Mariah Carey Celebrates ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Topping Hot 100 For Another Week While Fully Dressed in a Hot Tub

If all Mariah Carey wanted for Christmas is spending another week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, then she got it.

The Queen of Christmas toasted to her holiday staple “All I Want For Christmas Is You” spending another week atop the Hot 100 this week (chart dated Jan. 1, 2022) with a picture of her hot-tubbing in the snow-covered mountains while fully dressed in a lavish black gown.

“Feeling blessed and elated. Another week at #1 on the Hot 100! Thank you Lambily… ‘Love you till the end of time,’” she captioned the picture.

That marks the song’s seventh total week at No. 1, after “All I Want For Christmas Is You” spent three weeks at the top of the all-genre songs tally beginning in December 2019 and two more starting in December 2020, before it returned to the summit a week ago. In 2019, “Christmas” became MC’s 19th Hot 100 No. 1 hit, and she’s never forgotten it or let anyone else forget it.

In a recent video interview with Harper’s Bazaar, Mimi was asked how many No. 1 songs has she landed on the Hot 100 chart, and she correctly answered 19. But when someone from outside the camera’s view tried to correct her and say 18, the iconic hitmaker responded in her own defense, “No, no, no, dahling. It is 19…. I think I know how many No. 1s I’ve had on the Hot 100 chart because one of them was a holiday song, and it is ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You.’”

And while Christmas itself is over, “Christmas” is still the biggest song in the world, as it continues its chart-topping success on both the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Jan. 1).

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Bo Burnham & Kid Cudi Vinyl Releases Spur Big Gains on Top Album Sales Chart

The vinyl releases of Bo Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) and Kid Cudi’s Man On the Moon III: The Chosen pushes both albums back onto Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Jan. 1, 2022)  — and straight into the top five.

On the Top Album Sales chart, Inside (The Songs) re-enters at No. 3 (a new high, and its first week in the top 10) with 44,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 23 (up 15,220%; and easily the album’s best sales week). The album was released on vinyl and CD for the first time on Dec. 17. Of its 44,000 sold for the week, vinyl sales comprised 36,000; CD sales comprised 8,000 and digital download sales comprised a negligible sum.

Inside (The Songs) was initially released on June 10 as a digital download and via streaming services. It spent five weeks on Top Album Sales (the June 19 through July 17-dated charts) and then left the tally until it re-entered this week.

Meanwhile, Kid Cudi’s Man On the Moon III: The Chosen also scores a new high on Top Album Sales, as it re-enters at No. 4 (surpassing its previous high-water mark of No. 10) with 42,000 sold (up 4,359%; its best sales week). The Chosen dropped on vinyl LP for the first time on Dec. 17. Vinyl sales comprised 41,500 of the album’s sales for the week.

The Chosen was originally released on Dec. 11, 2020 as a digital album and via streaming services. Its CD edition arrived on June 18. It previously notched two nonconsecutive weeks on Top Album Sales (Dec. 26, 2020 and July 3, 2021-dated charts).

Inside (The Songs) and The Chosen have now sold 67,000 and 81,000 copies since their original release, across all of their available retail formats (physical and digital combined), in the U.S.

Ahead of both albums on Top Album Sales are Adele’s 30, which is steady at No. 1 for a fifth straight week, selling 180,000 copies (up 23%). Taylor Swift’s former leader, Red (Taylor’s Version), is a non-mover at No. 2 with 47,000 sold (up 40%).

On Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart, which ranks the top-selling vinyl albums of the week, The Chosen and Inside (The Songs) debut at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. Adele’s 30 remains at No. 1 for a fifth straight week on Vinyl Albums, with 59,000 copies sold on vinyl.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now MRC Data. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

NCT’s Universe: The 3rd Album, Neo Culture Technology debuts at No. 5 on Top Album Sales with 37,000 copies sold. It’s the second top 10 – and top five – effort for the ensemble, which previously hit No. 2 with Resonance, Pt. 1 (Oct. 31, 2020-dated chart). Like many K-pop releases, the CD edition of the album was issued in two collectible packages, each with randomized internal paper goods (such as photo cards, postcards and stickers). The album was only available on CD and as a digital download – and 99.5% of its sales came from its CDs. The digital album sold a negligible sum for the week.

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour falls 4-6 with 33,000 sold (though up 21%), Billie Eilish’s chart-topping Happier Than Ever dips 5-7 with 26,000 (up 41%), TWICE’s Formula of Love: O+T=<3 jumps 21-8 with 24,000 (up 118%), Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas slips 7-9 with 24,000 (up 40%) and The Beatles’ Let It Be descends 6-10 with 23,000 (up 34%).

