Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 tune in U.S. chart historical past. The 1994 fashionable Christmas traditional has spent a cumulative 20 weeks atop the Billboard Sizzling 100, breaking the earlier report of 19 weeks shared by Shaboozey’s “A Bar Music (Tipsy)” and Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Outdated City Street.”
First showing on Carey’s Merry Christmas album, “All I Need for Christmas Is You” was initially ineligible for the Sizzling 100 as a result of it was not launched as a business single. Following a guidelines change, the tune made its debut on the singles chart in 2000. “All I Need for Christmas Is You” first hit No. 1 for 2 weeks in 2019—the longest a tune had ever taken to take action—and has constantly topped the chart yearly since.
For greater than twenty years, Carey’s Boyz II Males duet “One Candy Day,” from her 1995 album Daydream, held the longest run atop the Billboard Sizzling 100. Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” remix, that includes Justin Bieber, tied the report in 2017, and “Outdated City Street” lastly surpassed it in 2019.
Carey shared her newest album, Right here for It All, earlier this 12 months. She acquired the Video Vanguard Award on the 2025 MTV VMAs and is ready to be honored as MusiCares’ 2026 Particular person of the 12 months with a tribute live performance on the Los Angeles Conference Middle on Friday, January 30—two days earlier than subsequent 12 months’s Grammy Awards. Carey may even carry out on the opening ceremony for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy.
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