{"id":1218,"date":"2018-12-31T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T20:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:45","slug":"mariah-careys-christmas-climbs-to-no-3-on-billboard-hot-100-ariana-grandes-next-leads-for-seventh-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8216;Christmas&#8217; Climbs to No. 3 on Billboard Hot 100, Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8216;Next&#8217; Leads for Seventh Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Below Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Thank U, Next,&#8221; Carey&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; is the first top-five holiday hit on the Hot 100 in 60 years. Plus, three more seasonal classics hit the top 10 for the first time.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; tops the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;(dated Jan. 5, 2019) for a seventh week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a record four holiday songs infuse the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 simultaneously, led by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/mariah-carey\">Mariah Carey<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You,&#8221; which dashes from No. 7 to No. 3, becoming just the second yuletide tune ever to hit the Hot 100&#8217;s top five, and the first in nearly 60 years. It also takes over as the first holiday No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, with a record weekly sum for a seasonal song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bobby-helms\">Bobby Helms<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; claims the record for the longest ride to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 (60 years and two weeks), jumping 13-8 after it first appeared on the chart in 1958;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/brenda-lee\">Brenda Lee<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree&#8221; rolls 11-9, becoming her first top 10 since 1963, as she ends the longest break between top 10s for a female artist; and,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/burl-ives\">Burl Ives<\/a>&nbsp;returns to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 after an overall record-breaking gap of 56 years, seven months and two weeks, as &#8220;A Holly Jolly Christmas&#8221; rises 12-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s sleigh ride through the top 10 of the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gl1aHhXnN1k\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Next,&#8221; released on Republic Records, and which debuted atop the Nov. 17-dated Hot 100, becoming her first No. 1 on the chart, rebounds 4-3 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart (which it led for two weeks), up 86 percent to 43,000 downloads sold in the week ending Dec. 27, according to Nielsen Music; all but two titles on the 50-position Digital Song Sales tally show gains, thanks to robust holiday shopping (both before Christmas Day and likely helped after by gift card redemptions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Next&#8221; holds at No. 5 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>&nbsp;(90 million audience impressions, up 4 percent, in the week ending Dec. 30) and tumbles to No. 9 on Streaming Songs, after seven weeks at No. 1 (37.9 million U.S. streams, down 13 percent, in the week ending Dec. 27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/halsey\">Halsey<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Without Me&#8221; spends a third week at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. It leads Digital Song Sales for a sixth week (47,000, up 27 percent); repeats at No. 4 on Radio Songs (91.8 million, up 4 percent); and drops 8-12 on Streaming Songs (32 million, essentially even week-over-week).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gap again narrows between the Hot 100&#8217;s top two songs, as &#8220;Next&#8221; increases by 2 percent in overall activity, while &#8220;Without Me&#8221; gains by 5 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXQViqx6GMY\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First top-five Hot 100 holiday hit in 60 years \/ First holiday Streaming Songs No. 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You,&#8221; which two weeks earlier became the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8490533\/mariah-carey-christmas-highest-charting-holiday-hit-60-years\">highest-charting holiday season-themed hit on the Hot 100 in almost 60 years<\/a>, now becomes the first such song to reach the top five in that span, jingling 7-3, passing its prior No. 6 peak. The carol joins &#8220;The Chipmunk Song,&#8221; by David Seville &amp; The Chipmunks, which spent four weeks at No. 1 beginning Dec. 22, 1958, as the only two top-five holiday hits in the Hot 100&#8217;s 60-year history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Christmas&#8221; rules the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-holiday-songs\">Holiday 100<\/a>&nbsp;(for a 35th week of the chart&#8217;s 40 weeks of existence, since its 2011 launch) and becomes the first holiday hit ever to reach No. 1 on Streaming Songs (which began in January 2013). Winning the Hot 100&#8217;s top Streaming Gainer award, it pushes 3-1 on Streaming Songs, up 49 percent to 51.9 million U.S. streams in the week ending Dec. 27, a new record weekly total for a seasonal song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Christmas&#8221; also gains on Digital Song Sales (16,000, up 13 percent, although it falls 11-17), while plunging 18-43 on Radio Songs (24.2 million, down 41 percent), as the latter chart&#8217;s tracking week covered five full days after Christmas (Dec. 24-30); conversely, all holiday titles sport gains on Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales, both of which reflect the Dec. 21-27 tracking week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Christmas&#8221; first appeared on Carey&#8217;s 1994 album&nbsp;<em>Merry Christmas<\/em>, which concurrently makes its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8491748\/21-savages-i-am-i-was-album-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200\">first appearance in the top 10<\/a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;since its original season of release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, thanks to Grande, Halsey and Carey, women in lead roles monopolize the Hot 100&#8217;s top three simultaneously for the first time in over four years; on the Nov. 29, 2014-dated chart, Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Blank Space&#8221; rose 3-1, supplanting her own &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; (1-3), marking the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6320061\/taylor-swift-blank-space-hot-100\">first self-replacement at No. 1 by a female artist<\/a>, and Meghan Trainor&#8217;s &#8220;All About That Bass&#8221; held at No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/travis-scott\">Travis Scott<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Sicko Mode,&#8221; which topped the Dec. 8-dated Hot 100, drops 3-4, while leading the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts for a 10th week each. Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top five,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/swae-lee\">Swae Lee<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)&#8221; slips a spot from its No. 4 high to No. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/panic-at-the-disco\">Panic! at the Disco<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;High Hopes&#8221; holds at No. 6 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 5, and rules&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rock-songs\">Hot Rock Songs<\/a>&nbsp;for a ninth week and Radio Songs for a sixth frame (124.6 million, down 1 percent).