{"id":1652,"date":"2019-12-23T11:31:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:37","slug":"mariah-carey-no-1-brenda-lee-no-2-in-billboard-hot-100s-first-ever-christmas-double-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1652","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey No. 1, Brenda Lee No. 2 in Billboard Hot 100&#8217;s First-Ever &#8216;Christmas&#8217; Double Up"},"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\">Carey&#8217;s &#8216;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8217; breaks the weekly streaming record for a holiday song.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Holiday songs hang atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&#8216;s two highest boughs for the first time in the chart&#8217;s history, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/mariah-carey\">Mariah Carey<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; leads the list for a second week and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/brenda-lee\">Brenda Lee<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree&#8221; rises from No. 3 to No. 2, reaching a new peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carey&#8217;s carol also breaks its own record for the biggest streaming week ever for a holiday song: 54.4 million U.S. streams in the week ending Dec. 19, according to Nielsen Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a record-tying four seasonal songs rank in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/burl-ives\">Burl Ives<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;A Holly Jolly Christmas&#8221; climbs 10-6 for a new high and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bobby-helms\">Bobby Helms<\/a>&#8216; &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; rolls 15-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond that sleighful of holiday hits,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>&nbsp;earns his first No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart with his former Hot 100 leader &#8220;Circles,&#8221; now at No. 3 on the latter list, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-uzi-vert\">Lil Uzi Vert<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Futsal Shuffle 2020&#8221; launches at No. 5 on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 28) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXQViqx6GMY\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carey&#8217;s &#8220;Christmas,&#8221; on Columbia\/Legacy Records, tops the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart for a third consecutive week, and fourth total frame (after a week at No. 1 last holiday season), up 19% to 54.4 million U.S. streams in the week ending Dec. 19, according to Nielsen Music. The total is the best weekly sum ever for a holiday hit, surpassing the 51.9 million that the song drew last season (Jan. 5, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Christmas&#8221; drops to No. 7 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;after its second week at No. 1 (following a week on top in 2005), down 44% to 15,000 sold in the week ending Dec. 19. (For two days in the prior tracking week, ending Dec. 12, Carey sold CD singles of &#8220;Christmas&#8221; on her website, available for pre-order with consumers receiving a download upon purchase.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Radio Songs, &#8220;Christmas&#8221; surges 27-14, gaining by 26% to 42.9 million in all-format airplay audience in the week ending Dec. 22, as it wins the Hot 100&#8217;s top Airplay Gainer award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally released in 1994 on Carey&#8217;s album&nbsp;<em>Merry Christmas<\/em>, the modern classic reached the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 at last in December 2017 and rose to its prior No. 3 high last holiday season, before&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8546418\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-number-one\">topping the tally for the first time last week<\/a>&nbsp;and becoming only the second holiday No. 1 ever on the Hot 100, joining The Chipmunks&#8217; &#8220;The Chipmunk Song&#8221; (with David Seville), which ruled for four weeks in 1958-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among other feats achieved last week with the Hot 100 coronation of &#8220;Christmas,&#8221; Carey collected her 19th No. 1, extending her record for the most among soloists and moving to within one of The Beatles&#8217; record 20. This week, she adds her record-extending 81st career week at No. 1 and extends the longest span of Hot 100 No. 1s for any artist: 29 years, four months and three weeks, dating to her first frame at No. 1 on the chart dated Aug. 4, 1990, with &#8220;Vision of Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally last week, Carey became the fourth artist with Hot 100 No. 1s in the 1990s, 2000s &amp; 2010s, joining Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Usher. No act has ever logged time at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in four distinct decades, consecutively or otherwise; thus, if &#8220;Christmas&#8221; is No. 1 on the chart next week (dated Jan. 4, 2020), Carey would become the first artist to achieve the honor. (A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8546869\/mariah-carey-new-video-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you\">new video for &#8220;Christmas,&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;released Friday, Dec. 20, will help the song&#8217;s fortunes on next week&#8217;s charts.