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Carey’s carol reigns for a seventh total week, while The Ronettes rank in the top 10 for the first time since “Be My Baby” in 1963, ending a record 58-year, two-month break from the bracket.

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The carol, released in 1994, adds its seventh total week on top, after notching three weeks at No. 1 beginning in December 2019 and two more starting in December 2020, before it returned to the summit a week ago.

Notably, with this week’s Hot 100 dated Jan. 1, 2022, Carey’s “Christmas” is the first song to lead Hot 100 charts dated in four distinct years (2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022). (It was already the only song to reign in as many as three years.)

The song leads eight Yuletide favorites in the Hot 100’s top 10, including one in the tier for the first time: The Ronettes‘ “Sleigh Ride,” up from No. 13 to No. 10. The track was originally released in 1963, just after the group posted its lone top 10: its classic “Be My Baby,” which hit No. 2. The act’s return to the top 10 is record-breaking, as it ranks in the region after a break of 58 years and two months.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Jan. 1) will update on Billboard.com Wednesday (Dec. 29). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Here’s a deeper look as Carey’s “Christmas” repeats at the Hot 100’s (north) pole position.

Streams, airplay & sales: Carey’s “Christmas,” on Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings, drew 47.5 million U.S. streams (up 26%) and 32 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 25%, good for top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100) and sold 8,100 downloads (up 9%) in the Dec. 17-23 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The song claims a 14th total week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and rises 7-6 on Digital Song Sales and 23-13 on Radio Songs. It also leads the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 50th week, of the chart’s 55 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 35 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and dominates as the top title on the recently-revealed Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

The song was first released on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in 1994 and has increased its Hot 100 fortunes in recent years as streaming has grown and holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services’ seasonal playlists.

No. 1 in its 50th week on Hot 100: As it spends its 50th week on the Hot 100, Carey’s “Christmas” is the first song to lead in as late as its 50th frame on the survey. A week earlier, when it reigned in its 49th week, it passed Los Del Rio’s “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix),” which led through its 46th week on the chart in November 1996. (The latter also logged multiple runs on the Hot 100, first running up 20 weeks in September 1995-January 1996 before it resurged and returned in May 1996 and lasted on the list through February 1997.)

Longest span atop the Hot 100: Carey’s “Christmas” extends its mark for the longest span from a song’s first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 to its latest: two years and 11 days (Dec. 21, 2019-Jan. 1, 2022).

Plus, the latest week atop the Hot 100 for “Christmas” extends Carey’s record for the longest span of an artist ranking at No. 1 on the chart: 31 years and five months, dating to her first week at No. 1 on the chart dated Aug. 4, 1990, with her debut single “Vision of Love.”

When “Christmas” first hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 21, 2019, Carey passed Cher, whose solo No. 1s span 27 years and five months, from “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves,” from its first week at No. 1 in 1971, through “Believe,” through its last week on top in 1999. (If Cher’s career as half of duo Sonny & Cher were combined with her solo output, her No. 1 span would cover 33 years, seven months and two weeks, from Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe,” which reached the top in 1965, through “Believe.”)

Happy new year: Carey has now placed at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in a record-extending 18 distinct years (per Hot 100 chart dates): 1990-2000, 2005-06, 2008 and, thanks to “Christmas,” 2019-22.

Next up are three acts that have each spent time atop the Hot 100 in 10 individual years: Paul McCartney/Wings (1971, 1973-76, 1978, 1980, 1982-84; additionally, The Beatles, with him as a member, led in eight years: 1964-70); Michael Jackson (1972, 1979-80, 1983-84, 1987-88, 1991-92, 1995); and Madonna (1984-87, 1989-92, 1995, 2000).

Carey’s record 86th week atop Hot 100: With “Christmas,” Carey claims her record-extending 86th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, inception.

Most Weeks at No. 1 on Hot 100
86, Mariah Carey
60, Rihanna
59, The Beatles
52, Drake
50, Boyz II Men

“Christmas” 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 only artist that has ranked at No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades.

5 x 7: “Christmas” is Carey’s fifth Hot 100 No. 1 to rule for seven weeks or more, tying her with Drake for the most such leaders. Adele, Beyoncé, Boyz II Men and Rihanna follow with three each.

