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Backstreet Boys’ remake of Wham!’s “Last Christmas” dashes to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary radio airplay chart (dated Dec. 3, reflecting plays in the Nov. 21-27 tracking week, according to Luminate).
The ever-youthful boy band notches its third AC No. 1 and first since its pop classic “I Want It That Way” reigned for 10 weeks beginning in July 1999. The act first led with “I’ll Never Break Your Heart” for seven weeks starting in October 1998.
Backstreet Boys’ triumphant return to the AC summit grants them the record for the longest break between No. 1s among groups: a week shy of exactly 23 years since the last frame on top for “I Want It That Way.” Among all acts, only Elton John has waited longer between time at No. 1 (23 years, 11 months and a week between “Something About the Way You Look Tonight” in 1998 and “Merry Christmas,” with Ed Sheeran, last holiday season). Among groups, Backstreet Boys pass the Eagles (a week short of 20 years between “Best of My Love” in 1975 and “Love Will Keep Us Alive” in 1995).
Backstreet Boys’ update of “Last Christmas” is from their first holiday LP, A Very Backstreet Christmas, which launched at No. 1 on the Top Holiday Albums chart in October. Another song from the set, “Christmas in New York,” rises to a new No. 19 AC high.
Released in 1984, Wham!’s “Last Christmas” — written and produced by George Michael — re-enters the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100 at No. 23. The song hit the top 10 for the first time in the 2020 holiday season and reached a No. 7 best last season. On the Holiday 100, the carol ranks at No. 6 as the survey returns.
With the original receiving strong airplay, and streams, each holiday season – Wham’s version ranks at No. 5 on the Dec. 3-dated Holiday Airplay list with 19.8 million audience impressions – charted covers of “Last Christmas” have been rare, although all by high-profile acts.
Here’s a recap of remakes of “Last Christmas” on individual-format Billboard airplay charts:
Backstreet Boys, Adult Contemporary, No. 1 (one week to-date), 2022
Ariana Grande, Adult Contemporary, No. 26, 2013
Glee Cast, Adult Contemporary, No. 27, 2009
Taylor Swift, Country Airplay, No. 28, 2007
(Grande’s version also hit No. 1 in 2013 on Holiday Digital Song Sales, where covers have additionally charted, joining the Glee Cast’s and Swift’s, by Carly Rae Jepsen, Gwen Stefani and Meghan Trainor.)
Meanwhile, “Last Christmas” is the 28th holiday No. 1 on the AC chart since 2000, around the time that most stations in the format began playing seasonal songs heavily, or 24/7, between Thanksgiving and Christmas each year.
Here’s an updated recap of all the holiday songs that have hung atop the AC chart’s highest bough:
Title, Artist, Chart Date Reached No. 1, Weeks at No. 1
“Last Christmas,” Backstreet Boys, one (to-date), Dec. 3, 2022
“Merry Christmas,” Ed Sheeran & Elton John, one, Jan. 1, 2022
“Let It Snow! (10th Anniversary),” Michael Bublé, Dec. 11, 2021, three
“White Christmas,” Meghan Trainor feat. Seth MacFarlane, Dec. 12, 2020, four
“Like It’s Christmas,” Jonas Brothers, Dec. 14, 2019, three
“Cozy Little Christmas,” Katy Perry, Dec. 29, 2018, one
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” John Legend feat. Esperanza Spalding, Dec. 8, 2018, three
“Santa’s Coming for Us,” Sia, Dec. 23, 2017, three
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” Brett Eldredge feat. Meghan Trainor, Jan. 7, 2017, one
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” Josh Groban, Dec. 24, 2016, one
“This Christmas,” Train, Dec. 17, 2016, two
“This Christmas,” Seal, Jan. 2, 2016, one
“Baby It’s Cold Outside,” Idina Menzel duet with Michael Bublé, Dec. 20, 2014, three
“Underneath the Tree,” Kelly Clarkson, Dec. 2, 2013, four
“Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” Rod Stewart, Dec. 8, 2012, five
“All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Michael Bublé, Dec. 10, 2011, five
“Oh Santa!,” Mariah Carey, Dec. 18, 2010, four
“A Baby Changes Everything,” Faith Hill, Dec. 20, 2008, three
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” Josh Groban, Dec. 22, 2007, three
“Frosty the Snowman,” Kimberley Locke, Dec. 15, 2007, one
“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” Daryl Hall John Oates, Dec. 30, 2006, two
“Jingle Bells,” Kimberley Locke, Dec. 23, 2006, one
“Up on the Housetop,” Kimberley Locke, Dec. 17, 2005, four
“Believe,” Josh Groban, Dec. 11, 2004, five
“Sending You a Little Christmas,” Jim Brickman with Kristy Starling, Jan. 3, 2004, one
“O Holy Night,” Josh Groban, Dec. 28, 2002, two
“Simple Things,” Jim Brickman feat. Rebecca Lynn Howard, Jan. 5, 2002, one
“The Christmas Shoes,” NewSong, Jan. 6, 2001, one
Dolly Parton achieves her 48th top 10 on Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart (dated Dec. 3) as Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection enters at No. 4. In the tracking week ending Nov. 24, the set — released Nov. 18 — earned 19,000 equivalent album units, with 15,000 in album sales, according to Luminate.
