Mariah Carey Ties Her Longest Hot 100 Rule With 16th Week at No. 1 for ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

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

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

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” holds at No. 1 on Streaming Songs for a record-tying 20th week, matching Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus (in 2019), for the longest rule dating to the chart’s 2013 inception. It rises 6-4 on Digital Song Sales, following 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” ties for the third-longest command among the 1,176 total No. 1s dating to the Hot 100’s Aug. 4, 1958, start. (All seven songs have led since the list adopted electronically-monitored Luminate data in November 1991, at which point longer commands than before subsequently became more common.)

Below is a recap of the 14 longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1s – 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 Yuletide 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 to its latest to exactly five years, from the charts dated Dec. 21, 2019, through latest, Dec. 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 (Aug. 4, 1990) with her debut smash “Vision of Love.” Only Lee boasts a longer career stretch of topping the chart: 63 years, five months and three weeks, from “I’m Sorry” (July 18, 1960) through “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (Jan. 6, 2024).

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

Here’s a recap of the artists with the most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Hot 100:

Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” concurrently tops Billboard’s multimetric Holiday 100 chart, leading for a 63rd week, of the chart’s 71 total weeks since the list originated in 2011.

The anthem also rules as the top title on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

Holiday hits light up the Hot 100’s entire 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 below Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” – extending the longest stretch of two songs ranking at Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously in that order. (In a case of holiday gift-swapping [literally], when Lee’s classic led for three weeks last season, Carey’s placed at No. 2.)

Here’s a look at the songs to total the most weeks at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Hot 100, respectively, together. (Songs with a * peaked at No. 2.)

Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957, rebounds 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) jingles 10-5, having peaked at No. 4.

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

Kendrick Lamar posts three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, all from his album GNX, for a third consecutive week: “Luther,” with 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 link a streak of at least three weeks with three or more top 10s, after 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).

Concurrently, “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 GNX, earned in each of the past three weeks. SZA scores her fourth and first leader on the respective lists.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” backtracks 8-10, three weeks after it notched a record-tying 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 began in 1990, after only The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (26 weeks, 2020).

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