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02 Jan 2024

Mariah Carey Looks Forward to ‘New Beginnings’ in 2024 Amid Bryan Tanaka Split

Mariah Carey is feeling confident as she enters 2024.

The iconic chanteuse took to Instagram on New Year’s Day (Jan. 1) to share a glimmering selfie from her so-called “bad side” — though Carey is clearly stunning from every angle. “New Year, new beginnings,” she wrote in the caption. See her post here.

While she has yet to release an official statement, Carey’s hopeful sentiment comes amid her recent split from dancer Bryan Tanaka after seven years together. Tanaka announced the news on Dec. 26 via social media, noting that the breakup was a “mutual” decision between the duo.

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“Dear friends and fans, with mixed emotions, I share this personal update regarding my amicable separation from Mariah Carey after seven extraordinary years together,” Tanaka wrote in the message posted on Instagram. “Our decision to embark on different paths is mutual, and as we navigate these separate journeys, we do so with profound respect and an overwhelming sense of gratitude for the invaluable time we’ve shared. The memories we’ve created and the artistic collaborations are etched in my heart forever.”

Carey and Tanaka began working together back in 2006, when he appeared as a member of the iconic singer-songwriter’s Adventures of Mimi tour. She confirmed the relationship in an Associated Press interview published in February 2017, after she called him her “boyfriend.”

Carey was previously engaged to Australian businessman James Packer and shares 12-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with her ex-husband Nick Cannon.

02 Jan 2024

Toni Braxton Denies Birdman Marriage Rumors: ‘We Are Both Single’

Congratulations are not in order for Toni Braxton and Birdman. The “He Wasn’t Man Enough for Me” singer ended 2023 by dispelling a rumor that she had exchanged vows with the rapper in a Sunday (Dec. 31) post to her Instagram.

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“My dear friend @birdman and I are not married…never been married. We are both single,” Braxton captioned a side-by-side screenshot of her and Birdman that read, “Congratulations! Toni Braxton and Birdman married in a private ceremony in Mexico.” She also used the hashtag “#FAKENEWS” on the image.

Fans in the comments section commended the 56-year-old for leaving zero room for interpretation with in her statement. “That’s probably the fastest a rumor has been dismissed lmao,” one person noted. A second added, “And that is how you clear up a rumor. Clear, concise, and to the point,” while a third wrote, “Not married, never been married, matter of fact we are FRIENDS and SINGLE! #cleared.”

The rumors of Braxton and Birdman’s marriage comes after the pair called off their engagement in 2019, which came three years after they first started dating in 2016. The two stars have reportedly been in an on-and-off again relationship since ending their engagement.

Braxton was previously married to singer-songwriter and past Mint Condition member Keri Lewis from 2001 to 2013. During the couple’s time together, they welcomed two sons: Diezel Ky, 20, and Denim Cole, 22.

02 Jan 2024

With ‘Blue Christmas,’ Elvis Presley Charts in the Hot 100’s Top 20 for the First Time Since 1977

Elvis Presley makes a royal return to the Billboard Hot 100’s top 20 as his classic 1957 carol “Blue Christmas” jumps to No. 18, from No. 25, on the chart dated Jan. 6, 2024.

With the ascent, the late King of Rock and Roll appears in the Hot 100’s top 20 for the first time since the chart dated Oct. 1, 1977, when his track “Way Down” likewise ranked at No. 18, its peak.

Presley died, at age 42, on Aug. 16, 1977.

“Blue Christmas” becomes Presley’s 49th top 20 Hot 100 hit, the fourth-best sum dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, start – after his 1956 commercial breakthrough. Drake leads with 133 top 20 titles, followed by Taylor Swift (85) and Lil Wayne (53).

The song ascends with 23.3 million official U.S. streams (up 15%) and 7.7 million in radio airplay audience (up 3%) Dec. 22-28 – thus, with only four days leading up to and including Christmas Day in the tracking week – according to Luminate.

Written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson, “Blue Christmas” has hit the Hot 100 in three forms. In addition to Presley’s, The Browns’ version reached No. 97 in 1960 and Kane Brown’s interpretation rose to No. 73 last holiday season.

Going back to even before Presley’s recording, Ernest Tubb sent his take on “Blue Christmas” to No. 1 on Billboard’s Most Played Juke Box (Country & Western) Records chart over the 1949 holiday season.

Meanwhile, Presley, Chuck Berry, Nat King Cole, Perry Como and Dean Martin all rank on the latest Hot 100 with holiday titles and share the record for the longest span of appearing on the chart: 65 years and five months; that encompasses the chart’s entire existence to date, as all five legendary artists placed on the inaugural Hot 100.

