‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ passes ‘The Chipmunk Song’ as the Hot 100’s longest-leading holiday No. 1.

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” returns to No. 1, from No. 2, on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a fifth total week on top. The song, originally released on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in 1994, first reigned for three weeks last holiday season and added its fourth frame at No. 1 two weeks ago.

Meanwhile, three holiday classics reach the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time: Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” up from No. 11 to No. 8; Wham!’s “Last Christmas” (14-9); and Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run” (29-10), as a one-week record nine holiday hits infuse the top 10.

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 Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 29). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.ARTISTS MENTIONED

Carey’s “Christmas,” 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.

The carol spends a ninth total week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and rises 6-2 on Digital Song Sales and 17-13 on Radio Songs. It also rules the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 45th week, of the chart’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.

Here are other presents that Carey receives with the latest coronation of “Christmas”:

Most weeks at No. 1 for a holiday song: As it logs its fifth total week atop the Hot 100, “Christmas” solely claims the mark for the most time at No. 1 among holiday hits in the chart’s 62-year, five-month history. One other Yuletide track has led the list: “The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville, for four weeks beginning in December 1958.

First song at No. 1 in three distinct years: Carey’s “Christmas” 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.

(As reported when “Christmas” crowned the Hot 100 two weeks ago, only one other song in the chart’s history boasts a longer span of appearing at No. 1: Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” first topped the chart dated Sept. 19, 1960; Thanks to new popularity among adult audiences, it led again on Jan. 13 and 20, 1962. Notably, the longevity of “The Twist” helped spark its No. 1 status on the Greatest of All-Time Hot 100 recap.)

One more, up to 84: Carey adds her record-extending 84th career week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, inception.

Most Weeks at No. 1 on Hot 100
84, Mariah Carey
60, Rihanna
59, The Beatles
50, Boyz II Men
50, Drake

“Christmas” last year became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists and lifting her to within one of The Beatles’ overall record 20. It also made Carey the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades.

Happy new year: 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 “Christmas,” 2019-21.

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).

Record-extending span of No. 1s: The latest week on top for “Christmas” extends Carey’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 “Vision of Love.”

When “Christmas” 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 “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves” (from its first week at No. 1 in 1971) through “Believe” (through its last week on top in 1999). (If Cher’s career as half of duo Sonny & Cher were combined with her solo output, her No. 1 span would cover 33 years, seven months and two weeks, from Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe,” which reached the top in 1965, through “Believe.”)

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’s top four): Brenda Lee’s 1958 classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” rises 3-2; the late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” first released in 1957, rises 4-3; and the late Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” originally from 1964, pushes 6-4.

The Hot 100’s top five is decorated entirely by holiday songs for the first time, as, rounding out the region, Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” originally from 1963, rises 7-5, besting its prior No. 6 high. Williams adds his third top five Hot 100 hit, following “Lonely Street” (No. 5, November 1959) and “Can’t Get Used to Losing You” (No. 2, April 1963).

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 “Rockin’ ” last year returned her to the top five after a wait of 57 years and three weeks.

Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” 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.

24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring Iann Dior, is the only non-holiday song in the Hot 100’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 Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 17th week each and Hot Rap Songs for an 11th frame (with all three charts using the same methodology as the Hot 100).

Amid the flurry of holiday hits, Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” 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%).

Martin (who died on Christmas Day 1995) appears in the Hot 100’s top 10 with a fourth song, after posting his first three top 10s in 1964-65: “Everybody Loves Somebody” (No. 1, August 1964), “The Door Is Still Open to My Heart” (No. 6, November 1964) and “I Will” (No. 10, 1965).

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” likewise jingles to the Hot 100’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%).

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 “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” “Careless Whisper” and “Everything She Wants”; the No. 3 hits “Freedom” and “I’m Your Man”; and the No. 10-peaking “The Edge of Heaven.” Wham! appears in the top 10 for the first time since Aug. 23, 1986 (the last week in the top 10 for “Heaven”); Subsequently, Michael notched 14 solo top 10s, including seven No. 1s, through 1996.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run” 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%).

Berry, who died in March 2017, reins in his third Hot 100 top 10, after “No Particular Place to Go” (No. 10, July 1964) and his novelty hit “My Ding-a-Ling” (No. 1, two weeks, October 1972).

Meanwhile, “Rudolph” rewrites the record for the longest a song has taken to hit the Hot 100’s top 10 from its debut: As it first appeared on the chart dated Dec. 15, 1958 (just over four months after the survey’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’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (Dec. 22, 1958-Jan. 5, 2019).

As noted above, a record-breaking nine holiday songs decorate the Hot 100’s top 10, after a then-high six did a week ago.

As for last week’s Hot 100 No. 1, Taylor Swift’s “Willow” plummets from its debut 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’s history, surpassing the 1-33 plunge for 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj’s “Trollz” on the July 4-dated survey.

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Plus: Paul McCartney’s ‘McCartney III’ bows at No. 2, and Eminem’s former No. 1 ‘Music to Be Murdered By’ surges 199-3 after deluxe reissue.

Taylor Swift’s Evermore album holds atop the Billboard 200 chart for a second week, as the set earned 169,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 24 (down 49%), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The album opened at No. 1 a week ago with 329,000 units.

Meanwhile, Paul McCartney’s new McCartney III debuts at No. 2 with 107,000 equivalent album units – of which 104,000 are in album sales. McCartney III is also the top-selling album of the week. Also, Eminem’s former No. 1 Music to Be Murdered By surges 199-3 after its deluxe reissue on Dec. 18 with 16 additional tracks. (All versions of the album, new and old, are combined for tracking purposes.)

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan. 2, 2021-dated chart (where Evermore holds at to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 29. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Evermore’s 169,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Dec. 24, album sales comprise just under 102,000 (down 34%), SEA units comprise 66,000 (down 61%, equaling 86.15 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise a little a little over 1,000 (down 85%).

Evermore’s second week was aided by the arrival of the album on CD on Dec. 18. The set was only available to purchase as a digital download in its first week of release. Cassette and vinyl LP configurations are due in 2021.

Evermore is the companion set to her earlier No. 1 album Folklore, which bowed atop the Aug. 8-dated Billboard 200. Folklore descends 3-8 on the new Billboard 200 with 53,000 equivalent album units (down 61%). Both albums were released with little advance notice.

Paul McCartney’s McCartney III debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 105,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 102,000 are in album sales – which also makes it the top-selling album of the week, as it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. SEA units comprise 3,000 units (equating to 4.12 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks), and TEA units comprise a negligible number.

McCartney III’s robust sales were aided by its availability across many CD and vinyl LP editions, including versions with alternative cover art or colored vinyl. The album was issued in more than 10 vinyl variants which combined to sell 32,000 copies – the third-largest sales week for a vinyl album since Nielsen Music/MRC Data began electronically tracking music sales in 1991. Only the debut weeks of Jack White’s Lazaretto (40,000) and Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy (34,000) were larger. McCartney III naturally also premieres at No. 1 on the weekly Vinyl Albums chart, which ranks the top selling vinyl LPs of the week. All told, McCartney III is McCartney’s 21st top 10 album on the Billboard 200. That tally includes his solo recordings and his albums with Wings.

