The Queen of Christmas sets a new Official Chart record - Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You enters the Official Singles Chart Top 40 earlier than ever
It's the most wonderful time of year...to be Mariah Carey.
The Queen of Christmas is here…and we can finally get the festive season started.
The Official Charts Company can confirm that Mariah Carey returns to the Official Singles Chart Top 40 earlier than ever this week with her classic hit All I Want For Christmas Is You.
Originally issued in 1994, the track has now become a modern Christmas staple in the UK, appearing the dominate the Christmas Singles Chart each successive year.
As the track jumps 20 places to Number 36, it’s the earliest appearance for the song in the Top 40 ever, coming in on the 46th week of 2022 (chart published Friday 18 November). Previously, Mariah had re-entered during the 47th week in the years 2021 (26 Nov), 2020 (20 Nov) and 2017 (24 Nov).
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Just outside the Top 40 we also see further signs that several more festive staples will make their way back into the Official Singles Chart; Wham!’s record-breaking Number 1 Last Christmas (42) and Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (92) could be the first of many...
All I Want For Christmas Is You reached Number 1 for the first time in its then-26 year chart history in 2020, and last year managed to peak at Number 3 during the final chart of 2021.
But so far, the coveted Official Christmas Number 1 spot has eluded Mariah – can 2022 be her year?
Stay tuned to OfficialCharts.com over the next few weeks to find out!
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thierry henon
The QUEEN of Xmas is back baby and we love it!!!!!!!!
BleeUK
I'm not sure Mariah had her time dominating the singles current charts with the same Christmas song nearly every year , it was 1994 that song was released, in fact it maybe a classic so is a lot that maybe in our hearts, but we need to fresh up the current charts around christmas for the Top 40 with modern christmas song pass-through only, there should be a rule just like Asian music charts only released song that was made for the year pass thought, we need more than a acr blockage, and only have christmas songs that are from 2022 only! or to the selected year we are in, as there is lots, Sam Smith, Chris Brown, etc. and have the classic songs on a classic charts.
GA
Gerardo Amador
sounds like a good idea... have the X+ classics in a different chart...
Uwe B
Welcome Mariah - the undisputed QUEEN of Christmas!
Andrew
It was ruled this week that she is officially NOT the Queen of Christmas.
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MariahUK
No, it was not.
Andrew
Yes, it was.
Vangy Economou
does't matter. she is chosen by people as the ultimate Queen of Christmas. a trademark for merch doesn't make you or not making you a Queen. neither a chick with 400k total views can be the Queen of Christmas just because she does only xmas things... Mariah did apply for the tittle just for the name on merch cause otherwise she is more than a Queen of Christmas....
cristian camilo rendon jaramil
let's pretend that someone NOBODY knows about is the "Queen of Christmas" when Mariah breaks records and brings joy all over the world every single year. let me remind you that Mariah and her team dropped the trademark thing.
Mariah is the Queen of Christmas, you want it or not.
Uwe B
The Queen of Easter confirms that Mariah is the undisputed Queen of Christmas 🎄
GA
Gerardo Amador
Yeah, even Dolly Parton, whom Mariah dethrorned, declared last Monday that she acknowledges Mariah as the real Queen of Christmas...