Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has returned to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, again becoming the biggest song in the United States as the Christmas season takes hold.
The holiday staple has now spent 76 nonconsecutive weeks on the Hot 100, advancing from 75 weeks and tying Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours” as the ninth-longest-charting song in the ranking’s history. “I’m Yours” reached 76 weeks during its run in 2008 and 2009, a period when it briefly held the record as the longest-charting Hot 100 hit.
Carey’s Christmas anthem was released in 1994 and first appeared on the Hot 100 in 2000. Since then, it has returned to the chart nearly every holiday season, steadily adding to its overall tally.
The song is expected to move higher on the all-time list in the coming weeks. If it reaches 77 weeks, it would tie Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” for the seventh-longest Hot 100 run. A rise to 79 weeks would allow Carey’s song to match “Sail” by Awolnation as the sixth-longest-charting Hot 100 hit.
With two tracking periods remaining before Christmas Day, the song is expected to continue leading the chart and could remain popular even after the holiday. By the end of the 2025 season, it could reach 78 or 79 total weeks on the Hot 100, according to an article by Forbes.
The current record is held by Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which spent 112 weeks on the chart. It is followed by “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals at 91 weeks, “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd at 90, “Beautiful Things” by Benson Boone at 89, and “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons at 87.
Unless Billboard changes its chart rules, Carey’s holiday standard is expected to continue returning to the Hot 100 each year, with no clear limit to how many weeks it may eventually accumulate.
