{"id":2094,"date":"2020-12-28T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T18:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:38","slug":"mariah-careys-christmas-back-atop-hot-100-as-dean-martin-wham-chuck-berry-hit-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8216;Christmas&#8217; Back Atop Hot 100, as Dean Martin, Wham! &#038; Chuck Berry Hit Top 10"},"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\">&#8216;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8217; passes &#8216;The Chipmunk Song&#8217; as the Hot 100&#8217;s longest-leading holiday No. 1.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/mariah-carey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mariah Carey<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; returns to No. 1, from No. 2, on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart for a fifth total week on top. The song, originally released on Carey&#8217;s album&nbsp;<em>Merry Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;in 1994,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8546418\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-number-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first reigned<\/a>&nbsp;for three weeks last holiday season and added its fourth frame at No. 1&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9499195\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-number-one-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, three holiday classics reach the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 for the first time: Dean Martin&#8217;s &#8220;Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,&#8221; up from No. 11 to No. 8; Wham!&#8217;s &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; (14-9); and Chuck Berry&#8217;s &#8220;Run Rudolph Run&#8221; (29-10), as a one-week record nine holiday hits infuse the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Jan. 2, 2021) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow (Dec. 29). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.ARTISTS MENTIONED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXQViqx6GMY\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carey&#8217;s &#8220;Christmas,&#8221; on Columbia Records\/Legacy Recordings, drew 54.9 million U.S. streams (up 35%) and sold 12,000 downloads (up 24%) in the week ending Dec. 24, according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data. It also tallied 33.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 11%) in the week ending Dec. 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The carol spends a ninth total week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart and rises 6-2 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;and 17-13 on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio Songs<\/a>. It also rules the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-holiday-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Holiday 100<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 45th week, of the chart&#8217;s 50 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 30 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are other presents that Carey receives with the latest coronation of &#8220;Christmas&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most weeks at No. 1 for a holiday song:<\/strong>\u00a0As it logs its fifth total week atop the Hot 100, &#8220;Christmas&#8221; solely claims the mark for the most time at No. 1 among holiday hits in the chart&#8217;s 62-year, five-month history. One other Yuletide track has led the list: &#8220;The Chipmunk Song,&#8221; by The Chipmunks with David Seville, for four weeks beginning in December 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First song at No. 1 in three distinct years:<\/strong>&nbsp;Carey&#8217;s &#8220;Christmas&#8221; becomes the first song to rank at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in three distinct years: 2019, 2020 and, now, 2021. It has led the lists dated Dec. 21 and 28, 2019; Jan. 4, 2020; Dec. 19, 2020; and Jan. 2, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(As reported when &#8220;Christmas&#8221; crowned the Hot 100 two weeks ago, only one other song in the chart&#8217;s history boasts a longer span of appearing at No. 1: Chubby Checker&#8217;s &#8220;The Twist&#8221; first topped the chart dated Sept. 19, 1960; Thanks to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/hot-100-turns-60\/8468305\/chubby-checker-the-twist-hot-100-number-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new popularity<\/a>&nbsp;among adult audiences, it led again on Jan. 13 and 20, 1962. Notably, the longevity of &#8220;The Twist&#8221; helped spark its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8468122\/hot-100-turns-60-chubby-checker-the-twist-the-beatles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No. 1 status<\/a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/greatest-hot-100-singles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greatest of All-Time<\/a>&nbsp;Hot 100 recap.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One more, up to 84:<\/strong>&nbsp;Carey adds her record-extending 84th career week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart&#8217;s Aug. 4, 1958, inception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Weeks at No. 1 on Hot 100<br>84, Mariah Carey<br>60, Rihanna<br>59, The Beatles<br>50, Boyz II Men<br>50, Drake<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Christmas&#8221; last year became Carey&#8217;s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists and lifting her to within one of The Beatles&#8217; overall record 20. It also made Carey the first artist to have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8547157\/mariah-carey-number-one-hot-100-four-decades-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ranked at No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Happy new year:<\/strong>&nbsp;Carey has now placed at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in a record-extending 17 distinct years (per Hot 100 chart dates): 1990-2000, 2005-06, 2008 and, thanks to &#8220;Christmas,&#8221; 2019-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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); Michael Jackson (1972, 1979-80, 1983-84, 1987-88, 1991-92, 1995); and Madonna (1984-87, 1989-92, 1995, 2000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Record-extending span of No. 1s:<\/strong>&nbsp;The latest week on top for &#8220;Christmas&#8221; extends Carey&#8217;s artist record for the longest span of ranking at No. 1 on the Hot 100: 30 years and five months, dating to her first week at No. 1 on the chart dated Aug. 4, 1990, with &#8220;Vision of Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When &#8220;Christmas&#8221; 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 &#8220;Gypsys, Tramps &amp; Thieves&#8221; (from its first week at No. 1 in 1971) through &#8220;Believe&#8221; (through its last week on top in 1999). (If Cher&#8217;s career as half of duo Sonny &amp; Cher were combined with her solo output, her No. 1 span would cover 33 years, seven months and two weeks, from Sonny &amp; Cher&#8217;s &#8220;I Got You Babe,&#8221; which reached the top in 1965, through &#8220;Believe.