Chart Commentary — DECEMBER 27, 2025

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POSTED:Dec 24, 2025 1:24 PM

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ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU
by Mariah Carey (Columbia)

As 2025 comes to a close, I want to wish you all an enjoyable, healthy, and happy holiday season.  However you celebrate, I hope you are surrounded by the genuine love of family and friends.

CAREY’S CAREER 100

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” adds a record-extending 21st week at No. 1(!) on the Billboard Hot 100.

Carey claims her unprecedented and milestone 100th career week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, having accumulated her haul over 19 leaders, dating to her first, “Vision of Love,” in 1990. Rihanna ranks second with 60 weeks at No. 1, followed by The Beatles (59) and Drake (56).  She first reigned with her debut smash, “Vision of Love,” on the ranking dated Aug. 4, 1990.
Here’s a rundown of all of Carey’s Hot 100 No. 1s and their weeks spent at the summit:

  1. 21, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (2019-25)
  2. 16, “One Sweet Day,” with Boyz II Men (1995-96)
  3. 14, “We Belong Together” (2005)
  4. 8, “Fantasy” (1995)
  5. 8, “Dreamlover” (1993)
  6. 4, “Hero” (1993-94)
  7. 4, “Vision of Love” (1990)
  8. 3, “Honey” (1997)
  9. 3, “Emotions (1991)
  10. 3, “Love Takes Time” (1990)
  11. 2, “Touch My Body” (2008)
  12. 2, “Don’t Forget About Us” (2005-06)
  13. 2, “Heartbreaker,” feat. Jay-Z (1999)
  14. 2, “Always Be My Baby” (1996)
  15. 2, “I’ll Be There” (1992)
  16. 2, “I Don’t Wanna Cry” (1991)
  17. 2, “Someday” (1991)
  18. 1, “Thank God I Found You,” feat. Joe & 98 Degrees (2000)
  19. 1, “My All” (1998)

“CHRISTMAS” RISES OVER “LEVITATING”

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” posts its 78th week on the Hot 100, one-upping Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” as the longest-charted hit by a woman artist in the list’s history.

Longest-Charted Hot 100 Hits by Women (in lead roles):
78 weeks, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey (No. 1 peak for 21 weeks, 2019-25)
77, “Levitating,” Dua Lipa (No. 2, 2021)
72, “Wildflower,” Billie Eilish (No. 17, 2024)
70, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Brenda Lee (No. 1, three weeks, 2023-24)
69, “How Do I Live,” LeAnn Rimes (No. 2, 1997)

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” boasts the seventh-longest Hot 100 stay overall. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” amassed a record 112-week run through October.

“JINGLE” TO A NEW PEAK

Bobby Helms’ 1957 release “Jingle Bell Rock” giddyaps 4-2 on the Hot 100, besting its prior No. 3 peak.  Helms, who died in 1997, has a new highest career Hot 100 rank, with “Jingle Bell Rock” matching Wham!’s “Last Christmas” — which reached a new No. 2 high two weeks ago — as one of only five holiday songs ever to have made the chart’s top two. The other three have hit No. 1: “All I Want for Christmas Is You”; “The Chipmunk Song,” by the Chipmunks with David Seville (for four weeks, beginning in December 1958); and Brenda Lee’s fellow 1958 classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (three weeks in the 2023 holiday season).

“MERRY CHRISTMAS” TO THE KING

Nat “King” Cole’s “The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)” ascends 8-6 on the Hot 100, marking a new high for the track that he first recorded in 1946. It’s the late legend’s highest placement since the chart dated June 29, 1963, when the opposite-themed “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer” climbed to its No. 6 peak.

A NEW PRESENT “UNDERNEATH THE TREE”

Kelly Clarkson’s “Underneath the Tree” rises 9-7 for a new Hot 100 best. The 2013 release is her highest charting song since “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You),” which ruled for three weeks in winter 2012.