Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” adds a fifth week to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 song chart, encompassing its entire run on the survey so far.
Meanwhile, four holiday classics return to the Hot 100 top 10: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” rising from No. 25 to No. 5; “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee (41-6); “Jingle Bell Rock” by Bobby Helms (50-9); and Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (a reentry at No. 10).
The Hot 100 mixes all US streaming genres (official audio and video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated December 3, 2022) will be updated on Billboard.com tomorrow (November 29). For all charting news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on Twitter and Instagram.
During the tracking week of November 18-24, “Anti-Hero”, released on Republic Records, had 65.1 million radio audience impressions (up 11%), 25.8 million streams (down 5%) and 12,000 sold (down 60%), according to Luminate.
The single climbs 4-2 for a new high on the Radio Songs chart; holds at No. 2 after two weeks atop Streaming Songs; and drops to No. 2 after two weeks atop Digital Song Sales.
While “Anti-Hero” tops the Hot 100 for a fifth week, Swift marks only her second longest reign, passing the four-week rule of “Shake It Off” in 2014. Among her nine No. 1s , both songs were beaten only by the seven-week dominance of “Blank Space” in 2014-15.
Four weeks ago, “Anti-Hero” soared to the top of the Hot 100, as Swift made history as the first artist to monopolize the entire top 10 of the chart in a single week, with all tracks from his new album. Midnights. Meanwhile, of the 64 singles that debuted atop the Hot 100, “Anti-Hero” is only the 12th to spend at least its first five weeks on the chart at No. 1, and the first since BTS’ “Butter” led in its first seven weeks in June-July 2021 (before pushing its total to 10 non-consecutive weeks at the top spot).
“Anti-Hero” also reached No. 1 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, becoming Swift’s ninth lead, and first since “Willow” for three weeks in April-May 2021. Among all acts since the chart debuted in Billboard‘s in March 1996, only Maroon 5 (15) and P!nk (10) landed more No. 1s. (While “Anti-Hero” also went up 6-3 on Pop Airplay, another Midnights cuts “Lavender Haze” bullets to No. 31 and debuts at No. 36 on Adult Pop Airplay, as it is now promoted as the set’s second pop radio single. Simultaneously, “Snow on the Beach” from the album, featuring Lana Del Rey, debuted at No. 36 on Adult Alternative Airplay.)
“Rich Flex” by Drake and 21 Savage records a third week on the Hot 100 at No. 2, dating back to its debut – when Drake placed eight songs in the top 10 (and 21 Savage, seven). The team has a third week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (30.9 million streams, down 14%), as well as a third week at the top of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot charts. Rap Songs, which uses the same methodology as the Hot 100.
Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ “Unholy” repeats at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after topping the Oct. 29 chart, as it leads Radio Songs for a second week (71.9 million viewership, up of 9%).
Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit” sits at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after three weeks at No. 1 in October. The track simultaneously topped the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs multimetric charts, Hot Rock Songs and Hot Alternative Songs for a 14th week each, and Hot R&B Songs for a 12th picture.
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” ranks 25-5 on the Hot 100, with 21.5 million streams (up 54%), 20.6 million streaming viewership impressions ( up 80%) and 3,000 sales (up 57%). It limits 17-3 on streaming songs, 35-14 on digital song sales and re-enters Radio Songs at No. 38. It also crowns the Holiday 100 multi-metric chart for a 52nd week, out of the total 57 weeks of the graph from the list launched in 2011; it has topped the chart for 37 consecutive weeks, dating to the start of the 2015-16 holiday season, and reigns as the No. 1 title on the Top 100 Songs of All Time chart.
The song sports a record-breaking history on the Hot 100, following its 1994 release on Carey’s 1994 album. Merry Christmas. As streaming grew during the 2010s and holiday music became more prominent in Yuletide playlists on multiple streaming services, Modern Singing reached the top 10 (reaching #9) for the first time in December 2017 and top five (#3) for the first time in the 2018 holiday season. In December 2019, it reached the top, 25 years after its original release, becoming the second holiday hit to reign supreme, after David Seville & the Chipmunks’ “The Chipmunk Song” spent four weeks at No. 1 beginning in December 1958.
“Christmas” became Carey’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1, as she extended her mark for the most soloists and moved into one of the Beatles’ top 20 overall records.
While “Christmas” topped the Hot 100 for three weeks on the charts from December 21, 2019 to January 4, 2020, Carey also became the first artist to rank No. 1 on the survey in four separate decades. The track again led for two weeks during the 2020 holiday season, overtaking “The Chipmunk Song” for the most for a Yuletide song, and reigned for three more frames during the 2021 holiday season, bringing its total to eight weeks at the #1.
Three other holiday staples also return to the Hot 100 top 10: Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” originally released in 1958 (41-6); “Jingle Bell Rock” by the late Bobby Helms, from 1957 (50-9); and the late Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” from 1964 (returning to No. 10 – as it became the first holiday song, and ninth song overall, to re-enter the Hot 100 in the top 10). Standards have peaked at numbers 2, 3, and 4, respectively, in each of the past three holiday seasons.
Elsewhere in the Hot 100 top 10, David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s “I’m Good (Blue)” remains at No. 7 and Harry Styles’ “As It Was” plunges 5-8, after 15 weeks at No. 1 from April, the fourth longest order in chart history.
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