Mariah Carey closed out the weekend with yet another cultural milestone, this time through a digital lens. Her Here For It All holiday special, created with Gamma, set a new record for the most-viewed TikTok Live in the platform’s history. The livestream drew millions across TikTok and Apple’s ecosystem, highlighting how audiences are shifting from traditional television events to large-scale digital premieres. Even before the special aired, the anticipation surrounding it was undeniable: Carey’s announcement clip pulled in an unprecedented 65 million views, the highest total TikTok has recorded for an announcement. The rollout and the livestream together marked a major moment for what live digital entertainment can look like.
At the same time, Carey’s signature holiday anthem reached a level no other song has touched. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has now spent 20 total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the longest cumulative reign in the chart’s 67-year existence. Originally released in 1994, the song now surpasses the chart-topping duration of single-cycle runs like Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” from 2024 and Lil Nas X’s 2019 hit “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.
Carey has held this type of record before. In 1995–96, she and Boyz II Men led the Hot 100 for 16 weeks with “One Sweet Day,” a record that stood untouched for over two decades. It was eventually tied by “Despacito” in 2017 and overtaken by “Old Town Road.” What’s remarkable now is that Carey breaks the all-time longevity record with a single released before “One Sweet Day.”
The holiday classic has hit another benchmark as well: “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has reached 77 weeks on the Hot 100, matching Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” as the longest-charting song ever by a female artist.
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