Notably, McCartney is the first act to have a new album reach the top two in each of the last six decades. He reached the top two eight times in the 1970s and once each in the ’80s, ’90s, 2000s, ’10s and ’20s. (McCartney is additionally just the third act with new top 10 albums in the last six decades, alongside Bruce Springsteen and James Taylor. McCartney and Springsteen are the only acts with new top five-charting albums in the last six decades as well.)

Back on the new Billboard 200, Eminem’s former No. 1 Music to Be Murdered By surges from No. 199 to No. 3 after the album was surprise-reissued in a deluxe edition on Dec. 18 with 16 bonus tracks. The deluxe redux is dubbed Music to Be Murdered By: Side B. The original 20-track album was surprise-released on Jan. 17 and premiered at No. 1 on the chart dated Feb. 1. For tracking purposes, all versions of the album, new and old, are combined.

In the tracking week ending Dec. 24, Music to Be Murdered By earned 94,000 equivalent album units (up 1,125%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 57,000 (up 761%, equaling 82.01 million on-demand streams of the 36 tracks), album sales comprise 33,000 (up 3,401%) and TEA units comprise 4,000 (up 3,868%).

With the latest tracking week ending on Dec. 24, Christmas Eve, the top 10 of the Billboard 200 is especially festive, as six holiday sets dot the region, mostly powered by streaming activity of their seasonal songs. (The top 10 last housed six holiday sets on the Jan. 5, 1959-dated chart, when Mitch Miller’s Christmas Sing Along With Mitch was tops and the entire top five were Christmas titles.)

Leading the six-pack of holiday albums in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 is Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas, which is steady at No. 4 with 77,000 equivalent album units (up 33%). Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas jumps 10-5 (60,000; up 36%), Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song hits a new high, as it climbs 8-6 with 60,000 units (up 33%, surpassing its previous peak of No. 7), Carrie Underwood’s 2020 release My Gift (the newest holiday album in the top 10) falls 6-7 (57,000; up 21%) and Pentatonix’s The Best of Pentatonix Christmas jingles 13-9 (51,000; up 24%).

Lastly, Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas reaches the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the first time, as the album rises 12-10 (50,000 equivalent album units earned; up 20%). The set was released in 1965 as the companion album to the animated TV special and did not reach any Billboard ranking until 1987. That year, it debuted on the Top Holiday Albums chart, where it later peaked at No. 2 (Jan. 27, 2007).

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As parent album “Evermore” opens atop the Billboard 200, Swift is the first artist to debut atop both charts simultaneously twice: “Folklore” & “Cardigan” began on top in August.

Taylor Swift‘s “Willow” blooms with a No. 1 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The track is her seventh Hot 100 leader and second of 2020.

Concurrently, parent album Evermore launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as Swift is the first artist to debut atop both charts simultaneously twice. She became the first act to achieve the feat even once when her prior album Folklore and its single “Cardigan” opened atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 charts dated Aug. 8.

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Here’s a deeper look at the coronation of “Willow,” released Dec. 11 on Republic Records, concurrent with Evermore. The song is the 1,115th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 62-year history.

Streams, sales & airplay: “Willow” drew 30 million U.S. streams and sold 59,000 downloads in the week ending Dec. 17, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also earned 12.3 million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending Dec. 20.

The track debuts at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart and No. 4 on Streaming Songs, while bubbling under the Radio Songs survey.

Breaking down the song’s first-week sales, seven purchase options were available in Swift’s webstore during the tracking week, with all discounted for the frame’s last 31 hours to between 48 cents and $1.03. Along with the song’s original version, its “dancing witch (Elvira remix),” “lonely witch” and “moonlight witch” versions were available individually. Plus, three versions were available as part of the song’s “Woodvale” collection: its “dancing witch,” “lonely witch” and “moonlight witch” iterations; for the collection, they were packaged with, respectively, an instrumental version of “Willow,” an original songwriting demo of “Willow” and a live version of her 2019 single “Christmas Tree Farm” (with each two-track “Woodvale” purchase counting as one sale for chart tabulation purposes).

First artist to debut atop Billboard 200 & Hot 100 simultaneously twice: As noted above, as “Willow” blossoms atop the Hot 100 and parent album Evermore soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Swift is the first artist to have debuted atop both charts simultaneously twice. She became the first act to achieve the feat even once, when Folklore and “Cardigan” roared in atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 charts dated Aug. 8. (The Billboard 200 began on March 24, 1956, and the Hot 100 originated on Aug. 4, 1958.)

One other act has made one such double debut: BTS, with Be and “Life Goes On” on the charts dated Dec. 5.

Swift’s seventh No. 1: Swift scores her seventh Hot 100 leader. Here’s a recap:

“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” three weeks at No. 1, beginning Sept. 1, 2012
“Shake It Off,” four weeks, beginning Sept. 6, 2014
“Blank Space,” seven weeks, beginning Nov. 29, 2014
“Bad Blood,” feat. Kendrick Lamar, one week, June 6, 2015
“Look What You Made Me Do,” three weeks, beginning Sept. 16, 2017
“Cardigan,” one week, Aug. 8, 2020
“Willow,” one week to-date, Dec. 26, 2020

Swift is the 21st artist in the Hot 100’s history with at least seven No. 1s, and the seventh solo woman. The Beatles lead all acts with 20 No. 1s, followed by Mariah Carey with 19.

Third No. 1 debut: “Willow” is Swift’s third song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100, following “Shake It Off” and “Cardigan.” Swift becomes one of six acts with at least that many entrances, joining Ariana Grande, the leader with five, and Justin Bieber, Carey, Drake and Travis Scott with three each.

12th No. 1 debut this year: “Cardigan” is the 47th song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100. It’s the 12th to do so in 2020 (all since April), triple the previous record for the most in a single year, as four songs entered at No. 1 in both 1995 and 2018.

20th No. 1 of 2020: “Willow” is the 20th song to score its first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2020. This year marks the highest total of songs earning their first weeks on top since Nielsen Music/MRC Data-based information began fueling the chart in November 1991 (and the most in a year since 27 songs ascended to No. 1 in all of 1991).

29 career top 10s: “Willow” is not only Swift’s seventh Hot 100 No. 1, but also her 29th top 10. She passes the totals of Carey and Stevie Wonder for a solo share of the sixth-best sum.