Most weeks at No. 1 for a holiday hit: Plus, with its seventh week atop the Hot 100, Carey’s “Christmas” extends its record for the most time at No. 1 among holiday songs. The only other seasonal single to reign, “The Chipmunk Song,” by David Seville & the Chipmunks, spent four weeks on top beginning in December 1958.

Carey’s “Christmas” paces an all-holiday top four on the Hot 100, with all titles at their peak positions. Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” originally released in 1958, keeps at No. 2 (47.5 million streams, up 33%, as it wins the Hot 100’s top Streaming Gainer award); the late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957, rises 4-3; and the late Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” from 1964, pushes 5-4. The tracks rank at Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 3, respectively, on Streaming Songs. (They also line up at the same positions on the Hot 100 that they held both a year ago and two years ago this week.)

Adele’s “Easy on Me” dips 3-5 on the Hot 100, after seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. The ballad spends a fifth week atop Radio Songs, with 86 million in reach (up 2%).

The late Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” rises 7-6 on the Hot 100. Originally released in 1963, it hit a No. 5 high last holiday season. With the song’s latest week in the top 10, Williams’ record for the longest span of appearing in the tier is extended to 62 years, two months and three weeks, dating to his first week in the top 10 with “Lonely Street,” on the chart dated Oct. 12, 1959.

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” jingles 9-7 for a new Hot 100 high (adding the chart’s top Sales Gainer nod for its 21% increase to 4,100 sold). A year ago this week, the song, released in 1984, hit the top 10 for the first time, becoming the seventh top 10 for the duo of George Michael (who died Dec. 25, 2016) and Andrew Ridgeley. The pair charted its first six top 10s, including three No. 1s, in 1984-86; Michael subsequently notched 14 solo top 10s, including seven No. 1s, through 1996.

José Feliciano’s 1970 holiday chestnut “Feliz Navidiad” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10, dashing 11-8. It hit a No. 6 high last holiday season, two weeks after becoming his second top 10.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” slips 6-9 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, The Ronettes’ “Sleigh Ride” gallops from its prior No. 13 best to No. 10, with 27.1 million streams (up 27%), 17.1 million in airplay audience (up 10%) and 1,000 sold (up 9%).

The song, released in late 1963, is The Ronettes’ second Hot 100 top 10, and first in 58 years and two months, since “Be My Baby” hit a No. 2 high for three weeks in October 1963. The act (whose original three members reportedly did not record together after the ’60s) rewrites the record for the longest gap between top 10s, previously held by Ives, who went 56 years, seven months and two weeks from “Funny Way of Laughin’ ” in 1962 to “Holly Jolly Christmas,” which hit the top 10 for the first time during the 2018-19 holiday season.

In between top 10s, and despite the original lineup’s dissolution, The Ronettes maintained a notable pop culture presence, particularly via “Be My Baby.” The song was interpolated, spotlighting lead singer Ronnie Spector’s “oh-oh-oh-oh … be my little baby” signature lines, in Eddie Money’s “Take Me Home Tonight,” which hit No. 4 on the Hot 100 in November 1986. The next year, “Be My Baby” received prominent placement in the blockbuster film Dirty Dancing, and on its soundtrack which topped the Billboard 200 for 18 weeks in 1987-88.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Jan. 1), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 29).

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Plus: Roddy Ricch’s ‘Live Life Fast’ debuts in top five, Vince Guaraldi Trio’s ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ hits new high & Bo Burnham’s “Inside (The Songs)” re-enters top 10 after CD/vinyl release.

Adele’s 30 continues its hot streak on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set locks in a fifth consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the tally (dated Jan. 1, 2022). The set earned 212,000 equivalent album units (up 16%) in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 23, according to MRC Data.

30 bowed at No. 1 on the chart dated Dec. 4 with 839,000 units earned. It then saw its second, third, fourth and fifth weeks tally 288,000, 193,000, 183,000 and 212,000 units, respectively.

30 logs the biggest fifth week for any album in over three years, since Adele’s last album, 25, was No. 1 in its fifth week, on the Jan. 9, 2016-dated chart, with 1.19 million units earned.

Plus, 30 is the first album to tally three weeks of at least 200,000 units in over three years, since Drake’s Scorpion saw its first three frames all clear the 200,000-unit mark.

30 is the fourth album released in 2021 to spend at least five weeks at No. 1 in total on the Billboard 200, following Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (10), Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy (five each).

