Mariah Carey's iconic Christmas song continues its reign at the top of the Hot 100, while Taylor Swift reclaims the No. 1 spot on the albums chart with physical releases of her re-recorded 'Red' album. Amidst the holiday music dominance, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' 'Die With a Smile' becomes the top non-holiday single, and Kendrick Lamar maintains a strong presence in the charts with multiple top 10 hits. The article also highlights the growing popularity of K-pop in the U.S. with two K-pop albums debuting in the top 5 simultaneously.
Mariah Carey released"All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 1994, but it took 25 years for the song to reach the top of's Hot 100 pop chart. Since 2019, it has topped the chart each December for a total of 16 weeks at No. 1 — so far. Hot 100 are packed with holiday perennials ... and Kendrick Lamar . With Christmas songs filling the entire top 5 — and Mariah Carey posting yet another week at No.
That 16-week run, spread out over the last six holiday seasons, has elevated"All I Want for Christmas Is You" into a four-way tie for the third-longest streak at No. 1 in chart history, behind the 19-week campaigns of Lil Nas X's"Old Town Road " in 2019 and Shaboozey's"A Bar Song " earlier this year.
It's one thing to be able to guess that"All I Want for Christmas Is You" will top the charts for a few weeks at the end of each year. What's wild is how predictably the same four songs round out the remainder of the top 5. This week, Brenda Lee's"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" holds at No. 2; that's the song's 13th nonconsecutive week at No. 2, all of them spent huffing Mariah Carey's exhaust.
So here we are, in a timeline where five indomitable holiday classics tower over everything, and one of them is"Jingle Bell Rock." Rounding out this week's top 10 are familiar powerhouses of a different nature. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars'"Die With a Smile" climbs from No. 9 to No. 6, making it the highest-charting non-holiday song for the first time in its 17-week chart run.
For every Michael Bublé or Andy Williams who gets dethawed every Thanksgiving, there's a contemporary pop star whose holiday song is edging ever closer to admission into the holiday canon. Some have made a tradition of going big on the holidays, like Kelly Clarkson, whose 2013 hit"Underneath the Tree" keeps flirting with the top 10 every year.
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