Carey’s “Christmas” at Columbia Records / Legacy Recordings attracted 54.9 million streams in the U.S. (up 35%) and sold 12,000 downloads (up 24%) in the week ending December 24, according to with Nielsen Music / MRC Data. It also registered 33.7 million impressions of radio airplay audience (11% increase) in the week ending December 27.
The song spends a ninth week in total first on the streaming music chart and rises 6-2 in digital music sales and 17-13 in radio music. He also runs the Holiday 100 multimeter chart for a 45th week, out of the total 50 weeks on the chart since the list launched in 2011; he led the count for 30 consecutive weeks, dating back to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season.
Here are other gifts that Carey receives with the last coronation of “Christmas”:
Almost every week first for a Christmas song: While recording its fifth full week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, “Christmas” is the only one that claims the brand the longest at No. 1 among the holiday hits in the 62-year and five-month history of the chart. Another Christmas track topped the list: “The Chipmunk Song”, by The Chipmunks with David Seville, for four weeks from December 1958.
First song in first place in three different years: Carey’s “Christmas” becomes the first song to top the Top 100 in three separate years: 2019, 2020 and now 2021. She topped the lists dated 21 and 28 December 2019; January 4, 2020; December 19, 2020; and January 2, 2021.
(As reported when “Christmas” crowned the Hot 100 two weeks ago, only one other song in the history of the chart boasts a longer period of appearance on No. 1: “The Twist” by Chubby Checker topped the charts on September 19, 1960 ; Thanks to the new popularity among the adult public, he led again on January 13 and 20, 1962. Notably, the longevity of “The Twist” helped to unleash its number 1 status in the Hot 100’s Biggest All-Time recap. .)
One more, up to 84: Carey adds his 84th record week career as No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating from the start of the charts on August 4, 1958.
Almost every week first in the Hot 100
84, Mariah Carey
60, Rihanna
59, The Beatles
50, Boyz II Men
50, Drake
“Christmas” last year became Carey’s # 1 Hot 100 No. 1, the biggest soloist, and raised her to one of the Beatles’ 20 overall records. It also made Carey the first artist to have ranked No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades.
Happy New Year: Carey is now first in the Hot 100 in 17 different years (by Hot 100 chart dates): 1990-2000, 2005-06, 2008 and, thanks to “Natal”, 2019-21.
The following are three acts that each spent time at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 10 individual years: Paul McCartney / Wings (1971, 1973-76, 1978, 1980, 1982-84); Michael Jackson (1972, 1979-80, 1983-84, 1987-88, 1991-92, 1995); and Madonna (1984-87, 1989-92, 1995, 2000).
No. 1s record extension extension: The last week at the top of “Christmas” extends Carey’s artist record for the longest ranking period at No. 1 on the Hot 100: 30 years and five months, dating back to her first week at No. 1 on the 4th of July chart August. , 1990, with “Vision of Love”.
When “Christmas” reached number one on the Hot 100 on December 21, 2019, Carey overtook Cher, whose first solo spanned 27 years and five months, from “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves” (from her first week at No. 1 in 1971) through “Believe” (until the last week in 1999). (If Cher’s career as a half of the Sonny & Cher duo were combined with her solo production, her No. 1 period would cover 33 years, seven months and two weeks, of Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe”, which reached the top in 1965, through “Believe”).
The next three Hot 100 songs return to their peak positions reached for the first time a year ago (on the January 4, 2020 chart, the first four of which reflect the first four of this week): Brenda Lee, 1958 classic, “Rockin ‘Around the Christmas Tree’ goes up 3-2; Bobby Helms’ late “Jingle Bell Rock”, first released in 1957, increases 4-3; and Burl Ives’s “A Holly Jolly Christmas”, originally from 1964, pushes 6-4.
The top five on the Hot 100 list are decorated entirely by Christmas carols for the first time, since, completing the region, Andy Williams’ “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”, originally from 1963, rises from 7 to 5, surpassing his No previous 6 tall. Williams adds his third top five hit Hot 100, following “Lonely Street” (No. 5, November 1959) and “Can’t Get Used to Losing You” (No. 2, April 1963).
Williams breaks the record for the longest gap between the Hot 100’s five biggest hits: 57 years, seven months and three weeks. He misses Lee, whose “Rockin ‘” last year placed her in the top five after a 57-year, three-week wait.
Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” reaches a new Hot 100 record number 6, above 10, two weeks after reaching the top 10 for the first time, 50 years after its original release in 1970.
“Mood”, 24kGoldn, with Iann Dior, is the only song outside the holiday in the top 10 of the Hot 100, dropping 5-7 after six non-consecutive weeks in the first place, as he leads Radio Songs for the ninth week (81.3 million in audience, down 2%). He is at the top of the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 17th week each and Hot Rap Songs for an 11th chart (with all three charts using the same methodology as the Hot 100).
Amid the flurry of Christmas hits, “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow”, by Dean Martin, which the legend first launched in 1959, climbs 11-8 on the Hot 100, reaching the top 10 for the first time time, with 31 million streams (40% increase), 16 million in radio range (3% decrease) and 1,000 sold (15% increase).
Martin (who died on Christmas Day 1995) appears in the Hot 100 top 10 with a fourth song, after posting his first three top 10 in 1964-65: “Everybody Loves Somebody” (No. 1, August 1964) , “The Door Is Still Open to My Heart” (No. 6, November 1964) and “I Will” (No. 10, 1965).
“Last Christmas” by Wham! Likewise it shudders into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time (14-9). First launched in 1984, it rises with 28.3 million streams (+ 41%), 19.1 million in airplay audience (+ 5%) and 6,000 sold (+ 38%).
The duo of George Michael (who died in 2016; as Martin on Christmas Day) and Andrew Ridgeley adds their seventh Top 10 to the list of the best, after reaching their first six in 1984-86: the number 1 “Wake Me Up Before You Go -Go, “” Careless Whisper “and” Everything She Want “; No. 3 hits “Freedom” and “I’m Your Man”; and number 10 with the peak “The Edge of Heaven”. Wham! appears in the top 10 for the first time since August 23, 1986 (the last week in the top 10 for “Heaven”); Subsequently, Michael reached 14 top 10 solo, including seven in the. 1, in 1996.
Completing the Top 10 of the Hot 100, Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run” rises 29-10. First launched in 1958, the runway boasts 31.2 million streams (66% increase), 6.1 million airplay audience impressions (14% increase) and 5,000 sold (17% increase).
Berry, who died in March 2017, returns to his third Top 10 on the list of the 100 best, after “No Particular Place to Go” (No. 10, July 1964) and his novelty hit “My Ding-a- Ling “(No. 1, two weeks, October 1972).
Meanwhile, “Rudolph” rewrites the record for as long as it took a song to reach the top 10 of the Hot 100 since its debut: how it first appeared on the December 15, 1958 chart (just over four months after the start) of research), reaches the top 10 after a journey of 62 years and two weeks. Spends 60 years and two weeks waiting for Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (December 22, 1958 to January 5, 2019).
As noted above, a record of nine Christmas songs decorates the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, after a record of six songs the previous week.
As for last week’s Hot 100 No. 1, Taylor Swift’s “Willow” plummeted from its top debut to No. 38 (due, in part, to the influx of holiday hits above it). The song had the biggest drop from first place to another Top 100 position in the history of the chart, surpassing Nicki Minaj’s 1-33 drop to 6ix9ine and “Trollz” in the July 4th poll.
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