Mariah Carey’s ‘Christmas’ no. 1 on the Hot 100 for 16 weeks

Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” on Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings, attracted 47.7 million streams (up 12% week-over-week) and 25.7 million radio views (up 5%) and sold 6,000 (downloads and physical singles combined; up 83%) in the US 6-12 December, according to Luminate.

To boost the song’s tracking week sales, 7-inch and 12-inch vinyl and cassette and CD singles were released on 6 December in honor of its 30th anniversary.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” Holds No. 1 on Streaming Songs for Record-tying 20th Week, Matching Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus (in 2019), for Longest Reign to the chart’s start in 2013. It rises 6-4 on Digital Song Sales, after four weeks at the summit, and 21-17 on Radio Songs, where it has hit a no. 11 best.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” holds the third-longest command among the 1,176 total No. 1 dating to the Hot 100’s August 4, 1958 start. (All seven songs have led since the chart adopted electronically monitored Luminate data in November 1991, with longer commands than before subsequently becoming more common.)

Below is a summary of the 14 longest-running Hot 100 no. 1 – with Carey the only artist with three entries on the elite list:

Now up to 16 weeks, Carey’s “Christmas” extends its mark as the holiday song with the most time logged atop the Hot 100, among three Christmas leaders. “The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville, led for four weeks beginning in December 1958, followed by Brenda Lee’s three weeks last holiday season with “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” extends the longest span from a song’s first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for its most recent to exactly five years, from the charts dated December 21, 2019 to the latest December 21, 2024-dated list.

Carey claims the second-longest span for an artist atop the Hot 100: 34 years, four months and three weeks, dating to her first week at No. 1 (August 4, 1990) with his debut smash “Vision of Love”. Only Lee boasts a longer career topping the chart: 63 years, five months and three weeks, from “I’m Sorry” (July 18, 1960) to “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (January 6, 2024) .

Carey collects her record-extending 95th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, across its 19 leaders, dating back to the chart’s inception.

Here is a summary of the artists who have spent the most weeks at no. 1 on the Hot 100:

Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” tops at the same time Billboard‘s multi-metric Holiday 100 chart, leading to a 63rd week, of the chart’s total 71 weeks since the chart’s inception in 2011.

The anthem also reigns as the top title on Billboard‘s Best of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

Holiday hits light up the entire Hot 100’s top five, led by Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”

Notably, the 1958 release adds a 13th week at no. 2 on the Hot 100, all spent during Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — extending the longest stretch of two songs ranking at No. 1 and 2 simultaneously in that order. (In a case of swapping Christmas presents (literally), when Lee’s classic led for three weeks last season, Carey was ranked No. 2.)

Here’s a look at the songs that collectively have the most weeks at no. 1 and 2 on the Hot 100 together. (Songs with an * peaked at No. 2.)

Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957, returns to its No. 3 Hot 100 high, from no. 5; Wham!’s “Last Christmas” (1984) slips to no. 4 from its no. 3 best, achieved a week earlier; and Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (1964) rattles 10-5, after peaking at no. 4.

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” — the Hot 100’s top non-holiday title — returns 9-6 after four weeks at No. 2 best in November.

Kendrick Lamar posts three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, all from his albums GNXfor third week in a row: “Luther,” featuring SZA (6-7), after reaching no. 3; “TV Off”, featuring Lefty Gunplay (4-8), after hitting No. 2; and “Squabble Up” (7-10), after leading in its debut week. Lamar is the second artist this year to string together a streak of at least three weeks with three or more top 10s, following Sabrina Carpenter (eight weeks with three top 10s, September-October). Among male artists, Drake had last achieved the feat (three weeks with at least three top 10s, July 2018).

At the same time, “Luther” becomes Lamar’s seventh no. 1 on both the multimetric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts – and his third on each chart from GNXearned in each of the past three weeks. SZA scores her fourth and first leader on the respective charts.

Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” rounds out the Hot 100’s top 10, back 8-10, three weeks after it reached a record 19th week at No. 1. It claims a 20th week atop Radio Songs (62.9 million, down 3%), becoming the second hit to reach the milestone since the chart’s inception in 1990, behind only The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (26 weeks, 2020).

“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” also reigns on the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a 26th week, claiming the sole longest reign (over Morgan Wallen’s 2023 No. 1 “Last Night”) for a song by a male artist in this decade; overall, only Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope” has charted longer (27 weeks) in the 2020s. Since Hot Country Songs became the genre’s main chart in 1958, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” boasts the fourth-best reign.