Here is a recap of the acts with the most Hot 100 top 10s, dating to the chart’s 1958 inception (two years after Elvis Presley’s commercial breakthrough):

Most Hot 100 Top 10s
42, Drake
38, Madonna
34, The Beatles
31, Rihanna
30, Michael Jackson
29, Taylor Swift
28, Mariah Carey
28, Stevie Wonder
27, Elton John
27, Janet Jackson
25, Lil Wayne
25, Elvis Presley

19 career top 10 debuts: Swift extends her record among women for the most debuts in the Hot 100’s top 10, as “Willow” lifts her total to 19. Among all acts, only Drake has more: 27.

21 Digital Song Sales No. 1s: Swift adds her record-furthering 21st Digital Song Sales No. 1 with “Willow.” Rihanna ranks second with 14, followed by Bieber and Drake, each with 12.

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” dips from No. 1 to No. 2 on the Hot 100. The song, first released on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in 1994 and which first reigned for three weeks last holiday season, added its fourth total week atop the Hot 100 a week ago. The carol drew 40.5 million U.S. streams (up 29%) and 30.8 million airplay impressions (up 12%) and sold 10,000 downloads (up 31%) in the latest tracking week.

The track spends an eighth total week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs and rises 8-6 on Digital Song Sales and 22-17 on Radio Songs. It also crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 44th week, of the chart’s 49 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 29 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season.

Brenda Lee’s 1958 classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” which reached No. 2 last holiday season, holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, and the late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” first released in 1957, rises 5-4, after ascending to a No. 3 best last holiday season.

24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring Iann Dior, drops 2-5 on the Hot 100 after six nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, as it leads Radio Songs for an eighth week (83.6 million streams, down 2%). It tops the Hot Rap Songs chart, which uses the same methodology as the Hot 100, for a 10th week.

“A Holly Jolly Christmas” by the late Burl Ives bounds 14-6 on the Hot 100. The holiday staple, first released in 1964, reached No. 4 last holiday season. Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” from 1963, slips to No. 7, a week after hitting its No. 6 high.

Grande’s “Positions” retreats 4-8 on the Hot 100, after it led the Nov. 7-dated chart upon its debut.

BTS’ “Dynamite” resurges 24-9 on the Hot 100, up 7% to 8.5 million streams and 227% to 40,000 sold following the Dec. 11 release of its “holiday remix.” “Dynamite” debuted at No. 1 on the Sept. 5-dated Hot 100 and ruled for three total weeks.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” holds at its No. 10 high, a week after hitting the top 10 for the first time, 50 years after its original 1970 release.

Notably, a record-breaking six holiday songs decorate the Hot 100’s top 10, by Carey, Lee, Helms, Ives, Williams and Feliciano. As many as five holiday hits populated the top 10 on the chart dated Jan. 4, 2020, while the same amount infused the region last week.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Dec. 26), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 22).

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Taylor Swift notches her eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 — and second of 2020 — as her surprise release Evermore arrives atop the list. Her latest studio album earned 329,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 17, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, marking the fifth-largest week of the year for any album.

Evermore was released on Dec. 11 via Republic Records with little warning, and was only available as a standard digital download album (across traditional digital retailers like iTunes, as well as Swift’s own official webstore) and a standard streaming album. Its CD edition did not arrive in stores until Friday, Dec. 18 (so expect sturdy sales in the album’s second week). Cassette and vinyl LP configurations are due in 2021.

Evermore is the companion set to her earlier surprise No. 1 album, Folklore, which bowed atop the Aug. 8-dated Billboard 200.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Dec. 26-dated chart (where Evermore debuts at to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 22. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Evermore’s 329,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Dec. 17, SEA units comprise nearly 167,000 (equaling 220.49 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 154,500 and TEA units comprise a little under 8,000.

Eighth No. 1 Album: Swift continues to rack up No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, as Evermore nets the superstar her eighth leader. She’s nearing Barbra Streisand’s all-time record among women of 11 leaders. The only other woman with more No. 1 albums than Swift is Madonna, with nine. Among all artists, The Beatles have the most No. 1s, with 19. Among all soloists, Jay-Z leads with 14.

Second No. 1 Album of 2020: Swift is the first woman, and third act, to net a pair of No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart in 2020. Folklore was her first, when the album opened atop the Aug. 8-dated list. Pop group BTS also managed the feat with Be (Dec. 5) and Map of the Soul: 7 (March 7), as did rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again with Top (Sept. 28) and 38 Baby 2 (May 9).

2020’s Fifth-Largest Week for an Album: With Evermore bowing with 329,000 equivalent album units, it collects the fifth-biggest week of 2020 for any album. It was bested only by the debut weeks of BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7 (422,000; March 7-dated chart), The Weeknd’s After Hours (444,000; April 4), Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die (497,000; July 25) and Swift’s Folklore (846,000; Aug. 8).

Notably, Evermore’s first-week total units (329,000) and album sales (154,500) are the biggest for any album since merchandise/album bundles and concert ticket/album sale redemption offers both ceased to count towards chart sales as of Oct. 9. It’s also the biggest week for an album since physical albums bundled with a digital album could only be counted as a physical sale upon shipment to the customer (starting on Aug. 7). In the past, Swift’s albums, including Folklore, like many other albums, benefited from merchandise/album bundles and physical/digital combo offers. (Swift has never employed a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer.)

Remarkably, Evermore has the biggest week — both in equivalent album units and album sales — for an album that was only available as a digital download album and a streaming album, and without any bundles or physical/digital combo offers in over two years. The last album to post a bigger week with only a digital and streaming album, and no bundles of any sort (and no physical album either) was Drake’s Scorpion, when it debuted with 732,000 units (of which 160,000 were in album sales, all from its download album) on the July 14, 2018-dated chart.

Second-Largest Streaming Week of 2020 for a Non-R&B/Hip-Hop Album: As Evermore collected 167,000 SEA units in its first week, that equaled 220.49 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs — the second-biggest streaming week of 2020 for a non-R&B/hip-hop album. The only loftier week for a non-R&B/hip-hop set was earned by Swift’s Folklore, which arrived with 289.85 million streams of its songs.

Shortest Gap Between New No. 1 Albums by a Woman: Evermore debuts at No. 1 just four months and 18 days after Folklore opened atop the list dated Aug. 8. That’s the shortest gap between new No. 1s on the Billboard 200 chart ever by a woman since the tally became a regularly published weekly chart in March of 1956. Previously, the smallest wait between new No. 1s by a woman was five months and three days between the first weeks at No. 1 for Olivia Newton-John’s If You Love Me Let Me Know (Oct. 12, 1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (March 15, 1975). Both titles spent one week at No. 1.

The last time an act had a shorter wait between No. 1s before Swift was BTS, when the group waited only a little over three months between Love Yourself: Tear (June 2, 2018) and Love Yourself: Answer (Sept. 8, 2018). Before that, Future landed back-to-back new No. 1s in successive weeks in 2017 (with his self-titled album March 11, 2017 and HNDRXX on March 18, 2017).

At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Kid Cudi scores his fifth top 10 effort, as Man on the Moon III: The Chosen bows with 144,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 127,000 comprise SEA units (equaling 167.45 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), 15,000 comprise album sales and 1,000 comprise TEA units.