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. 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 1, 2022-dated chart (where 30 spends a fifth week at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 29 (one day later than usual, owed to the holiday week). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of 30’s 212,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 23, album sales comprise 180,500 (up 23%), SEA units comprise 30,000 (down 14%; equaling 40.63 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,500 units (up 6%).

Adele’s total weeks at No. 1, across all three of her No. 1 albums (21, 25 and 30), now rises to 39. She logged 24 weeks at No. 1 with 21 in 2011-12, 10 weeks with 25 in 2015-16 and now five weeks with 30 in 2021-22.

With 39 weeks total at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Adele now ties Elton John for the eighth-most weeks at No. 1 since the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March of 1956. Ahead of them are The Beatles (132), Elvis Presley (67), Taylor Swift (55), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), The Kingston Trio and Whitney Houston (both with 46).

Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas jumps 4-2 on the new Billboard 200, earning 77,000 equivalent album units (up 19%). During the tracking week, NBC TV aired an encore presentation of Bublé’s latest special, Michael Bublé’s Christmas in the City, which premiered Dec. 6.

Christmas spent five weeks at No. 1 in late 2011 and early 2012 and has returned to the top 10 in every Christmas season since.

Swift’s former No. 1 Red (Taylor’s Version) is a non-mover at No. 3 with 76,000 equivalent album units earned (up 12%).

Roddy Ricch’s new album Live Life Fast debuts at No. 4 with 62,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 57,500 (equaling 76.51 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 3,500 and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Live Life Fast is the second top five-charting Billboard 200 entry for Roddy Ricch, following his last album, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, which spent four weeks at No. 1 in 2019-20.

Rodrigo’s chart-topping Sour is steady at No. 5 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (up 2%).

Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack hits a new high, rising 8-6, surpassing its previous high reached a week earlier. The album earned 61,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 23 (up 37%).

A Charlie Brown Christmas was released in 1965 and did not reach any Billboard ranking until 1987. That year, it debuted on the Top Holiday Albums chart, where it later peaked at No. 2 (Jan. 27, 2007). The album first reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 dated Jan. 2, 2021, when it rose to No. 10.

Mariah Carey‘s festive Merry Christmas is steady at No. 7 with 56,000 equivalent album units earned (up 26%).

Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song returns to the top 10, climbing 11-8, with 55,000 equivalent album units earned (up 28%). The set has so far peaked at No. 6 (on the Jan. 2, 2021-dated tally).

Juice WRLD’s Fighting Demons falls 2-9 in its second week on the Billboard 200, earning 52,000 equivalent album units (down 57%).

Bo Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) makes an eye-catching return to the top 10, as the album re-enters the chart at No. 10. The set earned 50,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 23 (up 721%) following its release on CD and vinyl on Dec. 17. It was previously only available via streaming services and to purchase as a digital download album. Of its unit total for the week, album sales comprise 44,500 (up 15,220%), SEA units comprise nearly 5,500 (down 9%) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Inside (The Songs) debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the June 26, 2021-dated chart.

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The 1994 modern classic leads six holiday hits in the top 10.

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” makes an unprecedented return to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, rising from No. 2. The carol logs its sixth total week atop the Hot 100 and becomes the first song in the chart’s history to have led in three distinct runs on the ranking.

The song was first released on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in 1994 and, as streaming has grown and holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services’ seasonal playlists, it hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time in December 2017, before ascending to No. 1 in both December 2019 (for three weeks) and December 2020 (two).

Carey’s gift that keeps on giving (and leading) paces six holiday classics in the Hot 100’s top 10, with Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” rising to No. 2 and Wham!’s “Last Christmas” returning to the tier at No. 9.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 25) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 21). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Here’s a deeper look at Carey’s latest Hot 100 coronation with “Christmas,” on Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings.

Airplay, streams & sales: Carey’s “Christmas” drew 37.6 million U.S. streams (up 16%) and 26.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 7%) and sold 7,400 downloads (up 7%) in the Dec. 10-16 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The song spends a 13th total week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and rises 9-7 on Digital Song Sales; and 24-23 on Radio Songs. It also leads the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 49th week, of the chart’s 54 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 34 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and dominates as the top title on the recently-revealed Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

Since its release, the song has upped its U.S. totals to 4.3 billion in radio audience, 1.4 billion streams and 3.7 million in download sales.

