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Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” crowns the Billboard Hot 100 for an 18th total week. The carol, which leads for a fourth consecutive week this holiday season, moves to within one week of the longest domination in the chart’s 66-year history, after only the 19-week rules of Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” this year and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, in 2019.
“All I Want for Christmas Is You” was originally released on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in November 1994 and, as streaming has grown and holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services’ playlists, it hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time in December 2017, and the top five for the first time in the 2018 holiday season. It led at last, prior to the past four weeks, over the holidays in 2019 (for three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three), 2022 (four) and 2023 (two).
The track also holds at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart for a record-extending 22nd week, leads Digital Song Sales for a sixth week and hits the Radio Songs top 10 for the first time.
“All I Want for Christmas Is You” became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists and one away from The Beatles’ overall record 20. It also made Carey the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades (1990s, 2000s, ‘10s and ‘20s).
In a historic first, the Hot 100’s top 10 consists entirely of holiday hits. In fact, the top 16 spots on the chart belong to seasonal songs; Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” is the top non-Yuletide title, at No. 17 after reaching No. 2. Previously, holiday songs hit a high by infusing the top eight positions a year ago this week (along with nine of the top 10 last week, a year ago this week and four years ago this week).
Among the Hot 100’s top 10, Ariana Grande “Santa Tell Me” dashes 9-5, becoming only the eighth holiday song in the chart’s history to reach the top five, and Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)” returns to the tier (14-10, after reaching No. 9).
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Jan. 4, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 31). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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‘Christmas’ Streams, Airplay & Sales
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” lighting up the ARIA Singles Chart.
The beloved holiday classic is back at No. 1 this week, continuing its reign as the ultimate festive anthem. Since its release in 1994, the track has evolved from a seasonal favorite to a chart-topping juggernaut, hitting No. 1 in Australia for the first time in 2018. This year marks its eighth cumulative week at the top, proving that Carey’s holiday magic never fades.
After a brief stint at No. 3 last week, the holiday hit once again nudged past Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” which landed at No. 2 and returning the chart every year since 2017. Joining the festive frenzy are Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” at No. 3, Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” at No. 4, and Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” at No. 5, completing a holiday-dominated top five.
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Meanwhile, over on the ARIA Albums Chart, Sabrina Carpenter’s breakout 2024 release, Short N’ Sweet, has reclaimed its spot at No. 1, marking the album’s seventh non-consecutive week in the top position and its first return since mid-October.
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Michael Bublé’s perennial favorite Christmas wasn’t far behind, soaring from No. 9 to No. 2 as Australians embrace his crooning holiday classics.
SZA’s SOS has also found a resurgence, climbing to No. 4 thanks to its deluxe “Lana” edition, which adds fresh tracks, including the fan-favorite “Saturn.” Originally released in December 2022, SOS first reached No. 1 in early 2023 and has proven to have staying power, much like the holiday hits it’s sharing the charts with this week.
While Christmas classics dominate the singles chart, Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet has shown incredible staying power amidst the festive flurry.
As for Mariah Carey, her holiday dominance continues worldwide. “All I Want For Christmas Is You” has also returned to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 this month, adding to its cumulative 13 weeks at No. 1. The festive anthem shows no signs of slowing down, much like the joy it brings to listeners year after year.
Frank Sinatra returns to the top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time in over a decade, as his holiday compilation Ultimate Christmas climbs 17-10 on the Jan. 4, 2025-dated chart. The title, which previously peaked at No. 12, reaches the top 10 in its 52nd week on the chart — […]
After 22 months, SZA’s chart-topping SOS returns No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as the set jumps 15-1 on the Jan. 4-dated chart. It bolts back to the top thanks largely from activity generated by the album’s deluxe reissue on Dec. 20 (dubbed SOS Deluxe: LANA) that added 15 additional songs to the album. The set was originally released on Dec. 9, 2022, with 23 tracks. All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes and continue to chart under the title SOS.