As previously reported, Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” rebounds to No. 1 on the Hot 100. The fellow seasonal standard, from 1958, adds a third week at the summit, four weeks after it led for the first time. Plus, the Hot 100’s top eight titles are holiday songs for the first time ever, while nine of the top 10 are holiday hits for just the second time and a single-week-record 41 holiday songs decorate the entire chart (surpassing the 40 on the survey a year ago this week).

All charts dated Jan. 6 will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 3.

02 Jan 2024

After Christmas, It’s Still a ‘Cruel Summer’ for Taylor Swift on Radio

With Christmas classics having been put back into radio stations’ storage until December, regularly scheduled programming has resumed, with a familiar title atop Billboard’s Radio Songs chart.

Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” continues at No. 1 on the Radio Songs ranking (dated Jan. 6, 2024) for a 10th total week on top – becoming her first hit to reign for double-digit weeks. The song drew 64.6 million in all-format airplay audience, up 5%, Dec. 22-28, according to Luminate.

(Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” was the top-charting seasonal hit on Radio Songs over the latest holiday season, reaching No. 17 a week ago, when 12 such songs decorated the 50-position list.)

Here’s an updated look at Swift’s eight Radio Songs No. 1s, ranked by most weeks spent at the summit.

Title, Weeks at No. 1, Year(s):

  • “Cruel Summer,” 10, to date, 2023-24
  • “Blank Space,” six, 2014-15
  • “Anti-Hero,” five, 2022-23
  • “Bad Blood” (feat. Kendrick Lamar), five, 2015
  • “Shake It Off,” four, 2014
  • “I Knew You Were Trouble.,” four, 2013
  • “Wildest Dreams,” two, 2015
  • “You Belong With Me,” two, 2009

“Cruel Summer,” which first hit No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart dated Oct. 7, 2023, was originally released on Swift’s 2019 Republic Records album Lover. The label began promoting the song as a single last June, after Swift began performing it on her The Eras Tour, her first in which she’s been able to spotlight songs from Lover, which was released shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(“Cruel Summer,” thus, and reflecting its mass appeal, remains atop Radio Songs in winter, after it hit No. 1 in the fall, after becoming a single last spring.)

The song also adds a new milestone on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, where it logs a 17th week at No. 1 – tying Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” for the longest command for a song by a woman (since the survey began in Billboard’s pages in March 1996; overall, the tracks share the sixth-longest rule, with Santana’s “Smooth,” featuring Rob Thomas, having run up a record 25-week reign in 1999-2000).

Among other chart honors for “Cruel Summer,” it became the landmark 10th of Swift’s 11 career No. 1s on the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, reigning for four weeks, and her record-breaking 12th No. 1, and her longest-leading (10 weeks), on Pop Airplay.

The song ranks at No. 19 on the latest Hot 100 with top Airplay and Sales Gainer honors. In addition to its radio resurgence, it jumped by 41% to 3,000 sold in the tracking week.

All charts dated Jan. 6 will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Jan. 3.

02 Jan 2024

Emma Stone Reveals How She Befriended Taylor Swift & How Many Times She’s Seen The Eras Tour

So, when exactly did Emma Stone fall in love with longtime friend Taylor Swift? When the two superstars were just teenagers, as it turns out! In a New Year’s Day The Graham Norton Show interview (Jan. 1), Oscar-winning actress Emma Stone opened up about her friendship with Swift, her Eras Tour experiences and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) vault track “When Emma Falls In Love.”

Stone, who won the best actress Oscar for her performance in 2016’s La La Land, revealed that she has attended the Eras Tour “three [times] so far,” including the tour’s opening show in her hometown of Phoenix, Ariz. “Mandy Moore, who was the choreographer of La La Land, was [Taylor’s] choreographer for the tour,” Stone explained. “So it was a bunch of lovely things all come together, and it was incredible to see.”

Moore’s choreography and Stone’s performance were two key elements that resulted in La La Land’s resounding success. At the 2017 Academy Awards, the Damien Chazelle-helmed film won six awards from 14 total nominations, a haul that helped the movie join All About Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997) as the most nominated films in Oscar history. Thanks to the La La Land soundtrack, Emma Stone is a Billboard-charting artist; “City of Stars,” her duet with co-star Ryan Gosling, reached both Digital Song Sales (No. 45) and the Bubbling Under Hot 100 (No. 8).

