In the latest Billboard issue, published today, it has been revealed that the song has finally reached a new peak of #9. After peaking just outside the top 10 at #11 a couple years ago, the Queen of Christmas finally gets her due and adds a new top 10 to her tally. The 28th to be exact.

Billboard reports that very few holiday songs have reached the top 10 and that Mariah’s smash is the only one to feature the word Christmas in its title out of them.

Some background info

“All I Want For Christmas Is You” was released in 1994 holiday season, as the first single from Mariah Carey’s first Christmas album, Merry Christmas.

Upon its release Billboard’s rules did not allow it to chart, as singles needed to have a commercial release to be able to enter the Hot 100. Nonetheless, the song proved to be a hit, reaching #12 on Hot 100 Airplay and the top 10 of the Top 40 and Adult Contemporary charts.

The song first charted on the Hot 100 in 2000, after album tracks were allowed to enter the charts, and peaked at #83. A peak that was an unfair representation of how huge the song would become in the following seasons.

Starting with the 2005 holiday season, in fact, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” became more and more popular, even reaching #1 on the Digital Songs chart that year. The song topped the Hot 100 Recurrents chart every year, gaining more and more cultural significance.

The last few years

After Whitney Houston’s untimely passing in 2012, Billboard decided that older tracks could be allowed back into the Hot 100 as long as they had enough traction to be in the top 50.

That same year, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” reached a new peak of #21 and it’s been inching closer and closer to the top 10 ever since.

Finally, this year’s top 10 placement can be considered a small victory for Mariah and her fans. Hoping it can reach an even higher mark.. who knows, maybe even next week?

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This week’s top 10 songs and albums on the Billboard charts (04/30 issue).

Hot 100
01. (01) Rihanna – “Work” ft. Drake (*9 weeks*)
02. (05) Desiigner – “Panda”
03. (02) Lukas Graham – “7 Years”
04. (03) Meghan Trainor – “No”
05. (04) ZAYN – “Pillowtalk”
06. (08) Mike Posner – “I Took a Pill in Ibiza”
07. (09) Fifth Harmony – “Work From Home” ft. Ty Dolla $ign
08. (06) Justin Bieber – “Love Yourself”
09. (12) DNCE – “Cake By the Ocean”
10. (10) G-Eazy x Bebe Rexha – “Me, Myself & I”

“Panda” inches up to #2 this week, with big gains on the streaming and digital fronts, where it advances to #1 and #4 respectively and a #32 debut in airplay. With all the components growing at a fast rate, the song is poised to be the next Hot 100 #1, finally putting an end to the run of “Work.”

Outside of the top 10 Drake moves up to #13 with “One Dance,” which is the top selling song of the week with 119,000 downloads shifted.

Billboard 200
01. (–) The Lumineers – Cleopatra
02. (–) Deftones – Gore
03. (02) Chris Stapleton – Traveller 
04. (01) Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
05. (06) Rihanna – ANTI 
06. (08) Justin Bieber – Purpose 
07. (10) twenty one pilots – Blurryface 
08. (07) ZAYN – Mind of Mine 
09. (09) Adele – 25
10. (03) Lukas Graham – Lukas Graham 

The Lumineers debut at #1 with their second album, Cleopatra. Their self-titled debut album, released in 2012, peaked at #2 and ended up selling 1.7 million copies thanks to the success of the hit single “Ho Hey.”

The other top 10 debut this week is Gore by Deftones. The album sold 69,000 copies and is their highest peaking release since 2003 and 5th top 10.

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay
01. (01) Rihanna – “Work” ft. Drake (*7 weeks*)
02. (02) Bryson Tiller – “Exchange”
03. (03) Jeremih – “oui”
04. (05) Luke Nasty – “Might Be”
05. (07) Kevin Gates – “2 Phones”
06. (04) Bryson Tiller – “Don’t”
07. (12) Desiigner – “Panda”
08. (06) Beyoncé – “Formation”
09. (08) Chris Brown – “Back to Sleep”
10. (09) Tory Lanez – “Say It”

Desiigner bursts into the top 10 with “Panda,” while Maxwell nabs the highest debut of the week at #30 with “Lake By the Ocean.”

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