All i want for christmas is you top 10

It’s the holiday season, and Mariah Carey’s perennial “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is not only No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 yet again — it’s made history: It is now the first song in the chart’s history to have led in three distinct runs on the ranking.

While the song was first released on Carey’s “Merry Christmas” album in 1994, its popularity has actually grown as the years have gone by: It reached the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time in December 2017; No. 1 for the first time in December 2019 [for three weeks] and December 2020 [two], and now this year.

As “Christmas” rules the latest, Dec. 25, 2021-dated chart, it claims its sixth total week at No. 1 in its third seasonal run at the summit, becoming the first song in the Hot 100’s 63-year history to lead in three distinct chart runs. As Billboard notes, Carey’s “Christmas” has made four interrupted climbs to the top of the Hot 100, on charts dated Dec. 21, 2019, Dec. 19, 2020, Jan. 2, 2021, and now Dec. 25, 2021, tying 24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring Iann Dior, beginning in October 2020, and Drake’s “Nice for What,” in 2018, as the only songs with four separate ascents to No. 1 — however, unlike “Christmas,” the latter two tracks logged their four distinct rises to No. 1 over unbroken chart stays.

Not surprisingly, the chart is loaded with holiday songs, including six in the top 10: Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” replaces Carey at No. 2, Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” rises to No. 4, Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” holds at No. 5, Andy Williams’ “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and Wham!’s “Last Christmas” reach No. 6 and No. 9, respectively.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming [official audio and official video], radio airplay and sales data — see the full chart here.

In non-holiday-song news, Adele’s “Easy on Me” slips to No. 3 on the Hot 100, after seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” slides 4-6 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1. Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” climbs to No. 8 and Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” slips to No. 10.

Meanwhile, on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, Adele’s “30” is at No. 1 for a fourth consecutive week with 183,000 equivalent album units, while Juice WRLD’s second posthumous album, “Fighting Demons,” debuts at No. 2 with 119,000. Following are Taylor Swift’s second re-recorded album, “Red [Taylor’s Version],” which slips 2-3 in its fifth week, while Michael Bublé’s “Christmas” holds at No. 4 with 64,000 equivalent album units. Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour” remains at No. 5 with 60,000 units.

See the full albums chart here.

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.

Brenda Lee’s holiday classic “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” finally reached the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week, smashing plenty of records for the 78-year-old singer’s 1958 release and dethroning perennial holiday leader, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” in a heated chart battle.

Brenda Lee, at 78, became the oldest person to rank No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. [Photo by Taylor ... [+] Hill/WireImage]

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Key Facts

“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is the first holiday song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 above Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which has ruled the Hot 100 every holiday season beginning in 2019 for 12 total weeks atop the chart.

Lee won the chart battle with 34.9 million streams [also landing her atop Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart] and 20.9 million radio airplay impressions.

Lee’s song also claims the title for the oldest song to reach No. 1, Billboard reported: “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” reached the chart’s apex 65 years after release, breaking a record Carey has held since 2019, when “All I Want for Christmas Is You” went No. 1, 25 years after its release.

At 78, Lee became the oldest person to ever top the Hot 100, Billboard reported, though it noted that if the song had topped the chart upon release, Lee would’ve been the youngest artist to rule the Hot 100, at 13.

Lee last topped the Hot 100 in 1960 with “I Want To Be Wanted,” making her 63-year gap between No. 1s the longest in chart history, Billboard reported.

“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is only the third holiday song to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, after “All I Want For Christmas” and “The Chipmunk Song” by The Chipmunks with David Seville.

Universal Music Group Nashville CEO Cindy Mabe told Lee her song topped the Hot 100 during a video interview for Billboard, moving Lee to tears.

Crucial Quote

“I’m happy for everybody here that’s worked so hard to make this happen because in today’s world, everything moves so fast and furious. But I’m telling you this: My label has come to bat,” Lee told Billboard after learning her song went No. 1. “I like that God has given me that favor that I can stand aside and look and know that it wasn’t just me; that it’s a conglomerate of a lot of people that made the song what it is.”

News Peg

Billboard’s top 10 includes a total of six holiday songs: after Lee, Carey ranks at No. 2 with “All I Want for Christmas Is You”—Carey fell behind Lee in streams, garnering 32.4 million for her holiday classic, but outperformed Lee on radio, with 21.5 million airplay impressions, Billboard reported. Carey also led Lee in sales, selling 4,000 downloads of “All I Want for Christmas Is You” to Lee’s 3,000 downloads. Also in the top 10 are Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” at No. 4, Wham!’s “Last Christmas” at No. 5, Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” at No. 6 and Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” at No. 10.

Contra

Carey’s Christmas hit ranks No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Global 200, a worldwide ranking of singles based on streaming and sales from more than 200 countries. Lee, however, ranks fourth. Wham!’s “Last Christmas” is the second-biggest holiday song on this week’s Global 200, ranking No. 2.

Key Background

Lee and Carey’s tight chart battle captured the attention of social media—and of the artists themselves, both of whom have stepped up their promotional efforts. Lee released a music video for “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” in November to celebrate its 65th anniversary, and she joined TikTok to promote her holiday hit and reminisce on its long history. In one TikTok video, Lee addressed her “Brendanators,” telling them: “Grandmother is here.” Carey rang in the holiday season on Nov. 1 with a video of herself defrosting, which garnered 650,000 likes on X. She also embarked on a holiday tour and discussed her holiday dominance on the cover of People magazine. Carey’s fans have fervently organized streaming parties on social media to help her win the chart battle, while an X account called “Brenda Lee Charts” emerged this year to promote Lee’s song and monitor her chart performance.

What To Watch For

Will Carey and Lee duke it out for No. 1 again next week? Billboard previously reported the two may be locked in a tight chart battle all holiday season.

Further Reading

New Old-Fashioned No. 1: Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ Tops Hot 100, 65 Years After Its Release [Billboard]

Will Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree’ Finally Dethrone Mariah Carey On The Charts? [Forbes]

Is All I Want for Christmas Is You in the top 100?

Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas' tops Billboard's 'Hot100' for the fifth year in a row. The Queen of Christmas reigns. Mariah Carey's iconic Christmas medley "All I Want For Christmas Is You" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of December 23, 2023.

Was All I Want For Christmas number 1?

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Is All I Want For Christmas the best selling Christmas song?

Best-selling Christmas singles.

How popular is the song All I Want for Christmas Is You?

Billboard has produced lists of top seasonal hits since 2010, and “All I Want for Christmas is You” has been No. 1 for 57 of the 62 weeks it has run, said Gary Trust, chart director. The Luminate data company said the song peaked at 387 million streams in 2019, the 25th anniversary of its release.

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