Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 music in U.S. chart historical past. The 1994 trendy Christmas basic has spent a cumulative 20 weeks atop the Billboard Scorching 100, breaking the earlier report of 19 weeks shared by Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy)” and Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Outdated City Street.”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 Scorching 100 as a result of it was not launched as a business single. Following a guidelines change, the music 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 music had ever taken to take action—and has constantly topped the chart yearly since.
For greater than 20 years, Carey’s Boyz II Males duet “One Candy Day,” from her 1995 album Daydream, held the longest run atop the Billboard Scorching 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 Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” remix, that includes Justin Bieber, tied the report in 2017, and “Outdated City Street” lastly surpassed it in 2019.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 about to be honored as MusiCares’ 2026 Particular person of the 12 months with a tribute live performance on the Los Angeles Conference Heart on Friday, January 30—two days earlier than subsequent 12 months’s Grammy Awards. Carey will even carry out on the opening ceremony for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy.
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