For the first time in the history of Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart, nine of the top 10 are holiday titles.
The Dec. 19-dated tally finds Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” perched atop the list for a second straight week, followed by a slew of holiday-themed songs — nine in all in the top 10, including the entirety of the top five.
It’s the most holiday titles in the chart’s top 10 in its nearly eight-year history, topping the eight that made the top 10 toward the Jan. 4, 2020, survey, whose tracking week contained Christmas 2019. Before then, the record had been seven, accrued on the ranking dated Jan. 5, 2019 (Christmas 2018).
Holiday song dominance comes early this year; despite already setting the all-time top 10 record for the chart, the latest list covers the tracking period of Dec. 4-10, with Dec. 25 contained as part of the Streaming Songs tally dated Jan. 9, 2021, this year — three chart refreshes away.
“All I Want for Christmas Is You” reigns for a seventh total week on Streaming Songs with 31.4 million U.S. streams, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It’s followed by Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” at 29.2 million streams. The only non-seasonal song in Streaming Songs’ top 10? Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez’s “Dakiti,” with 19.8 million streams, at No. 6.
The Dec. 19-dated Streaming Songs list sees 29 holiday songs in all, one of which is a debut: Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” at No. 44 (11 million streams). The all-time record on the 50-position list, 31, is likely to be beaten before the end of the holiday season; that mark was also set on the Jan. 5, 2019, ranking and equaled a year later (Jan. 4, 2020).
Meanwhile, with 29 concurrent holiday songs on the Billboard Hot 100 (which ranks the most popular songs of the week by blending streaming, sales and airplay data), the Dec. 19-dated charts has the most concurrently charting holiday titles in its history.
