Cher hits charts for first time in 21 years, Mariah Carey sets record

All anybody desires for Christmas is our nation’s pop divas dominating the music charts — and Cher and Mariah Carey delivered Santa-centric slays on the Billboard Hot 100 this vacation season.

Cher’s festive foray into Yuletide tunes led to the 77-year-old’s first entry on the U.S. chart in 21 years, as her dance-oriented vacation smash “DJ Play a Christmas Song” entered this week’s rating at No. 94 — her first positioning on the nation’s premier chart since 2002’s “Song for the Lonely” peaked at No. 85 over 20 years in the past.

The publication revealed the icon’s chart achievement the identical day Carey’s perennial vacation hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” notched its 14th total week at No. 1 on the chart, making Carey the one artist in music historical past to have three songs rule the Billboard Hot 100 for that time interval, after her Boyz II Men collaboration “One Sweet Day” led for 16 weeks from 1995 to 1996, and “We Belong Together” led for 14 weeks in 2005.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” first reached No. 1 in December 2019, 25 years after its unique launch. It has since returned to the highest place every year, amassing practically 2 billion streams on Spotify alone. The tune additionally prolonged Carey’s record because the artist with the most-ever non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, with the tune giving the performer her 93rd week atop the chart since she first launched her profession.

“When it first came out, it was more of a gradual thing,” Carey beforehand instructed EW in regards to the tune’s sustained success. “It was popular, but it didn’t have what it has now. I feel like people have grown up with the song and it’s become a part of people’s lives in terms of the way they celebrate the holidays. That makes me feel really proud as someone that loves Christmas so much.”

On the Billboard 200 albums chart, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” mother or father album Merry Christmas returned to the highest 10 this week, whereas Cher’s Christmas has so far topped out at No. 32. Cher promoted the album’s launch with a number of high-profile TV performances, together with one on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which was interrupted by a quick Christmas-colored glitch on the dwell broadcast.

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