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Carey’s “Christmas” on Columbia Records / Legacy Recordings drew 54.9 million streams in the United States (up 35%) and sold 12,000 downloads (24% more) in the week ending December 24, according to Nielsen Music / MRC Data. It also recorded 33.7 million radio broadcast audience impressions (up 11%) in the week ending December 27.
The carol spends a ninth week overall at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and is up 6-2 in digital song sales and 17-13 in radio songs. The Holiday 100 multimeter chart also governs for week 45, out of the chart’s 50 total weeks since the list was released in 2011; has topped the bill for 30 consecutive weeks, since the start of the 2015-16 holiday season.
Here are other gifts Carey receives with the latest “Christmas” coronation:
Most weeks at No. 1 for a Christmas song: As it records its fifth total week atop the Hot 100, “Christmas” only claims the longest mark at No. 1 among Christmas hits in the chart’s 62-year, five-month history. Another Yuletide track has topped the list: “The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville, for four weeks beginning in December 1958.
First song at No. 1 in three different years: Carey’s “Christmas” becomes the first song to rank # 1 on the Hot 100 in three separate years: 2019, 2020 and now 2021. It has topped the charts as of December 21 and 28, 2019; January 4, 2020; December 19, 2020; and January 2, 2021.
(As reported when “Christmas” topped the Hot 100 two weeks ago, only one other song in chart history boasts a longer span to appear at No. 1: Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” topped the chart. dated September 19, 1960; Thanks to the new popularity among adult audiences, he returned to lead on January 13 and 20, 1962. In particular, the longevity of “The Twist” helped propel its number one position in the summary of the 100 best of all time).
One more, up to 84: Carey adds his 84th career week-long record-setting No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating from the start of the list on August 4, 1958.
Most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100
84, Mariah Carey
60, Rihanna
59, The Beatles
50, Boyz II Men
50, Drake
Last year, “Christmas” became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists, and led to one of The Beatles’ 20 overall records. It also made Carey the first artist to reach No. 1 on the chart in four separate decades.
Happy New Year: Carey has now placed No. 1 on the Hot 100 in a record 17 different years (based on Hot 100 chart dates): 1990-2000, 2005-06, 2008 and, thanks to “Christmas”, 2019-21 .
The following are three acts that have been to the top of the 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).
Record reach of numbers 1: The final week atop “Christmas” extends Carey’s artist record for the longest span of ranking at No. 1 on the Hot 100: 30 years and five months, from his first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100. the August 4 list. , 1990, with “Vision of Love”.
When “Christmas” first reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 on December 21, 2019, Carey surpassed Cher, whose solo No. 1s span 27 years and five months, from “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves” ( from his first week at No. 1 in 1971) to “Believe” (until his last week at the top in 1999). (If Cher’s career as one half of the duo Sonny & Cher were combined with her solo production, her number one span would cover 33 years, seven months, and two weeks, of Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe,” which reached the top in 1965, via “Believe”).
The next three songs on the Hot 100 return to their peak positions first reached a year ago (on the chart dated January 4, 2020, the top four of which reflect this week’s top four): the 1958 classic by Brenda Lee “Rockin ‘Around the Christmas Tree” goes up 3-2; The late Bobby Helms’s “Jingle Bell Rock,” first released in 1957, is up 4-3; and Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas”, originally from 1964, pushes 6-4.
The top five of the Hot 100 are fully decorated with Christmas songs for the first time, as, to complete the region, Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” originally from 1963, goes up 7-5, surpassing its previous No. 6 tall. Williams adds his third success among the five Hot 100, after “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 break among the top five Hot 100 hits: 57 years, seven months and three weeks. He narrowly beats Lee, whose “Rockin ‘” last year brought her back into the top five after a 57-year, three-week wait.
José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” hits a new record at No. 6 on the Hot 100, from No. 10, two weeks after reaching the top 10 for the first time, 50 years after its original release in 1970.
24kGoldn’s “Mood” featuring Iann Dior is the only non-Christmas song in the Top 10 of the Hot 100, falling 5-7 after six non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 as it leads Radio Songs for ninth. week (81.3 million in audience, 2% less). It tops the multimeter charts of Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs for a 17 week each and Hot Rap Songs for a number 11 chart (with all three charts using the same methodology as the Hot 100).
Amid the flood of Christmas hits, Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow”, which the late legend first released in 1959, climbs 11-8 on the Hot 100, reaching the top 10. for the first time. with 31 million streams (40% more), 16 million radio reach (3% less) and 1,000 sold (15% more).
Martin (who died on Christmas Day 1995) appears in the top 10 of the Hot 100 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! He also sounds like the top 10 of the Hot 100 for the first time (14-9). Launched for the first time in 1984, it rises with 28.3 million broadcasts (up 41%), 19.1 million in broadcast viewership (up 5%) and 6,000 sold (up 38%).
The duo of George Michael (who died in 2016; as Martin on Christmas Day) and Andrew Ridgeley added their seventh Hot 100 Top 10, after charting their first six in 1984-86: No. 1 “Wake Me” Up Before You Go – Wow, “Careless Whisper” and “All You Want”, the No. 3 hits “Freedom” and “I’m Your Man”, and the No. 10 hit “The Edge of Heaven.” Wham ! appears in the top 10 for the first time since August 23, 1986 (last week in the top 10 of “Heaven”); subsequently, Michael achieved 14 solo top-10s, including seven No. 1s, until 1996.
Rounding out the top 10 of the Hot 100, Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run” soars 29-10. First released in 1958, the track has 31.2 million streams (up 66%), 6.1 million on-air audience impressions (up 14%), and 5,000 sold (up 17%). .
Berry, who died in March 2017, holds the reins of his third Hot 100 top 10, after “No Particular Place to Go” (No. 10, July 1964) and his smash hit “My Ding-a-Ling. “(No. 1, two weeks, October 1972).
Meanwhile, “Rudolph” rewrites the record for how long a song has taken to reach the top 10 of the Hot 100 since its debut: how it first appeared on the chart dated December 15, 1958 (just over four months after the start of the survey), reaches the top 10 after a journey of 62 years and two weeks. The 60-year, two-week wait for Helms’s “Jingle Bell Rock” passes (December 22, 1958 to January 5, 2019).
As noted above, nine record-breaking Christmas songs grace the top 10 of the Hot 100, after six did a week ago.
Turning to No. 1 on last week’s Hot 100, Taylor Swift’s “Willow” has plummeted from its debut at No. 1 to No. 38 (due, in part, to the influx of holiday hits above it). The song makes the biggest drop from No. 1 to another Hot 100 rank in chart history, beating 6ix9ine’s 1-33 drop and Nicki Minaj’s “Trollz” in the poll dated July 4.
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