SOS surges to No. 1 with 178,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 26 (up 297%), according to Luminate. With its return to No. 1, the set collects an 11th nonconsecutive week atop the list, and its first since the March 4, 2023-dated chart. That 22-month gap between weeks at No. 1 is the longest for any album since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.
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Notably, had the 15 new songs on the LANA deluxe edition of the album been released as a new stand-alone album, its track activity alone would have been enough for that stand-alone set to debut atop the list. (The 15 new songs generated 105,000 in SEA and TEA units. The No. 2 title this week, Michael Bublé’s former leader Christmas, earned 100,000 units from SEA, TEA and traditional album sales combined.)
SOS debuted atop the Billboard 200 dated Dec. 24, 2022, and logged 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the list through the March 4, 2023-dated chart. It has never left the weekly top 20 of the chart during the 107 consecutive weeks that it has spent on the list. SOS closed 2024 at No. 6 on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums chart, after it was No. 3 on the year-end list in 2023.
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart, Frank Sinatra scores his first top 10-charting in over a decade, as his holiday compilation Ultimate Christmas vaults 17-10.
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, compiled by Luminate. 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. The new Jan. 4, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday (Dec. 31). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of SOS’ 178,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 26, SEA units comprise 167,000 (up 341%, equaling 220.22 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it hits No. 1 on the year-old Top Streaming Albums chart for the first time), traditional album sales comprise 10,000 (up 44%, rising 39-23 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 1,744%).
A deluxe reissue of SOS had been in the works since at least February of 2023, and SZA first mentioned LANA as the name of the expansion in September 2023. The deluxe reissue was preceded by the Billboard Hot 100-charting hit “Saturn” (one of the 15 added tracks), which debuted and peaked at No. 6 in March.
The last R&B/hip-hop album with at least 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 was Drake’s Views, which notched 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2016 (May 21-Oct. 8). SOS has the most weeks at No. 1 for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman, or an R&B album by a woman, since Mariah Carey’s self-titled debut spent 11 weeks, all consecutively, at No. 1 in 1991. (Honorable mention to the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard, which logged 20 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1992-93. The 12-track album has six songs by Houston and six songs by other artists.) SOS has the most weeks at No. 1 for any R&B album since The Bodyguard’s 20-week reign. (R&B/hip-hop and R&B albums are defined as those that have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top R&B Albums charts, respectively.)
At No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200, Michael Bublé’s former leader Christmas jingles 5-2 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned (up 47%). The set spent a total of five weeks atop the list in late 2011 and early 2012, following its release in October of 2011. It has climbed to No. 2 in four of the last six holiday seasons. With 100,000 units earned, Christmas tallies its largest week, by units, since the Billboard 200 began ranking by units in December 2014.
The Jan. 4-dated Billboard 200 is set to be the last chart of the holiday season to showcase high-ranking Christmas efforts, as the tracking week for the chart closed on Dec. 26, the day after the Christmas Day holiday.
Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas rallies 6-3 on the new Billboard 200, marking the late entertainer’s highest-charting effort since the Jan. 5, 1959-dated chart, when his former No. 1 Merry Christmas ranked at No. 2. Merry Christmas had previously spent a week at No. 1 on Jan. 6, 1958-dated chart.
Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song moves 11-4, matching its peak, with 84,000 equivalent album units earned (up 56%). Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX falls 2-5 (76,000; down 24%), Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas rises 10-6 (nearly 76,000; up 36%), and Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 The Tortured Poets Department dips 3-7 (74,000; down 13%).
The Wicked film soundtrack falls 7-8 on the Billboard 200 with 71,000 equivalent album units earned (up 9%) and the festive compilation A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector climbs 16-9 with 70,000 units (up 60%).
Rounding out the top 10 is Frank Sinatra’s Ultimate Christmas, climbing 17-10 with 63,000 equivalent album units earned (up 55%). The title — which previously peaked at No. 12 and reaches the top 10 in its 52nd week on the chart, dating to its December 2017 debut — is the late legend’s first visit to the top 10 since August 2012, when his 2008 hits package Nothing Best the Best returned to the top 10 (re-entering at No. 3 on the Aug. 25, 2012-dated list after sale pricing and promotion). Nothing had previously debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the May 31, 2008-dated chart.