Nonetheless, Stone and Swift’s story stretches back years prior to their high-profile successes. According to Stone, the two met “at the Young Hollywood Awards when [she] was 18 in L.A.” She continued, “We just kept in touch ever since and became great friends.”

The most devoted Swifties have been well aware of the Stone-Swift friendship, and that knowledge provided the basis of fan theories regarding “When Emma Falls In Love,” a vault track from Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). Some fans believe that Stone is the titular Emma, but, for her part, the Easy A actress says, “You have to ask [Taylor]!” Naturally, her response drew hearty laughs from both the audience and her fellow Graham Norton guests, including Poor Things co-star Mark Ruffalo.

Watch Emma Stone spill all the Taylor Swift tea above.

02 Jan 2024

Olivia Rodrigo Remembers Being ‘Blown Away’ By the Songwriting on Lorde’s Debut Album

Olivia Rodrigo can vividly remember the first album she bought with her own money and the huge impact it had on her. “I remember getting my first phone — I was probably 12 or 13 — and the first thing I did was download Lorde Pure Heroine,” the 20-year-old “Vampire” singer said of the “Solar Power” star’s 2013 debut album during The Hollywood Reporters‘ recent Songwriters Roundtable discussion.

“I love that record so much and I remember listening to it as I first started writing songs and just being blown away by her lyrics that are just about being a teenager living in the suburbs,” Rodrigo said of the smash first effort from the New Zealand singer/songwriter featuring such indelible hits as “Royals,” “Tennis Court” and “Team.”

“I just remember never hearing my life be put into a song like that where it just made being young and doing these seemingly unimportant things feel so sacred,” Rodrigo said of then-16-year-old Lorde’s confessional lyrics. “That album is one of my favorites and she still inspires me a lot to this day.”

When thinking about how unusual the sound of first single “Royals” was when it first came out — with its combination of spare, booming beats and deadpan sung-spoken lyrics about Lorde’s teenage disdain for rich pop life fantasies — Rodrigo said the song set its own trends at radio. “I remember hearing that song on the radio at the time,” Rodrigo said. “It was one of those pinch me moments where you always remember, snapshot memory, like, ‘Oh my God, what is this?!’ Changes the trajectory of your life.”

The full hour-long chat featuring Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Cynthia Erivo, Julia Michaels, Jon Batiste and Dua Lipa talking about their songwriting styles also touched on the artist’s memories of the first song they ever wrote, as well as their efforts writing music for films and breakdowns of some of their biggest hits.

Watch the Songwriters Roundtable chat below (Rodrigo on Lorde is at the 6:45 mark):

02 Jan 2024

Here’s Every ‘Nonsense’ Outro Sabrina Carpenter Has Performed at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour

When Sabrina Carpenter first released Emails I Can’t Send in July 2022, nobody expected “Nonsense” to take on a life of its own in the way that it has. While flashier songs like “Fast Times” and “Because I Liked a Boy” got a lot of initial attention, it was “Nonsense” that grew into the set’s runaway hit — thanks, in no small part, to Carpenter’s hilarious improvised outros on her global Emails I Can’t Send Tour.

In essence, every night Carpenter performs “Nonsense,” she changes the lyrics of the outro on the fly. Sometimes she’s simply paying tribute to the city in which she’s performing — and, other times, she’s testing how far she can push the limits of sexually suggestive lyrics.

The original “Nonsense” outro reads: “This song catchier than chickenpox is/ I bet your house is where my other sock is/ Woke up this morning, thought I’d write a pop hit, ha-ha/ How quickly can you take your clothes off? Pop quiz.”

“Nonsense” peaked at No. 56 on the Billboard Hot 100, her second career entry on the chart; the single also reached the top 10 on Pop Airplay (No. 10). Emails I Can’t Send debuted and peaked at No. 23, becoming the highest-peaking and longest-charting LP of her career.

On Friday, June 2, Taylor Swift announced that she would be bringing her record-breaking Eras Tour to Latin America, with Carpenter serving as her opener across the summer and fall in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. She will also open Eras Tour shows in Australia and Singapore from Feb. 16-Mar. 9, 2024.

Naturally, the singer-songwriter brought her “Nonsense” outro shenanigans to her first couple Eras Tour performances, and she’s already gifted us with a number of hilarious renditions of the track. From Mexico to Singapore, here’s every “Nonsense” outro Sabrina Carpenter has performed on the Eras Tour:

02 Jan 2024

Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ Leads All-Holiday Top 10s on Billboard Global Charts

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” adds a record-extending 18th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart (dated Jan. 6, 2024). The Yuletide classic, from 1994, also tops the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart for a record-tying 13th week.