No. 1 in a third separate chart run: Carey’s “Christmas” first topped the Hot 100 dated Dec. 21, 2019, and led again on the next two lists, dated Dec. 28, 2019, and Jan. 4, 2020.

The following holiday season, it returned to No. 1 on the chart dated Dec. 19, 2020, and, after a week at No. 2 (below Taylor Swift’s “Willow”), topped the Jan. 2, 2021, dated tally.

As “Christmas” rules the latest, Dec. 25, 2021-dated chart, it claims its sixth total week at No. 1 in its third seasonal run at the summit, becoming the first song in the Hot 100’s 63-year history to lead in three distinct chart runs. The track has re-entered the survey each November or December dating to 2012.

(As “Christmas” has made four interrupted climbs to the top of the Hot 100, on charts dated Dec. 21, 2019, Dec. 19, 2020, Jan. 2, 2021, and now Dec. 25, 2021, it ties 24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring iann dior, beginning in October 2020, and Drake’s “Nice for What,” in 2018, as the only songs with four separate ascents to No. 1; unlike “Christmas,” the latter two tracks logged their four distinct rises to No. 1 over unbroken chart stays.)

Longest span atop the Hot 100: Carey’s “Christmas” now boasts the longest span from a song’s first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 to its latest: two years and four days (Dec. 21, 2019-Dec. 25, 2021).

It passes the only other song to lead the Hot 100 over multiple runs: Chubby Checker’s “The Twist,” which topped the tally dated Sept. 19, 1960, before, thanks to new popularity among adult audiences, leading the lists dated Jan. 13 and 20, 1962, ruling again after a gap of a year, three months and three weeks. (Still, that break remains the longest between Hot 100 reigns.)

Most weeks at No. 1 for a holiday hit: With its sixth week atop the Hot 100, Carey’s “Christmas” extends its record for the most time at No. 1 among holiday songs. The only other seasonal single to jingle to the apex, “The Chipmunk Song,” by David Seville & the Chipmunks, spent four weeks on top beginning in December 1958.

Carey’s record 85th week atop Hot 100: With “Christmas,” Carey claims her record-extending 85th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, inception.

Most Weeks at No. 1 on Hot 100
85, Mariah Carey
60, Rihanna
59, The Beatles
52, Drake
50, Boyz II Men
47, Usher
41, Beyoncé
37, Michael Jackson
34, Elton John
34, Bruno Mars

“Christmas” 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, dating to her first week on top with her debut single, “Vision of Love,” in 1990.

Further, “Christmas” is Carey’s record fifth Hot 100 No. 1 to rule for six weeks or more. She one-ups Boyz II Men, Drake and Usher, each with four such leaders.

Plus, it’s not only fitting that “Christmas” leads the Hot 100 dated Dec. 25, 2021, but Carey is the only artist to top the chart on multiple rankings dated Dec. 25: her “Hero” began a four-week stay at No. 1 on the Dec. 25, 1993, Hot 100. (This week’s chart is the 10th dated Dec. 25 in the list’s history.)

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” originally released in 1958, rises 3-2 on the Hot 100, returning to its high reached in each of the last two holiday seasons. It dances merrily with 19.8 million in radio airplay audience (up 7%), 35.8 million streams (up 19%) and 5,900 sold (down 3%).

Adele’s “Easy on Me” slips to No. 3 on the Hot 100, after seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, with 86.6 million in radio reach (up 1%), 19.2 million streams (down 7%) and 8,300 in sales (down 10%). The ballad spends a fourth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs.

The late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957, lifts 6-4 on the Hot 100 and the late Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” from 1964, keeps at No. 5. The Yuletide standards have hit respective peaks of Nos. 3 and 4 in each of the last two holiday seasons.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” slides 4-6 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1. Notably, over its first 23 weeks on the chart, dating to its July debut at No. 3, the song has yet to rank below No. 6. It’s one of only three titles ever to have spent its first 23 weeks or more in the top six spots, after Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” (27, in 2017) and Post Malone’s “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage (also 23, in 2017-18).

The late Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” rises 10-7 on the Hot 100. Originally released in 1963, it hit a No. 5 high last holiday season.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” pushes 9-8 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 7, as it tops the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 13th week each.

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” dashes back to the Hot 100’s top 10, and its No. 9 high, first reached last holiday season, from No. 13. The 1984 release advances with 23.4 million streams (up 16%), 17.1 million in airplay audience (up 7%) and 3,400 sold (up 2%).

