Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas” album cover released in 1994. [소니뮤직 제공=연합뉴스]
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Mariah Carey’s Christmas song “All I Want For Christmas Is You” (hereinafter “Christmas”) ran backward to the top of the billboard at the end of this year following last year. ‘Christmas’ is also called Carrie’s’Christmas Pension’ by running backwards on the music charts around the world at the end of the year.
On the 14th (local time), Billboard announced through a notice that this song took first place on the main single chart of this week,’Hot 100′.
‘Christmas’ re-entered to 29th place in’Hot 100′ last month, and as the end of the year approaches, the rankings gradually climbed to 14th and 2nd, and reached the top a week before Christmas.
Earlier on the 11th,’Christmas’, along with Billboard, ranked first on the British official singles chart, which is one of the world’s two largest pop charts.
It’s been 26 years since it was released in 1994, and this is the first song that Carol has won the Billboard and Official Charts at the same time.
‘Christmas’ is the lead single of Carrie’s first carol album,’Merry Christmas’. It has long been loved as a staple for a long time with the sound of a Christmas atmosphere such as a chime and a synthesizer and the romantic lyrics of’You need to be for Christmas’.
Since its release, it has been exposed to about 4.1 billion radio listeners in the US alone, and has recorded 1 billion streaming and 3.7 million music downloads.
Last year, it reached the top of the’Hot 100′ after 25 years and maintained its position for 3 weeks. It was the first time in 60 years that a song related to Christmas reached #1 on this chart.
In particular, as it reached the top again this time, this song became a Christmas song that held the No. 1 position for the longest time with’The Chipmonk Song’ released by The Chipmonks and David Seville in 1958.
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Carrie said on her Twitter that day, “It was something I really didn’t expect,” and “I am always grateful for the success of this song. “Merry Christmas” left a thank you.
Meanwhile, in this week’s Billboard Hot 100, not only’Christmas’ but also Brenda Lee’Rokin Around the Christmas Tree’ (3rd place), Bobby Helms”Jingle Bell Rock’ (5th place), Andy Williams’Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year’ Five carols such as'(6th place) were in’Top 10′.
Reporter Lee Ji-young [email protected]
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