Swift’s Folklore flies 11-3 on the Billboard 200 with 133,000 equivalent album units (up 249%), as its album sales ballooned to 106,000 (up 742%). The set’s sales got a huge boost from sale pricing and promotion in Swift’s official webstore of the Folklore vinyl LP (in assorted colored vinyl variants) and a signed CD edition of the album.

With Swift at Nos. 1 and 3, she’s the first woman to have two albums concurrently in the top three dating back to 1963 when Billboard 200’s then-separate mono and stereo LP charts folded back into one overall chart. The last act, overall, to have two albums in the top three at the same time was Future, on the March 18, 2017-dated chart, when HNDRXX debuted at No. 1 and his self-titled album was No. 2.

As Republic Records is the home of both Swift and Kid Cudi, the label lays claim to the entire top three for the second time in 2020. On the Oct. 31-dated chart, Folklore was No. 1, Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon (released via Victor Victor Worldwide/Republic) was No. 2, and 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s Savage Mode II (released via Boominati/Slaughter Boomin/Republic/Epic) was No. 3. The label last achieved the feat in 2018, and is the only label to have held the top three since Interscope in 2003.

Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas is steady at No. 4 on the new Billboard 200 with 58,000 equivalent album units (up 6%).

Jack Harlow’s debut studio album Thats What They All Say starts at No. 5 with 51,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, 48,000 comprise SEA units (equaling 66.21 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), 2,000 comprise album sales and a little under 1,000 comprise TEA units. The album contains Harlow’s breakout hit “What’s Poppin,” which rose to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated July 11.

Carrie Underwood’s My Gift dips 5-6 on the Billboard 200 with 47,000 equivalent album units (down 11%), Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon descends 6-7 with 46,000 units (down 4%), Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song falls 7-8 with 45,000 units (up 8%), Bad Bunny’s El Ultimo Tour del Mundo drops 2-9 with a little over  44,000 units (down 23%) and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas is steady at No. 10 with 44,000 units (up 15%).

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Plus, Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” hits the top 10 for the first time, 50 years after its original release.

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, rising from No. 2. The song, first released on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in 1994 and which first reigned for three weeks last holiday season, adds its fourth total week atop the Hot 100, tying for the most time at No. 1 among holiday hits in the chart’s 62-year history.

The carol is one of a record-tying five Yuletide songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, joined by Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and, in the top 10 for the first time, 50 years after its original release, Jose Feliciano‘s “Feliz Navidad.”

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 19) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 15). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.ARTISTS MENTIONED

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 19) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 15). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Here’s a deeper look at Carey’s ascent back to No. 1 on the Hot 100 with “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” on Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings.

Here’s a deeper look at Carey’s ascent back to No. 1 on the Hot 100 with “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” on Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings.

Streams, sales & airplay: “Christmas” drew 31.4 million U.S. streams (up 19%) and sold 7,000 downloads (up 8%) in the week ending Dec. 10, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also tallied 27.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 11%) in the week ending Dec. 13.

The track spends a seventh total week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and rises 9-8 on Digital Song Sales and 27-22 on Radio Songs. It also crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 43rd week, of the chart’s 48 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 28 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season.

(Since its release, the song has drawn 4.1 billion in total radio audience, 1 billion on-demand streams and 3.7 million in download sales in the U.S.)

Ties for longest-leading holiday hit: In December 2017, Carey’s “Christmas” hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time, while a year ago it ascended to the summit at last, 25 years after its original release, becoming the second holiday hit ever to reign: “The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville, spent four weeks at No. 1 beginning in December 1958. Carey’s hit this week, thus, matches The Chipmunks’ for the Hot 100’s longest-leading holiday hit.

No. 1 again after almost a year: Carey’s “Christmas” first topped the Hot 100 dated Dec. 21, 2019, and also led the lists dated Dec. 28, 2019, and Jan. 4, 2020. As it returns to No. 1 this week, on the chart dated Dec. 19, it reigns again after a break of 11 months and 15 days. Only one other song in the Hot 100’s history has returned to the summit after a longer break: Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” topped the Hot 100 dated Sept. 19, 1960, before, thanks to new popularity among adult audiences, it resurged to lead the lists dated Jan. 13 and 20, 1962, ruling again after a gap of a year, three months and three weeks. The latter’s longevity helped spark its No. 1 status on the Greatest of All-Time Hot 100 recap.

Carey’s record 83rd week atop Hot 100: With “Christmas,” Carey claims her record-extending 83rd week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, inception.

Most Weeks at No. 1 on Hot 100
83, Mariah Carey
60, Rihanna
59, The Beatles
50, Boyz II Men
50, Drake

“Christmas” last year became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists and lifting her to within one of The Beatles’ overall record 20. It also made Carey the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades.

7 x 4: Of Carey’s 19 Hot 100 No. 1s, “Christmas” is her record-tying seventh to rule for four weeks or more. Here’s a rundown: 16 weeks at No. 1, “One Sweet Day” (with Boyz II Men), 1995-96 / 14 weeks, “We Belong Together,” 2005 / 8 weeks, “Fantasy,” 1995; “Dreamlover,” 1993 / 4 weeks, “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” 2019-20; “Hero,” 1993-94; “Vision of Love,” 1990.

Rihanna also boasts seven No. 1s (of her 14 total) that have each led for four or more weeks, including her longest-leading No. 1, “We Found Love” (10 weeks, 2011-12).

Historic No. 1 in U.S. & U.K.: Carey’s “Christmas” additionally makes international chart history, becoming the first holiday song to have topped both the U.S.-based Hot 100 and the Official UK Singles chart, where this week it reigns for the first time. (While just two seasonal songs have ever led the Hot 100, “Christmas” is the latest in the tradition of such hits reaching No. 1 on the UK list.)

More from ‘Santa’: Carey also debuts at No. 76 on the Hot 100 with her new version of “Oh Santa,” featuring Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson. The song, whose original 2010 solo version spent a week at No. 100 on the Hot 100 during the 2010-11 holiday season, charts in its new form with 6.3 million streams, 1.7 million in airplay audience and 10,000 sold. It starts at No. 3 on Digital Song Sales, as well as No. 1 on Holiday Digital Song Sales.

Carey’s update of “Santa,” as well as a new mix of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” (both respectively tracked separately from their original versions for chart purposes), premiered on the Apple TV exclusive Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas, Dec. 4. The set’s soundtrack debuts at No. 28 on Top Holiday Albums and No. 99 on the Billboard 200 with 12,000 equivalent album units. Meanwhile, Carey’s Merry Christmas returns to the Billboard 200’s top 10.

24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring Iann Dior, drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after six nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, with 84.2 million in airplay audience (down 2%), as it leads Radio Songs for a seventh week; 18.1 million streams (down 4%); and 5,000 sold (down 10%). It tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 16th week each and Hot Rap Songs for a ninth week (with all three charts using the same methodology as the Hot 100).

