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Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Finally Reaches Number One In The US

Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Finally Reaches Number One In The US

Twenty-five years after its release, Mariah has cracked the top spot for the first time.

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie

Every year for the past 25 years, the world has been divided into two groups: those overjoyed at the thought of Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' blasting out of their speakers, and those sickened by the very idea.

The Christmas classic regularly appears in the upper echelons of 'best festive songs' countdowns, but there's also a large number of people who absolutely despise the track.

Well, it looks like there's finally some vindication for the former group - the song has reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States for the first time ever.

The beloved track has had a complicated history with chart success.

It wasn't eligible for the charts when it was first released because it wasn't put out as a single, while it was also previously ruled in the US that a song couldn't chart if it was a recurrent single. After that, it seemed like Mariah's banger was never popular enough to hit the top spot... until now.

When the news was announced, the artist took to Twitter to write: "We did it."

According to Pitchfork, Mariah released Merry Christmas (Deluxe Anniversary Edition) to celebrate the song turning 25 and this helped push the single further up the charts.

But Ms Carey's track has also topped a different chart this year that isn't quite as fun.

A recent survey from Huawei asked Brits to vote on what they considered to be the most annoying festive singles, and Carey's ubiquitous seasonal hit unsurprisingly topped the list by a wide margin.

It's been streamed millions of times already this festive season and smashed holiday streaming records in 2018 after being played a whopping 11 million times on Christmas Eve alone.

Mariah Carey/Columbia

Other songs ranked highly in the Huawei poll included many of the usual suspects, including 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' by Band Aid, 'Last Christmas' by Wham! and of course, the infamous 'Merry Christmas Everybody' by Slade.

The full list is a follows:

  1. 'All I Want for Christmas is You' - Mariah Carey
  2. 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - Band Aid
  3. 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday' - Wizzard
  4. 'Merry Xmas Everybody' - Slade
  5. 'Last Christmas' - Wham!
  6. 'Fairytale of New York' - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
  7. 'Baby It's Cold Outside' - Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews
  8. 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' - Jackson 5
  9. 'Santa Baby' - Eartha Kitt
  10. 'Jingle Bells' - Andrews Sister
Featured Image Credit: Mariah Carey/Columbia

Topics: Entertainment, Music