Mariah Carey has responded to ‘All I Need For Christmas Is You’ breaking the file for the longest-running Quantity One single within the US.
Final week noticed the pop star’s 1994 festive hit obtain a record-breaking twentieth week on the high spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 – 31 years after its preliminary launch.
The observe surpassed the joint Quantity One runs of two hits: Shaboozey’s ‘A Bar Music (Tipsy)’ in 2024, and Lil Nas X’s ‘Outdated City Highway’ (that includes Billy Ray Cyrus) in 2019.
Over six years in the past, the latter music grew to become the longest-running US Quantity One single of all time. ‘A Bar Music (Tipsy)’ then tied with ‘Outdated City Highway’, with 19 non-consecutive weeks on the high of the Scorching 100.
When Billboard requested Carey how she felt about smashing the file, she replied: “It’s superb. Actually, it truly is. I can’t lie.”
The singer’s 1995 single ‘One Candy Day’ with Boys II Males beforehand loved a stint because the Scorching 100’s longest-running Quantity One single, incomes 16 weeks on the high spot.
“It was robbed of me,” she advised the publication of Lil Nas X taking her crown. “I used to be upset. However what are you gonna do?”
The 16-week mark has since been matched by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber‘s ‘Despacito’, and Morgan Wallen‘s ‘Final Night time’. Harry Kinds, in the meantime, achieved 15 weeks with ‘As It Was’.
Carey went on to say she “had no concept” that ‘All I Need For Christmas Is You’ could be the observe to get her the title again: “That simply grew to become such a factor that I by no means may have predicted it ever, so…”
When requested how excessive the one may attain past its present 20 weeks, the star stated: “I don’t know […] At a sure level it’s not Christmas anymore, and you already know, effectively, however I adore it.”
Carey concluded by saying she could be having fun with the festive interval together with her latest ‘Christmastime In Las Vegas’ residency, which wrapped up final weekend. “So we’re doing this each night time, however actually I simply wish to be celebrating it,” she continued.
Sharing a put up on Instagram, the artist advised her followers that she was “humbly taking again the torch” by breaking the file as soon as once more. “20 weeks at #1. I’m so grateful ❤️,” she added.
This time final 12 months, Carey celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of her Christmas basic with a sequence of particular releases.
‘All I Need For Christmas Is You’ lastly topped the US and UK charts in 2019 and 2020, respectively, two-and-a-half many years after its unique launch.
Chatting with NME in 2021, Carey mirrored on making the snowy video for the one. “Effectively, I bear in mind sure issues that weren’t nice about that point, however I additionally see my true happiness shining by,” she defined.
“Somebody smarter than myself prompt I do a Christmas album as a younger, younger lady and I used to be like: ‘Hmmm – doesn’t that occur later in life?’ After which I stated, ‘However you already know what? I like Christmas!’”