The 23-track album includes songs released between 1971 and 2019, including 10 No. 1s on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1974-89, from “Jolene” to “Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That.” Among those leaders are her two No. 1s on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100: “9 to 5” (1981) and “Islands in the Stream,” with Kenny Rogers (1983).
The newest cut is “Faith,” Parton’s collaboration with Swedish DJ/production duo Galantis and featuring Dutch vocalist Mr. Probz. The track debuted atop Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales in November 2019, giving Parton her first No. 1 in the genre, and topped Dance/Mix Show Airplay that December.
Parton extends her record for the most Top Country Albums top 10s among women, pushing six ahead of Loretta Lynn’s 42. Parton also remains the only woman with top 10s in every decade since the list began in January 1964. Her top 10 totals by decade: 1960s – four; ’70s – 18; ’80s – 11; ’90s – five; 2000s – three; ’10s – four; and ’20s – three.
Parton has netted eight Top Country Albums No. 1s, most recently A Holly Dolly Christmas, which bowed on top in October 2020. In between that set and her latest, Run, Rose, Run debuted at its No. 4 best this March.
Parton boasts the second-most Top Country Albums top 10s among all artists, after Willie Nelson (the only other act with top 10s in seven decades), with 53. She first reached the tier with her second entry, Just Between You and Me, with Porter Wagoner (No. 8 peak, 1968).
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Morgan Wallen’s “You Proof” rebounds from No. 2 for a sixth week atop Country Airplay (26.6 million audience impressions, down 7%). The song, Wallen’s seventh leader on the list (dating its first week on top on the Oct. 15 chart), ties for the longest reign of the 2020s, matching Dustin Lynch’s “Thinking ‘Bout You,” featuring MacKenzie Porter (starting last December), and Luke Combs’ “Forever After All” (starting in June 2021).
Since Country Airplay started in January 1990, only seven songs have led longer, with two tied with a record eight frames at No. 1 each: Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” (2003) and Lonestar’s “Amazed” (1999).
Meanwhile, “Proof” is the first song to return to the Country Airplay apex since Chris Lane’s “Big, Big Plans” hit No. 1 on Dec. 19, 2020, and revisited the top two weeks later.
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Jordan Davis banks his sixth Hot Country Songs top 10 as “What My World Spins Around” rises 12-10. The song, which he co-wrote, drew 7.7 million official streams (up 1%) and sold 2,000 downloads (up 98%) Nov. 18-24. On Nov. 17, he announced that his second LP, Bluebird Days, is due Feb. 17.
On Country Airplay, “Spins” ranks at No. 10, up by 7% to 18.7 million impressions in the week ending Nov. 27.
Davis last reached the Hot Country Songs top 10 with “Buy Dirt,” featuring Luke Bryan. The collaboration led for four weeks in January-February, becoming his first No. 1 (and Bryan’s 12th). It dominated Country Airplay for two frames, marking Davis’ third leader (and Bryan’s 26th).
Davis posted his first Hot Country Songs top 10 with his rookie entry “Singles You Up,” which hit No. 4 in April 2018, and followed with “Take It From Me” (No. 4, March 2019); “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot” (No. 6, April 2020); and “Almost Maybes” (No. 7, July 2021). “Singles” and “Slow Dance” also topped Country Airplay for a week each.
Stormzy is eying a hattrick on the U.K. albums chart with This Is What I Mean (via 0207/Merky), which leads at the midweek point.
The Croydon, England rapper is a perfect two-from-two, having led the Official U.K. Albums Chart with with his 2017 debut Gang Signs & Prayer and 2019’s Heavy Is The Head.
The Brit Award winner’s latest LP starts at No. 1 on the midweek chart, just ahead of pop veteran Cliff Richard’s festive collection, Christmas With Cliff (EastWest/Rhino).
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Richard’s first Christmas release in almost two decades is on track to become the iconic British artist’s 47th Top 10 solo album, a feat that includes seven leaders.
It’s nearly that time of year, which means a batch of Christmas-themed records are charging up the U.K. charts.
Andrea, Matteo and Virginia Bocelli’s A Family Christmas (Decca) lifts 11-5 on the midweek survey, and Michael Bublé’s Christmas (Reprise) is hovering just outside the top 10, up 35-11.
