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“All I Want for Christmas Is You” is a song by American singer Mariah Carey from her fourth studio album and first holiday album, Merry Christmas (1994). 

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” has returned to its peak at number-one every holiday season since. In doing so, the song became the longest-running holiday chart-topper and the first song in the chart’s history to reach the top spot in at least three separate chart runs. The only other song to reach number-one in two separate chart runs is Chubby Checker’s “The Twist”.With the song’s success on the chart, Carey also earned her record-extending 90th week at number one. 

On the US Rolling Stone 100, the song topped the charts during the week of December 12, 2019, becoming Carey’s first number-one song on the chart, and fourteenth overall to reach the top of the chart. It has become the first holiday ringtone to be certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Additionally, of songs recorded before the year 2000, it is the best-selling digital single by a woman, as well as the overall best-selling holiday digital single.

As of December 2019, total sales of the digital track according to Nielsen SoundScan was 3,588,000. On December 3, 2021, “All I Want for Christmas is You” was certified Diamond by the RIAA for selling 10 million units, becoming the first holiday song to achieve this, and making Carey the second female artist in history to have both a Diamond-certified single and album, following Taylor Swift. By December 20, 2021, the song has upped its U.S. totals to 4.3 billion in radio audience, 1.4 billion streams and 3.7 million in download sales. 

As of the issue dated January 6, 2024, it has topped the Billboard Holiday 100 chart for a record 60 cumulative weeks, of the chart’s 68 total weeks since the seasonal list launched in 2011; it has topped the tally for 43 consecutive weeks during the holidays from 2015 to 2023, when the streak was broken by Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”.No other song has spent more than three weeks at No. 1 on the Holiday 100 since the chart’s launch in 2011. On November 18, 2021, it was ranked as the #1 Greatest Holiday 100 Song of All Time by Billboard. 

In Canada, “All I Want for Christmas is You” topped the Canadian Hot 100 chart for the first time, on the issue dated January 5, 2019, becoming the first Christmas song to top the charts and giving Carey her eleventh number-one song in the country, and her first since “Heartbreaker” (1999), as well as her first chart-topping song on the Hot 100 era. Since then, it returned to the number-one spot for four consecutive years (from 2020 to 2024), spending to date, ten weeks atop. “All I Want for Christmas is You” remains Carey’s best-selling single in Canada.