It's a week of chart milestones, as holiday songs hold down the top 24 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, Mariah Carey extends ...

Mariah Carey ‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” shines atop the Billboard Hot 100 ’s highest bough for a record-extending 22nd week, leading a record parade of holiday hits from the top of the chart ...

Last week, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" pulled into a three-way tie for the longest run at No. 1 of any song in the history of the Hot 100 singles chart. That's a significant ...

The first words Mariah Carey utters on her 16th studio album are quintessential diva. “I don’t care about much if it ain’t about Mi/Let the money talk first, conversations ain’t free.” Those lyrics in ...

More generally, festive songs ruled the top 24 of the latest Hot 100 chart. Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” and Ariana ...

That's not to suggest that "Old Town Road" and "A Bar Song" are the two biggest hits of all time. They're merely beneficiaries of a streaming landscape in which listeners are continually fed the same ...

This essay is part of HuffPost’s series “This Made Me,” a collection of stories about the pop culture that moves us. We republished this 2024 story just in time for the holidays. Now that Christmas is ...