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The gifts keep on coming for Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You." The 1994 carol reaches another new peak position on the Billboard Hot 100  (dated Jan. 9, 2016), surging from No. 18 to No. 11, its best rank ever on the chart. (When the song rose 22-18 in the previous week, it passed its prior No. 21 peak on the Hot 100, set in 2013.)

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"Christmas" also remains atop the Holiday 100 chart. It leads Holiday Digital Songs (41,000 downloads sold in the week ending Dec. 24, up 33 percent, according to Nielsen Music); Holiday Airplay (40 million in all-format audience, up 12 percent); and Holiday Streaming Songs (11.3 million U.S. streams, up 37 percent). Those sums also place the track at Nos. 25, 21 and 8, respectively, on the overall Digital Songs, Radio Songs and Streaming Songs charts. (With the song's 14-8 advance on Streaming Songs, Carey claims her first top 10 on the chart.) "Christmas" additionally wins the top Streaming Gainer award on the Hot 100.

All charts, including the Hot 100, will refresh tomorrow (Dec. 29) on Billboard.com.



As noted last week, the details of how "Christmas" reaches a new high on the Hot 100 more than 21 years after its release: The song was first released as a promotional single to radio, but not as a commercially-available single, in 1994. It ushered in Carey's first seasonal album, Merry Christmas. The song's lack of original retail availability is key, as, per rules at the time, only tracks available as singles in stores could chart on the Hot 100. (This was the pre-digital era, when the only way to purchase individual songs was via physical singles, i.e., on CD, cassette or vinyl.) "Christmas" hit No. 6 on Adult Contemporary, No. 9 on Pop Songs and No. 12 on the all-genre Radio Songs tally (with all three charts based solely on airplay) in the winter of 1994-95, but was not eligible for the Hot 100.

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By December 1998, non-commercially-available titles were allowed to appear on the Hot 100, and "Christmas" first hit the chart dated Jan. 8, 2000, spending a week at No. 83. By 2012, rules were amended so that older songs were allowed to chart on the Hot 100 if ranking in the top 50 and showing noteworthy continued gains. On Dec. 22, 2012, "Christmas" re-entered at No. 29; it rose to No. 21 two weeks later. It since hit highs of No. 26 (in winter 2013-14) and No. 35 (2014-15) before its new best rank this week.

As for any potential further Hot 100 highs for "Christmas," they'll surely have to wait at least another year, as this week's chart covers the last full frame of data measurement leading up to Christmas Day. The song will likely depart the chart after this week and, like Santa, return next holiday season.

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"Christmas" has sold 3.1 million downloads (since Nielsen Music began scanning digital sales in 2003), ruling as the best-selling holiday download to date, while the Merry Christmas album has sold 5.5 million copies.

[FINE.]

[BAPHOMET.]

  I had JUST updated that other thread. But YESSSSSS Queen.

[mauza]

damn

[Cowboy Nine]

Wow ur faves non-holiday songs can't even peak that high

Holiday kween and kween of music

[Zankou.]

Book Mariah

[BAPHOMET.]

Wow ur faves non-holiday songs can't even peak that high

Holiday kween and kween of music

[Code Red: itsMista]

This was nice. I hope it gets a top 10 next week.

[death]

h

this mess is iconic n stuffs

hear it ev' fckin chrismas n i hate it

[Code Red: itsMista]

h

this mess is iconic n stuffs

hear it ev' fckin chrismas n i hate it

Lol I wish Brandy sung it

[FINE.]

Whew so yeah
She's so legendary

[FINE.]

Queen of Pop

Quite frank

[GMF]

Queen of Christmas