Mariah Carey scores milestone 10th week at No. 1
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Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a 10th week. With its latest frame at No. 1, Carey becomes the third artist – and first woman – with three songs that have reigned for double-digit weeks. Carey crowned the chart for 16 weeks with "One Sweet Day", with Boyz II Men, in 1995-96, and for 14 weeks with "We Belong Together" in 2005. Boyz II Men and Drake are the only other acts to have achieved such a triumphant triple.
"Christmas" was first released on Carey's album Merry Christmas in 1994 and, as streaming has grown and holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services' playlists, it first reached the Hot 100's top 10 in December 2017 and first hit the top five in the 2018 holiday season, before reigning over the holidays in 2019 (for three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three) and now 2022 (two to-date).
"Christmas" drew 41.4 million streams (up 14%) and 33.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 11%) and sold 11,000 downloads (up 86%) in the U.S. in the December 9-15 tracking week, according to Luminate. The song adds a third week at No. 1, up from No. 3, on the Digital Song Sales chart, following frames on top in 2005 and 2019; dips to No. 2 after 17 total weeks atop Streaming Songs; and rises 17-14 on Radio Songs, where it hit a No. 12 high over the 1994 holidays and has returned to the top 15 in each of the last four holiday seasons.
"Christmas" is the 43rd song to command the Hot 100 for 10 or more weeks, a feat that under just 4% of all 1,144 No. 1s have achieved. (Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day" solely held the record for the chart's longest reign for over 21 years, until Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito", 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's "Old Town Road", featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, dominated for 19 weeks in 2019.)
Among its 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, Carey's "Christmas" has led lists dated December 24 (this year) and December 25 (2021). It, fittingly, becomes the only song to have topped Hot 100 charts dated both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Carey's "Christmas" extends the longest span from a song's first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 to its latest, to just over three years (December 21, 2019 - December 24, 2022). Plus, the latest week atop the Hot 100 for "Christmas" extends Carey's 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 August 4, 1990, with her debut single "Vision of Love".
Carey's "Christmas" expands its record for the most time atop the Hot 100 for a holiday song. The only other seasonal single to lead, "The Chipmunk Song", by David Seville & the Chipmunks, spent four weeks at No. 1. ("'The Chipmunk Song' is one of the fastest breaking and fastest selling records of 1958," Billboard reported when the song first reigned, in the December 22, 1958, issue, adding that it had become the "biggest seller since 'Hound Dog'," first made a hit by Big Mama Thornton and then Elvis Presley. "Sales city by city [for "Chipmunk"] have been astounding and it has been blaring out of radios, juke boxes and loudspeaker systems from New York to Los Angeles every day for weeks.")
Carey's record 89th week atop Hot 100: With "Christmas," Carey adds her record-extending 89th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart's Aug. 4, 1958, inception. "Christmas" became Carey's 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists and one away from 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, dating to her first week at the summit with "Vision of Love". The song is additionally the only title to have led in four separate runs on the survey.
"Christmas" concurrently crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 55th week, of the chart's 60 total weeks since the list originated in 2011. It has topped the tally for 40 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and rules as the top title on the Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.
(Billboard)
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Edward from USA wrote:
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What a feast. If AIWFCIY keeps topping the charts for at least 3 weeks for the next 3 years, she'll by herself this time would reclaim the title as "The Artist with the Longest #1 Song" on "Billboard Hot 100" by 2025 with 20 weeks at the top. The OSD record kind of hurt when it was broken.
(Tuesday 20 December 2022; 03:09)
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Warren from Trinidad & Tobago wrote:
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I totally agree - losing that record stung. It should happen, unless Billboard changes the rules again before then.
(Tuesday 20 December 2022; 16:46)
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Critter from USA wrote:
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I have never heard OTR, not even once since it's no longer #1 on the road.
(Tuesday 20 December 2022; 22:22)
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Terna from Nigeria wrote:
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This is a big deal and we can already predict that over time this song is going to be the longest running Billboard Hot 100 #1 song of all time, a gift that will keep giving until the end of time, literally. Sorry Lil Nas X. Lol.  How is this woman so blessed?  
(Friday 23 December 2022; 10:09)
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Edward from USA wrote:
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Since Billboard calculates the last week of the year as two, should she remain at #1 next week, that's an extra week at #1. AIWFCIY would be sitting nicely with a whopping 12 weeks total till next Christmas season. If things continue this way, 2025 will be the year in which Lil Nas X will have to pass the torch back to the queen.
(Friday 23 December 2022; 16:11)
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Bobby A from United States wrote:
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I really feel that all of the negative conversation on the web and TV about MC's petition for the queen of Christmas helped to propel AIWFCIY to #1 earlier on the charts this year.
(Friday 23 December 2022; 22:16)
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