{"id":3587,"date":"2022-12-27T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2022-12-27T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:09:10","slug":"mariah-careys-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-holds-atop-hot-100-whams-last-christmas-hits-top-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3587","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey\u2019s \u2018All I Want for Christmas is you\u2019 Holds Atop Hot 100, Wham!\u2019s \u2018Last Christmas\u2019 Hits Top\u00a0Five"},"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\">Plus, Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Anti-Hero&#8221; takes over as the most-heard song on radio.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mariah-carey\/\">Mariah Carey<\/a>\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d hangs atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>\u2019s highest bough for an 11th total week. It leads for a third week this holiday season, as it has topped the chart over the holidays each year since December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/wham\/\">Wham!<\/a>\u2019s fellow Yuletide classic \u201cLast Christmas\u201d reaches the Hot 100\u2019s top five for the first time, rising from No. 6 to No. 5, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s former leader \u201cAnti-Hero,\u201d at No. 9 on the latest Hot 100, becomes the most-heard song on U.S. airwaves, ascending to the top of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, where Swift becomes the first artist to have reigned in the 2000s, \u201910s and \u201920s.<\/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 Dec. 31) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow (Dec. 28, a day later than usual due to the Christmas holiday). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (Official Video)\" width=\"1165\" height=\"874\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/yXQViqx6GMY?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChristmas,\u201d on Columbia Records\/Legacy Recordings, was first released on Carey\u2019s album&nbsp;<em>Merry Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;in 1994 and, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/encanto-we-dont-talk-about-bruno-luminate-2022-midyear-charts-1235114205\/\">streaming has grown<\/a>&nbsp;and holiday music has become&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/business\/business-news\/christmas-songs-breaking-through-music-market-1235009608\/\">more prominent<\/a>&nbsp;on streaming services\u2019 playlists, it first reached the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 in December 2017 and first hit the top five in the 2018 holiday season, before dominating over the holidays in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8546418\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-number-one\">2019<\/a>&nbsp;(for three weeks),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-number-one-2020\/\">2020<\/a>&nbsp;(two),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-hot-100-number-one-dec-25-2021-1235012982\/\">2021<\/a>&nbsp;(three) and now 2022 (three to-date).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Streams, airplay &amp; sales:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cChristmas\u201d drew 48.7 million streams (up 18%) and 39.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 19%) and sold 11,000 downloads (up 3%) in the U.S. in the Dec. 16-22 tracking week, according to Luminate. Adding to the song\u2019s momentum, Carey\u2019s two-hour holiday special&nbsp;<em>Merry Christmas to All!<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSTweet\/status\/1605629135199485953\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">premiered Dec. 20<\/a>&nbsp;on CBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song adds a fourth total week at No. 1, and second in a row, on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart, following frames on top in 2005 and 2019; rebounds 2-1 for an 18th week atop&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>; and jingles 14-11 for a new high on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\">Radio Songs<\/a>, where it reached a previous No. 12 best over the 1994 holidays and has returned to the top 15 in each of the last four holiday seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third No. 1 of at 11 weeks or more:<\/strong>&nbsp;Carey becomes the second artist, and first woman, with three songs that have topped the Hot 100 for 11 or more weeks each. She joins Boyz II Men for the honor \u2013 with Carey and the group having teamed for one song contributing to the feat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mariah Carey:<br>16 weeks, \u201cOne Sweet Day,\u201d with Boyz II Men, 1995-96<br>14 weeks, \u201cWe Belong Together,\u201d 2005<br>11 weeks (to-date), \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d 2019-22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boyz II Men:<br>13 weeks, \u201cEnd of the Road,\u201d 1992<br>14 weeks, \u201cI\u2019ll Make Love to You,\u201d 1994<br>16 weeks, \u201cOne Sweet Day,\u201d with Carey, 1995-96<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChristmas\u201d is the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/hot-100-songs-longest-leading-no-1s\/\">28th title<\/a>&nbsp;to command the Hot 100 for 11 or more weeks, a run that under just 2% of all 1,144 No. 1s have achieved. (Carey and Boyz II Men\u2019s \u201cOne Sweet Day\u201d solely held the record for the chart\u2019s longest reign for over 21 years, until Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee\u2019s \u201cDespacito,\u201d featuring Justin Bieber, matched it with 16 weeks on top in 2017. The songs now share the second-longest No. 1 stay, after Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, ruled for 19 weeks in 2019.