Further down the list, a Christmas edition of George Ezra’s former leader Gold Rush Kid (Columbia) bumps 33-15, while Aled Jones & Russell Watson’s Christmas With Aled & Russell (BMG) holds at No. 37.
It’s similar story on the midweek singles survey, with holiday classics from Mariah Carey and Wham surging into the top 10.
Elsewhere on the midweek albums survey, Rock And Roll Hall of Famers The Cure could mark a return to the top tier with the goth faves’ ninth album Wish (Polydor/UMR), thanks to a reissue. Wish reached No. 1 following its original release in 1992, and blasts to No. 4 on the Official Chart Update.
Finally, David Bowie could bag a 69th top 40 appearance on the U.K. albums survey with A Divine Symmetry (Parlophone), a four-disc package of rarities and demos that traces the year leading up to the release of his 1971 classic album, Hunky Dory.
Interest in the legendary late singer continues to run hot, thanks in part to the release of Brett Morgen’s feature-length documentary Moonage Daydream, the soundtrack to which opened at No. 20 on the Official U.K. Chart last Friday (Nov. 25). A Divine Symmetry could hit the same height; it’s new at No. 20 on the midweek chart.
Bowie died Jan. 10, 2016 at the age of 69, just days after the release of his Blackstar album.
The Official U.K. Albums Chart is published late Friday.
The Holiday 100 jingles back to Billboard’s charts menu, ranking the top seasonal songs of all eras via the same formula used for the Billboard Hot 100, blending streaming, airplay and sales data.
Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” – which surges from No. 25 to No. 5 on the Hot 100 – rules the Holiday 100 for a 52nd week of the chart’s 57 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the seasonal survey for 37 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season.
The only other Holiday 100 No. 1s to date: Justin Bieber’s “Mistletoe,” for a week in the 2011-12 holiday season; Pentatonix’s “Little Drummer Boy” (one, 2013-14) and “Mary, Did You Know?” (two, 2014-15); and Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” (one, 2014-15).
Carey’s 1994 carol crowns all three Holiday 100 component charts (with all surveys dated Dec. 3): Holiday Streaming Songs (21.5 million streams, up 54%, in the Nov. 18-24 tracking week, according to Luminate); Holiday Airplay (20.6 million airplay audience impressions, up 80%); and Holiday Digital Song Sales (3,000 sold, up 57%).
The song also boasts top honors on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.
“When I wrote [it], I had absolutely no idea the impact the song would eventually have worldwide,” Carey marveled of “Christmas” last year. “I’m so full of gratitude that so many people enjoy it with me every year.”
Rounding out the Holiday 100’s top five is a quartet of classics released in the 1950s-60s: Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (No. 2), Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (No. 3), Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (No. 4) and Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (No. 5).
Meanwhile, one song newly released this holiday season debuts on the Holiday 100: Kane Brown’s “Blue Christmas” (No. 58, led by 3.5 million streams, up 79%), after it arrived Nov. 10 as an Amazon Music exclusive. The song joins Elvis Presley’s iconic 1957 original version, at No. 22 on the Holiday 100.
The entire latest Holiday 100, along with all seasonal and other charts, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 29).
Official HIGE DANdism’s “Subtitle” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Nov. 23, extending its record to four weeks atop the list.
“Subtitle” rose to No. 1 again powered by streaming (21,377,577 to 21,708,199, No. 1 for the metric), downloads (22,717 to 19,838, No. 1), and video views (2,934,239 to 3,025,749, No. 2). While showing a slight decrease in downloads, the track continues to add weekly streams and views, and the track has also accumulated more points overall compared to the week before.
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Naniwa Danshi’s “Happy Surprise” sold 517,381 CDs in its first week to rule sales and look-ups, but couldn’t add enough points through the other metrics (No. 11 for video, No. 10 for radio airplay, No. 39 for Twitter mentions) to debut at the top and launches at No. 2 on the Japan Hot 100. Still, the rising Johnny’s boy band has sold over half a million CDs in its first week for three singles in a row — its debut single “UBU-LOVE” sold 632,655 copies and the follow-up “The Answer/Sachiare” sold 534,004 copies — showcasing the seven-member group’s rising popularity.
Last week’s No. 1 song, King & Prince’s “Tsukiyomi,” falls to No. 7, but continues to perform well in various metrics, coming in a No. 1 for video, No. 2 for look-ups and Twitter, and No. 4 for sales. In particular, the track has been coasting along in the top 5 in video since its debut on the metric, moving 1-5-5-4-3-1 and logging its highest weekly view count this week at 3,957,470 views.
The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, Twitter mentions, YouTube and GYAO! video views, Gracenote look-ups and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from Nov. 14 to 20, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English Twitter account.
