Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" soars 12-3 on the Hot 100, with 25.8 million U.S. streams (up 47%), 23.4 million airplay audience impressions (up 54%) and 5,800 sold (up 53%) in the tracking week. It bounds 5-1 on Streaming Songs for an 11th total week on top (and is the only holiday song to have led, dating to the survey's January 2013 inception); 23-8 on Digital Song Sales; and 47-31 on Radio Songs.
It also crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 47th week, of the chart's 52 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 32 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and rules as the top title on the recently-revealed Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.
"Christmas" past, "Christmas" present: Notably, the latest figures for Carey's anthem are similar to those from the same week a year ago. In the November 27-December 3, 2020, post-Thanksgiving tracking frame, the song drew 26.4 million streams, 24.5 million in radio reach and sold 6,800, as it dashed 14-2 on the Hot 100.
The song sports a record-setting history on the Hot 100, following its 1994 release on Carey's 1994 album Merry Christmas. As streaming grew through the 2010s and holiday music became more prominent in Yuletide playlists on multiple streaming services, the carol hit the top 10 for the first time in December 2017. In December 2019, it ascended to the summit, 25 years after its original release, becoming the second holiday hit ever to reign; "The Chipmunk Song", by David Seville & the Chipmunks, spent four weeks at No. 1 beginning in December 1958.
With the ascent, 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 the Hot 100 for three weeks on the charts dated December 21, 2019, through Janury 4, 2020, Carey also became the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the survey in four distinct decades. The track added two more weeks on top in December 2020 and this January, passing "The Chipmunk Song" for the top cumulative command (five weeks) for a holiday song.
(Billboard)
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