Not only are the entire top 10 of both tallies adorned with festive songs, but the top 19 titles on the Global 200 are holiday tracks, while the full top 20 on Global Excl. U.S. are seasonal songs. Those totals mark the most holiday hits from the summit on down since the surveys began in 2020; previously, the Global 200’s top 10 and the Global Excl. U.S. chart’s top seven songs were all-holiday on the rankings dated a year ago this week (Jan. 7, 2023).

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.

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.

Carey Wraps Up ‘Christmas’ Season Atop Global 200

Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” leads the Global 200 for a fifth consecutive week, with 159 million streams (up 38%) – the song’s biggest global streaming week since the chart began – and 13,000 sold (up 9%) worldwide in the Dec. 22-28 tracking week (thus, encompassing four days leading up to and including Christmas Day).

The song spends a record-extending 18th week at No. 1 on the Global 200, following four frames in both the 2020 and 2021 holiday seasons and five frames over last year’s holidays.

The rest of the Global 200’s top five remains in place from a week earlier: Wham!’s “Last Christmas” at its No. 2 high; Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” at No. 3, after reaching No. 2 last holiday season; Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” at its No. 4 best; and Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” at its No. 5 peak.

Seasonal songs light up the top 19 spots on the Global 200, with Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me” breaking up the holiday party at No. 20. The song, which hit No. 2 in early December, drew 45.3 million streams (down 4%) and sold 10,000 (down 3%) worldwide in the tracking week.

Carey’s ‘Christmas’ Ties Global Excl. U.S. No. 1 Record

Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” concurrently tops the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart for a fifth week in a row, with 109.5 million streams (up 52%) and 6,000 sold (up 23%) outside the U.S. Dec. 22-28. The song tallies a record-tying 13th total week at No. 1, following one in the 2020 holiday season, three weeks the next year and four last season. It matches the 13-week reigns of Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” in 2023 and Harry Styles’ “As It Was” in 2022. (All three songs are on Columbia Records – Carey’s on Columbia/Legacy, Cyrus’ on Smiley Miley/Columbia and Styles’ on Erskine/Columbia.)

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” holds at its No. 2 Global Excl. U.S. high; Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” keeps at its No. 3 peak; Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” dashes to a new No. 4 best, from No. 6; and Michael Bublé’s “It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas” repeats at No. 5, after reaching No. 4 last holiday season.

The entire top 20 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart consists of holiday songs, with Tate McRae’s “Greedy” the top nonseasonal song on the survey at No. 21. The track, which led the list for a week in early December, drew 35.4 million streams (down 8%) and sold 1,000 (down 4%) outside the U.S. in the tracking week.

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Jan. 6, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 3, a day later than usual due to the New Year’s Day holiday Jan. 1). 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 X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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02 Jan 2024

BTS’ Jin Gifts ARMY With a New Year’s Message: ‘I Miss You All’

Jin kicked off 2024 with a special message to BTS ARMY. The vocalist, born Kim Seok-jin, shared a short and sweet video to BTS’ YouTube page to wish fans a happy new year and tell them to remain patient while he’s completing his mandatory military service in South Korea.

“Ta-da everyone! Hello! Seokjin came to say hi for the new year. It’s January, everyone. The new year has come. I will become a year older in January. I’d be in my mid-30s by now,” he begins in the video. “Did you all make a snowman? I’m still in the past so I don’t know if it’s snowing or not but if it snowed you have to make a snowman and go back to being kids and do snowball fights.”

He continued, “I’m leaving this video so you can watch my pretty, handsome face and spend January and February warmly. I miss you all. I miss you a lot. Wait just a bit more and you’ll be able to see me with short hair. I’ll grow my hair quickly this year and I’ll be able to start working hard soon. Guys, please wait a few more months. Now that it’s the new year, we have a few months left. Make a lot of snowmen and think of me as you make them … I’ll be back in February and March, until then, bye!”

Jin, the eldest member of BTS, was the first member of the group to enlist in the South Korean army as part of the country’s requirement for men over age 18 to fulfill military service. Jin entered the army on Dec. 12, 2022; he is expected to complete his service in June 2024. All members of BTS are currently enlisted, with the group planning to reconvene for group activities in 2025.

Watch Jin’s message for the new year in the video above.

02 Jan 2024

Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ Jingles Back to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” rebounds to No. 1, from No. 2, on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The holiday classic adds a third week at the apex, four weeks after it led the list for the first time – 65 years after its release. It became Lee’s third Hot 100 No. 1, and her first since 1960.

