Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ Leads Hot 100 for Seventh Week, Mariah Carey Jingles Back to Top 10

“The Fate of Ophelia” drew 23.4 million official streams (down 11% week-over-week) and 62.8 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1%) and sold 19,000 (down 22%) in the United States for the tracking week of Nov. 14-20.

The single adds a sixth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, rises 4-3 for a new best on Radio Songs, and drops to No. 2 after five weeks atop Digital Song Sales.

(Of the song’s sales total, 14,000 were from CD singles — its original and “Alone in My Tower Acoustic Version” mixes, each featuring instrumentals as second cuts — that shipped during the tracking week and the remaining 5,000 were downloads.)

As previously reported, “The Fate of Ophelia” parent album The Life of a Showgirl glitters with a seventh week atop the Billboard 200 chart (following its modern-era-record debut of 4.002 million equivalent album units).

Of the 16 instances of acts debuting atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously, The Life of a Showgirl and “The Fate of Ophelia” mark the first combination of an artist extending the titles’ respective reigns to their first seven weeks.

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — the No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs retrospective — returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 (11-8), with 15.7 million streams (up 14%), 9.7 million airplay audience impressions (up 82%) and 1,000 sold (up 16%).

Two weeks earlier, the song made its earliest annual dash back to the Hot 100. It now notches its earliest seasonal return to the top 10, ranking in the tier on a chart dated in November for the first time. (It previously revisited the top 10 earliest on the chart dated Dec. 2, 2023.)

The carol, originally released in 1994, hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time in December 2017. In December 2019, it ascended to No. 1 at last, for three weeks that holiday season. It led the Hot 100 for two more weeks in the 2020 holiday season, three over the 2021 holidays, four during the 2022 season, two in 2023 and another four last season, upping its total to 18 weeks at No. 1. Only two songs have led longer over the chart’s 67-year history: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” in 2024, and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, in 2019, each for 19 weeks.

With the 2019 coronation for “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Carey collected her 19th Hot 100 No. 1, extending her mark for the most among soloists and moving to within one of The Beatles’ overall record 20.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” concurrently crowns the multimetric Holiday 100 chart, which returns for the season. It leads for a 66th of the list’s 74 total weeks since it began in 2011.

HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters, keeps at No. 2 on the Hot 100, following eight weeks at No. 1 beginning in August.

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” which ruled the Hot 100 for 10 weeks starting in May, holds at No. 3, while topping Radio Songs for a 23rd week (67.2 million in audience, down 9%).

The Hot 100’s top five is stationary, rounded out by Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” at its No. 4 high and Swift’s “Opalite,” from The Life of a Showgirl, at No. 5, after hitting No. 2.

Leon Thomas’ “Mutt” rises 7-6 for a new Hot 100 best as it leads the multimetric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for a 13th week and Hot R&B Songs for a 30th frame.

Justin Bieber’s “Daisies” dips 6-7 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2; Kehlani’s “Folded” falls 8-9, off its No. 7 high; and Morgan Wallen’s “I Got Better” descends 9-10, also after reaching No. 7, as it tops Hot Country Songs for a seventh week.