The song became the seventh Hot 100 top 10 for the duo of George Michael (who died Dec. 25, 2016) and Andrew Ridgeley, after the pair charted its first six in 1984-86, including the No. 1s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” “Careless Whisper” and “Everything She Wants.” Michael subsequently notched 14 solo top 10s, including seven No. 1s, through 1996.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” descends 8-10, after a week at No. 1, as it posts a 17th week atop the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs charts.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Dec. 25), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 21).

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Plus: Juice WRLD’s second posthumous album debuts at No. 2.

Adele’s 30 holds firm at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a fourth consecutive, and total, week. It’s the first album with four weeks in a row at No. 1 since March. 30 earned 183,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 16 (down 6%) according to MRC Data.

The last album with four straight weeks at No. 1 was Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album, which spent all 10 of its weeks at No. 1 from its debut frame, between the charts dated Jan. 23 and March 27. The last album by a woman with four weeks in a row at No. 1 was Taylor Swift’s Folklore, which spent its first six weeks atop the list (of its total of eight nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1) beginning in August 2020.

30 is the fourth album released in 2021 to spend at least four weeks at No. 1 in total. Previously, Drake’s Certified Lover Boy (five weeks), Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (five) and Wallen’s Dangerous (10) all clocked at least four weeks in the lead.

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. 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 Dec. 25, 2021-dated chart (where 30 spends a fourth week at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 21. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of 30’s 183,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 16, album sales comprise 146,500 (down 2%), SEA units comprise 35,000 (down 19%; equaling 47.3 million on-demand streams of the set’s track) and TEA units comprise less than 1,500 units (down 15%).

30 logs the biggest fourth week for any album in over three years, since Drake’s No. 1 Scorpion earned 184,000 in its fourth frame (chart dated Aug. 4, 2018).

Juice WRLD’s second posthumous album, Fighting Demons, debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 119,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 110,000 units (equaling 155.49 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), TEA units comprise 5,000 and album sales comprise 4,000. Fighting Demons is Juice WRLD’s fifth chart entry, and all five have reached the top five. He previously hit No. 1 with both his first posthumous release, Legends Never Die (which debuted at No. 1 on the July 25, 2020-dated chart and spent two weeks at No. 1), and with Death Race for Love (debuted at No. 1 on the March 23, 2019, chart, and spent two weeks at No. 1).

Four former No. 1s are next up on the Billboard 200. Swift’s second re-recorded album, Red (Taylor’s Version), dips 2-3 in its fifth week on the list, and fifth frame in the top 10 (68,000). It has now spent more weeks in the top 10 than Swift’s first re-recorded project, Fearless (Taylor’s Version), which has notched four nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 (between April and October).

Michael Bublé’s Christmas is steady at No. 4 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned (up 7%), Rodrigo’s Sour is stationary at No. 5 with 60,000 units (though up 18%, thanks to a surge in vinyl LP sales) and Wallen’s Dangerous holds at No. 6 with 45,000 (down 6%).

Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas rises 8-7 with nearly 45,000 equivalent album units earned (up 11%). Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to the animated TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas hits a new peak, climbing 9-8 with 44,500 units (up 15%); it beats its previous chart high, set just a week ago, when it reached No. 9.

Drake’s former No. 1 Certified Lover Boy falls 7-9 with 44,000 units (down 5%) and Polo G’s chart-topping Hall of Fame falls 3-10 with 43,000 (down 45%), following its run back up the chart a week ago following a deluxe reissue.

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Plus, five holiday hits rank in the top 10, led by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” at No. 2.

Adele‘s “Easy on Me” rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a seventh total week. Plus, SZA‘s “I Hate U” launches at No. 7 on the Hot 100, arriving as her fifth top 10.

Meanwhile, Andy Williams‘ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10, up 11-10, joining four other holiday classics jingle-belling in the region: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” and Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” at Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 6, respectively.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 18) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 14). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Easy on Me,” released Oct. 14 on Columbia Records, drew 85.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 1%) and 20.7 million U.S. streams (down 15%) and sold 9,200 downloads (down 12%) in the Dec. 3-9 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The ballad spends a third week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart and drops 4-6 on Digital Song Sales, after two weeks at the summit, and 4-7 on Streaming Songs, after five weeks on top.

