{"id":4761,"date":"2025-12-08T21:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:01:41","slug":"mariah-careys-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-notches-record-tying-19th-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4761","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey\u2019s \u2018All I Want for Christmas is You\u2019 Notches Record-Tying 19th Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot\u00a0100"},"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<p>Plus, Wham!&#8217;s &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; hits a new No. 2 high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mariah-carey\/\">Mariah Carey<\/a>\u2018s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d jingles all the way back to No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, jumping four spots for a record-tying 19th total week atop the chart. It matches the reigns of two hits that led over one release cycle each \u2014 Shaboozey\u2019s \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy),\u201d in 2024, and Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, in 2019 \u2014 for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/hot-100-number-1-songs-on-top-longest\/\">longest command<\/a>&nbsp;over the chart\u2019s 67-year history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The carol rules the Hot 100 in a record-extending seventh holiday season. It was originally released on Carey\u2019s album&nbsp;<em>Merry Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;in November 1994 and, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/luminatedata.com\/reports\/midyear-music-industry-report-2024\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streaming has grown<\/a>&nbsp;and holiday music has become more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/business\/business-news\/christmas-songs-breaking-through-music-market-1235009608\/\">prominent<\/a>&nbsp;on streaming services\u2019 playlists, it hit the top 10 for the first time in December 2017 and the top five for the first time in the 2018 holiday season. It led at last, prior to this week, over the holidays&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8546418\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-number-one\">in 2019<\/a>&nbsp;(for three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three), 2022 (four), 2023 (two) and 2024 (four).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I wrote [it], I had absolutely no idea the impact the song would eventually have worldwide,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/mariah-carey-charlie-brown-greatest-of-all-time-holiday-charts-1234999010\/\">Carey marveled<\/a>&nbsp;in 2021. \u201cI\u2019m so full of gratitude that so many people enjoy it with me every year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXQViqx6GMY?si=804eTfzQB_ZLCtHt\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\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>&nbsp;(1990s, 2000s, \u201810s and \u201820s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holiday hits decorate seven of the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 spots, including the top four. Most notably,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/wham-3\/\">Wham!<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLast Christmas\u201d dashes 6-2, as the 1984 single hits a new high.<\/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, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Dec. 13, 2025) will update on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow, Dec. 9. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/billboard-charts-legend\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4761\" data-postid=\"4761\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4761 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Wham!&#8217;s &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; hits a new No. 2 high. Mariah Carey\u2018s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d jingles all the way back to No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100, jumping four spots for a record-tying 19th total week atop the chart. 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