Mariah Carey Celebrates ‘All I Need for Christmas’ Historic Reign

Mariah Carey is not known as the Queen of Christmas for nothing!

On Monday, Dec. 23., the singer, 55, reposted {a photograph} of herself that had been shared on Billboard’s Instagram after discovering that her festive hit “All I Need for Christmas is You” had topped their Scorching 100 chart for a record-breaking seventeenth complete week.

“That is superb!!!! Won’t ever ever ever ever ever take this as a right,” Carey captioned the submit on her Instagram Tales. “Merry early Christmas!!!!”

In her celebratory photograph, the singer dons a figure-hugging purple robe whereas surrounded by completely wrapped presents beneath her Christmas bushes. 

Billboard additionally revealed within the caption of their submit that Carey already occupied a spot within the chart of no.1 songs with one other tune from the Nineties. The brand new file surpassed the 16-week run “One Candy Day,” with Boyz II Males had loved at No.1 in 1995-96.

Additionally they shared that “All I Need for Christmas is You” — which leads the Scorching 100 for a 3rd consecutive week this vacation season — additionally has the third-longest interval of domination within the chart’s 66-year historical past.

The record-breaking monitor debuted in 1994 on Carey’s Merry Christmas album. 

In line with Billboard, it first appeared within the high 10 of their Scorching 100s chart in December 2017 earlier than cracking into the highest 5 a yr later. In 2019, it topped the charts throughout the vacation season for 3 weeks.

The tune has remained standard since. It spent two weeks on the high in 2020, three weeks in 2021, 4 weeks on the high in 2022 and two weeks reigning supreme in 2023.

The achievement comes after Carey wrapped up her star-studded Christmas Time tour on Tuesday, Dec. 17. 

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Simply days earlier it was revealed “All I Need for Christmas Is You” had turn into the first-ever vacation tune to achieve 2 billion streams on Spotify. 

“That is past unbelievable. I’m honored to have ‘All I Need For Christmas Is You’ be the primary vacation monitor on Spotify to achieve 2 Billion Streams! I’m so grateful to all Spotify listeners all over the world who’ve made the tune a part of their vacation custom yr after yr,” Carey instructed PEOPLE in a Dec. 13. assertion.