BILLBOARD HOT 100

 

Week ending December 16, 2023 | Tracking period: 12/1–12/7

 

TW LW PP WC Artist – Song

 

01 01 01 55 Brenda Lee ‒ Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

02 02 01 62 Mariah Carey ‒ All I Want For Christmas Is You

03 04 03 53 Bobby Helms ‒ Jingle Bell Rock

04 05 04 35 Wham! ‒ Last Christmas

05 03 01 04 Jack Harlow ‒ Lovin On Me (BIGGEST AIRPLAY GAIN)

06 06 04 36 Burl Ives ‒ A Holly Jolly Christmas

07 07 01 31 Taylor Swift ‒ Cruel Summer

08 10 05 36 Andy Williams ‒ It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

09 09 02 52 SZA ‒ Snooze

10 08 01 18 Doja Cat ‒ Paint The Town Red

 

11 16 06 29 Jose Feliciano ‒ Feliz Navidad

12 13 08 28 Dean Martin ‒ Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

13 17 12 24 Kelly Clarkson ‒ Underneath The Tree

14 14 10 25 The Ronettes ‒ Sleigh Ride

15 19 09 41 Nat King Cole ‒ The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)

16 11 07 12 Tate McRae ‒ Greedy

17 18 12 21 Ariana Grande ‒ Santa Tell Me

18 23 12 32 Bing Crosby, Ken Darby Singers & John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra ‒ White Christmas

19 12 01 15 Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves ‒ I Remember Everything

20 15 10 10 Tyla ‒ Water

 

21 27 15 19 Darlene Love ‒ Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

22 20 01 45 Morgan Wallen ‒ Last Night

23 28 16 10 Nat King Cole ‒ Deck The Halls

24 32 24 10 Elvis Presley ‒ Blue Christmas

25 31 20 17 Michael Buble ‒ It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

26 22 07 40 Morgan Wallen ‒ Thinkin' Bout Me

27 46 27 02 Taylor Swift ‒ You're Losing Me (From The Vault) (BIGGEST STREAMING GAIN)

28 30 20 11 Frank Sinatra ‒ Jingle Bells

29 24 14 11 Doja Cat ‒ Agora Hills

30 21 01 06 Taylor Swift ‒ Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault]

 

31 40 25 17 Gene Autry ‒ Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)

32 25 02 37 Luke Combs ‒ Fast Car

33 26 16 24 Gene Autry & The Pinafores ‒ Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

34 44 33 08 Jackson 5 ‒ Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

35 42 10 19 Chuck Berry ‒ Run Rudolph Run

36 43 31 09 Thurl Ravenscroft ‒ You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch

37 39 04 25 Gunna ‒ Fukumean

38 35 23 12 Paul Russell ‒ Lil Boo Thang

39 33 11 09 Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA ‒ Rich Baby Daddy

40 36 13 36 Jelly Roll ‒ Need A Favor

 

41 34 01 09 Drake feat. J. Cole ‒ First Person Shooter

42 38 19 25 Jelly Roll & Lainey Wilson ‒ Save Me

43 RE 35 06 Eartha Kitt & Henri Rene And His Orchestra ‒ Santa Baby

44 51 31 10 Noah Kahan ‒ Stick Season

45 37 01 23 Olivia Rodrigo ‒ Vampire

46 41 08 15 Miley Cyrus ‒ Used To Be Young

47 49 28 10 Paul McCartney ‒ Wonderful Christmastime

48 29 12 20 Perry Como And The Fontane Sisters & Mitchell Ayres And His Orchestra ‒ It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

49 45 14 21 Billie Eilish ‒ What Was I Made For?

50 RE 29 05 The Beach Boys ‒ Little Saint Nick

 

51 52 11 04 Dua Lipa ‒ Houdini

52 54 39 17 Teddy Swims ‒ Lose Control

53 50 12 20 Chris Stapleton ‒ White Horse

54 48 25 17 Usher, Summer Walker & 21 Savage ‒ Good Good

55 53 26 11 Mitski ‒ My Love Mine All Mine

56 55 02 09 Drake feat. Yeat ‒ IDGAF

57 ** 57 01 Beyonce ‒ My House (HOT SHOT DEBUT)

58 57 11 19 Travis Scott ‒ I Know ?