The song, Adele’s fifth Hot 100 No. 1, is her third to reign for at least seven weeks, after “Rolling in the Deep” (seven, 2011) and “Hello” (10, 2015-16). Adele is the sixth artist with three or more such No. 1s, joining Drake (five); Mariah Carey, Rihanna (four each); Beyoncé and Boyz II Men (three each).

Adele has entered the elite club as the only act to command the Hot 100 for seven weeks or more with a lead single from three consecutive albums: “Rolling in the Deep” is from 21; “Hello” is from 25; and “Easy on Me” is from 30, which controls the Billboard 200 chart for a third week.

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” pushes 3-2 on the Hot 100, with 32.5 million U.S. streams (up 26%), 24.6 million airplay audience impressions (up 4%) and 6,900 sold (up 20%). It tops Streaming Songs for a 12th total week (and is the only holiday song to have led, dating to the survey’s January 2013 inception); ranks at No. 9 on Digital Song Sales; and jumps 31-24 on Radio Songs.

The carol was first released in 1994 and, as holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services’ seasonal playlists, hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time in December 2017 and ascended to No. 1 in both December 2019 (for three weeks) and December 2020 (two).

The song also crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 48th week, of the ranking’s 53 total weeks since the tally began in 2011; it has led for 33 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and dominates as the top title on the recently-revealed Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” originally released in 1958, rises 4-3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2 in each of the last two holiday seasons, and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” dips 2-4, after seven weeks at No. 1.

The late Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (from 1964) lifts 7-5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 4 in the 2019 and 2020 holiday seasons, and the late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (from 1957) slips 5-6, after climbing to No. 3 also in each of the last two holiday seasons.

SZA’s “I Hate U” soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 7, with 26.7 million streams, 485,000 in radio airplay audience and 4,600 sold.

The song, which was first issued on SoundCloud over the summer and went viral on TikTok ahead of its Dec. 3 wide release, is SZA’s fifth Hot 100 top 10. It follows her featured turn on Maroon 5’s “What Lovers Do” (No. 9 peak, November 2017); “All the Stars,” with Kendrick Lamar (No. 7, March 2018); “Good Days” (No. 9, this February); and her featured role on Doja Cat’s “Kiss Me More” (No. 3, July).

“I Hate U” marks SZA’s second debut in the Hot 100’s top 10 (and first as a lead artist), tying the No. 7 start of “Kiss Me More.”

“I Hate U” likewise launches at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100. It’s SZA’s first leader on the former and second on the latter, after “The Weekend,” for a week in January 2018.

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” dips 6-8 on the Hot 100, after a week at No. 1, as it posts a 16th week atop the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart, and Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” backtracks 8-9, after reaching No. 7, on the Hot 100, as it leads the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 12th week each.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, the late Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” returns to the tier (11-10), with 21.3 million streams (up 11%), 18.6 million in radio reach and 1,700 sold (up 13%). Originally released in 1963, the song hit a No. 5 best last holiday season.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Dec. 18), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 14).

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Plus: Polo G’s No. 1 “Hall of Fame” returns to top five after deluxe reissue and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” hits new peak.

Adele’s 30 racks up a third straight and total week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The set earned 193,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 9, according to MRC Data (down 33% compared to the previous week).

30 continues to be a sturdy performer, as it captures the largest third week for any album in more than three years, since Drake’s chart-topping Scorpion earned 260,000 in its third frame (chart dated July 28, 2018).

Elsewhere in the top 10, Polo G’s former No. 1 Hall of Fame jumps back into the top 10, vaulting 69-3, after it was reissued on Dec. 3 with 14 additional bonus tracks, while Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to the animated TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas hits a new peak, rising 10-9.

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. 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 Dec. 18, 2021-dated chart (where 30 spends a third week at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 14. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of 30’s 193,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 2, album sales comprise 149,000 (down 34%), SEA units comprise 43,000 (down 29%, equaling 57.87 million on-demand streams of the set’s track) and TEA units comprise less than 2,000 units (down 24%).

Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Red (Taylor’s Version) is non-mover at No. 2 with 80,000 equivalent album units earned (down 22%).

Polo G’s chart-topping Hall of Fame surges back into the top 10, rising 69-3 after it was reissued on Dec. 3 with 14 additional bonus tracks. The album earned 78,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week (up 468%), nearly all from streaming activity. Of its total sum for the week, SEA units comprise 76,000 (up 461%, equaling 110.34 million on-demand streams of the set’s now-34 tracks).