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Longest span atop the Hot 100:<\/strong>&nbsp;Carey\u2019s \u201cChristmas\u201d extends the longest span from a song\u2019s first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 to its latest, to over three years and a week (Dec. 21, 2019-Dec. 31, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, the latest week atop the Hot 100 for \u201cChristmas\u201d extends Carey\u2019s record for the longest span of an artist ranking at No. 1 on the chart: 32 years and nearly five months, dating to her first week at No. 1 on the list dated Aug. 4, 1990, with her debut single \u201cVision of Love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carey\u2019s record 90th week atop Hot 100:<\/strong>&nbsp;With \u201cChristmas,\u201d Carey adds her record-extending 90th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart\u2019s Aug. 4, 1958&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/hot-100-64-years-fun-facts-ricky-nelson-lizzo-1235122282\/\">inception<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Weeks at No. 1 on Hot 100:<br>90, Mariah Carey<br>60, Rihanna<br>59, The Beatles<br>54, Drake<br>50, Boyz II Men<br>47, Usher<br>43, Beyonc\u00e9<br>37, Michael Jackson<br>34, Adele<br>34, Elton John<br>34, Bruno Mars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChristmas\u201d became Carey\u2019s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists and one away from The Beatles\u2019 overall record 20. It also made Carey the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the chart in&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\">four distinct decades<\/a>, dating to her first week at the summit with \u201cVision of Love.\u201d The song is additionally the only title to have led in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-ninth-week-number-one-hot-100-1235185073\/\">four separate runs<\/a>&nbsp;on the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most weeks at No. 1 for a holiday hit:<\/strong>&nbsp;Carey\u2019s \u201cChristmas\u201d expands its record for the most time atop the Hot 100 for a holiday song. The only other seasonal single to lead, \u201cThe Chipmunk Song,\u201d by David Seville &amp; the Chipmunks, spent four weeks at No. 1 beginning in December 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1 on Holiday 100:<\/strong>&nbsp;Carey\u2019s \u201cChristmas\u201d concurrently crowns the multi-metric&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-holiday-songs\">Holiday 100<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a 56th week, of the chart\u2019s 61 total weeks since the list originated in 2011. It has topped the tally for 41 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and rules as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/mariah-carey-charlie-brown-greatest-of-all-time-holiday-charts-1234999010\/\">top title<\/a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/greatest-of-all-time-holiday-100-songs\/\">Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brenda Lee\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree,\u201d originally released in 1958, keeps at its No. 2 Hot 100 high (for an eighth total week since it first reached the rank in December 2019), with 48.5 million streams (up 19%), 29.4 million in radio airplay audience (up 10%) and 5,000 sold (down 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The late Bobby Helms\u2019 \u201cJingle Bell Rock,\u201d from 1957, and the late Burl Ives\u2019 \u201cA Holly Jolly Christmas,\u201d from 1964, rebound 4-3 and 5-4, respectively, on the Hot 100, each returning to their respective highs achieved in each of the last four holiday seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wham! - Last Christmas (Official Video)\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/E8gmARGvPlI?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wham!