Billboard Hot 100: 12/25/2021

[spiritboy]

Being #1 is so overrated by some users imo. If you ask an average American to name a Madonna song, most can name La Isla Bonita over Take A Bow (which is her longest running #1 song). Chart positions don't matter for general public, a song making to #1 spot is just a trivial thing for them.

[Choco]

Dec 19, 2021 14:09:15 GMT -5 phieaglesfan712 said:

Dec 19, 2021 13:55:21 GMT -5 joshtheking said:

Or like they did with Blinding Lights?

That was different. Unlike Stay and EOM, BL didn’t smash out of the box and took like 5 months to get to its peak. I feel like Stay (and now EOM) are being forced down our throats.

Your terrible takes are the only things being forced right now.

[sheardbeard]

I feel like Marvel movies are being forced down my throat. Know how I get around it? I watch different things. It’s borderline amazing what I can do on my own.

[nathanalbright]

The fastest way to deal with a song you don't like is to change a radio station that plays it or to stream stuff you actively want to hear. There's no reason why anyone right now should be listening to a song they don't like. There are just too many options available.

[sheardbeard]

Dec 19, 2021 14:14:15 GMT -5 spiritboy said:

Being #1 is so overrated by some users imo. If you ask an average American to name a Madonna song, most can name La Isla Bonita over Take A Bow (which is her longest running #1 song). Chart positions don't matter for general public, a song making to #1 spot is just a trivial thing for them.

or God forbid naming Material Girl. That song only got to #2… the horror!!

[iHype.]

Dec 19, 2021 14:14:15 GMT -5 spiritboy said:

Being #1 is so overrated by some users imo. If you ask an average American to name a Madonna song, most can name La Isla Bonita over Take A Bow (which is her longest running #1 song). Chart positions don't matter for general public, a song making to #1 spot is just a trivial thing for them.

I think everyone knows a chart position isn’t be all end all in the year 2021. None the less, if anyone is in these Hot 100 threads every week… it’s because the Hot 100 interests them. So yeah, it’s not really shocking some users would indeed place a lot of excitement on a song reaching #1 or any other position.

If it didn’t interest them then they wouldn’t be in the thread every week.

[korbel16]

Stay is gunna be on the charts forever isn’t it 😭

[fridayteenage]

Dec 19, 2021 14:25:59 GMT -5 nathanalbright said:

The fastest way to deal with a song you don't like is to change a radio station that plays it or to stream stuff you actively want to hear. There's no reason why anyone right now should be listening to a song they don't like. There are just too many options available.

i'll say it can be difficult with bieber though radio-wise. i'll change the station, get another bieber. change it again, after 1 song it's bieber again.

[sheardbeard]

[Joe1240]

Dec 19, 2021 1:54:00 GMT -5 JukeboxJacob said:

speaking of 2000's global smashes everyone knows that didn't actually chart that high: Dragostea Din Tie

It is only known in the U.S for the "Numa Numa Guy" and the T.I/Rihanna song which sampled it during that era.

[pkwonder]

Dec 19, 2021 17:15:06 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

Dec 19, 2021 14:25:59 GMT -5 nathanalbright said:

The fastest way to deal with a song you don't like is to change a radio station that plays it or to stream stuff you actively want to hear. There's no reason why anyone right now should be listening to a song they don't like. There are just too many options available.

i'll say it can be difficult with bieber though radio-wise. i'll change the station, get another bieber. change it again, after 1 song it's bieber again.

There was a time earlier in 2021 where I was driving a work vehicle while running some errands for my job. Said vehicle is a bit older so it only has radio, or at least no easy way to connect my phone. “Before You Go” was playing on literally all 3 local mainstream pop stations I know of simultaneously. 

I took that as a sign to listen to classic rock that day.

[JukeboxJacob]

FM radio is trash

[dremolus - solarpunk]

If this was 2016 and I didn't have a Premium Spotify account, and I'd understand being forced to listen to stuff like i hate u i love u 6 times a day (I'm not kidding about that, that actually happened once). It's 2021 though and I don't have that problem

[Caution]

Dec 19, 2021 14:14:15 GMT -5 spiritboy said:

Being #1 is so overrated by some users imo. If you ask an average American to name a Madonna song, most can name La Isla Bonita over Take A Bow (which is her longest running #1 song). Chart positions don't matter for general public, a song making to #1 spot is just a trivial thing for them.

[imbondz]

Dec 19, 2021 14:14:15 GMT -5 spiritboy said:

Being #1 is so overrated by some users imo. If you ask an average American to name a Madonna song, most can name La Isla Bonita over Take A Bow (which is her longest running #1 song). Chart positions don't matter for general public, a song making to #1 spot is just a trivial thing for them.

Yep. Most in general public don’t know or care. We’re just the geeks that do.