Taylor Swift‘s “Anti-Hero” notches for a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart and Sam Smith and Kim Petras‘ “Unholy” holds for a seventh week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.
Plus, Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” sleigh rides from No. 27 to No. 5 on the Global 200; Jung Kook‘s “Dreamers (Music From the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022)” launches at No. 4 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart and No. 9 on the Global 200 – as he becomes the first member of BTS to have scored two solo top 10s on each tally; and Meghan Trainor‘s “Made You Look” lifts 16-10 on Global Excl. U.S.
The two global charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Billboard Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the U.S.
Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
‘Anti-Hero’ Again Atop Global 200, Carey’s ‘Christmas’ Climbs
Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” holds for a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, with 64.3 million streams (down 10%) and 17,000 downloads sold (down 13%) worldwide in the Nov. 18-24 tracking week.
Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” keeps at No. 2 on the Global 200, following four weeks at No. 1 beginning in October; Drake and 21 Savage’s “Rich Flex” repeats at No. 3, two weeks after it debuted at No. 1; and David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s “I’m Good (Blue)” is steady at No. 4, after reaching No. 2.
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” dashes 27-5 on the Global 200, with 43.9 million streams (up 56%) and 5,000 sold (up 52%) globally. The 1994 modern holiday classic topped the chart for four weeks each in the 2020 and 2021 holiday seasons.
Also in the Global 200’s top 10, Jung Kook’s “Dreamers (Music From the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022)” debuts at No. 9, with 42.7 million streams and 48,000 downloads sold worldwide from its Nov. 20 release through Nov. 24. Jung Kook helped build the song’s profile with a performance of it during the soccer tournament’s opening ceremony Nov. 20, while the song’s official video premiered Nov. 22.
Jung Kook becomes the first member of BTS to have earned two solo Global 200 top 10s, as “Dreamers” follows his featured turn on Charlie Puth’s “Left and Right,” which hit No. 5 in July. Here’s a recap of BTS members’ top 10s as soloists – SUGA, Jung Kook and Jin – on the Global 200 (where BTS has logged 10 top 10s), with all four achieved since May:
“That That,” PSY feat. SUGA, No. 5, May 2022“Left and Right,” Charlie Puth feat. Jung Kook, No. 5, July 2022“The Astronaut,” Jin, No. 10 (to-date), November 2022“Dreamers (Music From the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022),” Jung Kook, No. 9 (to-date), November 2022
Smith & Petras Continue at No. 1 on Global Excl. U.S., Jung Kook Top 5, Trainor Top 10
Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” adds a seventh nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, with 52.6 million streams (down 5%) and 5,000 downloads sold (down 16%) in territories outside the U.S. Nov. 18-24.
Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” holds at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S., after two weeks at No. 1, and David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s “I’m Good (Blue)” is stationary at No. 3, after hitting No. 2.
Jung Kook’s “Dreamers (Music From the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022)” soars onto the Global Excl. U.S. chart at No. 4, with 40.2 million streams and 35,000 downloads sold outside the U.S.
As on the Global 200, Jung Kook becomes the first member of BTS to have earned two solo Global Excl. U.S. top 10s, as “Dreamers” follows his featured role on Charlie Puth’s “Left and Right” (No. 2, July). Here’s a recap of BTS members’ top 10s as soloists on the Global Excl. U.S. chart (where BTS has collected 10 top 10s):
“That That,” PSY feat. SUGA, No. 2, May 2022“Left and Right,” Charlie Puth feat. Jung Kook, No. 2, July 2022“The Astronaut,” Jin, No. 6, November 2022“Dreamers (Music From the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022),” Jung Kook, No. 4 (to-date), November 2022
Rounding out the Global Excl. U.S. top five, Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” dips to No. 5 from its No. 4 high.
Plus, Meghan Trainor’s “Made You Look” leaps 16-10 on Global Excl. U.S., with 30.2 million streams (up 18%) and 5,000 sold (up 9%) outside the U.S. The song’s profile has swelled thanks to its prominence on TikTok (with the platform not presently reporting directly to Billboard‘s charts). The single is from Trainor’s fifth LP, Takin’ It Back, released in October, and marks her first top 10 since the chart began. On the Global 200, the song surges 10-6.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Dec. 3, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 29). For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard‘s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
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Taylor Swift‘s “Anti-Hero” adds a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, encompassing its entire run on the survey so far.
Meanwhile, four holiday classics jingle all the way back to the Hot 100’s top 10: Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” up from No. 25 to No. 5; Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (41-6); Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (50-9); and Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (a re-entry at No. 10).
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 3, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 29). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
In the Nov. 18-24 tracking week, “Anti-Hero,” released on Republic Records, tallied 65.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 11%), 25.8 million streams (down 5%) and 12,000 sold (down 60%), according to Luminate.
