Completing a journey 25 years in the making, the 49-year-old half-Venezuelan American singer’s 1994 insta-holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” crowns the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, jingling 3-1 on the chart dated December 21, 2019.
Originally released in 1994 on Carey’s albumMerry Christmas, the modern classic reached the Hot 100‘s top 10 at last in December 2017 and rose to its prior No. 3 high last holiday season (and matched the rank last week).
Carey adds her 19th Hot 100 No. 1, extending her record for the most among soloists. She also moves to within one of The Beatles‘ overall-record 20 Hot 100 No. 1s.
Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is the second holiday No. 1 ever on the Hot 100, joining The Chipmunks‘ “The Chipmunk Song” (with David Seville), which ruled for four weeks in 1958-59.
Carey joins an elite club of acts with Hot 100 No. 1s in the 1990s, 2000s & 2010s. Its previously-inducted members: Christina Aguilera, Britney Spearsand Usher.
Carey’s decade-by-decade breakout: 14 No. 1s in the ’90s, four in the ’00s and now one in the ’10s.
Notably, no act has ever logged time at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in four distinct decades, consecutively or otherwise. Thus, if “Christmas” is No. 1 on the chart dated Jan. 4, two weeks from now, Carey would become the first artist to achieve the honor.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data.
The 49-year-old half-Venezuelan American Grammy-winning songstress is sharing a new video she recorded for Spotify as part of the streamer’s 25th anniversary celebration of the singer’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” single.
Carey’s perennial holiday chart-topper, with more than 520 million global streams on Spotify — where it is on 12 million playlists — is the centerpiece of a collaboration between the singer and the streaming service called Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You Experience.
The collection, out this week, is curated with original content that compliments the deluxe anniversary edition of Mariah’s Merry Christmasalbum and will “serve as the ultimate destination” for Carey fans around the world, according to Spotify.
The 37-track collection includes the title song, of course, as well as renditions of “Silent Night,” “O Holy Night,” “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” “Joy to the World,” “Santa Cluas is Comin’ to Town” as well as a number or remixes and tracks recorded live at St. John the Divine.
The 49-year-old half-Venezuelan American songstress makes her now-annual return to the Billboard Hot 100 with “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which re-enters at No. 39 on the November 23-dated chart.
The 1994 carol concurrently returns to the Streaming Songs list, up 58% to 15.2 million U.S. streams in the tracking week ending November 14, according to Nielsen Music.
“All I Want for Christmas is You” returns to both charts the earliest that it ever has since it began its yearly jaunt back onto the Hot 100 beginning in 2012. Last year, it re-entered at No. 29, and at No. 30 on Streaming Songs, on charts dated December 1, 2018. To compare, that week it drew 14.4 million streams, vs. this week’s 15.2 million.
The last time that the insta-holiday-classic scaled Streaming Songs, it dashed all the way to No. 1, crowning the January 5-dated chart with 51.9 million streams in the tracking week ending December 27 (which, of course, included Christmas Day).
Aiding its total this season, a new video, featuring unreleased footage from the original 1994 clip’s shoot, was released November 1 (with 54% of the song’s overall streams in the latest tracking week from video views).
While Carey boasts the first holiday song on the Hot 100 and Streaming Songs this season, chances are she won’t be alone for long. The closest Yuletide track below the 50-position Streaming Songs threshold, Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” shows 8.2 million streams, up 83%, followed by Brenda Lee‘s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (7.8 million, up 102%) and Burl Ives‘ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (7.3 million, up 75%).
The streaming total of “All I Want for Christmas is You” accounts for the bulk of its Hot 100 activity, although the song also drew 9.5 in airplay audience (up 217%) and sold 4,000 (up 1%) in the tracking week. Its airplay, as well as its streaming and sales, should only continue to surge as adult radio stations, among other formats, continue to flip to all-holiday music. The song scored 43 and 17 plays on KOSTLos Angeles and WLTW New York, respectively, in the week ending November 17, with both stations among those that have, ahead of Thanksgiving, begun decorating their playlists with wall-to-wall holiday songs.