Michael Bublé’s chart-topping Christmas is pushed down 3-4, despite an increase in activity, as it earned 60,000 equivalent album units for the week (up 3%). The latest tracking week included the Dec. 6 premiere of Bublé’s latest NBC TV special, Michael Bublé’s Christmas in the City.

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour falls 4-5 with 51,000 equivalent album units earned (up 5%), Morgan Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 6 with 48,000 units (up 6%), and Drake’s No. 1 Certified Lover Boy dips 5-7 with 47,000 units (down 3%).

Mariah Carey’s evergreen 1994 album, Merry Christmas, rises 14-8 with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (up 20%). The album, which contains her seasonal smash “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” peaked at No. 3 on the Dec. 17, 1994-dated chart. Merry Christmas has returned to the Billboard 200’s top 10 in each of the last four holiday seasons.

Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack hits a new peak, climbing 10-9, surpassing its previous high of No. 10. The album earned 39,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 9 (up 9%).

A Charlie Brown Christmas was released in 1965 and did not reach any Billboard ranking until 1987. That year, it debuted on the Top Holiday Albums chart, where it later peaked at No. 2 (Jan. 27, 2007). The album first reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 dated Jan. 2, 2021, when it peaked at No. 10.

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“Easy on Me” reigns for a sixth week, while “All I Want for Christmas Is You” surges 12-3.

Adele‘s “Easy on Me” tops the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a sixth total week.

Plus, four holiday chestnuts jingle back to the Hot 100’s top 10: Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” up from No. 12 to No. 3; Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (14-4); Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (20-5); and Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (27-7).

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 11) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 7). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Easy on Me,” released Oct. 14 on Columbia Records, drew 87.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 6%) and 24.5 million U.S. streams (down 35%) and sold 10,500 downloads (down 62%) in the Nov. 26-Dec. 2 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The ballad spends a second week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart; drops to No. 4 on Streaming Songs after five weeks at the summit; and also ranks at No. 4 after two weeks atop Digital Song Sales.

Meanwhile, the lead single from Adele’s LP 30, which tops the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week, grants the singer-songwriter a fitting 30th total week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, encompassing her five career leaders. Previously, she reigned with “Rolling in the Deep,” for seven weeks in 2011; “Someone Like You” (five, 2011); “Set Fire to the Rain” (two, 2012); and “Hello” (10, 2015-16).

Adele is the 17th artist to top the Hot 100 for at least 30 weeks, over the chart’s 63-year history. She’s the eighth woman to reach the mark, after Mariah Carey, the leader among all acts with 84 weeks at No. 1, Rihanna (60), Beyoncé (41), Janet Jackson, Katy Perry (33 each), Madonna (32) and Whitney Houston (31).

“Easy on Me” concurrently becomes Adele’s fifth No. 1 on the mainstream top 40-based Pop Airplay radio airplay chart. It also leads Adult Pop Airplay for a third week.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1, with 83.8 million in airplay audience (down 1%), 14.3 million streams (down 13%) and 3,300 sold (down 27%).

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” soars 12-3 on the Hot 100, with 25.8 million U.S. streams (up 47%), 23.4 million airplay audience impressions (up 54%) and 5,800 sold (up 53%) in the tracking week. It bounds 5-1 on Streaming Songs for an 11th total week on top (and is the only holiday song to have led, dating to the survey’s January 2013 inception); 23-8 on Digital Song Sales; and 47-31 on Radio Songs. It also crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 47th week, of the chart’s 52 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 32 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and rules as the top title on the recently-revealed Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

“Christmas” past, “Christmas” present: Notably, the latest figures for Carey’s anthem are similar to those from the same week a year ago. In the Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2020, post-Thanksgiving tracking frame, the song drew 26.4 million streams, 24.5 million in radio reach and sold 6,800, as it dashed 14-2 on the Hot 100.

The song sports a record-setting history on the Hot 100, following its 1994 release on Carey’s 1994 album Merry Christmas. As streaming grew through the 2010s and holiday music became more prominent in Yuletide playlists on multiple streaming services, the carol hit the top 10 for the first time in December 2017. In December 2019, it ascended to the summit, 25 years after its original release, becoming the second holiday hit ever to reign; “The Chipmunk Song,” by David Seville & the Chipmunks, spent four weeks at No. 1 beginning in December 1958.