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” hops 4-3 on the Hot 100, up by 21% to 29.2 million streams, 9% to 21.1 million in radio reach and 13% to 10,000 sold. The 1958 classic hit a No. 2 Hot 100 high last holiday season.

Ariana Grande’s “Positions” drops 3-4 on the Hot 100, after it led the Nov. 7-dated chart upon its debut.

The late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” first released in 1957, trots 9-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching a No. 3 best last holiday season, while Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” re-enters the top 10 at a new peak, jumping 12-6 (besting its prior No. 7 peak reached last holiday season).”Wonderful” was first released in fall 1963 and this week grants the late Williams his highest Hot 100 rank since that spring, when his highest-charting hit, “Can’t Get Used to Losing You,” peaked at No. 2 for four weeks.

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 (11-7), following the Dec. 4 release of its remix with Rosalía. In the week ending Dec. 10 the song (its original version and Rosalía remix, among other remixes) gained by 22% to 15.3 million streams. The track spent four weeks at No. 1 and banks a record-extending 42nd week in the top 10, while ruling the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-furthering 39th week and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a fifth frame.

Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” featuring Lil Durk, descends 6-8 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 2 peak, and Justin Bieber’s “Holy,” featuring Chance the Rapper, falls 7-9, after entering at its No. 3 high.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” bounds 16-10, hitting the top 10 for the first time, 50 years after its original 1970 release. (It previously reached No. 12 last holiday season.) It sports gains of 6% to 23 million in radio reach, 15% to 18.5 million streams and 34% to 3,000 sold.

Feliciano adds his second Hot 100 top 10, after his debut entry, his cover of The Doors’ “Light My Fire,” hit No. 3 in August 1968. (The Doors’ original ruled for three weeks in the summer of 1967.) The legendary singer, songwriter and guitarist — who is celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Feliz” this year, including with performances on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and CBS Sunday Morning last week, and a livestream scheduled for Dec. 20 — has charted 11 total Hot 100 entries, as well as 16 on the Hot Latin Songs chart, including eight top 10s.

Meanwhile, a record-tying five holiday songs decorate the Hot 100’s top 10, by Carey, Lee, Helms, Williams and Feliciano. Five holiday hits first sleighed the competition in the region on the chart dated Jan. 4, 2020, with Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” in place of “Feliz” that week. (On the latest Hot 100, Ives’ standard, first released in 1964, jumps 24-14.)

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All four of his full-length studio albums have debuted at No. 1.

Shawn Mendes scores his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his latest studio effort, Wonder, bows atop the tally. The set earned 89,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 10, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

Meanwhile, the top 10 is very festive, as half of the titles in the region are Christmas albums for the first time since 2013.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Dec. 19-dated chart (where Wonder bows at to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 15. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Wonder’s 89,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Dec. 3, album sales comprise 54,000, SEA units comprise 34,000 (equaling 46.92 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

All four of Mendes’ full-length studio albums have now debuted at No. 1. He began his chart career with his introductory project, The Shawn Mendes EP, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the Aug. 16, 2014-dated chart. He followed it up with his debut full-length studio set, Handwritten (No. 1 on May 2, 2015), and then his next studio effort, Illuminate (No. 1, Oct. 15, 2016). He then charted two live albums (Live at Madison Square Garden, No. 200 on Jan. 14, 2017, and MTV Unplugged, No. 71 on Nov. 25, 2017) before seeing his self-titled third studio set bow atop the list dated June 9, 2018.

Wonder was led by its title track, which peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 14 on the Pop Songs airplay chart. The album’s second radio single, “Monster,” a co-billed track with Justin Bieber, has so far peaked at No. 8 on the Hot 100 and No. 19 on Pop Songs (through the most recently published charts, dated Dec. 12).

Bad Bunny’s El Ultimo Tour del Mundo falls to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 equivalent album units earned (down 50%), following its history-making debut at No. 1 a week ago – when it became the first all-Spanish-language album to top the list.

Ariana Grande’s former No. 1 Positions rises a spot to No. 3 with just over 55,000 equivalent album units (up 4%).

Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas album climbs 6-4 with 55,000 equivalent album units (up 14%). It leads a total of five holiday albums in the top 10, the first time that’s happened in seven years. Also joining in the merriment: Carrie Underwood’s My Gift (9-5, a new peak, with 53,000 units; up 19%), Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song (12-7 with 42,000 units; up 20%), Pentatonix’s The Best of Pentatonix Christmas (16-8 with just over 39,000; up 22%) and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas (15-10 with 38,000; up 17%).

The last time five holiday albums were among the top 10 occurred on the Dec. 21, 2013-dated chart. That week, the top 10 housed Kelly Clarkson’s Wrapped in Red (No. 3), The Robertsons’ Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas (No. 5), Pentatonix’s PTXmas (EP) (No. 7), Bublé’s Christmas (No. 8) and Mary J. Blige’s A Mary Christmas (No. 10).

Notably, Underwood’s My Gift previously peaked at its debut rank of No. 8 on the Oct. 10-dated chart, following its release on Sept. 25. With its 9-5 jump on the new Billboard 200, it also becomes the highest charting newly released holiday album since Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas in late 2016 and early 2017. A Pentatonix Christmas was released on Oct. 21, 2016, debuted at No. 3 on the Nov. 12, 2016-dated chart and peaked at No. 1 for two weeks (Jan. 7-14, 2017).

As for the remaining non-holiday albums in the latest top 10: Pop Smoke’s former No. 1 Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon dips 5-6 with 47,000 equivalent album units (down 2%) and Megan Thee Stallion’s Good News descends 7-9 (39,000; down 17%).

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Plus, Brenda Lee & Bobby Helms holiday hits return to the top 10.

24kGoldn‘s “Mood,” featuring Iann Dior, rebounds from No. 2 for a sixth total week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

Plus, Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time since it spent three weeks at No. 1, leading the list for the first time, last holiday season. The song, first released in 1994, surges from No. 14 to No. 2.

Also returning to the Hot 100’s top 10 are fellow carols “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee (21-4) and “Jingle Bell Rock” by Bobby Helms (31-9). The songs rose to Nos. 2 and 3 highs, respectively, last holiday season.ARTISTS MENTIONED

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 12) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 8). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“Mood,” released on RECORDS/Columbia Records, and the first Hot 100 No. 1 for both 24kGoldn and Iann Dior, drew 19 million U.S. streams (down 13%) and sold 5,000 downloads (down 27%) in the week ending Dec. 3, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also tallied 86.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1%) in the week ending Dec. 6.

The track spends a sixth week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart, falls 2-7 on Streaming Songs and rises 16-15 on Digital Song Sales. It tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 15th week each and Hot Rap Songs for an eighth frame (with all three charts using the same methodology as the Hot 100).

