Singer Mariah Carey has once again broken a music record this Christmas with her famous Christmas carol All I want for Christmas is you. This time he managed to keep the song at number 1 on the list for 20 weeks. Billboard Hot 100!something no other song had achieved before. “Humbly taking up the torch. 20 weeks at number one. I’m so grateful,” reacted the artist on her Instagram account.
The song, originally released in 1994, surpassed two other chart hits at number one. Hot 100 as A bar song (Tipsy) of Shaboozey, in 2024, and Old Town Road of Lil Nas X, with Billy Ray Cyrus, in 2019, remembers the magazine Billboard. Carey thus reached the longevity record for number 1 in the ranking. Hot 100 for the second time. In 1995-96, A sweet dayperformed by her and Boyz II Men, topped the chart for 16 weeks. This mark remained until it was matched by Slowly by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, with Justin Bieber, in 2017.
In addition, All I want for Christmas is you He has been hospitalized for 77 weeks now. Hot 100equal to Levitation by Dua Lipa, as the longest song by a female artist. The American singer’s popular pop Christmas carol was released on the album Merry Christmas, in November 1994 and, with the rise in power streaming and the growing presence of Christmas music in playlists, it reached the top 10 for the first time in December 2017 and the top 5 during the 2018 holiday season, according to the magazine. Finally, it topped the list during the holidays of 2019 (three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three), 2022 (four), 2023 (two) and 2024 (four).
He Hot 100 combines streaming data for all genres in the United States (official audio and video), radio airplay and sales. And Luminate, Billboard’s independent chart data provider, conducts an in-depth review of all data submitted to compile the weekly rankings.
In recent years, Carey has made her traditional inauguration of the Christmas season with her annual announcement and her now popular “It’s Time” which she sings to the rhythm of her most international song. This 2025 was launched on November 1st.
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