Mariah Carey closed out the weekend with yet one more cultural milestone, this time by means of a digital lens. Her Here For It All vacation particular, created with Gamma, set a brand new report for the most-viewed TikTok Live within the platform’s historical past. The livestream drew hundreds of thousands throughout TikTok and Apple’s ecosystem, highlighting how audiences are shifting from conventional tv occasions to large-scale digital premieres. Even earlier than the particular aired, the anticipation surrounding it was plain: Carey’s announcement clip pulled in an unprecedented 65 million views, the very best complete TikTok has recorded for an announcement. The rollout and the livestream collectively marked a significant second for what dwell digital leisure can seem like.

At the identical time, Carey’s signature vacation anthem reached a stage no different music has touched. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has now spent 20 complete weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the longest cumulative reign within the chart’s 67-year existence. Originally launched in 1994, the music now surpasses the chart-topping period of single-cycle runs like Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” from 2024 and Lil Nas X’s 2019 hit “Old Town Road,” that includes Billy Ray Cyrus.

Carey has held this sort of report earlier than. In 1995–96, she and Boyz II Men led the Hot 100 for 16 weeks with “One Sweet Day,” a report that stood untouched for over 20 years. It was finally tied by “Despacito” in 2017 and overtaken by “Old Town Road.” What’s outstanding now could be that Carey breaks the all-time longevity report with a single launched earlier than “One Sweet Day.”

The vacation traditional has hit one other benchmark as properly: “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has reached 77 weeks on the Hot 100, matching Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” because the longest-charting music ever by a feminine artist.