Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' reaches UK number 1 after 26 years

Mariah Carey’s festive hit 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' reaches Number 1 on the Official UK Singles Chart 26 years after its release, and breaks a record in the process, the Official Charts Company reports. Upon its original release in 1994, 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' peaked at Number 2, below East 17’s 'Stay Another Day'. Carey's hit summits in its 70th week in the Top 40, and sets a new chart record - no other song has spent more weeks in the Official Chart Top 40 before eventually reaching Number 1 in UK chart history. The song notched up 10.8 million streams over the last seven days – the most streams in a week by any song in 2020 so far.