The single rises 4-2 for a new best on the Radio Songs chart; holds at No. 2 after two weeks atop Streaming Songs; and falls to No. 2 after two weeks at the Digital Song Sales summit.
As “Anti-Hero” tops the Hot 100 for a fifth week, Swift solely scores her second-longest reign, passing the four-week rule of “Shake It Off” in 2014. Among her nine No. 1s, the two songs are bested only by the seven-week dominance of “Blank Space” in 2014-15.
Four weeks ago, “Anti-Hero” soared in atop the Hot 100, as Swift made history as the first artist to monopolize the chart’s entire top 10 in a single week, with all tracks all from her new album Midnights. Meanwhile, of the 64 singles that have debuted atop the Hot 100, “Anti-Hero” is just the 12th to have spent at least its first five weeks on the chart at No. 1, and the first since BTS’ “Butter” led in its first seven weeks in June-July 2021 (before pushing its total to 10 nonconsecutive weeks in the top spot).
“Anti-Hero” additionally hits No. 1 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, becoming Swift’s ninth leader, and first since “Willow” for three weeks in April-May 2021. Among all acts since the chart began in Billboard’s pages in March 1996, only Maroon 5 (15) and P!nk (10) have notched more No. 1s. (As “Anti-Hero” also rises 6-3 on Pop Airplay, fellow Midnights cut “Lavender Haze” bullets at No. 31 and debuts at No. 36 on Adult Pop Airplay, as it is now being promoted as the set’s second pop radio single. Concurrently, the album’s “Snow on the Beach,” featuring Lana Del Rey, debuts at No. 36 on Adult Alternative Airplay.)
Drake and 21 Savage’s “Rich Flex” logs a third week on the Hot 100 at No. 2, dating to its debut – when Drake placed eight songs in the top 10 (and 21 Savage, seven). The team-up tallies a third week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (30.9 million streams, down 14%), as well as a third week atop both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100.
Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” repeats at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after it topped the Oct. 29-dated chart, as it leads Radio Songs for a second week (71.9 million in audience, up 9%).
Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit” holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100, following three weeks at No. 1 in October. The track concurrently tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Hot Rock Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 14th week each and Hot R&B Songs for a 12th frame.
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” dashes 25-5 on the Hot 100, with 21.5 million streams (up 54%), 20.6 million airplay audience impressions (up 80%), and 3,000 sold (up 57%). It bounds 17-3 on Streaming Songs, 35-14 on Digital Song Sales and re-enters Radio Songs at No. 38. It also crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 52nd week, of the chart’s 57 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the ranking for 37 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and rules as the top title on the Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.
The song sports a record-setting history on the Hot 100, following its 1994 release on Carey’s 1994 album Merry Christmas. As streaming grew through the 2010s and holiday music became more prominent in Yuletide playlists on multiple streaming services, the modern carol hit the top 10 (reaching No. 9) for the first time in December 2017 and the top five (No. 3) for the first time in the 2018 holiday season. In December 2019, it ascended to the summit, 25 years after its original release, becoming the second holiday hit ever to reign, after “The Chipmunk Song” by David Seville & the Chipmunks spent four weeks at No. 1 beginning in December 1958.
“Christmas” became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, as she extended her mark for the most among soloists and moved to within one of The Beatles’ overall record 20.
As “Christmas” dominated the Hot 100 for three weeks on the charts dated Dec. 21, 2019, through Jan. 4, 2020, Carey also became the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the survey in four distinct decades. The track led again for two weeks in the 2020 holiday season, passing “The Chipmunk Song” for the most for a Yuletide song, and ruled for three more frames over the 2021 holidays, upping its total to eight weeks at No. 1.
Also returning to the Hot 100’s top 10 are three other holiday staples: Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” originally released in 1958 (41-6); the late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957 (50-9); and the late Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” from 1964 (No. 10 re-entry – as it becomes the first holiday song, and ninth song overall, to re-enter the Hot 100 in the top 10). The standards have peaked at Nos. 2, 3 and 4, respectively, in each of the last three holiday seasons.
Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s “I’m Good (Blue)” holds at its No. 7 high and Harry Styles’ “As It Was” dips 5-8, after 15 weeks at No. 1 beginning in April, the fourth-longest command in the chart’s history.
Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Dec. 3), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Nov. 29).
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There’s no surer mark of true pop stardom in the 21st century than endurance: Can your hits define not just a single cultural moment, but multiple, spanning decades and eras? Can you evolve enough to stay relevant amidst changing trends and industry shakeups? If so, then maybe you fit the criteria for entry in the Three-Decade Club: an exclusive group of artists who’ve managed to score top 10 hits in each decade of the 21st century thus far. To do so requires a high level of creativity, awareness and popularity — both with fans and with fellow artists — and of course, a little luck with timing never hurts either.
