Jingles returns to number one on Billboard Hot 100 with Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

Here is an in-depth look at Carrie’s climb into the Hot 100 with “All I Want for Christmas Is You” on Columbia Records / Legacy Recordings.

Streams, Sales and Broadcast: According to Nielsen Music / MRC Data, “Christmas” attracted 31.4 million US streams (up 19%) and sold 7,000 downloads (up 8%) for the week ended December 10. It raised the record (up to 11%) to 27.1 million Radio Air Play viewers for the week ended December 13th.

The song spends the seventh week in the charts streaming songs and ranks 9-8 in digital song sales and 27-22 in radio songs. It culminates in the Multi Metric Holiday 100 chart for the 43rd week in a total of 48 weeks since its launch in 2011; This is the 28th consecutive week since the start of the 2015-16 holiday season.

(Since its release, the song has garnered 4.1 billion total radio viewers, 1 billion on-demand streams, and 3.7 million download sales in the United States)

Relationships to Long-Term Holiday Success: In December 2017, Carrie’s “Christmas” peaked at number 10 in the Hot 100 for the first time, peaking a year ago, 25 years after its original release, the second holiday hit to come to power: “The Chipmunks wrote the song with David Seville, December It was at the top for four weeks starting in 1958. This week’s Carrie’s victory, thus, coincides with The Chipmunks for the Hot 100’s longest leading holiday success.

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