Most weeks at No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100

Since the dawn of the Billboard Hot 100 era on 4 August 1958, no song has spent as many weeks at No.1 as “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey (USA). On the chart dated 20 December 2025, the festive favourite logged a 20th non-consecutive week at No.1, shattering a three-way tie with 19-week chart leaders “Old Town Road” (Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, 2019) and “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” (Shaboozey, 2024).

The Diamond-certified “All I Want for Christmas Is You” was first released on 29 October 1994, as the lead single from Carey’s fourth studio album Merry Christmas, but was ineligible to chart. It first entered the Hot 100 on 8 January 2000, and made it to No.1 for the first time on 21 December 2019, where it remained for three weeks straight.

Subsequently, the track has returned to No.1 each Christmas, predominantly on the strength of US streaming activity alone: 19 December 2020 (1 week), 2 January 2021 (1 week), 25 December 2021 (3 consecutive weeks), 17 December 2022 (4 consecutive weeks), 23 December 2023 (2 consecutive weeks), 14 December 2024 (4 consecutive weeks) and 13 December 2025 (2 consecutive weeks to date).

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” is just one of Carey’s 19 US No.1 hits – a figure that no act in Hot 100 history other than The Beatles (20 No.1s) can match or better. “One Sweet Day” (with Boyz II Men), which spent a then-record 16 consecutive weeks at No.1 in 1995–96, and “We Belong Together”, a 14-week chart champion (non-consecutive) in 2005, are her second- and third-long-running US chart-toppers. As of 20 December 2025, those three songs alone account for 50 of Carey’s unrivalled 99 cumulative weeks at No.1 on the Hot 100. Rihanna (60 weeks) and The Beatles (59 weeks) are next.

The song makes more headlines with a 77th chart week, tying Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” as the longest-running Hot 100 hit by a female artist.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” is only the third Christmas song to reach No.1 on the Hot 100, after “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” in 1958–59 and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” in 2023–24.