1. Mariah s back at No. 1 for the second December in a row. How do you feel about the prospect of All I Want for Christmas Is You becoming a perennial No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 is it still charming or is it getting a little overwhelming?
Katie Atkinson: Still charming! If the chart is supposed to represent what s most popular at any given moment, All I Want and Christmas music in general is on a nonstop streaming loop at my house, so it s definitely capturing what s most popular for me.
Gab Ginsberg: I’m all for it! All I Want For Christmas Is You is a modern Christmas classic, and it’s impossible not to smile whenever and wherever I hear it playing. The Queen of Christmas DESERVES and I think this song should be No. 1 every year forever. Like decorating the tree, hanging up the stockings and getting sick off Baileys, “All I Want” hitting No. 1 is now holiday tradition.
Mariah Carey is the undisputed queen of Christmas. It has been reported that her song “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is the most-streamed holiday single of all time, beating out other hits like “This Christmas” by Donny Hathaway and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” by the Jackson 5.
After two decades since the release of the holiday classic, the single has also shot to the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second year in a row. Since Carey debuted the cheery song in 1996, it has since become a staple on spirited playlists across the globe.
It was also the first song in history to go number #1 in four different decades. Carey gets extra kudos for co-writing and co-producing the song, only working with frequent collaborator and superstar, Walter Afanasieff.
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Listen to August Burns Red’s cover of Chop Suey! by System Of A Down.
Words: Emily Carter
Fresh from their metal instrumental cover of Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, August Burns Red have turned their focus back onto the world of heavy music and tackled System Of A Down’s classic single Chop Suey!.
“After years of playing Chop Suey! over the PA system right before we took the stage at our shows, we decided to take a crack at the song ourselves,” explains guitarist JB Brubaker. “This is truly one of the most legendary rock/metal songs of all time and it was so much fun to cover.
Mariah Carey is becoming synonymous with Christmas.
The worldwide superstar’s hit song, “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” has returned to No. 1 on the
Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart again. The record first topped the chart in 2018 and again the next year, making this the third holiday season in a row that it’s a major hit.
Global icon Mariah Carey is shown announcing the “Mariah Carey Christmas Factory” during the Sept. 2017 grand opening of Sugar Factory American Brasserie in Bellevue, Washington. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images for Sugar Factory American Brasserie)
The song joins
Brenda Lee’s 1958 favorite “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” by