Christmas song tops the Hot 100 for first time since 1959

[adam31]

Mariah Carey's classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You" finally hits #1 on Hot 100 25 years after release:

www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8546418/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-number-one

Most importantly, it gets her one shy to the Beatles all time record of 20 #1s.

I will add it is good to see her looking "natural" again in the video!

PS Interesting to note, I took a look at the chart and there are four Christmas tunes in the Top 15, including Brenda Lee's classic "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" at #3.

[burcjm]

Without my looking, are the other 2 "Jingle Bell Rock" and "White Christmas"?

[mkarns]

Dec 20, 2019 16:00:59 GMT -5 burcjm said:

Without my looking, are the other 2 "Jingle Bell Rock" and "White Christmas"?

Jingle Bell Rock is one. The other is "A Holly Jolly Christmas". Also in their top 40 is "Last Christmas" by Wham!, which didn't make the Hot 100 in the 80s when it was new (it wasn't released as a commercial single in the US then which it had to be to chart; it was in Britain and hit #2.)

[OldSchoolAT40Fan]

I do remember hearing "Last Christmas" on my local radio station in St. John's, Newfoundland over the years (Definitely 590 VOCM and maybe Coast 101.1 FM). OZ FM may have played it many, many years ago - until the station changed format to an all-rock format in 2009, but since 2012, OZ-FM plays mostly material from the 21st century, albeit with a few throwbacks. I wonder if that song got released as a commercial single in Canada back in the 1980s or even in later years?

Very surprising that there seems to be an influx of holiday tunes hitting big on the Hot 100 these days. It seems as if the methodology of the Hot 100 is very peculiar these days.

[adam31]

www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8547002/hot-100-first-ever-christmas-double-up-mariah-carey

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree goes to #2 - first ever Christmas Double up on the Hot 100.

Four Christmas songs are now in the Top 10. Like Christmas songs, but not a fan of this as streaming input seems to be over weighted on the Hot 100 as usual.