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Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ extends record for most weeks at Number One on Billboard Hot 100

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Mariah Carey just extended her Billboard Hot 100 record for most weeks at Number One.

  • READ MORE: Mariah Carey: “You know what? I love Christmas!”

Earlier this month, her 1994 festive hit ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ achieved a record-breaking 20th week at the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 – 31 years after its initial release.

Now, Carey has broken her own record, with the track reaching a total of 22 weeks on top of the singles chart.

“22!!!! Truly grateful for this Christmas gift,” Carey wrote on X, alongside some Christmas-themed emojis.

On December 17, the track surpassed the joint Number One runs of two hits: Shaboozey’s ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’ in 2024, and Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus) in 2019.

Over six years ago, the latter song became the longest-running US Number One single of all time. ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’ then tied with ‘Old Town Road’, with 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the Hot 100.

Carey’s 1995 single ‘One Sweet Day’ with Boys II Men previously enjoyed a stint as the Hot 100’s longest-running Number One single, earning 16 weeks at the top spot.

“It was robbed of me,” she previously said of Lil Nas X taking her crown. “I was upset. But what are you gonna do?”

The 16-week mark has since been matched by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber‘s ‘Despacito’, and Morgan Wallen‘s ‘Last Night’. Harry Styles, meanwhile, achieved 15 weeks with ‘As It Was’.

When she broke the initial record earlier this month, Carey said she “had no idea” that ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ would be the track to get her the title back: “That just became such a thing that I never could have predicted it ever, so…”

When asked how high the single could reach beyond its current 20 weeks, the star said: “I don’t know […] At a certain point it’s not Christmas anymore, and you know, well, but I love it.”

This time last year, Carey celebrated the 30th anniversary of her Christmas classic with a series of special releases.

‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ finally topped the US and UK charts in 2019 and 2020, respectively, two-and-a-half decades after its original release.

Speaking to NME in 2021, Carey reflected on making the snowy video for the single. “Well, I remember certain things that weren’t great about that time, but I also see my true happiness shining through,” she explained.

“Someone smarter than myself suggested I do a Christmas album as a young, young girl and I was like: ‘Hmmm – doesn’t that happen later in life?’ And then I said, ‘But you know what? I love Christmas!’”

In other news, last week, Carey was awarded $92,000 (£62,260) after a judge dismissed a lawsuit relating to her classic Christmas hit.

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