[jenglisbe]

Dec 19, 2021 11:00:02 GMT -5 otaviohmg said:

lippredicts

Why does this one have "AIWFCIY" ahead of "EOM" in sales when "EOM" was ahead of "AIWFCIY" on iTunes all week?

[sheardbeard]

Whoa, someone at Billboard must’ve been creeping in this thread!:

[Choco]

Hits matter more than ever. Sure, you get people like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Jay-Z doing album and tour numbers without a traditional hit in the old sense but they had an established fanbase.

Olivia Rodrigo doesn't happen without "drivers license". Lil Nas X literally lives or dies by the hit singles. Cardi B doesn't even have an album where you can find her last two #1 hits.

Even Swift, see how much pushing a song ("All Too Well") made the difference for RED TV vs Fearless TV's relatively lower shelf life and impact.

[KeepDeanWeird]

Dec 19, 2021 14:38:58 GMT -5 sheardbeard said:

Dec 19, 2021 14:14:15 GMT -5 spiritboy said:

Being #1 is so overrated by some users imo. If you ask an average American to name a Madonna song, most can name La Isla Bonita over Take A Bow (which is her longest running #1 song). Chart positions don't matter for general public, a song making to #1 spot is just a trivial thing for them.

or God forbid naming Material Girl. That song only got to #2… the horror!!

'Into the Groove' and 'Holiday' just raised their hands....

[smiley22]

Dec 20, 2021 10:21:25 GMT -5 KeepDeanWeird said:

Dec 19, 2021 14:38:58 GMT -5 sheardbeard said:

or God forbid naming Material Girl. That song only got to #2… the horror!!

'Into the Groove' and 'Holiday' just raised their hands....

I personally like Like A Prayer. But yeah, we can’t sit here and “downplay” number 1’s. They are clearly important to all artists given the extra promotion it gives them.

[Groovy]

[otaviohmg]

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[kalmanta]

Yes, Last Christmas with a new peak next week!

[thegreatdivine]

Weeks in the top 10:
23 Stay
20 Industry Baby
18 All I Want for Christmas Is You
12 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
10 Jingle Bell Rock
9 Easy on Me
9 A Holly Jolly Christmas

7 It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
7 Heat Waves
2 Last Christmas

[Groovy]

Unfortunately, we don't have a 70s, 2000s and 2010s song to complete this top 10.

[¤ Matthea ¤]

Congrats to Mariah. Deserving Christmas #1.

[phieaglesfan712]

If Stay remains in the Top 10 next week, I think it will have a good chance of passing Circles and spending at least 40 weeks in the Top 10.

[Groovy]

When was the last time we had a top 5 with no collabs?

[iHype.]

Dec 20, 2021 14:40:33 GMT -5 Groovy said:

When was the last time we had a top 5 with no collabs?

A year ago.... with 3 of the same songs.

January 2, 2021 dated chart:
1 All I Want For Christmas Is You Mariah Carey
2 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree Brenda Lee
3 Jingle Bell Rock Bobby Helms
4 A Holly Jolly Christmas Burl Ives
5 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year Andy Williams

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ Makes Record Return to No. 1 on Hot 100

12/20/2021

By Gary Trust

The 1994 modern classic leads six holiday hits in the top 10.

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” makes an unprecedented return to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, rising from No. 2. The carol logs its sixth total week atop the Hot 100 and becomes the first song in the chart’s history to have led in three distinct runs on the ranking.

The song was first released on Carey’s album Merry Christmas in 1994 and, as streaming has grown and holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services’ seasonal playlists, it hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for the first time in December 2017, before ascending to No. 1 in both December 2019 (for three weeks) and December 2020 (two).

Carey’s gift that keeps on giving (and leading) paces six holiday classics in the Hot 100’s top 10, with Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” rising to No. 2 and Wham!’s “Last Christmas” returning to the tier at No. 9.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated Dec. 25) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 21). For all chart news, you can follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Here’s a deeper look at Carey’s latest Hot 100 coronation with “Christmas,” on Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings.

Airplay, streams & sales: Carey’s “Christmas” drew 37.6 million U.S. streams (up 16%) and 26.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 7%) and sold 7,400 downloads (up 7%) in the Dec. 10-16 tracking week, according to MRC Data.

The song spends a 13th total week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and rises 9-7 on Digital Song Sales; and 24-23 on Radio Songs. It also leads the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart for a 49th week, of the chart’s 54 total weeks since the list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 34 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and dominates as the top title on the recently-revealed Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

Since its release, the song has upped its U.S. totals to 4.3 billion in radio audience, 1.4 billion streams and 3.7 million in download sales.

No. 1 in a third separate chart run: Carey’s “Christmas” first topped the Hot 100 dated Dec. 21, 2019, and led again on the next two lists, dated Dec. 28, 2019, and Jan. 4, 2020.

The following holiday season, it returned to No. 1 on the chart dated Dec. 19, 2020, and, after a week at No. 2 (below Taylor Swift’s “Willow”), topped the Jan. 2, 2021, dated tally.