Ultimate Christmas becomes Sinatra’s 33rd top 10-charting effort, the most among solo males. The Rolling Stones have the most top 10s, with 38. They are followed by Barbra Streisand (with 34), Sinatra and The Beatles, whom he passes (32).
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Rosé & Bruno Mars’ “APT.” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart released Dec. 25, logging its fourth week atop the tally.
Compared to last week, the global hit shows signs of slowing down with streams and radio airplay down to 96% and 44%, respectively, but downloads gained (101%) and video views are also up slightly. The track comes in at No. 1 for downloads and streaming, No. 2 for video, No. 20 for radio, and No. 42 for karaoke this week. “APT.” has also led Billboard’s Global 200 for nine consecutive weeks.
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Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Lilac” rises 4-2. Downloads for the Oblivion Battery opener are up to 131% week-over-week, streaming to 105%, video to 104%, and karaoke to 104%.
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Aqours’ “Eikyu hours” debuts at No. 3. This is the title track off the single containing the theme song for the group’s last headlining concert with all nine members, called Love Live! Sunshine!! Aquours Finale LoveLive! Eikyu Stage, set for June 2025. The CD launched with 179,390 copies to hit No. 1 for sales, and the song also comes in at No. 82 for downloads and No. 41 for radio.
Creepy Nuts’ “Otonoke” rises two notches to No. 4, and Mrs. GREEN APPLE’s “Bitter Vacances” holds at No. 5. Also, a wide range of Christmas favorites have also returned to the chart in droves this week, with back number’s “Christmas Song” climbing 7-6, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” jumping 30-19, and Keisuke Kuwata’s “White Love” moving 48-32.
The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from Dec. 16 to 22, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English X account.
M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” is the latest No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart, rising 2-1 on the Dec. 28-dated survey.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Dec. 16 to 22. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Paper Planes” reigns 16 years after the song’s original run, when it peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2008.
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Its rise in December 2024 is linked to a dance trend, while Diplo (one of the song’s producers/writers) weighed in last week with an upload noting the tune’s revitalization.
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“Paper Planes” concurrently boasts 4.4 million official U.S. streams in the week ending Dec. 19, up 19%, according to Luminate. It lifts 10-9 on Hot Alternative Songs and debuts at No. 20 on Alternative Streaming Songs.
“Paper Planes” reigns over a top five on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 that includes songs that have reached those heights previously, with four of the five even having reached No. 1 at some point. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” leaps 8-2, while Stepz’s “Rock” rises 5-4 and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” goes 7-5; all three songs have led the list for at least one week. The fifth, Tyler, the Creator’s “Like Him” (featuring Lola Young), returns to its peak of No. 3.
Two songs enter the top 10, one for the first time. First there’s Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” which zooms 20-7. That’s five spots below its peak so far of No. 2, achieved on the Jan. 6, 2024, chart. The holiday classic concurrently jumps 17% in Billboard-eligible streams to 46.1 million, returning to its No. 3 peak on the Hot 100.
In all, five holiday songs appear on the latest TikTok Billboard Top 50, with the next highest being Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” at No. 18.
The other new top 10 – in this case a newcomer – is Ceechnyaa’s “Peggy,” which leaps 18-9 in its second week on the ranking. The British rapper’s latest single was released on Dec. 5 and has gone viral for its raunchy lyrical content, with some of the top-performing TikTok uploads being reaction videos alongside lip-synch clips.
“Peggy” shoots 63% to 3.1 million streams in the week ending Dec. 19, though the TikTok Billboard Top 50 is the only chart it’s made so far.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” matches the longest No. 1 run of the 2020s on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, adding a 27th week atop the tally (dated Dec. 28).