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Kane Brown Teases New Song ‘Whiskey Sour’ in a Home Video: Watch

Kane Brown has new music on the way in 2022, and the singer-songwriter gave fans an early listen to a new song, “Whiskey Sour,” which will release Jan. 14.

“I love getting to sing other people’s stories!” Brown captioned an Instagram video of himself singing the new track on Dec. 26.

The ballad marks one of Brown’s more traditional country-sounding releases, highlighting his smooth baritone over sparse, acoustic guitars. Meanwhile, the lyrics center on a story of a romance gone wrong.

While the first verse focuses on two young lovers hopeful about their future together, that relationship quickly fizzles, with Brown singing, “It only took a month or so to be someone you used to know.”

Longtime fans of Brown know he’s just as capable at delivering a traditional-leaning country song as he is at his more pop-fueled radio hits. Early on in his career, Brown started building his fanbase by recording cover renditions of hits from artists including Randy Travis and George Strait, before earning his own breakout hit “Used to Love You Sober.” During this year’s CMT Artists of the Year ceremony, Brown paid homage to one of his musical heroes, Travis, by performing his hit “Three Wooden Crosses.”

Brown has been hard at work on the followup to his 2018 full-length project Experiment, and his 2020 EP Mixtape, Vol. 1., which included his hit “Worldwide Beautiful.” That song earned Brown his first Academy of Country Music award, for video of the year.

During a recent interview with Apple Music’s Today’s Country Radio, Brown told Kelleigh Bannen that he pushed back the upcoming album’s release date.

“I’m not going to say when, but I did push my album back,” Brown said. “But I think I am going to release songs hopefully once every other month leading up to it.”

He also mentioned that the new album will again find Brown exploring new musical sounds and textures.

“None of them sound the same, which is another thing that I’ve been thinking about,” he said of the songs on the project. “I tried to go the old-school route, but then I got too old school … I like different music.”

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Madonna Calls Out Tory Lanez for ‘Illegal Usage’ of ‘Into the Groove’

Madonna has implied Tory Lanez sampled one of her classic songs without permission.

The Queen of Pop left a note for Lanez on one of his recent Instagram posts, indicating that she’d already tried to message him privately regarding his new track “Pluto’s Last Comet” sounding like “Into the Groove.”

“Read your messages for illegal usage of my song get into the groove!” Madonna wrote in a public comment from her own verified Instagram account, in an attempt to get his attention.

It remains unclear whether Lanez, who’s name has also been in December headlines due to his trial on felony assault and gun charges for allegedly shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020, has read Madonna’s message or responded to her since she left the comment his post.

Representatives for both artists did not immediately respond to Billboard‘s request for comment on Monday (Dec. 27).

“Into the Groove,” written and produced by Madonna and Stephen Bray, was first featured in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan, starring Madonna in the title role. “Pluto’s Last Comet,” written by Lanez and produced by Orlando tha Great and Chaz Jackson, was just released this month on Lanez’s ’80s-inspired Alone at Prom project.

Listen to both songs below.

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Alternative Pop Singer SkyDxddy Releases Newest Track ‘Hold Me’

Florida artist SkyDxddy has just dropped their newest track “Hold Me,” a song dedicated to members of the LGBTQ community struggling with mental illness and self doubt. The song details SkyDxddy’s own battles with depression and how it feels as close friends and family ignore early cries for help.

“‘Hold Me’ is a song I wrote at a dark time in my life. A time when I tried to speak up for myself and I was only met with judgment and gaslighting,” the gender fluid musician from a small town in Virginia tells Billboard. “I truly just wanted to be held while I cried and told I was going to be OK, and that never happened. No one should be in a relationship with someone who doesn’t love all their parts, even the broken ones.”

SkyDxddy’s music has already racked up four million streams on Spotify, gaining the support of Grammy-nominated producer and former Linkin Park manager Jeff Blu. “Hold Me” is a follow-up track to “Overwhelmed,” produced by Marky Styles.

Check out “Hold Me” below.

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Rihanna Remembers Her Late Cousin Tavon Four Years After His Murder in Barbados: ‘Miss You and Dat Smile’

Rihanna is paying tribute to her late cousin, Tavon Kaiseen Alleyne, four years after his murder in Barbados.

The 33-year-old singer and Fenty founder took to social media on Sunday (Dec. 26) to honor Alleyne with a series of heartfelt photos, many of which featured her lovingly posing alongside him.

“Miss you and dat smile cuz,” Rihanna captioned the emotional post on Instagram, adding the hashtag #Tavon.

Alleyne, 21, was shot and killed on Dec. 26, 2017. At the time, local news outlet Nation News reported that he was shot around 7 p.m. while walking by a track near his home in St. Michael, Barbados, when a man shot him multiple times and fled the scene.

