While Mariah Carey‘s annual holiday dash to #1 on the Hot 100 is expected, it’s also impressive, unprecedented, and – as evidenced this week – historic.
Carey’s ‘Christmas’ unseated Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Squabble Up‘ for this week’s chart championship. Here are the numbers that powered the placement:
- Streaming = 8.2 million U.S.-based streams
- Sales = 3,000 digital downloads
- Radio airplay = 24.4 million audience impressions
The return marks the 15th week the has occupied the Hot 100’s top spot, making it the longest-running unaccompanied #1 hit of any female act in history. Its reascension extends the diva’s record for most career weeks at #1 (94).
‘Christmas’ was previously locked in a three-way tie with Carey’s own 2005 smash ‘We Belong Together’ and Whitney Houston‘s ‘I Will Always Love You’ (14 weeks apiece) for the prestigious title.
Among all female-led hits (solo or otherwise), Mariah is now #2 to herself as her Boyz II Men-accompanied hit ‘One Sweet Day‘ lodged 16 weeks atop the all-genre chart at the height of its popularity across 1995-96.
Look below to see who joins the Queen of Christmas in the top 10 of this week’s Hot 100.
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Yeah but waiting years AFTER an artist’s death, or decades after their hit broke and held records, to surpass their feat is an easy win. I, for one, prefer “Miss You Most At Christmas Time.”
At Christmas time, want the familiar, time tested, over all classics to give us the joy missing at other times of the year. All I want For Christmas Is You more than other songs fulfills that desire. Congratulations Mariah Carey you know how to handle the assignment.
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I love Mariah. She is one the all time best singers next to Whitney and Aretha. But that song as much as I love it and the whole, entire, Christmas album, is not I Will Always Love You worthy. The #1 is because of the reoccurring Christmas holiday.