\u2019s \u201cLast Christmas\u201d dashes to a new best Hot 100 rank, rising 6-5, after the 1984 release first reached the top 10 during the 2020 holidays and, until this holiday season, hit a prior No. 7 high over last year\u2019s holidays. It ascends with 43.7 million streams (up 51%), 24.2 million in radio reach (up 5%) and 3,000 sold (up 11%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The duo of George Michael (who died in 2016, on Christmas Day) and Andrew Ridgeley adds its sixth top five Hot 100 hit, among seven top 10s, after charting its first six top 10s in 1984-86: the No. 1s \u201cWake Me Up Before You Go-Go,\u201d \u201cCareless Whisper\u201d and \u201cEverything She Wants\u201d; the No. 3 hits \u201cFreedom\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m Your Man\u201d; and the No. 10-peaking \u201cThe Edge of Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wham! appears in the Hot 100\u2019s top five for the first time since the Feb. 8, 1986-dated chart (the last week in the top five for \u201cMan\u201d); Michael subsequently notched nine solo top five hits, including seven No. 1s, among 14 solo top 10s, through 1996; he last ranked in the top five as a soloist on the Feb. 15, 1992, list with former leader \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,\u201d with Elton John. Meanwhile, a song written by Michael places in the top five for the first time since former No. 1 \u201cPraying for Time\u201d ranked at No. 3 on the Oct. 20, 1990, chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andy Williams\u2019 1963 chestnut \u201cIt\u2019s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year\u201d pushes 8-6 on the Hot 100; it hit a No. 5 high during the 2020 holidays. The song\u2019s latest week in the top 10 extends the late singer\u2019s record for the longest span of an act appearing in the tier to 63 years, two months and three weeks, dating to his first week in the top 10 with \u201cLonely Street,\u201d in October 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, holiday hits decorate the Hot 100\u2019s top six spots for a second time, following a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/mariah-carey-christmas-tops-hot-100-fifth-week\/\">frame over the 2020 holidays<\/a>&nbsp;(also the only other week in which the entire top five consisted of carols).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SZA\u2019s \u201cKill Bill\u201d slips to No. 7 on the Hot 100 a week after it debuted at No. 3, as it tops&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\/r-and-b-songs\/\">Hot R&amp;B Songs<\/a>, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100, for a second week each. The track is from her album&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>, which logs a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/sza-sos-tops-billboard-200-for-second-week-1235191372\/\">second week at No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Feliciano\u2019s \u201cFeliz Navidad,\u201d from 1970, jumps 11-8 on the Hot 100. It hit a No. 6 best over the 2020 holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/b1kbLwvqugk?wmode=transparent&#038;fs=1\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cAnti-Hero\u201d descends 7-9 after spending its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-anti-hero-atop-hot-100-sixth-week-six-holiday-classics-top-10-1235181147\/\">first six weeks<\/a>&nbsp;on the Hot 100 at No. 1 starting in November. It concurrently crowns Radio Songs, rising from No. 2, with 79.4 million in audience (up 3%). Swift scores her seventh Radio Songs leader, tying Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Usher for the fourth-most No. 1s dating to the chart\u2019s December 1990 start; Rihanna leads with 13, followed by Carey (11) and Bruno Mars (nine).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a recap of Swift\u2019s seven Radio Songs No. 1s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Title, Weeks at No. 1, Year(s)<\/em><br>\u201cYou Belong With Me,\u201d two, 2009<br>\u201cI Knew You Were Trouble.,\u201d four, 2013<br>\u201cShake It Off,\u201d four, 2014<br>\u201cBlank Space,\u201d six, 2014-15<br>\u201cBad Blood\u201d (feat. Kendrick Lamar), five, 2015<br>\u201cWildest Dreams,\u201d two, 2015<br>\u201cAnti-Hero,\u201d one (to-date), 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Radio Songs No. 1s in the 2000s, \u201910s and \u201920s, Swift becomes the first artist with leaders on the chart in each of the three decades \u2013 and the only artist with No. 1s as a lead act in any three distinct decades. Christina Aguilera is the only other artist with No. 1s in each of three decades, with one each as a lead in the 1990s (\u201cGenie in a Bottle,\u201d 1999) and \u201900s (\u201cLady Marmalade,\u201d with Lil\u2019 Kim, Mya and P!nk, 2001) and one as featured in the \u201910s (on Maroon 5\u2019s \u201cMoves Like Jagger,\u201d 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Sam Smith and Kim Petras\u2019 \u201cUnholy\u201d dips 9-10, after it led the Oct. 29-dated chart.<\/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 Dec. 31), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow (Dec. 28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3587\" data-postid=\"3587\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3587 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Anti-Hero&#8221; takes over as the most-heard song on radio. Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d hangs atop the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100\u2019s highest bough for an 11th total week. 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