Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You” first hit No. 1 in 2019 and has topped the chart each vacation season since.
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An enormous chart file has fallen: Mariah Carey‘s 1994 vacation staple “All I Need for Christmas Is You” now holds the all-time file for many weeks at No. 1, with 20. Elsewhere on the charts, Ariana Grande lands a slew of albums on the Billboard 200, whereas She & Him cracks the Scorching 100 for the primary time ever, because of a TikTok pattern.
TOP STORY
Final week, Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You” pulled right into a three-way tie for the longest run at No. 1 of any track within the historical past of the Scorching 100 singles chart. That is a major milestone — albeit one largely made doable by the streaming period, which has produced ever-larger runs atop the charts — which her track shared with Lil Nas X‘s “Outdated City Street (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus)” and Shaboozey‘s “A Bar Music (Tipsy).” As of final week, all three songs had posted 19 weeks at No. 1.
This week, “All I Need for Christmas Is You” takes the file outright, because it posts an unprecedented twentieth week on prime of the Scorching 100. And, given the probability of it returning to No. 1 — not simply subsequent week and the week after, but additionally in vacation seasons to return — we could also be taking a look at a file that borders on the untouchable.
Extremely, Carey additionally recorded the track with the longest-ever run at No. 1 previous to the streaming period — her Boyz II Males collaboration “One Candy Day” topped the Scorching 100 for 16 weeks in 1995 and 1996. She’s additionally spent essentially the most weeks at No. 1 on the Scorching 100 of any artist in Billboard historical past, with 99. (In second place: Rihanna, with 60, adopted by The Beatles, with 59.)
“All I Need for Christmas Is You” first got here out in 1994, but it surely did not hit the highest 10 till 2017, as streaming helped remodel basic vacation songs into chart perennials. It first hit No. 1 in 2019 and has topped the chart each vacation season since — seven in all.
To overhaul the track with the longest run in Scorching 100 historical past (Teddy Swims‘ “Lose Management,” with 112 weeks), it will probably want one other 4 or 5 years’ value of vacation seasons. However, with Billboard lately altering its eligibility guidelines to make it tougher for non-holiday songs to publish “Lose Management”-style runs on the chart, it could seem that it is solely a matter of time till “All I Need for Christmas Is You” holds that file, too.
TOP ALBUMS
The album-release schedule historically slows down in December, as many artists take a break from touring and Christmas albums storm the highest 10. This week isn’t any totally different — no album debuts within the prime 40 of the newest chart — and that is excellent news for Taylor Swift, whose The Lifetime of a Showgirl holds at No. 1 for a ninth nonconsecutive week, adopted by two chart standbys: Morgan Wallen‘s I am the Downside and the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters.
After that, although, the vacation assault on the highest 10 begins with the graceful sounds of Michael Bublé, Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole, whereas the Vince Guaraldi Trio‘s A Charlie Brown Christmas and the girl-group basic A Christmas Reward for You From Phil Spector additionally flip up within the prime 10.
The glut of vacation titles helps drive the Depraved: For Good soundtrack out of the highest 10, however that is the closest factor to unhealthy information for costar Ariana Grande, who’s in any other case having a outstanding week on the charts. Not solely does “Santa Inform Me” return to No. 5 — its peak place to this point — on the Scorching 100, however Grande additionally swarms the Billboard 200 albums chart. Along with the 2 Depraved soundtracks, Everlasting Sunshine; Sweetener; Thank U, Subsequent; Positions; Harmful Girl; and My Every part all chart this week. Eight albums within the prime 200 is bordering on Taylor Swift territory for the versatile pop star.
TOP SONGS
This week’s prime 10 seems to be loads like final week’s, although it is maybe value noting that Brenda Lee‘s “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree” reclaims the No. 2 spot from Wham!‘s surging 1984 staple “Final Christmas.” These two look poised to swap silver and bronze medals within the Decembers to return, whereas the property of poor Bobby Helms (of “Jingle Bell Rock” fame) stands, sulking, simply off the rostrum.
On the different finish of the Scorching 100, there is a chart entry value noting, all the way in which down at No. 99.
She & Him — that is the duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward — has graced the Billboard 200 a number of instances in its profession, together with with 2011’s A Very She & Him Christmas. However this week, the arrival of “I Thought I Noticed Your Face As we speak” marks the pair’s first-ever Scorching 100 entry — and it isn’t a vacation track.
“I Thought I Noticed Your Face As we speak” dates again to She & Him’s debut album, Quantity One, again in 2008. So why is it charting now? In a phrase: TikTok.
The identical phenomenon that is lately despatched outdated songs from Imogen Heap, Radiohead and Rihanna onto the Scorching 100 for the primary time has now reached She & Him, whose bittersweet ballad has been deployed because the soundtrack to an enormous assortment of TikTok clips.
The track’s arrival within the Scorching 100 is particularly spectacular contemplating that 41 vacation songs crowd the Scorching 100 this week, which is making it tougher than typical for marginal hits to land on the chart. It’s going to be intriguing to see how “I Thought I Noticed Your Face As we speak” performs as soon as January rolls round and almost half the competitors will get mothballed.
