Mariah Carey is charged back with a vengeance this holiday season…
The 52-year-old half-Venezuelan American Grammy-winning singer’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” dashes from No. 5 to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, adding a ninth total week atop the tally since the list launched in 2020.
The insta-classic holiday song reached the summit with 64.5 million streams (up 47%) and 8,000 sold (up 62%) worldwide in the November 25-December 1 tracking week.
The 1994 modern holiday classic adds a ninth week at No. 1, after it topped the chart for four weeks each in the 2020 and 2021 holiday seasons. Notably, the song leads a week earlier this year, on the chart dated December 10, than in the past two years, as it first hit No. 1 on the December 19, 2020, survey and returned to the top of the chart dated December 18, 2021.
The global charts, which began in September 2020, ranks songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Billboard Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data.
Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.