Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 track in U.S. chart historical past. The 1994 fashionable Christmas traditional has spent a cumulative 20 weeks atop the Billboard Scorching 100, breaking the earlier file of 19 weeks shared by Shaboozey’s “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” and Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Outdated City Street.”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 industrial single. Following a guidelines change, the track 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 track had ever taken to take action—and has persistently 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 Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” remix, that includes Justin Bieber, tied the file in 2017, and “Outdated City Street” lastly surpassed it in 2019.
Carey shared her newest album, Right here for It All, earlier this yr. She obtained the Video Vanguard Award on the 2025 MTV VMAs and is ready to be honored as MusiCares’ 2026 Individual of the Yr with a tribute live performance on the Los Angeles Conference Middle on Friday, January 30—two days earlier than subsequent yr’s Grammy Awards. Carey can even carry out on the opening ceremony for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy.
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