Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ No. 1 as Holiday 100 Dashes Back for 2025 Season

As with all Billboard lists, we’ve made the Holiday 100 and checked it twice, as the ranking returns to Billboard’s charts menu. The survey ranks the top seasonal songs of all eras via the same formula used for the Billboard Hot 100, blending streaming, airplay and sales data.

Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” – which rises three spots to No. 8 on the Hot 100 – rules the Holiday 100 dated Nov. 29 for a 66th week of the chart’s 74 total weeks since the tally originated in 2011.

The only other Holiday 100 No. 1s to date: Justin Bieber’s “Mistletoe,” for a week in the 2011 holiday season; Pentatonix’s “Little Drummer Boy” (one, 2013) and “Mary, Did You Know?” (two, 2014); Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” (one, 2014); and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” – which reigned for three weeks on both the Holiday 100 and Hot 100 in 2023, granting the legendary singer a gift 65 years in the making, following the song’s 1958 release.

Carey’s carol is up on the Holiday 100’s housetop with 15.7 million streams (up 14% week-over-week), 9.7 million airplay audience impressions (up 82%) and 1,000 sold (up 13%) in the United States Nov. 14-20, according to Luminate.

The song also boasts top honors on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs chart.

“When I wrote [it], I had absolutely no idea the impact the song would eventually have worldwide,” Carey marveled of “All I Want for Christmas Is You” in 2021. “I’m so full of gratitude that so many people enjoy it with me every year.”

Rounding out the Holiday 100’s top five are Wham!’s 1984 anthem “Last Christmas” — at a new No. 2 high; Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (No. 3); Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957 (No. 4); and Grande’s “Santa Tell Me” (No. 5).

Meanwhile, three songs reach the Holiday 100 for the first time: Gwen Stefani’s new Amazon Music original, “Shake the Snow Globe” (No. 76); Skillet’s “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” also new this year (No. 79); and Lindsey Stirling’s “Carol of the Bells,” from 2017 (No. 82).

The entire latest Holiday 100, and all other seasonal charts — Top Holiday Albums, Holiday Streaming Songs, Holiday Airplay, Holiday Digital Song Sales, Holiday 100 Songwriters and Holiday 100 Producers — along with all additional rankings, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Nov. 25.