which also debuted at No. 1.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, ENHYPEN achieves its sixth top 10-charting set with the No. 2 debut of THE SIN : VANISH; Bad Bunny’s former leader DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS jumps 12-3 after a new Amazon-exclusive vinyl was released; YoungBoy Never Broke Again clocks his 17th top 10 with the No. 6 debut of Slime Cry; and Madison Beer lands her first top 10 with the No. 10 debut of Locket.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan. 31, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 27. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of Don’t Be Dumb’s 123,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 76,000 (equaling 78.02 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, A$AP Rocky’s best streaming week ever — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 47,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Don’t Be Dumb’s release date of Jan. 16 was announced on Dec. 19. The long-awaited set was issued as a widely-available standard 15-track vinyl LP, as well as a 15-track CD and cassette sold exclusively via the artist’s webstore. The wide digital download and streaming editions carried two further tracks. In total, the album was issued across more than a dozen vinyl variants (adding up to 40,000 sold — his best week ever on vinyl). The set also got a boost from its availability in multiple deluxe boxed sets sold in his webstore, each containing a copy of the album on CD and a branded piece of clothing. Further, on Jan. 21, two more tracks were added to the digital and streaming version of the album.

The album’s debut was preceded by its song “PUNK ROCKY,” which entered the Billboard Hot 100 dated Jan. 24 at No. 64.

ENHYPEN lands its sixth top 10 album, all posted consecutively, on the Billboard 200 as THE SIN : VANISH materializes at No. 2. The act scored its first top 10 in 2022 with MANIFESTO: DAY 1 (No. 6) and has seen each of its five subsequent releases debut in the top five. The new album earned 122,000 equivalent album units in its opening week, with 113,000 of that sum in traditional album sales (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales, marking the act’s fourth leader). SEA units contributed 9,000 (equaling 9.51 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, the act’s best streaming week ever) and TEA units comprised a negligible sum.

The album’s first-week sales got a boost from its availability across more than 20 CD variants (all containing collectible items such as photocards, posters and stickers, with some items randomized), including signed editions.

Bad Bunny’s former leader DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS jumps 12-3 following the release of a new Amazon-exclusive red-colored vinyl variant on Jan. 16. Last September, Amazon teamed with the artist to livestream the final concert of his Puerto Rico residency on Sept. 20 via Amazon Music, Prime Video and Twitch.

In the week ending Jan. 22, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS earned 119,000 equivalent album units (up 270%). Of that sum, pure album sales numbered 85,000 (up 4,909%), essentially all in vinyl purchases. That marks Bad Bunny’s best week ever on vinyl, surpassing the 48,000 that he sold of the same album when it first became available on vinyl (May 17, 2025-dated chart). The 85,000-sales week for DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS on vinyl is the also the biggest sales week in the modern era for a Spanish-language album on vinyl (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991).

Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show on Feb. 8; two days before that, a new vinyl edition of the album will drop. This time, it will be a white-colored vinyl that will be available across all retailers.

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 I’m the Problem dips 2-4 on the latest Billboard 200 (75,000 equivalent album units, down 9%), while Zach Bryan’s With Heaven On Top falls 1-5 in its second week (70,000, down 48%).

YoungBoy Never Broke Again charts his 17th top 10 effort on the Billboard 200, as Slime Cry debuts at No. 6. The set earned 70,000 equivalent album units in its opening week, with 69,000 of that sum generated by SEA units (equaling 72.6 million on-demand official streams of the album; it debuts at No. 4 on Top Streaming Albums).

With a 17th top 10, YoungBoy Never Broke Again ties Drake for the second-most top 10 albums ever among rappers. Only Future, with 18, has more top 10 albums among rap artists.

Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving falls 3-7 on the latest Billboard 200 (56,000 equivalent album units earned, down 13%), Swift’s former leader The Life of a Showgirl slides 4-8 (53,000, down 15%) and the chart-topping KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack descends 5-9 (47,000, down 16%).

Closing out the top 10 is Madison Beer’s Locket, debuting at No. 10 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the first top 10 — and top 40 — for the singer-songwriter, who notched three previous entries, going as high as No. 65 with Life Support in 2021. The new album was preceded by Beer’s first Hot 100 hit, “Bittersweet,” which debuted at No. 98 on the chart dated Jan. 10. On the most recently published Pop Airplay chart (dated Jan. 31), the track rebounds to its No. 23 best.

Of the 43,000 first-week units for Locket (Beer’s best-ever week by units), album sales comprise 24,000 (her biggest sales week yet; it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 18,000 (equaling 18.89 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — her best streaming week ever; it debuts at No. 33 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

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The superstar earns his 10th No. 1, and first arrival at the apex.

Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” blasts onto the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1. The song starts as his 10th career leader, and his first to debut at the summit.

Mars ties for the 10th-most No. 1s in the Hot 100’s history, which dates to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, inception. He’s just the fourth solo male with 10 or more No. 1s, joining Drake, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder.

The track — also Mars’ fifth leader, and first No. 1 debut, on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart — previews his album The Romantic, his first solo set since 2016, due Feb. 27.

Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Jan. 24, 2026) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 21 (a day later than usual, due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Jan. 19). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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Plus, Ella Langley earns her first Hot 100 top 10.

Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a ninth week, besting “Anti-Hero” as the sole longest-leading hit among her 13 career No. 1s.

