{"id":350510,"date":"2025-12-15T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350510\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:21:08","slug":"mariah-careys-all-i-want-for-christmas-breaks-singles-chart-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350510\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8216;All I Want for Christmas&#8217; Breaks Singles Chart Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-ties-record-chart-1236603659\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey has officially broken<\/a> the record for the longest reign atop the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/mariah-carey-hot-100-record-christmas-20-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>,\u00a0as \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d spends its 20th week at No. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe perennial holiday anthem, which returned to the chart\u2019s summit last week, has now claimed the throne for 20 weeks, beating the record previously shared by Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road\u201d featuring Billy Ray Cyrus and Shaboozey\u2019s \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy)\u201d with 19 weeks at No. 1. \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d claims its 77th week on the Hot 100, tying Dua Lipa\u2019s \u201cLevitating\u201d as the longest-charting song ever by a female artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis is the second time that Carey has earned a Hot 100 No. 1 milestone, as her 1995 duet with Boyz II Men, \u201cOne Sweet Day,\u201d spent 16 weeks at the top and held the record for 23 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tElsewhere on the chart, eight of the top 10 songs are holiday tunes, with Brenda Lee\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree\u201d coming in at No. 2, followed by Wham!\u2019s \u201cLast Christmas,\u201d Bobby Helms\u2019 \u201cJingle Bell Rock\u201d and Ariana Grande\u2019s \u201cSanta Tell Me.\u201d The sole secular songs in the top reaches of the chart are Huntrx\u2019s \u201cGolden\u201d at No. 6, just ahead of Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d at No. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSpeaking of Swift, her latest album \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl\u201d claims its ninth week at No. 1 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swifts-showgirl-ninth-week-number-one-billboard-200-1236136869\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>, fending off the surge of holiday albums crashing the upper reaches of the chart. Five of the top 10 albums are Christmas records including Michael Bubl\u00e9\u2019s \u201cChristmas\u201d (No. 4), Bing Crosby\u2019s \u201cUltimate Christmas\u201d (No. 5), Nat King Cole\u2019s \u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d (No. 6), Vince Guaraldi Trio\u2019s \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d (No. 8) and \u201cA Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector\u201d (No. 9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey has officially broken the record for the longest reign atop the\u00a0Billboard Hot 100,\u00a0as \u201cAll I Want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,48100,55574,134,29333,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-350510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-billboard-200","11":"tag-billboard-hot-100","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-mariah-carey","14":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}