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” flies 14-2 on the Hot 100 with 26.4 million U.S. streams (up 50%), 24.5 million airplay audience impressions (up 17%) and 7,000 sold (up 52%) in the tracking week. It bounds 7-1 on Streaming Songs for a sixth total week on top (and is the only holiday song to have led, dating to the survey’s January 2013 inception); 32-9 on Digital Song Sales; and 34-27 on Radio Songs. It also crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 42nd week, of the chart’s 47 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 27 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season.

In December 2017, “Christmas” hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time, while last year it ascended to the summit, 25 years after its original release, becoming the second holiday hit ever to reign. (“The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville, spent four weeks at No. beginning in December 1958.) Carey claimed her 19th Hot 100 No. 1, as she extended her mark for the most among soloists and moved to within one of The Beatles’ overall record 20.

As “Christmas” dominated for three weeks on the Hot 100 charts dated Dec. 21, 2019, through Jan. 4, 2020, Carey also became the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades.

Ariana Grande’s “Positions” rebounds 4-3 on the Hot 100, after it led the Nov. 7-dated chart upon its debut.

Brenda Lee’s 1958 classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” soars 21-4 on the Hot 100, up by 62% to 24.2 million streams, 9% to 19.5 million in radio reach and 23% to 9,000 sold. It jumps 13-3 on Streaming Songs, 19-5 on Digital Song Sales and 42-36 on Radio Songs.

Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez charge to the Hot 100’s top five as “Dakiti” leaps 15-5, reaching a new best after the song debuted at its prior No. 8 high on the Nov. 21 chart. As Bad Bunny’s album El Ultimo Tour del Mundo, released Nov. 27 and which includes “Dakiti,” opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 116,000 equivalent album units, the collaboration returns to its No. 2 high, from No. 3, on Streaming Songs (24.1 million, up 14%).

“Dakiti” becomes Bad Bunny’s third top five Hot 100 hit, following his Cardi B and J Balvin team-up “I Like It,” which spent a week at No. 1, and “MIA,” featuring Drake (No. 5 debut and peak), both in 2018. “Dakiti,” Cortez’s first top five Hot 100 entry, concurrently tops the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart for a fifth week.

Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” featuring Lil Durk, pushes 7-6 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 2 peak, and notches a sixth week atop the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (where it marks Drake’s record-setting 21st No. 1).

Justin Bieber’s “Holy,” featuring Chance the Rapper, backtracks 6-7 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 3 high, and Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope,” featuring Charlie Puth, drops 5-8, after reaching No. 3, as it dominates the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for a 19th week.

Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” first released in 1957, gallops 31-9 on the Hot 100, up by 58% to 18.9 million streams, 7% to 19.3 million in radio audience and 41% to 5,000 sold. It vaults 18-5 on Streaming Songs, 36-13 on Digital Song Sales and 41-37 on Radio Songs.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, BTS’ “Dynamite” descends 3-10, after the South Korean group’s first all-English language single premiered as its first Hot 100 No. 1. This week, it becomes BTS’ first Radio Songs top 10 (11-10; 44.5 million, down 4%). The single is also the first Radio Songs top 10 by an all-South Korean act; previously, PSY hit a No. 12 high with “Gangnam Style” in 2012.

(Outside the Hot 100’s top tier, BTS’ “Life Goes On” tumbles from No. 1, where it launched a week earlier, becoming BTS’ third No. 1 and the chart’s first leader sung predominantly in Korean, to No. 28. The song makes the second-greatest fall from the top spot, behind only the 1-33 plummet for 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj’s “Trollz” on the July 4-dated chart.)

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Dec. 12), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 8).

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It’s Bad Bunny’s first leader. Plus: Miley Cyrus’ “Plastic Hearts” bows at No. 2, while Michael Bublé’s “Christmas” returns to the top 10.

Bad Bunny earns his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and makes history in the process. His new studio effort El Ultimo Tour del Mundo debuts atop the list, marking the first all-Spanish-language album to reach No. 1 in the 64-year history of the all-genre chart.

The album starts with 116,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 3, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

The previous highest-charting all-Spanish-language album came earlier this year, when Bad Bunny’s own YHLQMDLG debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart dated March 14 (179,000 units earned in its first week).ARTISTS MENTIONED

Also in the new top 10, Miley Cyrus’ Plastic Hearts debuts at No. 2, while Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas returns to the region.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Dec. 12-dated chart (where El Ultimo Tour del Mundo debuts at to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 8. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of El Ultimo Tour del Mundo’s 116,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Dec. 3, SEA units comprise 103,000 (equating to 145.94 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 12,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Only four all-Spanish-language albums have ever reached the top five on the Billboard 200: Bad Bunny’s El Ultimo Tour del Mundo (No. 1), YHLQMDLG (No. 2), Mana’s Amar es Combatir (No. 4; Sept. 9, 2006) and Shakira’s Fijación Oral: Vol. 1 (No. 4; June 25, 2005).

Before El Ultimo Tour del Mundo became the first all-Spanish-language album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200, there were only two mostly Spanish-sung albums reign: Il Divo’s Ancora (Feb. 11, 2006) and Selena’s Dreaming of You (Aug. 5, 1995). Of Ancora’s 10 songs, seven were performed in Spanish. Dreaming of You’s 13-track album includes six tracks in Spanish, five in English and two duets that blend English and Spanish.

All told, Bad Bunny has now achieved five charting albums on the Billboard 200, with his last four all reaching the top 10. His first charting set, X 100PRE, peaked at No. 11 on the Jan. 12, 2019-dated chart, and he followed it with Oasis (with J Balvin, No. 9; July 13, 2019), YHLQMDLG (No. 2; March 14, 2020), Las Que No Iban a Salir (No. 7; May 23, 2020) and now El Ultimo Tour del Mundo.

Further, Bad Bunny is only the second act to have logged three new top 10 albums in 2020, following YoungBoy Never Broke Again, who has claimed four top 10s this year.

El Ultimo Tour del Mundo was led by the track “Dákiti,” a co-billed song with Jhay Cortez. It marked Bad Bunny’s third top 10 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and his seventh No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart. The song also reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts.

Back on the new Billboard 200, Miley Cyrus’ Plastic Hearts debuts at No. 2 – her highest charting effort since 2013’s Bangerz bowed at No. 1. All told, Plastic Hearts is her 13th top 10 effort (including those albums credited under her Hannah Montana alias).

Plastic Hearts launches with 60,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 38,000 comprise SEA units (translating to 50.90 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), 20,000 comprise album sales and 2,000 comprise TEA units.

Plastic Hearts was preceded by the songs “Midnight Sky” and “Prisoner,” the latter featuring Dua Lipa. “Midnight Sky” reached No. 14 on the Hot 100 dated Aug. 29 and No. 20 on the Streaming Songs chart. “Prisoner” debuted on the most-recently published Hot 100 and Streaming Songs charts (dated Dec. 5) at Nos. 54 and 31, respectively. Aside from the collaboration with Dua Lipa, the album also features Billy Idol and Joan Jett. The digital edition of the album includes a guest spot by Stevie Nicks, who sings new vocals on “Edge of Midnight” — a remix/mash-up of “Midnight Sky” and Nicks’ own “Edge of Seventeen.”