Looking ahead to its expected radio run this season, ” All I Want for Christmas is You” has peaked with over 40 million in weekly all-format airplay audience in each of the past four holiday seasons.
As for the history of Carey’s holiday favorite on the Hot 100, it’s every bit as tangled as Christmas tree lights just taken down from the attic.
To recap, Carey’s album Merry Christmaswas originally released on November 1, 1994 (and rereleased this Nov. 1, coincidentally, the 100th and 125th anniversaries of the first Billboard magazine, dated Nov. 1 1894). However, ” All I Want for Christmas is You,” from the set, was not then made a commercially-available physical single (i.e., it was not available for purchase as a cassette or CD single on its own in stores) and, per rules at the time, was ineligible to chart on the Hot 100. Still, it became a big radio hit upon its arrival, reaching No. 12 on the Radio Songs chart that season.
In December 1998, all cuts became eligible for the Hot 100 and beginning in 2012, coinciding with the addition of streaming to the chart’s data feed, ” All I Want for Christmas is You ” has hit the Hot 100 annually since, as, per current rules, songs released years earlier are eligible to debut or return if ranking in the top 50 and are gaining in multiple metrics with a significant reason for their resurgences.
In December 2017, “Christmas” hit the Hot 100’s top 10 at last, while last season it rose to No. 3, becoming the highest-charting holiday hit since “The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville, led for four weeks beginning December 22, 1958.
A memoir by the 49-year-old half-Venezuelan American Grammy-winning singer is on the list of titles from Andy Cohen Books.
Henry Holt and Company announced this week that Cohen’s self-named imprint will launch in 2020. It says the imprint will feature three non-fiction works by women.
Carey’s memoir will be about her journey to superstar status.
She rose to fame in the early 1990s after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the U.S. Billboard 200 for eleven consecutive weeks. Soon after, Carey became the only artist ever to have their first five singles reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, from “Vision of Love” to “Emotions“.
Following her marriage to Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, Carey achieved worldwide success with follow-up albums Music Box, Merry Christmas, and Daydream.
The other works are The Queen V, by Dr. Jacqueline Waters, a cast member on Bravo’s Married to Medicine, and Bodacious Dreamsand Bevelations, by Bevy Smith, a former co-host of Page Six TV.
Cohen is the TV producer behind the Real Housewives Bravo franchise and host of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Holt is the publisher of Cohen’s three best sellers: Most Talkative, The Andy Cohen Diaries and Superficial.
Mariah Careyis proving to be the Queen of Christmas…
The 50-year-old half-Venezuelan American songstress and “All I Want for Christmas is You” singer has announced a holiday tour in the form of a limited engagement trek in five cities to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her iconic album Merry Christmas.
Carey’s festive tour will begin in November with a five-show holiday residency at Caesars Palacein Las Vegas, which was announced earlier this year. The new batch of dates includes five more shows in December, beginning in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on December 7, with the grand finale at New York’s Madison Square Gardenon December 15.
The All I Want For Christmas Is You Tour will feature tunes from Carey’s Merry Christmas as well as her biggest non-holiday hits.
Tickets for the All I Want For Christmas Is You Tour dates will go on sale October 4 at 10:00 am. local time. Those who pre-order the deluxe editionof Merry Christmas will have access to a pre-sale beginning October 1 at 11:00 am local time, and Mariah Carey fan club members will also be able to purchase tickets on October 1 at 10:00 a.m. local time.
Additionally, Citi cardmembers will have access to a presale beginning October 2 at 10:00 am local time. All presales will end on October 3 at 10:00 pm local time. (Tickets for her Las Vegas Christmas residency and 2020 shows are already available.)