Here are the 18 artists to notch the Hot 100 three-decade feat so far — now also accounting for a French star DJ who scored a 2022 pop revival with a mid-’10s demo built around the hook from an ’00s hit.
Taylor Swift: Already the proud artist behind five top 10 hits this decade — including three No. 1s, with 2020’s “Cardigan” and “Willow” and 2021’s “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” — Taylor Swift has been a relatively consistent visitor to the Hot 100’s top tier since first getting there with Fearless smashes “Love Story” (No. 4) and “You Belong With Me” (No. 2) in 2009. That includes another 20 top 10 hits in the 2010s alone, with five No. 1s: “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (2012), “Shake It Off” (2014), “Blank Space” (2014), “Bad Blood” (with Kendrick Lamar, 2015) and “Look What You Made Me Do” (2017).
M.I.A. Maya Arulpragasam first made her Hot 100 debut in 2008 with the Clash-sampling “Paper Planes,” a surprise No. 4 hit that September. In 2012, she appeared as a featured guest on Madonna’s “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” which peaked at No. 10 that February after she performed it (somewhat infamously) with the pop legend at that year’s Super Bowl. Then in 2020, she appeared as a featured artist on Travis Scott’s No. 1-debuting “Franchise.” (She’s the first artist to have her only three top 10 hits be spread across the last three decades.)
Jason Derulo. Derulo first visited with the Hot 100-topping “Whatcha Say” in late 2009, then scored an additional five top 10 hits over the 2010s, the biggest being the No. 3-peaking (and 2 Chainz-featuring) “Talk Dirty” in 2014. He returned to the top of the Hot 100 for the first time in over a decade in 2020 with his Jawsh 365 collab “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” which also included BTS on the remix that helped put the song over the top on the chart.
Mariah Carey. Mimi’s chart-busting days go back to the ’90s, of course, when she scored 19 Hot 100 top 10 hits over the course of the decade, including 14 No. 1s. In the 2000s, she landed another eight top 10s, with four No. 1s (“Thank God I Found You” featuring Joe and 98 Degrees, 2000; “We Belong Together,” 2005; “Don’t Forget About Us,” 2005; “Touch My Body,” 2008). Then she knocked out the ’10s and ’20s with one song: holiday perennial “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” whose first-ever trip to No. 1 stretched from late 2019 to early 2020, and which has returned to pole position each holiday season since.
Maroon 5. As consistent a hitmaker as the 21st century has seen, Maroon 5 first graced the Hot 100 top 10 in 2004 with “This Love,” visiting twice more that decade, and reaching the chart apex with “Makes Me Wonder” in 2007. In the 2010s, they scored 12 more top 10 hits, including three No. 1s (“Moves Like Jagger” featuring Christina Aguilera, 2011; “One More Night,” 2012; “Girls Like You” featuring Cardi B, 2018). This decade, they ducked their head into the top 10 early with “Memories,” which peaked at No. 2 in January 2020.
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Drake. The new all-time record-holder for most Hot 100 hits scored the first of his 40 with the No. 2-peaking “Best I Ever Had” in 2009, one of two top 10s of his that decade. He then went on to totally dominate the 2010s, with 33 top 10 hits that encompassed six No. 1s (as the featured artist on Rihanna’s “What’s My Name”, 2010 and “Work,” 2016; “One Dance” featuring WizKid and Kyla, 2016; “God’s Plan,” 2018; “Nice For What,” 2018; “In My Feelings,” 2018). He’s made quick work in the 2020s, notching a staggering 23 top 10 hits this decade — including nine in one week with the release of Certified Lover Boy in autumn 2021 — led by five total No. 1s: “Toosie Slide” (2020), “What’s Next” (2021), “Way Too Sexy” (alongside Future and featuring Young Thug, 2021), “Wait For U” (featured along with Tems on the Future-led single, 2022) and “Jimmy Cooks” (featuring 21 Savage, 2022).
Eminem. Though Eminem broke out in the late ’90s, his first trip to the top ten came in 2000, when “The Real Slim Shady” hit No. 4. One of the biggest stars of the ’00s, he landed 11 top 10 hits that decade, with two No. 1s (“Lose Yourself,” 2002; “Crack a Bottle” with Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, 209), and then added another 10 in the 2010s, including three No. 1s (“Not Afraid,” 2010; “Love the Way You Lie” featuring Rihanna, 2010; “The Monster” featuring Rihanna, 2013). This decade, he hit No. 3 with the Juice WRLD-assisted “Godzilla,” from his surprise Music to Be Murdered By LP.
