Mariah Carey’s Xmas Song Tops US Charts

    • Publish Date: Dec 18 2019 2:51PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 18 2019 2:51PM
Mariah Carey’s Xmas Song Tops US Charts

New York: 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. “We did it,” the diva said on Monday in a tweet.

Many social media users voiced shock that the inescapable pop juggernaut had not already jingled its way to the top. But when Carey originally released the hit in 1994 as part of her “Merry Christmas” album, Billboard’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. That changed in 1998, when cuts off an album were welcomed, bumping the song onto the chart for the first time in January 2000.

The 2003 film “Love Actually” helped keep the song in collective consciousness, as streaming ensured its place in holiday canon. The song started appearing on the list annually beginning in 2012, when streams were added to Billboard’s ranking metrics. For the song’s 25th anniversary this year, Carey promoted it even harder than usual. She 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. This week the song posted 45 million streams, 27,000 digital sales and 34 million radio plays, according to Billboard. AFP
 

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