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Thursday 7 December 2017

Mariah Carey's "Christmas" classic returns

As previously reported, Post Malone's "Rockstar", featuring 21 Savage, tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated December 9) for an eighth week. Ed Sheeran's "Perfect", up 5-3 on the Hot 100, is the week's top seller, aided by early sales of its new Beyonce duet version released just before the end of the sales tracking week (ending November 30), while G-Eazy earns his second Hot 100 top 10 as "No Limit", featuring A$AP Rocky and Cardi B, jumps 11-8.

Plus, BTS roars to the first top 40 Hot 100 hit ever by a K-pop group, as "MIC Drop," featuring Desiigner, launches at No. 28. Who else makes notable Hot 100 chart moves this week?

"All I Want for Christmas Is You", Mariah Carey
The 1994 holiday classic, which hit a No. 11 Hot 100 peak two holiday seasons ago, re-enters at No. 21. (Yule want to know some details: Older songs are eligible to return to the Hot 100 if ranking in the top 50 and are gaining in multiple metrics with a significant reason for their resurgences, and a few holiday hits re-enter each year. "Christmas" never charted on the Hot 100 upon its original release, as it was not then available as a commercial single, thus making it ineligible for the list, per rules at the time; it reached No. 12 on Radio Songs in the 1994-95 holiday season.)

"Christmas" crowns Billboard's Holiday 100 chart for a 27th total week, dating to the chart's 2011 launch; no other song has led for more than two weeks. It reigns with 26 million in all-format radio airplay audience (up 11 percent), 16.5 million U.S. streams (up 60 percent) and 16,000 downloads sold (up 41 percent), according to Nielsen Music. It ranks at No. 16 on Streaming Songs, No. 19 on Digital Song Sales and No. 47 on Radio Songs.

(Billboard)



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