Mariah Carey’s Christmas Classic Sets New Record On Spotify
NEW YORK (AP) — Mariah Carey’s 24-year-old Christmas classic is so popular it set a new one-day streaming record on Spotify on Christmas Eve.
Chart Data reported that “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” released in 1994, was played 10.8 million times on Spotify on Monday. The song bested the record set by rapper-singer XXXTentacion, who logged 10.4 million streams with “SAD!” a day after his death in June.
Every holiday season “All I Want for Christmas Is You” begins to climb the Billboard charts as its popularity resurfaces. This year the song reached its highest peak — No. 6 — on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; it’s currently No. 7 on the chart.
The success has helped Carey’s first Christmas album, 1994’s “Merry Christmas,” spend its fourth week at No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B albums chart.
The current Hot 100 chart features 20 holiday songs:
— No. 7, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
— No. 10, Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
— No. 11, Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
— No. 12, Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas”
— No. 13, Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock”
— No. 17, Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)”
— No. 27, Wham!’s “Last Christmas”
— No. 28, Gene Autry’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
— No. 32, Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow”
— No. 33, The Ronettes’ “Sleigh Ride”
— No. 34, Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad”
— No. 35, Gene Autry’s “Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)”
— No. 41, Perry Como’s “(There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays”
— No. 42, Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters’ “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”
— No. 45, John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” (with the Harlem Community Choir)
— No. 47, Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”
— No. 48, Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”
— No. 50, Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
— No. 68, Katy Perry’s “Cozy Little Christmas”
— No. 90, Lauren Daigle’s “The Christmas Song”