The viral success of 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' from Mariah Carey has everyone fascinated every year, and here's how it tops the charts every year.
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00:00 ♪ I don't need to end my stocking ♪
00:03 ♪ And live upon the fireplace ♪
00:06 - Mariah Carey has continued to take over every year
00:09 with her hit, "All I Want for Christmas is You."
00:11 The song has held the top spot of the Hot 100
00:13 for the past five years in a row,
00:15 and here's exactly how and why that's happening.
00:17 (upbeat music)
00:20 Mariah Carey's iconic Christmas jingle
00:23 topped the Billboard Hot 100
00:24 for the week of December 23rd yet again.
00:27 And the song has been on the Hot 100 chart
00:28 for a total of 63 weeks according to Billboard.
00:31 But how does this continue to happen?
00:32 Well, we kind of know.
00:34 It's A-Lewand Reporting.
00:35 Mariah recently pushed Brenda Lee's
00:37 "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
00:38 to the second spot on the Hot 100 as of late
00:41 after it spent the last two weeks
00:42 at the number one spot this year
00:43 and topping the charts for the first time
00:45 65 years after its release.
00:47 ♪ Rockin' around the Christmas tree ♪
00:50 ♪ Let the Christmas spirit ring ♪
00:54 - Thanks to the surge from TikTok,
00:55 the song has gotten even bigger
00:57 and a lift this year more than ever.
00:58 Similar enough, that's how Carey's song
01:00 started coming back in the top spot
01:02 originally back in 2019 thanks to social media.
01:05 Thanks to the power of media
01:06 and Mariah being an icon that she is,
01:08 fans have been able to attribute the start of November
01:10 basically being Mariah Carey's season.
01:13 - It's hot!
01:14 - Though it was released in 1994,
01:19 the song first entered Billboard's Hot 100
01:21 in December of 2017 and the top five December of 2018.
01:25 Year over year, the song has increasingly gained momentum
01:27 on the Hot 100.
01:28 Back in 2020, the song remained at number one for two weeks.
01:31 In 2021, it topped the charts for three weeks
01:34 and last year, the song went as far as being in the top spot
01:36 for a total of four weeks in 2023.
01:38 The hit from Mariah also ties Carey to "Boys II Men"
01:41 as the only artist with three songs
01:42 that have topped the Hot 100 for 13 weeks or more each.
01:46 Carey previously wrote the melody and lyrics to the track
01:48 with another co-writer and producer.
01:50 The singer has also been sued twice
01:51 by songwriter Andy Stone, otherwise known as Vince Vance,
01:54 claiming the song was stolen from him.
01:56 The first lawsuit was filed in June of 2022
01:58 and later retracted.
01:59 A second case was filed in November of 2023 in Los Angeles,
02:03 but Carey has not commented on the allegations.
02:05 As of now, the viral song has nearly 800 million views
02:07 on YouTube and has brought in nearly $3 million of revenue
02:10 per year for Mariah Carey.