Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' Hits No. 1 In The US For The First Time Ever

Twenty-five years after its release, “All I Want For Christmas Is You ” by Mariah Carey has summited the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time ever to become the No. 1 song in the country.

The multiplatinum recording artist now has 19 No. 1 songs to her name, including classics like “Vision of Love,” “Emotion” and “We Belong Together,” extending her record as the soloist with the most No. 1 hits in history.

Carey is just one smash single away from overtaking The Beatles, who hold the overall all-time record with 20 Hot 100 No. 1s.

“We did it,” the “Caution” singer, wrote in reaction to the news on Twitter Monday, adding a handful of emojis including a butterfly and a lamb, both long-held emblems of her fandom.

This marks Carey’s first time sitting atop the charts since her 2008 pop earworm “Touch My Body.” 

Co-written by musician Walter Afanasieff and by a then 24-year-old Carey, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” was released in 1994 off her “Merry Christmas” album. It previously peaked at No. 3 on the charts in 2018. 

The modern Christmas classic now ranks as the highest-charting holiday song in over 60 years. Chipmunks’ (with David Seville) “The Chipmunk Song ” is the only other holiday song to hold the title, previously topping the charts for weeks from 1958 to 1959.

Carey, who completed a limited-engagement All I Want For Christmas tour on Sunday night, has been doubling down on the season this year in an effort to boost the song’s prospects on the Billboard charts. 

Apart from a dynamic social media campaign that included the singer ushering in the Christmas cheer on the first day of November, she’s also dropped unseen footage from the original music video, rereleased a deluxe anniversary edition of the “Merry Christmas” album and partnered with Amazon on a mini-documentary about the song’s history.

Carey recently appeared on a “Billy on the Street” segment , in which she revealed the hit only took her an hour and a half to write.