The track, co-written by the Virginian (born Collins Obinna Chibueze), first hit the summit in May and now ties Gabby Barrett’s rookie 2020-21 smash “I Hope” for the decade’s top mark.
The two songs are tied for third place overall since Hot Country Songs became an all-encompassing genre ranking in 1958. Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant To Be” ruled for a record 50 weeks starting in December 2017, surpassing Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road,” which led for 34 weeks beginning that February 2017. (All four songs became hits at both country and pop radio formats.)
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Shaboozey’s smash totaled 63.8 million airplay audience impressions, 17.5 million official streams and 5,000 sold in the U.S. Dec. 13-19, according to Luminate.
“A Bar Song (Tipsy),” on American Dogwood/EMPIRE, with country radio promotion by Magnolia Music, ruled Country Airplay for seven weeks beginning in August — the longest No. 1 stay for an initial entry — and ranks in the top 10 for a 25th week. The song also became the first to hit the top five on Country Airplay, Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Rhythmic Airplay.
On the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” spent 19 weeks at No. 1 between July and November, tying Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, for the longest command in the chart’s 66-year history.
Shaboozey’s sophomore single being promoted to country radio is “Highway,” which he also co-wrote. In its second week on the ranking, it rides 60-55 (989,000 in audience, up 24%).
Barber, Anna Hit Top 10
Sam Barber’s “Indigo,” featuring Avery Anna, jumps 17-8 in its second week on Hot Country Songs, marking the first top 10 for each artist.
The track, which the pair penned with Andy Sheridan, is from Barber’s LP Restless Mind, which arrived at its No. 13 high on Top Country Albums dated Nov. 16.
“Indigo” drew 9.3 million streams (up 49%) and sold 1,000 (up 15%) Dec. 13-19.
The 21-year-old Barber, from Frohna, Mo., previously hit Hot Country Songs with “Straight and Narrow,” which reached No. 33 in May. Anna, 28, from Flagstaff, Ariz., also makes her second appearance, after “Narcissist” hit No. 22 in June 2022.
Gospel music icon Kirk Franklin banks his record-tying 11th No. 1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart as “Try Love” rises to the top of the list dated Dec. 28. The song increased by 8% in plays Dec. 13-19, according to Luminate. Franklin co-authored the track with Ian Owen Devaney and Andy Morris, while Lisa Stansfield […]
Snoop Dogg’s Missionary album debuts in the top 10 across multiple Billboard charts, as the set opens in the top 10 on Top Album Sales (No. 7), Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (No. 7) and Top Rap Albums (No. 3) — all charts dated Dec. 28. It also launches at No. 20 on the overall Billboard 200 chart. On Top Album Sales, Missionary marks Snoop’s highest-charting effort in over 15 years.
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Missionary is the first album from Snoop Dogg produced by Dr. Dre since their successful teaming on Snoop’s debut effort Doggystyle in 1993.
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Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
Missionary debuts with 38,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 19, according to Luminate. Of that sum, album sales comprise 20,500, SEA units comprise 16,500 and TEA units comprise the remaining sum.
On Top Album Sales, Missionary is Snoop’s 13th top 10-charting effort and highest charting effort set Ego Trippin debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the March, 29, 2008-dated list.
As for the rest of the top 10 on Top Album Sales, Stray Kids’ HOP opens at No. 1 with 180,000 sold (it’s the sixth leader for the group); Taylor Swift’s chart-topping The Tortured Poets Department falls 1-2 with 50,000 (down 75%); the Wicked film soundtrack rises 6-3 with 29,000 (down 5%); Chappell Roan’s former leader The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess jumps 8-4 with 28,000 (up 34%); and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet goes 7-5 with 26,000 (down 8%).
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft scales 9-6 with 23,000 (up 26%); TWICE’s STRATEGY falls 2-8 with 19,000 in its second week (down 76%); Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas TV soundtrack bumps 10-9 with 16,000 (up 20%); and Taylor Swift’s former No. 1, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) climbs 12-10 with 14,000 (up 29%).