How ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ By Mariah Carey Takes Over the Hot 100 Every Year

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The viral success of 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' from Mariah Carey has everyone fascinated every year, and here's how it tops the charts every year.

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00:00 ♪ I don't need to end my stocking ♪

00:03 ♪ And live upon the fireplace ♪

00:06 - Mariah Carey has continued to take over every year

00:09 with her hit, "All I Want for Christmas is You."

00:11 The song has held the top spot of the Hot 100

00:13 for the past five years in a row,

00:15 and here's exactly how and why that's happening.

00:17 (upbeat music)

00:20 Mariah Carey's iconic Christmas jingle

00:23 topped the Billboard Hot 100

00:24 for the week of December 23rd yet again.

00:27 And the song has been on the Hot 100 chart

00:28 for a total of 63 weeks according to Billboard.

00:31 But how does this continue to happen?

00:32 Well, we kind of know.

00:34 It's A-Lewand Reporting.

00:35 Mariah recently pushed Brenda Lee's

00:37 "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"

00:38 to the second spot on the Hot 100 as of late

00:41 after it spent the last two weeks

00:42 at the number one spot this year

00:43 and topping the charts for the first time

00:45 65 years after its release.

00:47 ♪ Rockin' around the Christmas tree ♪

00:50 ♪ Let the Christmas spirit ring ♪

00:54 - Thanks to the surge from TikTok,

00:55 the song has gotten even bigger

00:57 and a lift this year more than ever.

00:58 Similar enough, that's how Carey's song

01:00 started coming back in the top spot

01:02 originally back in 2019 thanks to social media.

01:05 Thanks to the power of media

01:06 and Mariah being an icon that she is,

01:08 fans have been able to attribute the start of November

01:10 basically being Mariah Carey's season.

01:13 - It's hot!

01:14 - Though it was released in 1994,

01:19 the song first entered Billboard's Hot 100

01:21 in December of 2017 and the top five December of 2018.

01:25 Year over year, the song has increasingly gained momentum

01:27 on the Hot 100.

01:28 Back in 2020, the song remained at number one for two weeks.

01:31 In 2021, it topped the charts for three weeks

01:34 and last year, the song went as far as being in the top spot

01:36 for a total of four weeks in 2023.

01:38 The hit from Mariah also ties Carey to "Boys II Men"

01:41 as the only artist with three songs

01:42 that have topped the Hot 100 for 13 weeks or more each.

01:46 Carey previously wrote the melody and lyrics to the track

01:48 with another co-writer and producer.

01:50 The singer has also been sued twice

01:51 by songwriter Andy Stone, otherwise known as Vince Vance,

01:54 claiming the song was stolen from him.

01:56 The first lawsuit was filed in June of 2022

01:58 and later retracted.

01:59 A second case was filed in November of 2023 in Los Angeles,

02:03 but Carey has not commented on the allegations.

02:05 As of now, the viral song has nearly 800 million views

02:07 on YouTube and has brought in nearly $3 million of revenue

02:10 per year for Mariah Carey.

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