Carey is spreading the holiday cheer even further with her Christmas tour, as $1 from each ticket sold will benefit Toys for Tots. The superstar also encourages fans to bring unwrapped toys to donate at each tour stop.
Here’s full list of Mariah Carey’s tour dates, including both her holiday shows and 2020 Las Vegas residency:
Mariah Carey All I Want For Christmas Is You presented by Hallmark Channel Tour Dates
Nov 22 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Nov 23 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Nov 27 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Nov 29 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Nov 30 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
Dec 7 — Atlantic City, NJ @ Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena Dec 9 — Washington, DC @ The Theater MGM National Harbor Dec 12 — Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena Dec 13 — Boston, MA @ Boch Center Wang Theatre Dec 15 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
The Butterfly Returns 2020
Feb 14, 2020 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Feb 15, 2020 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Feb 19, 2020 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Feb 21, 2020 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Feb 22, 2020 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
The 48-year-old Half-Venezuelan American singer has become the first artist to replace herself at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart since its inception in 2012.
The diva’s Merry Christmasleaps 4-1 on the ranking dated December 8 and deposes her own LP, Caution, which slips 1-8 in its second week.
Merry Christmas, released in 1994, earned 24,000 equivalent album units in the week ending November 29, according to Nielsen Music, while Caution netted 14,000 units sold.
As MerryChristmas ascends, Carey collects her third leader on the chart, following Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse, a one-week champ in 2014 and Caution.
In addition to its Top R&B Albums coronation, Merry Christmas also rallies 24-9 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and 50-19 on the Billboard 200.
Nearly 25 years after its debut, Merry Christmas consistently remains one of the top performing holiday albums each year, with its success largely traceable to “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” virtually a modern standard in the holiday catalog.
“All I Want for Christmas Is You” also makes its annual return to several Billboard charts, including a 29-14 surge on the Billboard Hot 100 and a 30-8 roar on Streaming Songs. The tune also inaugurates this year’s first edition of the seasonal Holiday 100 chart in a familiar spot — No. 1 — for its 31st week overall.
Disney-Pixar has unveiled the all-new cast of The Good Dinosaur, with the 13-year-old Latino actor voicing the character of Arlo, an Apatosaurus who is separated from his family when he falls into a raging river and is swept hundreds of miles away.
He comes across Spot (Jack Bright), a human cave-boy orphan with whom he forms a bond as he attempts to get home.
The new cast also includes Jeffrey Wright as Arlo’s dad, Poppa; Steve Zahn as a pterodactyl named Thunderclap; AJ Buckley as Nash, a T-rex; Anna Paquin as Ramsey the T-rex; Sam Elliott as a tough T-rex named Butch and Marcus Scribner as Arlo’s brother Buck.
The long-in-the-works animated film will hit theaters Thanksgiving week.
Originally set for release in summer 2014, the film has seen a number of obstacles since its original voice cast was unveiled at Disney’s D23 in August 2013. Raising Hope’s Lucas Neff was set as Arlo, with John Lithgow as Poppa, Frances McDormand as Momma and Bill Hader, Judy Greer and Neil Patrick Harris as Arlo’s siblings.
But just five weeks later, Disney announced that it had pushed Good Dinosaur back a year and a half as rookie feature director Pete Sohn stepped in for the departed Bob Peterson.
Ochoa, the younger brother of actor Ryan Ochoa, is best known for his roles in 10 Items or Less, Merry Christmas and Drake and Josh.
Ally Brooke Hernandez, Lauren Jauregui and Camila Cabello are getting into the holiday spirit…
The Latina singers and their fellow Fifth Harmony members have released a new video for the all-girl group’s cover of Mariah Carey’s 1994 holiday classic, “All I Want For Christmas Is You.”
The video comes out as Carey celebrates the 20-year anniversary of her popular Merry Christmas album.
Even though the clip shows The X Factor finalists showering each other with gifts, it appears they’d give it all up for whoever it is they’re singing about.
