Mariah Carey has given us one of the timeless holiday classics with “All I Want for Christmas”, and its popularity isn’t fading away anytime soon. “Queen of Christmas” returned to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with this song for the 13th non-consecutive week.
The release of the recent “Festive Lambs Edition” music video helped Carey boost the popularity of this song and returned to No. 1 for the fifth holiday season in a row. She dethroned Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, which spent two weeks at No. 1 after topping the Billboard Hot 100 65 years after its original release.
“All I Want for Christmas” returned to No. 1 with 42.2 million streams, 26.1 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 8,000 downloads for its 13th non-consecutive week atop the chart. This marks the fifth holiday season this song spent at No. 1 and its sixth nonconsecutive ascent to the top of the Hot 100, breaking the record previously shared by Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” and Harry Styles’ “As It Was”.
“All I Want for Christmas” is in a pretty festive company on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week, since holiday classics are ruling the chart. In addition to Brenda Lee’s “Christmas Tree” at No. 2, Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock”, Wham!’s “Last Christmas”, and Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” also made it to the top five this week.