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/marshmello\">Marshmello<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bastille\">Bastille<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Happier&#8221; drops 5-7 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 3, as it tops&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/dance-electronic-songs\">Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a>&nbsp;for a 15th week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/itcMLwMEeMQ\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Longest trip to Hot 100&#8217;s top 10:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bobby Helms&#8217; &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; sets the record for the longest ride to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10: 60 years and two weeks. It jingle-hops 13-8 after first appearing on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 22, 1958, just after the chart&#8217;s Aug. 4, 1958, origin; Helms first released the song for the 1957 holiday season. It surges 11-2 on Streaming Songs, up 53 percent to 44.2 million U.S. streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helms, who died in 1997, appears in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 for the first time. He charted two other titles: &#8220;Borrowed Dreams&#8221; (No. 60 peak, August 1958) and &#8220;The Fool and the Angel&#8221; (No. 75, January 1959). As &#8220;Dreams&#8221; debuted on the third Hot 100 ever (dated Aug. 18, 1958), Helms ends the longest wait for an artist&#8217;s first top 10: 60 years, four months and two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1qYz7rfgLWE\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Brenda Lee&#8217;s &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree&#8221; two-steps 11-9 on the Hot 100, also reaching the top 10 at last; originally released in 1958, it first appeared on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 12, 1960, reaching No. 14 two weeks later, its best rank until last week. On Streaming Songs, &#8220;Tree&#8221; rises 12-3 (44.9 million, up 50 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee, who celebrated her 74th birthday Dec. 11, adds her 13th Hot 100 top 10 and first since 1963, when &#8220;Losing You&#8221; reached No. 6. Her 55-year and seven-month break between top 10s is the longest among women and second overall to the song that enters the region directly below \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLr1AYRBS0A\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Longest break between Hot 100 top 10s:<\/strong>&nbsp;Burl Ives returns to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 after a record-breaking 56 years, seven months and two weeks, as &#8220;A Holly Jolly Christmas&#8221; climbs 12-10. The track bounds 9-4 on Streaming Songs (42.6 million, up 36 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ives, who passed away in 1995, rewrites the mark for the longest wait between Hot 100 top 10s held \u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8491362\/ariana-grande-hot-100-andy-williams-top-10\">for a week by Andy Williams<\/a>, who last week posthumously ended a 47-year, eight-month and three-week break between top 10s, when &#8220;It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8221; rose 13-10 (before retreating to No. 13 this week).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ives had last hit the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 in 1962, with his sole two other top 10s: &#8220;Funny Way of Laughin&#8217; &#8221; (No. 10 peak that May) and &#8220;A Little Bitty Tear&#8221; (No. 9, that February).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All-time holiday top 10s on the Hot 100:<\/strong>&nbsp;Helms, Lee and Ives add just the seventh, eighth and ninth yuletide hits ever to reach the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 (with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8491259\/how-amazon-music-alexa-helping-boost-decades-old-holiday-classics-charts\">rise of streaming assisting<\/a>&nbsp;their, and Carey&#8217;s, ascents).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highest-Charting Holiday Songs in the Hot 100&#8217;s History<br>No. 1, four weeks, beginning Dec. 22, 1958, &#8220;The Chipmunk Song,&#8221; by David Seville &amp; The Chipmunks<br>No. 3, Jan. 5, 2019, &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You,&#8221; Mariah Carey<br>No. 7, Jan. 8, 2000, &#8220;Auld Lang Syne,&#8221; Kenny G<br>No. 7, Jan. 6, 1990, &#8220;This One&#8217;s for the Children,&#8221; New Kids on the Block<br>No. 8, Jan. 5, 2019, &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock,&#8221; Bobby Helms<br>No. 9, Jan. 5, 2019, &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree,&#8221; Brenda Lee<br>No. 9, Feb. 21, 1981, &#8220;Same Old Lang Syne,&#8221; Dan Fogelberg<br>No. 10, Jan. 5, 2019, &#8220;A Holly Jolly Christmas,&#8221; Burl Ives<br>No. 10, Dec. 29, 2018, &#8220;It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,&#8221; Andy Williams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for holiday songs and their eligibility, or lack thereof, for the Hot 100 over the years,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/podcasts\/7511387\/chart-beat-podcast-with-billboard-chart-historian-joel-whitburn\">chart historian Joel Whitburn<\/a>&nbsp;notes in his book&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordresearch.com\/christmas\/christmas_in_the_charts_1920_2004.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christmas in the Charts<\/a><\/em>, &#8220;From 1963 through 1972, and from 1983 through 1985 [with minimal exceptions],&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;published a seasonal Christmas Singles chart and did not chart Christmas singles on the Hot 100.&#8221; Per current Hot 100 rules, in place in recent years, older songs, including seasonal titles, can rank in the top 50 if experiencing significant multi-metric gains, and multiple holiday standards re-enter or debut each season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Meanwhile, as noticed by&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;senior director of charts Keith Caulfield, thanks to the influx of holiday titles, no artists sporting a featured billing appear in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 for the first time in over four years, since a two-week span of only lead acts on the charts dated Nov. 29 and Dec. 6, 2014.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more Hot 100 news on Billboard.com this week, and, for all chart news, you can listen (and subscribe) to&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/chart-beat\/id1082747004?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">Chart Beat Podcast<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pop-shop-podcast\/id720291560?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Shop Podcast<\/a>&nbsp;and follow&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\">@billboard<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboardcharts\" target=\"_blank\">@billboardcharts<\/a>. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 2), when all charts, including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1218\" data-postid=\"1218\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1218 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Thank U, Next,&#8221; Carey&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; is the first top-five holiday hit on the Hot 100 in 60 years. Plus, three more seasonal classics hit the top 10 for the first time. Ariana Grande&#8216;s &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; tops the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;(dated Jan. 5, 2019) for a seventh week. 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