As “Christmas” rules the latest, Dec. 25, 2021-dated chart, it claims its sixth total week at No. 1 in its third seasonal run at the summit, becoming the first song in the Hot 100’s 63-year history to lead in three distinct chart runs. The track has re-entered the survey each November or December dating to 2012.

(As “Christmas” has made four interrupted climbs to the top of the Hot 100, on charts dated Dec. 21, 2019, Dec. 19, 2020, Jan. 2, 2021, and now Dec. 25, 2021, it ties 24kGoldn’s “Mood,” featuring iann dior, beginning in October 2020, and Drake’s “Nice for What,” in 2018, as the only songs with four separate ascents to No. 1; unlike “Christmas,” the latter two tracks logged their four distinct rises to No. 1 over unbroken chart stays.)

Longest span atop the Hot 100: Carey’s “Christmas” now boasts the longest span from a song’s first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 to its latest: two years and four days (Dec. 21, 2019-Dec. 25, 2021).

It passes the only other song to lead the Hot 100 over multiple runs: Chubby Checker’s “The Twist,” which topped the tally dated Sept. 19, 1960, before, thanks to new popularity among adult audiences, leading the lists dated Jan. 13 and 20, 1962, ruling again after a gap of a year, three months and three weeks. (Still, that break remains the longest between Hot 100 reigns.)

Most weeks at No. 1 for a holiday hit: With its sixth week atop the Hot 100, Carey’s “Christmas” extends its record for the most time at No. 1 among holiday songs. The only other seasonal single to jingle to the apex, “The Chipmunk Song,” by David Seville & the Chipmunks, spent four weeks on top beginning in December 1958.

Carey’s record 85th week atop Hot 100: With “Christmas,” Carey claims her record-extending 85th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, inception.

Most Weeks at No. 1 on Hot 100
85, Mariah Carey
60, Rihanna
59, The Beatles
52, Drake
50, Boyz II Men
47, Usher
41, Beyoncé
37, Michael Jackson
34, Elton John
34, Bruno Mars

“Christmas” became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, the most among soloists and one away from The Beatles’ overall record 20. It also made Carey the first artist to have ranked at No. 1 on the chart in four distinct decades, dating to her first week on top with her debut single, “Vision of Love,” in 1990.

Further, “Christmas” is Carey’s record fifth Hot 100 No. 1 to rule for six weeks or more. She one-ups Boyz II Men, Drake and Usher, each with four such leaders.

Plus, it’s not only fitting that “Christmas” leads the Hot 100 dated Dec. 25, 2021, but Carey is the only artist to top the chart on multiple rankings dated Dec. 25: her “Hero” began a four-week stay at No. 1 on the Dec. 25, 1993, Hot 100. (This week’s chart is the 10th dated Dec. 25 in the list’s history.)

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” originally released in 1958, rises 3-2 on the Hot 100, returning to its high reached in each of the last two holiday seasons. It dances merrily with 19.8 million in radio airplay audience (up 7%), 35.8 million streams (up 19%) and 5,900 sold (down 3%).

Adele’s “Easy on Me” slips to No. 3 on the Hot 100, after seven nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, with 86.6 million in radio reach (up 1%), 19.2 million streams (down 7%) and 8,300 in sales (down 10%). The ballad spends a fourth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs.

The late Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957, lifts 6-4 on the Hot 100 and the late Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” from 1964, keeps at No. 5. The Yuletide standards have hit respective peaks of Nos. 3 and 4 in each of the last two holiday seasons.

The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” slides 4-6 on the Hot 100, after seven weeks at No. 1. Notably, over its first 23 weeks on the chart, dating to its July debut at No. 3, the song has yet to rank below No. 6. It’s one of only three titles ever to have spent its first 23 weeks or more in the top six spots, after Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” (27, in 2017) and Post Malone’s “Rockstar,” featuring 21 Savage (also 23, in 2017-18).

The late Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” rises 10-7 on the Hot 100. Originally released in 1963, it hit a No. 5 high last holiday season.

Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” pushes 9-8 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 7, as it tops the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, both of which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a 13th week each.

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” dashes back to the Hot 100’s top 10, and its No. 9 high, first reached last holiday season, from No. 13. The 1984 release advances with 23.4 million streams (up 16%), 17.1 million in airplay audience (up 7%) and 3,400 sold (up 2%).

The song became the seventh Hot 100 top 10 for the duo of George Michael (who died Dec. 25, 2016) and Andrew Ridgeley, after the pair charted its first six in 1984-86, including the No. 1s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” “Careless Whisper” and “Everything She Wants.” Michael subsequently notched 14 solo top 10s, including seven No. 1s, through 1996.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” descends 8-10, after a week at No. 1, as it posts a 17th week atop the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs charts.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Dec. 25), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Dec. 21).