Mariah Careyโs โAll I Want For Christmas Is Youโ is at the top of the Billboard chart for the first time ever.
Billboard announced on Monday (Dec. 16) that the legendary singerโs holiday tune has reached No. 1 on the Hot 100. The songโs previous record was hitting No. 3 on the chart.
โ@MariahCareyโs โAll I Want For Christmas Is Youโ is officially No. 1 on the #Hot100 for the first time this week, 25 years after its release,โ Billboard wrote on Twitter.
โ@MariahCarey now has 19 career No. 1 hits on the #Hot100, the second-most of all-time after @thebeatles (20),โ the publication added.
This marks Mariah Careyโs first time hitting the chartโs peak since 2008โs โTouch My Body.โ
The song was first released in 1994 on Mariah Careyโs โMerry Christmasโ album. She was 24 when she recorded it.โAll I Want for Christmasโ has been featured in โLove Actuallyโ and is used as Careyโs official holiday kick-off anthem every year. Ariana Grande and CeeLo Green have covered the track.
To date, Carey has earned more than $60 million in royalties off the song. Since 2014, she has performed a concert in honor of the classic song annually. Amazon is also debuting a mini-documentary about the history of the song, called โMariah Carey is Christmas.โ
Watch โAll I Want For Christmas Is Youโ music video by Mariah Carey.
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