The race to be named Christmas No. 1 for 2025 is well underway, and it's looking like it'll be a three-horse race between Kylie Minogue, Wham! and and charity single from Together for Palestine. Wham!

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During the Christmas season, it's hard to escape the cult hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey (56). Now it has impressively demonstrated its omnipresence with a new record. With its ...

Fri, November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM UTC The Top Holiday Albums chart ranks the 50 most popular seasonal albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album ...

The United Kingdom’s official number one for Christmas 2025 is Kylie Minogue’s XMAS – ending two years of domination from Wham’s Last Christmas. The 1984 classic from George Michael and Andrew ...

Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' extends the record for most weeks at No. 1 on the singles chart.

Mariah Carey’s festive smash-hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has been knocked off the top spot in the race for Christmas No.1 in the U.S. by Wham’s “Last Christmas” — with just seven days to go ...

As “All I Want for Christmas Is You” leads the Hot 100 for another turn, Mariah Carey becomes the first musician to rack up ...

That's not to suggest that "Old Town Road" and "A Bar Song" are the two biggest hits of all time. They're merely beneficiaries of a streaming landscape in which listeners are continually fed the same ...

Christmas season has officially arrived - at least on the Billboard charts. But NPR Music's Stephen Thompson says there's still plenty of new non-holiday music to choose from, led by a record-setting ...

Mariah Carey has officially broken the record for the longest reign atop the Billboard Hot 100, as “All I Want for Christmas Is You” spends its 20th week at No. 1. The perennial holiday anthem, which ...