“The Fate of Ophelia” surges back to the Hot 100’s summit from No. 28 as holiday hits recede from the chart’s upper reaches, a week after they claimed a weekly-best top 24 positions. The lead single from Swift’s album The Life of a Showgirl reigned in its first eight weeks on the ranking, dating to its mid-October debut. “Anti-Hero” claimed its eight-week No. 1 run upon its start in November 2022.

Elsewhere, Ella Langley lands her first Hot 100 top 10, as “Choosin’ Texas” vaults 48-5. It leads the Hot Country Songs chart for a sixth week.

Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Jan. 10, 2026) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 6. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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Plus, Peso Pluma and Tito Double P’s DINASTÍA debuts in the top 10, while Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving hits a new peak.

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl nets a 12th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Jan. 10, 2026) with 81,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Jan. 1 (down 42%), according to Luminate.

The Life of a Showgirl marks Swift’s sole second-longest run at No. 1. It surpasses the 11-week reigns of 1989 (2014-15) and Fearless (2008-09). Only The Tortured Poets Department, with 17 weeks at No. 1 in 2024, has more weeks atop the list among Swift’s 15 No. 1 albums, the most leaders among soloists.

The last album with at least 12 weeks at No. 1, among all releases, was Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem, with 12 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2025. (The last album with more than 12 weeks at No. 1 was SZA’s SOS, which logged its 13th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the May 3, 2025-dated list.)

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Peso Pluma and Tito Double P’s DINASTÍA debuts at No. 6, marking the third top 10 for the former and the first for the latter.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan. 10, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 6. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of The Life of a Showgirl’s 81,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 47,000 (up 10%, equaling 61.58 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it rises 16-2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 33,000 (down 66%; it notches a seventh nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 25%).

The top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 gets shaken up by the exodus of most holiday titles, as the new chart reflects the tracking week of Dec. 26 through Jan. 1. In turn, many non-holiday titles surge up the list, even with declines in overall activity.

Wallen’s I’m the Problem climbs 6-2 with 69,000 equivalent album units earned (down 8%), while fellow former No. 1 the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack sails 10-3 with 51,000 (down 18%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving reaches a new high as it vaults 14-4 (surpassing its No. 5 peak in November) with 50,000 (down less than 1%). Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Man’s Best Friend rallies 19-5 with 40,000 (but down 5%).

Peso Pluma and Tito Double P’s DINASTÍA debuts at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, scoring the former his third top 10 and the latter, his first. The set launches with 33,000 equivalent album units earned, of which SEA units comprise essentially all (equaling 45.29 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums). The album was preceded by the single “Intro,” which debuted at its No. 8 high on the Hot Latin Songs chart (dated Dec. 6).

Rounding out the rest of the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 are four former No. 1s: SZA’s SOS shoots 24-7 (32,000 equivalent album units, down 11%), Tate McRae’s So Close To What jumps 27-8 (nearly 32,000, up 2%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time drives 36-9 (27,000, up 1%) and Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet zooms 30-10 (nearly 27,000, down 8%).

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The carol leads for a 21st week. Plus, Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” hits a new No. 2 high.

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” adds a record-extending 21st week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Carey claims her unprecedented and milestone 100th career week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, having accumulated her haul over 19 leaders, dating to her first, “Vision of Love,” in 1990. Rihanna ranks second with 60 weeks at No. 1, followed by The Beatles (59) and Drake (56).

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” secures another notable record as it logs its 78th week on the Hot 100, surpassing Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” as the longest-charted title ever by a woman artist.

Two weeks earlier, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” returned to No. 1 on the Hot 100 to lead in a record-extending seventh holiday season. It arrived on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in November 1994 and, as streaming grew and holiday music became more prominent on streaming services’ playlists, it first hit the top 10 in December 2017 and the top five in the 2018 holiday season. It led at last, prior to its three weeks this season, over the holidays in 2019 (for three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three), 2022 (four), 2023 (two) and 2024 (four). (Older holiday songs are eligible to appear on the chart each season.)

Meanwhile, holiday hits light up the Hot 100’s top nine spots, with Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” galloping to a new No. 2 best and seasonal songs by Nat “King” Cole and Kelly Clarkson also rising to new highs.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Dec. 27) will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Dec. 23. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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The carol makes history 31 years after its release.

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” achieves a record-breaking 20th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, rewriting the mark for the longest reign over the chart’s 67-year history.

The song, originally released in 1994, surpasses the No. 1 runs of two hits that led the Hot 100 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.

Carey claims the Hot 100’s No. 1 longevity record for a second time — In 1995-96, her and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” dominated for 16 weeks, a mark that stood on its own for more than 23 years, until it was tied by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, in 2017, and then passed by “Old Town Road.” (She, thus, breaks the record with a song released before “One Sweet Day.”)

Plus, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” logs its 77th week on the Hot 100, tying Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” as the longest-charted title ever by a woman artist.

A week earlier, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” returned to No. 1 on the Hot 100 to lead in a record-extending seventh holiday season. It arrived 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 the past two weeks, over the holidays in 2019 (for three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three), 2022 (four), 2023 (two) and 2024 (four). (Older holiday songs are eligible to appear on the chart each season.)

“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).

Meanwhile, holiday hits glisten in eight of the Hot 100’s top 10 spots, including the entire top five.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Dec. 20, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Dec. 16. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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Plus, Wham!’s “Last Christmas” hits a new No. 2 high.

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).

“When I wrote [it], I had absolutely no idea the impact the song would eventually have worldwide,” Carey marveled in 2021. “I’m so full of gratitude that so many people enjoy it with me every year.”

“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.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Dec. 13, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Dec. 9. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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