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carey&#8217;s &#8220;Christmas&#8221; concurrently tops the streaming-, sales- and airplay-based&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-holiday-songs\">Holiday 100<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 39th total week, of the 44 overall frames in the chart&#8217;s history, dating to its 2011 inception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DSHGd4lmLd4\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Brenda Lee&#8217;s &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree&#8221; pushes 3-2 on the Hot 100, marking a new high; it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8491783\/mariah-carey-ariana-grande-billboard-hot-100-top-10\">entered the top 10 for the first time<\/a>&nbsp;last holiday season, over 58 years after it debuted on the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chestnut is the third-highest-charting holiday hit in the Hot 100&#8217;s 61-year archives, as holiday songs rank in the top two spots simultaneously for the first time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highest-Charting Holiday Songs in the Hot 100&#8217;s History<br>No. 1, two weeks to-date, Dec. 21, 2019, &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You,&#8221; Mariah Carey<br>No. 1, four weeks, beginning Dec. 22, 1958, &#8220;The Chipmunk Song,&#8221; by The Chipmunks with David Seville<br>No. 2, Dec. 28, 2019, &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree,&#8221; Brenda Lee<br>No. 6, Dec. 28, 2019, &#8220;A Holly Jolly Christmas,&#8221; Burl Ives<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, Feb. 21, 1981, &#8220;Same Old Lang Syne,&#8221; Dan Fogelberg<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>Notably, for several years (1963-72; 1983-85, barring occasional exceptions), holiday songs were ineligible to chart on the Hot 100, instead appearing on separate holiday rankings. This decade, seasonal songs have proven\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8491259\/how-amazon-music-alexa-helping-boost-decades-old-holiday-classics-charts\">strong in streaming<\/a>, further helping spark some of the highest peaks for Yuletide tunes in the chart&#8217;s entire history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Rockin&#8217; &#8221; likewise rises 3-2 on Streaming Songs (45.3 million, up 22%), aided by a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8542904\/holiday-animated-videos-frank-sinatra-brenda-lee-supremes-ume\">new animated music video<\/a>. It ascends 34-33 on Radio Songs (27 million, up 3%) and 38-30 on Digital Song Sales (6,000, up 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally released in 1958, &#8220;Rockin&#8217; &#8221; first appeared on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 12, 1960. Last week, when it dashed 8-3, it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8546458\/brenda-lee-juice-wrld-tones-and-i-burl-ives-hot-100-top-10\">completed the longest climb ever to the top five<\/a>&nbsp;from a song&#8217;s bow: 59 years and nine days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, two other holiday hits scale the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10: Burl Ives&#8217; &#8220;A Holly Jolly Christmas&#8221; reaches a new high, lifting 10-6, and Bobby Helms&#8217; &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; gallops 15-9. The quartet of Christmas songs in the current Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 ties for the merriest such week ever, as the same four songs shared space in the region on the Jan. 5, 2019-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wXhTHyIgQ_U\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Post Malone&#8217;s &#8220;Circles&#8221; drops 2-3 on the Hot 100 after topping the charts dated Nov. 30 and Dec. 7. The singer\/rapper achieves his first No. 1 on Radio Songs with the single, as it ascends 2-1, up 3% to 96.7 million in audience. Post Malone had previously peaked at No. 2 on Radio Songs with &#8220;Psycho&#8221; (featuring Ty Dolla $ign) and &#8220;Better Now,&#8221; both in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arizona Zervas&#8217; &#8220;Roxanne&#8221; reaches a new Hot 100 high, climbing 6-4, as it leads the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a fourth week and becomes the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/record-labels\/8543764\/roxanne-arizona-zervas-columbia-records-deal\">newcomer<\/a>&#8216;s first No. 1 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-b-hip-hop-songs\">Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/awtYiVGXiaY\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Uzi Vert&#8217;s &#8220;Futsal Shuffle 2020&#8221; soars in at No. 5 on the Hot 100, as it opens in at No. 3 on Streaming Songs with 40.9 million U.S. streams. On Digital Song Sales, it starts at No. 29 with 6,000 sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rapper tallies his third Hot 100 top 10, and first top five entry in a lead role. In 2017, he spent three weeks at No. 1 as featured on Migos&#8217; &#8220;Bad and Boujee&#8221; and reached No. 7 with his own &#8220;XO TOUR Llif3.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, Maroon 5&#8217;s No. 4-peaking &#8220;Memories&#8221; holds at No. 7; Lewis Capaldi&#8217;s &#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221; drops 4-8, after it logged three weeks at No. 1; and Lizzo&#8217;s No. 3-peaking &#8220;Good as Hell&#8221; descends 5-10, while ruling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/r-and-b-songs\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>\u00a0for a seventh week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just beyond the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/wham\">Wham!<\/a>&#8216;s 1984 classic &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; hits the top 20 for the first time, jingling 26-17 and surpassing its prior No. 25 peak, set last holiday season. The duo (which comprised&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/george-michael\">George Michael<\/a>, who died on Christmas Day in 2016, and Andrew Ridgeley) scores its seventh top 20 hit and its highest rank since &#8220;The Edge of Heaven&#8221; reached No. 10 in August 1986. (Michael last ranked in the top 20 solo with his No. 8 hit &#8220;Fastlove&#8221; in 1996.)<\/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\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pop-shop-podcast\/id720291560?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Shop Podcast<\/a>\u00a0and follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. And again, be sure to visit Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 24), 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-1652\" data-postid=\"1652\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1652 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carey&#8217;s &#8216;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8217; breaks the weekly streaming record for a holiday song. 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