The singer Mariah Carey has once again broken a musical record at Christmas with her famous Christmas carol All I Want for Christmas Is You. This time he has managed to keep the song at number 1 on the list for 20 weeks. Billboard Hot 100!something no other song had achieved before. “Humbly taking up the torch. 20 weeks at number one. I am so grateful,” the artist reacted on her Instagram account.
The song, originally released in 1994, surpasses two other chart-topping hits at No. 1. Hot 100 as A Bar Song (Tipsy) from Shaboozey, in 2024, and Old Town Road by Lil Nas X, with Billy Ray Cyrus, in 2019, remembers the magazine Billboard. In this way Carey rises to the longevity record of number 1 on the Hot 100 for the second time. In 1995-96, One Sweet Dayperformed by her and Boyz II Men, dominated the chart for 16 weeks. This mark stood until it was equaled by Slowly by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, with Justin Bieber, in 2017.
Besides, All I Want for Christmas Is You He has been in the hospital for 77 weeks now. Hot 100equal to Levitating by Dua Lipa, as the longest-charting song by a female artist. The popular pop Christmas carol by the American singer was released on the album Merry Christmas, in November 1994 and, with the rise of streaming and the growing presence of Christmas music on playlists, it reached the top 10 for the first time in December 2017 and the top 5 in the 2018 holiday season, according to the magazine. Finally, it led the list during the holidays of 2019 (three weeks), 2020 (two), 2021 (three), 2022 (four), 2023 (two) and 2024 (four).
He Hot 100 combines streaming data for all genres in the US (official audio and video), radio airplay and sales. And Luminate, Billboard’s independent chart data provider, conducts a thorough review of all data submitted to compile the weekly rankings.
In recent years, Carey makes her traditional inauguration of the Christmas season with her annual announcement and her now popular “It’s Time” that she sings to the rhythm of her most international song. This 2025 was launched on November 1.