Rihanna shared the tragic news in a heartbreaking Instagram post at the time. “RIP cousin… can’t believe it was just last night that I held you in my arms! never thought that would be the last time I felt the warmth in your body!!! Love you always man!” she wrote alongside a series of pictures with her cousin, concluding with the hashtag #endgunviolence.

Rihanna later attended Alleyne’s funeral in her native Barbados. After the emotional “celebration” of her cousin’s life, the singer shared a dedication on her Instagram Story, along with a photo of Alleyne’s casket adorned with flowers.

“Sleep well buddy..we are at peace knowing you’re in a better place than we are. We will always have a void without you, but we will never stop loving you,” she wrote. “Hope you were happy with your going away celebration today.”

See Rihanna’s heartfelt post below.

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Adele’s ‘30’ Continues Hot Streak on Billboard 200, Spends Fifth Week at No. 1

Adele’s 30 continues its hot streak on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set locks in a fifth consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the tally (dated Jan. 1, 2022). The set earned 212,000 equivalent album units (up 16%) in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 23, according to MRC Data.

30 bowed at No. 1 on the chart dated Dec. 4 with 839,000 units earned. It then saw its second, third, fourth and fifth weeks tally 288,000, 193,000, 183,000 and 212,000 units, respectively.

30 logs the biggest fifth week for any album in over three years, since Adele’s last album, 25, was No. 1 in its fifth week, on the Jan. 9, 2016-dated chart, with 1.19 million units earned.

Plus, 30 is the first album to tally three weeks of at least 200,000 units in over three years, since Drake’s Scorpion saw its first three frames all clear the 200,000-unit mark.

30 is the fourth album released in 2021 to spend at least five weeks at No. 1 in total on the Billboard 200, following Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (10), Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy (five each).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan 1, 2022-dated chart (where 30 spends a fifth week at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 29 (one day later than usual, owed to the holiday week). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of 30’s 212,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 23, album sales comprise 180,500 (up 23%), SEA units comprise 30,000 (down 14%; equaling 40.63 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,500 units (up 6%).

Adele’s total weeks at No. 1, across all three of her No. 1 albums (21, 25 and 30), now rises to 39. She logged 24 weeks at No. 1 with 21 in 2011-12, 10 weeks with 25 in 2015-16 and now five weeks with 30 in 2021-22.

With 39 weeks total at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Adele now ties Elton John for the eighth-most weeks at No. 1 since the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March of 1956. Ahead of them are The Beatles (132), Elvis Presley (67), Taylor Swift (55), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), The Kingston Trio and Whitney Houston (both with 46).

Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas jumps 4-2 on the new Billboard 200, earning 77,000 equivalent album units (up 19%). During the tracking week, NBC TV aired an encore presentation of Bublé’s latest special, Michael Bublé’s Christmas in the City, which premiered Dec. 6.

Christmas spent five weeks at No. 1 in late 2011 and early 2012 and has returned to the top 10 in every Christmas season since.

Swift’s former No. 1 Red (Taylor’s Version) is a non-mover at No. 3 with 76,000 equivalent album units earned (up 12%).

Roddy Ricch’s new album Live Life Fast debuts at No. 4 with 62,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 57,500 (equaling 76.51 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album sales comprise 3,500 and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Live Life Fast is the second top five-charting Billboard 200 entry for Roddy Ricch, following his last album, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, which spent four weeks at No. 1 in 2019-20.

Rodrigo’s chart-topping Sour is steady at No. 5 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (up 2%).

Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack hits a new high, rising 8-6, surpassing its previous high reached a week earlier. The album earned 61,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 23 (up 37%).

A Charlie Brown Christmas was released in 1965 and did not reach any Billboard ranking until 1987. That year, it debuted on the Top Holiday Albums chart, where it later peaked at No. 2 (Jan. 27, 2007). The album first reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 dated Jan. 2, 2021, when it rose to No. 10.

Mariah Carey‘s festive Merry Christmas is steady at No. 7 with 56,000 equivalent album units earned (up 26%).

Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song returns to the top 10, climbing 11-8, with 55,000 equivalent album units earned (up 28%). The set has so far peaked at No. 6 (on the Jan. 2, 2021-dated tally).

Juice WRLD’s Fighting Demons falls 2-9 in its second week on the Billboard 200, earning 52,000 equivalent album units (down 57%).

Bo Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) makes an eye-catching return to the top 10, as the album re-enters the chart at No. 10. The set earned 50,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 23 (up 721%) following its release on CD and vinyl on Dec. 17. It was previously only available via streaming services and to purchase as a digital download album. Of its unit total for the week, album sales comprise 44,500 (up 15,220%), SEA units comprise nearly 5,500 (down 9%) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Inside (The Songs) debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the June 26, 2021-dated chart.

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