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next three songs on the Hot 100 all return to their peak positions first reached a year ago (on the Jan. 4, 2020-dated chart, whose top four mirrors this week&#8217;s top four): Brenda Lee&#8217;s 1958 classic &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree&#8221; rises 3-2; the late Bobby Helms&#8217; &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock,&#8221; first released in 1957, rises 4-3; and the late Burl Ives&#8217; &#8220;A Holly Jolly Christmas,&#8221; originally from 1964, pushes 6-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cbZTfrhcamA\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100&#8217;s top five is decorated entirely by holiday songs for the first time, as, rounding out the region, Andy Williams&#8217; &#8220;It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,&#8221; originally from 1963, rises 7-5, besting its prior No. 6 high. Williams adds his third top five Hot 100 hit, following &#8220;Lonely Street&#8221; (No. 5, November 1959) and &#8220;Can&#8217;t Get Used to Losing You&#8221; (No. 2, April 1963).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams breaks the record for the longest break between top five Hot 100 hits: 57 years, seven months and three weeks. He narrowly passes Lee, whose &#8220;Rockin&#8217; &#8221; last year returned her to the top five after a wait of 57 years and three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jose Feliciano&#8217;s &#8220;Feliz Navidad&#8221; hits a new No. 6 Hot 100 high, up from No. 10, two weeks after reaching the top 10 for the first time, 50 years after its original 1970 release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24kGoldn&#8217;s &#8220;Mood,&#8221; featuring Iann Dior, is the only non-holiday song in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, dropping 5-7 after six nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, as it leads Radio Songs for a ninth week (81.3 million in audience, down 2%). It tops the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rock-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-alternative-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;charts for a 17th week each and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;for an 11th frame (with all three charts using the same methodology as the Hot 100).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rnil5LyK_B0\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid the flurry of holiday hits, Dean Martin&#8217;s &#8220;Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,&#8221; which the late legend first released in 1959, climbs 11-8 on the Hot 100, reaching the top 10 for the first time, with 31 million streams (up 40%), 16 million in radio reach (down 3%) and 1,000 sold (up 15%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin (who died on Christmas Day 1995) appears in the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 with a fourth song, after posting his first three top 10s in 1964-65: &#8220;Everybody Loves Somebody&#8221; (No. 1, August 1964), &#8220;The Door Is Still Open to My Heart&#8221; (No. 6, November 1964) and &#8220;I Will&#8221; (No. 10, 1965).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8gmARGvPlI\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wham!&#8217;s &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; likewise jingles to the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 for the first time (14-9). First released in 1984, it ascends with 28.3 million streams (up 41%), 19.1 million in airplay audience (up 5%) and 6,000 sold (up 38%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The duo of George Michael (who died in 2016; like Martin, on Christmas Day) and Andrew Ridgeley adds its seventh Hot 100 top 10, after charting its first six in 1984-86: the No. 1s &#8220;Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,&#8221; &#8220;Careless Whisper&#8221; and &#8220;Everything She Wants&#8221;; the No. 3 hits &#8220;Freedom&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m Your Man&#8221;; and the No. 10-peaking &#8220;The Edge of Heaven.&#8221; Wham! appears in the top 10 for the first time since Aug. 23, 1986 (the last week in the top 10 for &#8220;Heaven&#8221;); Subsequently, Michael notched 14 solo top 10s, including seven No. 1s, through 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YiadNVhaGwk\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, Chuck Berry&#8217;s &#8220;Run Rudolph Run&#8221; soars 29-10. First released in 1958, the track sports 31.2 million streams (up 66%), 6.1 million airplay audience impressions (up 14%) and 5,000 sold (up 17%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berry, who died in March 2017, reins in his third Hot 100 top 10, after &#8220;No Particular Place to Go&#8221; (No. 10, July 1964) and his novelty hit &#8220;My Ding-a-Ling&#8221; (No. 1, two weeks, October 1972).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Rudolph&#8221; rewrites the record for the longest a song has taken to hit the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10 from its debut: As it first appeared on the chart dated Dec. 15, 1958 (just over four months after the survey&#8217;s inception), it reaches the top 10 after a journey of 62 years and two weeks. It passes the 60-year, two-week wait for Helms&#8217; &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; (Dec. 22, 1958-Jan. 5, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted above, a record-breaking nine holiday songs decorate the Hot 100&#8217;s top 10, after a then-high six did a week ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for last week&#8217;s Hot 100 No. 1, Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Willow&#8221; plummets from its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9503448\/taylor-swift-willow-debut-number-one-hot-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debut<\/a>&nbsp;at the top spot to No. 38 (due, in part, to the influx of holiday hits above it). The song makes the greatest fall from No. 1 to another rank on the Hot 100 in the chart&#8217;s history, surpassing the 1-33 plunge for 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj&#8217;s &#8220;Trollz&#8221; on the July 4-dated survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Jan. 2, 2021), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (Dec. 29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2094\" data-postid=\"2094\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2094 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8217; passes &#8216;The Chipmunk Song&#8217; as the Hot 100&#8217;s longest-leading holiday No. 1. 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