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After 25 years, Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' tops US charts

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Agence France-Presse

<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yXQViqx6GMY?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>NEW YORK -- A quarter-century after releasing her holiday classic that&#x27;s become one of the season&#x27;s love-to-hate, hate-to-love cliches, Mariah Carey has finally pushed &quot;All I Want for Christmas Is You&quot; to top the charts for the first time.</p><p>&quot;We did it,&quot; the diva said Monday in a tweet that featured several emojis, including a face with happy tears.</p><p>Many social media users voiced shock that the inescapable pop juggernaut had not already jingled its way to the top.</p><p>But when the de-facto Holiday Queen originally released the global hit in 1994 as part of her &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; album, Billboard&#x27;s rules at the time did not allow it to compete on the Hot 100 chart, because it was not commercially available as a single.</p><p>That changed in December 1998, when cuts off an album were welcomed to the US top songs list, bumping Carey&#x27;s song onto the chart for the first time on January 8, 2000.</p><p>The 2003 holiday film &quot;Love Actually&quot; helped keep Carey&#x27;s bubbly Christmas wish for love in the collective consciousness, as streaming ensured its place in the holiday canon.</p><p>The earworm that showcases the pop mainstay&#x27;s elastic vocal range started appearing the list annually beginning in 2012, when streams were added to Billboard&#x27;s ranking metrics.</p><p>For the song&#x27;s 25th anniversary this year, Carey promoted it even harder than usual, beginning her social media drive the morning after Halloween.</p><div><strong>New video</strong></div><p>She also dropped a new video for it -- which counts towards Hot 100 placement -- and released the song as a stand-alone CD single for the first time.</p><p>This week the song posted 45 million streams, 27,000 digital sales and 34 million radio plays, according to Billboard.</p><p>Carey&#x27;s climb to the top marks the first time a Christmas track has claimed number one on the Hot 100 in six decades, when &quot;The Chipmunk Song&quot; reigned for four weeks in 1958-1959.</p><p>It&#x27;s Carey&#x27;s 19th number-one hit, putting her just one song behind The Beatles&#x27; overall record of 20 top songs.</p><p>&quot;All I Want for Christmas Is You&quot; is currently Spotify&#x27;s most-streamed song in the United Kingdom, and is gaining ground in France, whose SNEP top songs chart now has it in 31st place.</p><p>The singer -- who will not confirm whether her age is 49 or 50 because she says &quot;time is not something I acknowledge&quot; -- told The New York Times that finally nabbing number one for the holiday standard she wrote &quot;in the womb, darling&quot; was more of a concern to fans than her.</p><p>&quot;I don&#x27;t need something else to validate the existence of this song. I used to pick it apart whenever I listened to it, but at this point, I feel like I&#x27;m finally able to enjoy it,&quot; she told the paper.</p><p>&quot;I just truly love the holidays,&quot; she said. &quot;I know it&#x27;s corny, and I don&#x27;t care.&quot;</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>A quarter-century after releasing her holiday classic that's become one of the season's love-to-hate, hate-to-love cliches, Mariah Carey has finally pushed "All I Want for Christmas Is You" to top the charts for the first time.</p>

A quarter-century after releasing her holiday classic that's become one of the season's love-to-hate, hate-to-love cliches, Mariah Carey has finally pushed "All I Want for Christmas Is You" to top the charts for the first time.