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Lady Gaga. Gaga came out scorching, topping the Hot 100 with her first two singles in 2009 (“Just Dance” featuring Colby O’Donnis and “Poker Face”) and hitting the top ten twice more that year. She kept it going in the 2010s with another 11 top 10 hits, led by the chart-topping “Born This Way” (2011) and “Shallow” with Bradley Cooper (2019), and made the top 10 twice in 2020 with the Chromatica singles “Stupid Love” (No. 5) and “Rain on Me” with Ariana Grande (No. 1).
Beyoncé. After a dominant turn-of-the-century run as part of Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé scored her first top 10 as a guest artist on Jay-Z’s “’03 Bonnie & Clyde” (No. 4, 2002), then broke out as a solo star in 2003, with her first charting two singles (“Crazy in Love” with Jay-Z and “Baby Boy” with Sean Paul) shooting to No. 1. Bey scored 13 total top 10s that decade, including three more No. 1s (“Check On It” featuring Slim Thug, 2005; “Irrepleaceable,” 2006; “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” 2009), and added another five to her tally in the 2010s, with one more No. 1 in her guest appearance on Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect.” She made it Hot 100-toppers in three straight decades in May 2020, with her guest spot on the remix to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage,” and returns to the top 10 on her own this week with her Renaissance lead single “Break My Soul.”
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Lil Wayne. Speaking of Destiny’s Child, rap icon Lil Wayne scored his first top 10 hit with a verse on their “Soldier” in 2005, and racked up a total of 10 top 10 hits before the decade was out, led by the Hot 100-besting “Lollipop” featuring Static Major in 2008 and “Down” with Jay Sean in 2009. An additional 14 top 10s followed in the 2010s, with a third No. 1 coming via his featured turn on DJ Khaled’s “I’m the One” alongside Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper and Quavo. In 2020, Wayne found himself back in the top 10 when he was added to the remix of Jack Harlow’s “Whats Poppin,” a No. 2-peaking hit.
Chris Brown. The then-teen star hit No. 1 with his breakout hit “Run It!” in 2005, the first of his nine top 10 hits that decade (also encompassing a second No. 1, “Kiss Kiss” featuring T-Pain). The ’10s saw Brown amass another six top 10s (led by “No Guidance” featuring Drake, a No. 5 hit in 2019), and he hit the top 10 for the first time this decade with Young Thug collab “Go Crazy,” which peaked at No. 3 in March 2021.
Miley Cyrus. After breaking out as a pop-rock hitmaker under her own name, the entertainer formerly best known as Hannah Montana scored four top 10 hits in the 2000s, beginning with the No. 10-peaking “See You Again” in 2008. She returned to the region another four times in the 2010s, one of which marked her first (and to date, only) visit to No. 1 on the chart, with her “Wrecking Ball” spending three non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2013. She’s added on more visit so far in the 2020s, with her appearance alongside The Kid LAROI on his No. 8-peaking “Without You” remix in 2021.
Kanye West: The first decade of Kanye’s superstardom saw him make 12 trips to the top 10, including three to the top spot: as a featured guest (alongside Jamie Foxx) on Twista’s “Slow Jamz” (2004), as a lead artist (with Jamie Foxx again featured) on “Gold Digger” (2005) and on his own with “Stronger” (2007). He made another six appearances in the top 10 in the 2010s, though only one topped the chart: “E.T.,” led by Katy Perry, in 2011. This decade, he’s returned to the region twice, both with cuts from his 2021 Donda album: “Hurricane” (No. 6) and “Jail” (No. 10).
Jay-Z. Like Mariah Carey, Jay-Z’s hitmaking days go back to the ’90s — and in fact, the rapper’s second top 10 visit (and first Hot 100 No. 1) came as a guest on Mimi’s “Heartbreaker” in 1999. In the 2000s, Jay was a Hot 100 fixture, reaching the top 10 an impressive 14 times and topping the chart three times (as a featured artist on Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” in 2003 and Rihanna’s “Umbrella” in 2007, and as a lead artist alongside Alicia Keys on “Empire State of Mind” in 2009). He kept the momentum going in the 2010s with five top 10 hits — with the Mr. Hudson-featuring “Young Forever” (No. 10, 2010), the Kanye West collab “N—as in Paris” (No. 5), the Justin Timberlake-led “Suit & Tie” (No. 3, 2013), the JT-featuring “Holy Grail” (No. 4, 2013), and another Bey-led smash, “Drunk in Love” (No. 2, 2014). This decade, he’s reached the region just once so far, via a feature appearance on Drake’s “Love All” (No. 10, 2021).
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Coldplay. The U.K. pop-rock outfit hit the top 10 twice in their breakout decade of the 2000s, including the Hot 100-topping “Viva La Vida” in 2008. They continued to be a fixture on the chart throughout the 2010s, reaching the top 10 twice — with “A Sky Full of Stars” (No. 10) in 2014, and “Something Just Like This” (No. 3) alongside The Chainsmokers in 2017. In late 2021, they scored their first Hot 100 No. 1 since “Viva La Vida” 13 years earlier, with their BTS team-up “My Universe.”
