Mariah Carey, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Christmas,” simply earned herself one other reward this 12 months within the type of two new Billboard data.
Carey’s upbeat vacation pop music, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” topped the charts Billboard Hot 100 charts for a seventeenth week general and units a brand new streaming file, in response to the music outlet.
The singer-songwriter of “Fantasy” and “Emozioni” surpassed her personal file by inserting herself in first place within the multimetric rating, Advertising billboard reported Monday. The music’s ultimate peak place of 1994 provides the five-time Grammy winner her longest profession on the chart, surpassing her earlier 16-week run at No. 1 in 1995 and 1996 together with her Boyz II Men duet “One Sweet Day”.
“This is superb!!!! I’ll by no means take this as a right,” Carey wrote about her on Monday Instagram Storieswhich featured Billboard’s submit on the Hot 100’s longest reign. “Merry Christmas upfront!!!!”
The ubiquitous “All I Want for Christmas Is You” led the Hot 100 chart for the third consecutive week this vacation season, Billboard mentioned, claiming the third-longest run within the chart’s 66-year historical past. (At No. 1 are Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” 19 weeks this 12 months and the 2019 file set by Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” that includes Billy Ray Cyrus.)
Billboard additionally reported that “All I Want For Christmas Is You” spent a file 21 weeks on the prime Streaming song chart for the reason that chart debuted in 2013 and reigns supreme with 48 million official US streams earned within the week ending December 19. At 20 weeks, “Old Town Road” additionally beforehand held the file for that chart as of April 2019.
Carey’s Guinness World Record-breaking single is from her first Christmas album, “Merry Christmas,” launched in 1994 (and reissued this 12 months for its thirtieth anniversary). It was the primary Christmas music he ever wrote and got here on the daybreak of his profession. But the December single – a cheerful, poignant love music set at Christmas – instantly shot up the charts and has by no means gone away, returning each Christmas season and “displaying up within the collective unconscious of the world like no Christmas music in at the very least half a century,” in response to an earlier Times report.
“It’s going to sound like I’m making this up or one thing, but it surely truly got here from wanting to put in writing one thing that sense like Christmas,” Carey advised the Times in 2020. “It wasn’t similar to, ‘Oh, we will put sleigh bells on this file.’ Or I’ll discuss snow.” I imply, clearly I discuss numerous Christmas issues in that music! But I used to be making an attempt to do one thing a bit of completely different. I wished to consider all the things that made me really feel within the Christmas spirit. I used to be going again in my thoughts. What are the issues I wished from Christmas as a baby?
The octave-skipping international celebrity, already one of the crucial profitable recording artists of all time, has run with it, releasing new variations of the established hit and performing it dwell on varied platforms for the previous three many years. He sang it like a duet with Justin Bieber in 2011, he carried out it with Michael Buble throughout his third annual Christmas tv particular, he sang a toy instrument model with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots and held a “Carpool Karaoke” efficiency with James Corden. A youngsters’s e-book and animated movie based mostly on the music adopted, with Carey dubbing herself a Christmas Monarch and internet hosting an annual vacation present or tour.
The 55-year-old artist beforehand advised the Times that she started writing the music by sitting on the piano and “plucking notes,” which is uncommon for her.
“I used to be simply sitting there, making up this melody, in a darkish home with a Christmas tree,” she mentioned, including that she collaborated with “Hero” and “My All” co-writer Walter Afanasieff on the melody and bridge .
“We wished it to really feel basic. I did not need it to look ’90s. It in all probability appears 90s now to people who find themselves nostalgic for the 90s. But within the 90s it was one thing completely different… I wished it to have a special vibe. I wished it to be, you already know, timeless. And really feel festive. The background vocals are a extremely necessary a part of the music. It was an unimaginable group of singers. I put my voice in there. We had been having numerous enjoyable within the studio. It sounds corny, however I feel you may hear it on the file.
And very a lot in all of the data he has set.
Times pop music critic Mikael Wood and freelancer Jody Rosen contributed to this report.