With the ascent, Carey claimed her 19th Hot 100 No. 1, as she extended her mark for the most among soloists and moved to within one of The Beatles’ overall record 20.

As “Christmas” dominated the Hot 100 for three weeks on the charts dated Dec. 21, 2019, through Jan. 4, 2020, Carey also became the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the survey in four distinct decades. The track added two more weeks on top in December 2020 and this January, passing “The Chipmunk Song” for the top cumulative command (five weeks) for a holiday song.

Also returning to the Hot 100’s top 10 are three other holiday staples: Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” originally released in 1958 (14-4); the late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957 (20-5); and the late Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” from 1964 (27-7). A year ago this week, the songs vaulted 21-4 and 31-9 and re-entered at No. 24, respectively. They have peaked at Nos. 2, 3 and 4, respectively, in each of the last two holiday seasons.

Overall, 21 seasonal songs decorate the latest Hot 100, much in line with the 22 on the chart a year ago this week.

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” dips 3-6 on the Hot 100, after a week at No. 1, as it posts a 15th week atop both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” slips to No. 8 from its No. 7 Hot 100 best, as it leads the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for an 11th week each.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Ed Sheeran’s “Shivers” falls 6-9, after reaching No. 5, and Doja Cat’s “Need to Know” drops 9-10, after hitting No. 8.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Dec. 11), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 7).

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Plus: Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 “Christmas” surges 9-3 and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” returns to top 10.

Adele’s 30 spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set earned 288,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 2, according to MRC Data. That’s down 66% compared to its chart-topping debut sum of 839,000 units a week earlier.

However, 30 logs the largest second week for an album in over three years, since Drake’s Scorpion earned 335,000 units its sophomore frame (chart dated July 21, 2018), following its No. 1 debut with 732,000 units a week prior.

Elsewhere in the top 10, Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas surges 9-3, while Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas returns to the top 10, bounding 21-10.

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. 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 Dec. 11, 2021-dated chart (where 30 spends a second week at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 7. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of 30’s 288,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 2, album sales comprise 225,000 (down 68%), SEA units comprise 61,000 (down 57%, equaling 81.33 million on-demand streams of the set’s track) and TEA units comprise 2,000 units (down 64%).

Taylor Swift’s former leader Red (Taylor’s Version) holds at No. 2 with 102,000 equivalent album units earned (down 36%).

Bublé’s Christmas jumps 9-3 with 59,000 equivalent album units earned (up 51%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 44,000 units (up 60%, equaling 57.45 million streams of the set’s tracks). The album benefits from its tracks being featured on holiday playlists in leading streaming services, as well as a recently released 10th anniversary edition of the album that includes bonus songs. Christmas spent five weeks at No. 1 in late 2011 and early 2012 and has returned to the top 10 in every Christmas season since.

Christmas could continue to see gains next week, following the Dec. 6 premiere of Bublé’s latest NBC TV special, Michael Bublé’s Christmas in the City.

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour rises 8-4 with 48,000 equivalent album units earned (up 21%) following promotion of the album’s vinyl LP at Target stores. Of the album’s total units for the week, album sales comprise 21,000 (up 53%), of which 14,000 are in vinyl LP sales (up 63%).

Drake’s chart-topping Certified Lover Boy falls 3-5 with 48,000 equivalent album units (down 9%), Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album dips 5-6 with 45,000 units (down 7%), Summer Walker’s former leader Still Over It descends 6-7 with 40,000 units (down 17%), Silk Sonic’s An Evening With Silk Sonic falls 4-8 with 37,000 units (down 26%) and The Weeknd’s The Highlights rises 10-9 with nearly 37,000 units (down 2%).

Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack returns to the top 10, climbing 21-10 (matching its peak) with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (up 57%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 19,000 (up 72%, equaling 25.28 million streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 16,000 (up 44%) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Like Bublé’s Christmas album, A Charlie Brown Christmas also profits from its promotion on holiday playlists in leading streaming services. Further, A Charlie Brown Christmas continues to sell well on vinyl LP, with vinyl sales totaling 13,000 (up 39%) of its overall album sales for the week.

A Charlie Brown Christmas was released in 1965 and did not reach any Billboard ranking until 1987. That year, it debuted on the Top Holiday Albums chart, where it later peaked at No. 2 (Jan. 27, 2007). The album first reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 dated Jan. 2, 2021.

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