Snoop Dogg. The West Coast rap icon broke into the top 10 for the first time in late 1993, with the eventually No. 8-peaking “What’s My Name?” — a peak matched just a couple months later by Doggystyle follow-up “Gin & Juice.” Snoop’s hitmaking prowess stretched into the 2000s with a number of subsequent top 10 hits, including his first two Hot 100 No. 1s: as lead artist on the Neptunes-produced solo smash “Drop It Like It’s Hot” (2005) and a featured artist on Akon’s “I Wanna Love You” (2006). He hit No. 1 for a third time at the outset of the 2010s for his guest turn on Katy Perry’s massive “California Gurls” — his final No. 1 to date — and he now also has a 2020s top 10 hit to his credit, with his No. 10-debuting Benny Blanco and BTS collab from 2022, “Bad Decisions.”
Britney Spears. Another ’90s alum whose contemporary relevance never seems to fade for long. Britney Spears emerged this summer from a six-year hiatus, following her 2016 album Glory — during which she successfully fought to be freed from an involuntary conservatorship — and immediately resumed occupation of her place in pop music’s inner circle, with her Elton John collab “Hold Me Closer” debuting at No. 6 on the Hot 100 this September. It’s her first top 10 entry since will.i.am teamup “Scream & Shout” went to No. 3 in 2013, and the latest hit in a career that boasts five No. 1 hits, dating back to “…Baby One More Time” in 1999 and also including “Womanizer” and “3” in the 2000s.
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OneRepublic. For most of the late ’00s and early-to-mid ’10s, OneRepublic were among the most consistent hitmakers in pop-rock. The Ryan Tedder-led outfit first broke out as the featured artist on Timbaland’s “Apologize” (No. 2, 2008), and went to score eight more Hot 100 top 40 hits over the next seven years, with “Counting Stars” matching their prior No. 2 peak in early 2014. They hadn’t reached the top half of the chart since 2015 when their Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack contribution “I Ain’t Worried” started gaining momentum this summer; on the chart dated Sept. 17, the song jumped from 14-8, becoming their first top 10 hit since “Stars.”
David Guetta: A renowned DJ in Europe dating back to the 1990s, David Guetta became a global star in the late ’00s as a hitmaking producer — first hitting the Hot 100’s top 10 as a lead artist in 2009, with the Akon-assisted “Sexy B–ch” (or “Sexy Chick”), which ultimately peaked at No. 5 in Feb. 2010. Guetta revisited the chart’s top tier five more times as a lead or featured artists in the 2010s, including a pair of No. 4 hits (the Usher-featuring “Without You” in 2011 and the Nicki MInaj-assisted “Turn Me On” in 2012). He returned to the region again this November with the Bebe Rexha collab “I’m Good (Blue)” — a teamup recorded as a demo in the mid-’10s (and prominently lifted from Eiffel 65’s 2000 smash “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”), before finally being released to viral success and a No. 7 Hot 100 peak (to date) in 2022.
“REGARDLESS OF WHICH RECORD IS No. 1 next week, in two weeks, it will face off with ‘I Will Always Love You’ by Whitney Houston,” wrote then-Billboard Hot 100 chart manager Michael Ellis in the Nov. 21, 1992, issue, when the track vaulted from its No. 40 debut to No. 12.Ellis’ prediction was off by a week. Houston’s cover of Dolly Parton’s 1974 classic hit No. 1 on the very next chart, Nov. 28, 1992 — the fastest rise to the top by a woman at the time.
From there, more records followed: The song remained at No. 1 for a then-unprecedented 14 weeks and moved 3.1 million copies to become the year’s top-selling single in just nine weeks, according to Luminate.
“Always” was released on the soundtrack for Houston’s 1992 film debut, The Bodyguard, in which she plays a pop diva who falls in love with her hired protector, played by Kevin Costner.
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The soundtrack, which also contains the top five Hot 100 hits “I Have Nothing” and an update of Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman,” locked up 20 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was the first LP to sell more than 1 million copies stateside in one week since Nielsen began tracking data in 1991.
The album and singles went on to win 11 Billboard Music Awards and eight American Music Awards. At the latter event, Houston’s haul prompted co-host Will Smith to remark out of a commercial break, “Welcome back to the Whitney Houston show!”
Three Grammy Awards followed, including record of the year for “Always,” and 20 years later, it remained Houston’s signature song. After her drug-related drowning death on Feb. 11, 2012, the song returned to No. 3 on the Hot 100, only the second time that a song has reached the top three in two distinct cycles.
At Houston’s funeral, “Always” played as her casket departed the church.