Meanwhile, the Hot 100’s top eight titles are holiday songs for the first time ever. A year ago this week, the top seven were seasonal songs. Plus, nine of the top 10 are holiday hits for the second time, matching the festive feat first achieved three years ago this week.

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. 6, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 3, a day later than usual due to the New Year’s Day holiday Jan. 1). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” on Decca/MCA Nashville/UMe, drew 57.3 million streams (up 16%, good for the Hot 100’s top Streaming Gainer award for a second consecutive week) and 22.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 7%) and sold 4,000 downloads (down 10%) in the Dec. 22-28 tracking week – thus, encompassing four days leading up to and including Christmas Day – according to Luminate.

The single holds at No. 1 for a fifth consecutive and sixth total week atop the Streaming Songs chart (after it first ruled the last frame of the 2022 holiday season); rises 8-6 on Digital Song Sales, after reaching No. 4; and lifts 24-22 on Radio Songs, where it has hit a No. 17 best.

The song was originally recorded and released in 1958. Written by Johnny Marks and produced by Owen Bradley, it first hit the Hot 100 in December 1960 and reached an original No. 14 peak two weeks later. It went on to spend nine weeks at No. 2 between December 2019 and last holiday season prior to its coronation over the latest holiday season.

For its 65th anniversary in 2023, Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” received its first official video, featuring cameos from country stars Tanya Tucker and Trisha Yearwood, Nov. 3. Plus, Lee performed it on NBC’s Christmas at the Opry, which aired Dec. 7. She has also joined TikTok, where she has been sharing posts about the song and her career.

Lee reminisced to Billboard on Dec. 4 about recording the carol, when she was 13, after learning of its ascent to No. 1 at last from Universal Music Group Nashville chair/CEO Cindy Mabe. “The producer cut the air way down in the studio,” Lee recalled. “He had a big Christmas tree and everyone was there – the Anita Kerr Singers and the ‘A-team’ [of Nashville studio musicians], as we called them. It was like a little touch of magic kind of sprinkled in, and it turned out to be magic. It really did.”

The song is just the third holiday No. 1 ever on the Hot 100, with all three having led for multiple weeks. “The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville, also from 1958, spent four weeks on top beginning that December and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” released in 1994, has notched 14 weeks at No. 1, from its first scaling of the summit in December 2019 through last week’s Dec. 30, 2023-dated chart.

With another week at No. 1, Lee extends her record for the longest span of an artist topping the Hot 100: 63 years, five months and three weeks, from her first frame at No. 1 with “I’m Sorry” (July 18, 1960) through the latest list.

Plus, Lee, at 79 years and three weeks of age, expands by another week her mark as the senior-most artist to have ruled the Hot 100. Concurrently, Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” leads the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart, which uses the same methodology as the Hot 100, for a third total week.

Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” dips to No. 2 on the Hot 100, with 54.8 million streams (up 13%), 26.5 million in airplay audience (down 16%) and 7,000 sold (down 1%). With its 2019 triumph, Carey claimed her 19th No. 1, extending her record for the most among soloists and moving to within one of The Beatles’ overall record 20. The single also reigns as the No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs retrospective.

The rest of the Hot 100’s top five holds in place: Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” released in 1957, at its No. 3 high; Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” from 1984, at its No. 4 best; and Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” from 1964, at No. 5, after reaching No. 4.

Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” from 1963, rises 7-6 on the Hot 100, having hit No. 5. The late singer now sports a record span of 64 years and three months from his first week in the top 10 with “Lonely Street” in October 1959 through his latest week in the bracket.

Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!,” from 1959, ascends 8-7 for a new Hot 100 high and José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad,” from 1970, dashes 9-8, after logging a No. 6 peak.

Jack Harlow’s “Lovin On Me” slides 6-9 on the Hot 100, five weeks after it became his third No. 1. The chart’s top nonholiday title scores a seventh week each atop the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Wrapping the Hot 100’s top 10, The Ronettes’ “Sleigh Ride,” from 1963, parks at No. 10 for a second straight week, after reaching No. 8. The act now boasts a span of 60 years, three months and two weeks in the top 10, dating to its iconic No. 2-peaking “Be My Baby” in September 1963 – the longest among groups. (Excluding holiday fare, The Beatles broke the record for the longest top 10 span among all acts in November: 59 years, nine months and three weeks, from “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in 1964 to the debut of their newly-released single “Now and Then.”)

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on Billboard’s social accounts, and all charts (dated Jan. 6), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Jan. 3).

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