BTS’ Be falls from No. 1 to No. 3 on the new Billboard 200 in its second week (55,000 equivalent album units earned; down 77%), Ariana Grande’s former No. 1 Positions dips 3-4 (53,000; down 14%) and Pop Smoke’s previous leader Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon drops 4-5 (a little over 48,000; down 7%).

Michael Bublé’s Christmas, which reached No. 1 in late 2011 and early 2012, returns to the top 10, as it climbs 13-6 with 48,000 equivalent album units earned (up 52%). Of that sum, 38,000 comprise SEA units (up 61%; equaling 50.46 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), 9,000 comprise album sales (up 27%) and 1,000 comprise TEA units (up 25%).

Since Christmas’ five-week reign at No. 1 in 2011-12, the album has returned to the top 10 in every Christmas season since.

Closing out the new top 10: Megan Thee Stallion’s Good News falls 2-7 in its second week on the Billboard 200 (47,000 equivalent album units earned; down 53%), Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Folklore descends 6-8 (45,000; though up 4%), Carrie Underwood’s My Gift rises 10-9 (44,000; up 26%) and Juice WRLD’s previous No. 1 Legends Never Die dips 9-10 (36,000; down less than 1%).

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Plus, Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber’s “Monster” debuts at No. 8.

BTS‘ “Life Goes On” soars onto the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart at No. 1.

The song is the South Korean septet’s third Hot 100 No. 1, all in a span of three months, following “Dynamite” and Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo’s “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” the latter of which led aided by BTS remixes.

“Life Goes On” is also the first Hot 100 No. 1 in the chart’s 62-year history sung predominantly in Korean.

Plus, Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber‘s “Monster” bounds onto the Hot 100 at No. 8.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 5) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 1). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Here’s a deeper look at the coronation of “Life Goes On,” released Nov. 20 on BigHit Entertainment/Columbia Records as part of BTS’ new album Be, which opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The song is the 1,114th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s history.

Streams, sales & airplay: “Life Goes On” drew 14.9 million U.S. streams and sold 150,000 in the week ending Nov. 26, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also earned 410,000 radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending Nov. 29 (with KJYO Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the lone reporter to play it double-digit times: 13).

The track debuts at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart and No. 14 on Streaming Songs.

(Breaking down the song’s first-week sales, it sold over 129,000 digital downloads and 20,000 physical singles. The digital download was sale-priced to 69 cents, while a cassette single sold for $6.98 and a vinyl single went for $7.98.)

BTS’ 3rd Hot 100 No. 1 in 3 months: “Life Goes On” is BTS’ third Hot 100 No. 1, all in a span of three months. Its launch atop the Dec. 5-dated chart follows “Dynamite,” which began atop the Sept. 5 survey and led for three total weeks, and Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo’s “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” which, helped by BTS remixes, topped the Oct. 17 chart.

Covering a span of exactly three months (Sept. 5-Dec. 5-dated charts), BTS scores the fastest accumulation of three Hot 100 No. 1s in over 42 years, since the Bee Gees tripled up over two months and three weeks, with a trio of singles from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack: “How Deep Is Your Love” (three weeks at No. 1, beginning Dec. 24, 1977); “Stayin’ Alive” (four, Feb. 4, 1978); and “Night Fever” (eight, March 18, 1978).

BTS has landed its first three No. 1s more quickly than any act since The Beatles, whose first three leaders, “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “She Loves You” and “Can’t Buy Me Love,” hit No. 1 over a span of just two months and three days (Feb. 1-April 4, 1964).

BTS is the second act with three Hot 100 No. 1s in 2020, following Ariana Grande, who has led with “Stuck With U” (with Bieber; May 23); “Rain on Me” (with Lady Gaga; June 6); and “Positions” (Nov. 7). BTS is the first act of more than two members with three songs to spend their first weeks each at No. 1 in the same year since, again, trio the Bee Gees, who sent three hits to No. 1 in 1979: “Too Much Heaven,” “Tragedy” and “Love You Inside Out.”

First duo/group with 2 No. 1 Hot 100 debuts: BTS is the first duo or group with two No. 1 Hot 100 debuts, as “Life Goes On” follows “Dynamite” in having premiered at the summit.

“Life Goes On” is the 46th single overall to start at No. 1 on the Hot 100. It’s the 11th to do so in 2020 (all since April), nearly triple the previous record for the most in a single year, as four songs entered at No. 1 in both 1995 and 2018.

First predominantly non-English-language No. 1 debut: “Life Goes On” is the first song sung in a non-English language to open atop the Hot 100.

The first Hot 100 No. 1 in the Hot 100’s history sung predominantly in Korean, it’s the first No. 1 sung mostly in a language other than English since Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s predominantly Spanish-language “Despacito” (featuring Bieber), which reigned for 16 weeks in 2017. Before “Despacito,” no such song had topped the Hot 100 since Los Del Rio’s “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix),” which ruled for 14 weeks in 1996. Before that, Los Lobos’ all-Spanish-language cover of Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba” led in 1987.

19th No. 1 of 2020: “Life Goes On” is the 19th song to ascend to No. 1 on the Hot 100 for the first time in 2020. This year marks the highest total of songs earning their first weeks on top since 19 also did in 2006 (and the most by the first chart week of December since Nielsen Music/MRC Data-based information began fueling the chart in November 1991).

“Dynamite” back in top 5: “Dynamite,” on BTS’ album Be, rebounds from No. 14 to No. 3 on the Hot 100. Among acts of more than two members, BTS is the first to claim two spots in the Hot 100’s top three, or top five, simultaneously since The Black Eyed Peas, which doubled for five weeks in June-July 2009 with “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling.”

24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring Iann Dior, drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, with 87.3 million in airplay reach (up 2%), as it leads the Radio Songs chart for a fifth week, 21.9 million streams (down 2%) and 7,000 sold (down 13%). It tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 14th week each and Hot Rap Songs for a seventh frame (with all three charts using the same methodology as the Hot 100).

Ariana Grande’s “Positions” slips 3-4 on the Hot 100, after it led the Nov. 7-dated chart upon its debut. It charges 14-9 on Radio Songs (47.9 million, up 27%), where it becomes her 14th top 10; dating to her first week in the tier (June 7, 2014), with “Problem,” featuring Iggy Azalea, she ties Bieber for the most top 10s in that span.

Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope,” featuring Charlie Puth, dips 4-5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3, as it dominates the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for an 18th week, and Bieber’s “Holy,” featuring Chance the Rapper, keeps at No. 6 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 3 high.

Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” featuring Lil Durk, descends 5-7 on the Hot 100, after debuting at its No. 2 peak, and notches a fifth week atop the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (where it marks Drake’s record-setting 21st No. 1).

Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber’s “Monster” enters the Hot 100 at No. 8, with 19.1 million streams, 14.4 million in airplay audience and 17,000 sold. It starts at No. 5 on Streaming Songs and No. 7 on Digital Song Sales. (The song sold 15,000 downloads and 2,000 CD singles, with three CD versions available for $3 each: one with a cover showing both Mendes and Bieber and one each showing only Mendes and Bieber, respectively.)

Mendes earns his sixth Hot 100 top 10 and Bieber adds his 21st.

The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” retreats 7-9 on the Hot 100, after spending four weeks at No. 1. It banks a record-extending 41st week in the top 10, while ruling the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a record-furthering 37th week.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Internet Money and Gunna’s “Lemonade,” featuring Don Toliver and NAV, slips 8-10, after rising to No. 6.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Dec. 5), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 1).

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Plus: Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Good News’ debuts at No. 2.

BTS lands its fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as Be bows atop the tally. The set, which was released via Big Hit Entertainment on Nov. 20, arrives with 242,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 26, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Be is the second chart-topper of 2020 for the pop group, following Map of the Soul: 7, which debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated March 7.

Also in the new top 10, Megan Thee Stallion’s Good News bows at No. 2, Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Folklore flies 29-6 after its vinyl edition was released to Target stores and her Disney+ special premiered, and Carrie Underwood’s holiday set My Gift returns to the top 10 with a 25-10 jump.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Dec. 5-dated chart (where Be debuts at to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 1. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Be’s 242,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Nov. 26, album sales comprise 177,000, TEA units comprise 35,000 and SEA units comprise 30,000 (equating to 48.56 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs).

The Be album is a mostly-Korean-language release, but does feature the group’s first all-English song, “Dynamite.” The track marked the act’s first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Sept. 5. It also recently garnered the group its first Grammy Award nomination, for best pop duo/group performance. Be is the 11th mostly non-English album to hit No. 1. Of the 11 leaders that were recorded mostly in a language other than English, five have been by BTS.

The album’s first week is the largest for an album by a group, both in terms of equivalent album units and album sales, since BTS’ own last No. 1 album, Map of the Soul: 7, earned 422,000 units in its first week, of which 347,000 were in album sales (chart dated March 7).

However, unlike many other high-selling albums that benefit from an array of available formats and exclusive or limited editions, Be was only available in two formats. It was issued as a standard digital album that cost about $9 and a pricey CD edition that retailed for around $50. (Big Hit has termed the CD edition a “deluxe” package, though there is no traditional standard CD available.)

Even BTS’ last No. 1, Map of the Soul: 7, was issued in five editions – a standard digital album and four collectible CD packages (each selling for around $25).

Be’s rollout is reminiscent of the arrival of Tool’s Fear Inoculum, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Sept. 14, 2019, with 270,000 equivalent album units – of which 240,000 were in album sales. The album was initially only sold in two formats: a digital download and a limited-edition CD that cost around $45-50, and came with a 4-inch HD screen, video footage, a speaker and a 36-page booklet.

While the $50 BTS Be deluxe CD doesn’t have any technology housed in its package, it does contain paper goods such as a photobook, photocards, postcards and a poster.

BTS is the first group to land two No. 1 albums in 2020, and the second act overall, following rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again (with 38 Baby 2 and Top).

In total, BTS has now led the Billboard 200 five times. Before Be and Map of the Soul: 7, there was Map of the Soul: Persona (April 27, 2019), Love Yourself: Answer (Sept. 8, 2018) and Love Yourself: Tear (June 2, 2018).

In turn, BTS has achieved its five No. 1 albums in just a little over two years and six months. The last act to accumulate five No. 1s quicker was Future, who logged his first five leaders in just over one year and seven months (from DS2 on Aug. 8, 2015, through HNDRXX on March 18, 2017). The last group to tally five No. 1s faster than BTS was The Beatles, who strung together five No. 1s in just under two years and five months with Yesterday and Today (July 30, 1966) and its self-titled album (often referred to as the White Album, Dec. 28, 1968). And finally, the last group to achieve its first five No. 1s faster than BTS was, again, The Beatles. The Fab Four clocked its first five No. 1s in just under one year and five months, between Meet the Beatles! (Feb. 15, 1964) and Beatles VI (July 10, 1965).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Megan Thee Stallion’s debut full-length album Good News starts with 100,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 82,500 comprise SEA units (equaling 115.85 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), 16,000 comprise album sales and a little over 2,000 comprise TEA units. Good News is also the most streamed album of the week.

The 17-track Good News set follows a pair of top 10s from Megan Thee Stallion with the nine-track EP Suga (No. 7; May 16, 2020) and the mixtape Fever (No. 10; June 1, 2019).

The new album includes the remix version of the No. 1 Hot 100 hit “Savage,” featuring Beyoncé. The original version of “Savage” was included on Suga.

Ariana Grande’s former No. 1 Positions rises 4-3 on the new Billboard 200 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (down 18%), Pop Smoke’s former leader Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon bumps up a notch to No. 4 with 52,000 units (down 3%) and Future and Lil Uzi Vert’s Pluto x Baby Pluto falls 2-5 in its second week with 46,000 units (down 56%).

Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Folklore charges back into the top 10, rising 29-6, after the set’s vinyl edition was released to Target stores during the tracking week, her Disney+ special Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions premiered on Nov. 25 and a new digital deluxe edition of the album was released.

Folklore earned 44,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 26 (up 120%), with 23,000 of that sum in album sales (up 452%). Vinyl LP sales comprise 15,000 of that sales figure (up 16,476%). Folklore’s digital album sales also increased, rising to 4,000 for the week (up 425%). A new deluxe edition of the album was issued to digital retailers on Nov. 25 that includes live versions of each of the album’s tracks (as heard in the Disney+ special Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions).

Luke Combs’ former No. 1 What You See Is What You Get falls 6-7 with 41,000 equivalent album units (down 2%), Chris Stapleton’s Starting Over descends 3-8 with 37,000 units (down 64%) and Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die dips 7-9 with 36,000 units (down 2%).

Carrie Underwood’s holiday album My Gift jumps back into the top 10, rising 25-10 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (up 63%). The album debuted at No. 8 on the Oct. 10-dated chart, and then spent the next four weeks outside the top 50. However, it vaulted 150-39 on the Nov. 14 chart, and then rose 29-25-10 in the next three weeks, as Thanksgiving (and the heart of the Christmas season) approached.

With Starting Over, What You See Is What You Get and My Gift all in the top 10 together, it’s the first time in nearly three years that three albums which also appear on the Top Country Albums chart have all been in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 concurrently. It last happened on the Jan. 3, 2018-dated chart, when Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country, Garth Brooks’ The Anthology: Part I, The First Five Years and Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 2 were Nos. 8-10, respectively.

Source: billboard.com