59 56 05 08 Bad Bunny ‒ Monaco

60 60 47 06 Nate Smith ‒ World On Fire

 

61 61 48 12 Victoria Monet ‒ On My Mama

62 62 46 13 Warren Zeiders ‒ Pretty Little Poison

63 65 40 05 Fuerza Regida & Marshmello ‒ Harley Quinn

64 77 64 04 JID feat. 21 Savage & Baby Tate ‒ Surround Sound

65 64 51 11 Lil Tecca ‒ 500lbs

66 58 11 03 Drake ‒ You Broke My Heart

67 59 56 05 Olivia Rodrigo ‒ Can't Catch Me Now

68 66 52 12 Kenya Grace ‒ Strangers

69 69 42 09 Jessie Murph & Jelly Roll ‒ Wild Ones

70 68 11 13 Olivia Rodrigo ‒ Get Him Back!

 

71 63 34 03 Tate McRae ‒ Exes

72 80 05 05 Jung Kook ‒ Standing Next To You (BIGGEST SALES GAIN)

73 70 14 41 Morgan Wallen ‒ Everything I Love

74 71 55 25 HARDY ‒ Truck Bed

75 78 28 17 Karol G & Peso Pluma ‒ Qlona

76 81 68 10 Maluma & Carin Leon ‒ Segun Quien

77 76 55 09 Cody Johnson ‒ The Painter

78 73 03 09 Drake ‒ Virginia Beach

79 ** 79 01 Noah Kahan & Gracie Abrams ‒ Everywhere, Everything

80 75 30 12 Rod Wave ‒ Great Gatsby

 

81 67 57 10 Dylan Scott ‒ Can't Have Mine

82 83 61 10 Calle 24 x Chino Pacas x Fuerza Regida ‒ Que Onda

83 84 83 03 Luke Combs ‒ Where The Wild Things Are

84 74 02 06 Taylor Swift ‒ Now That We Don't Talk (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault]

85 82 77 07 Parker McCollum ‒ Burn It Down

86 85 14 15 Zach Bryan feat. The War And Treaty ‒ Hey Driver

87 87 37 04 Noah Kahan & Hozier ‒ Northern Attitude

88 89 84 06 Dan + Shay ‒ Save Me The Trouble

89 88 20 08 Bad Bunny & Feid ‒ Perro Negro

90 94 68 15 Grupo Frontera & Grupo Firme ‒ El Amor de Su Vida

 

91 96 91 08 Luke Bryan ‒ But I Got A Beer In My Hand

92 72 05 09 Jung Kook & Jack Harlow ‒ 3D

93 ** 93 01 BigXthaPlug ‒ Mmhmm

94 93 03 19 Travis Scott feat. Drake ‒ Meltdown

95 86 07 17 Olivia Rodrigo ‒ Bad Idea Right?

96 90 01 12 Drake feat. SZA ‒ Slime You Out

97 99 01 17 Oliver Anthony Music ‒ Rich Men North Of Richmond

98 RE 98 02 310babii ‒ Soak City (Do It)

99 91 24 12 Rod Wave feat. 21 Savage ‒ Turks & Caicos

100 ** 100 01 Sabrina Carpenter ‒ Feather

 

OUT 47 18 16 Andy Williams ‒ Happy Holiday / The Holiday Season

OUT 79 01 20 Jason Aldean ‒ Try That In A Small Town

OUT 92 44 06 The Kid LAROI, Jung Kook & Central Cee ‒ Too Much

OUT 95 95 03 Riley Green feat. Luke Combs ‒ Different 'Round Here

OUT 97 97 01 Kali Uchis & Karol G ‒ Labios Mordidos

OUT 98 03 05 Taylor Swift ‒ Slut! (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault]

OUT 100 05 05 Taylor Swift ‒ Say Don't Go (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault]

 

Bubbling Under

 

TW LW Artist – Song

 

01 04 The Red Clay Strays ‒ Wondering Why

02 25 Xavi ‒ La Victima

03 12 Meghan Trainor ‒ Jingle Bells

04 03 George Birge ‒ Mind On You

05 01 Kane Brown ‒ I Can Feel It

06 ** Flo Milli ‒ Never Lose Me

07 08 Peso Pluma & Tito Double P ‒ La People

08 06 Chayce Beckham ‒ 23

09 02 Chloe ‒ Winter Wonderland

10 11 Rauw Alejandro ‒ Diluvio

11 16 TV Girl ‒ Not Allowed

12 10 Mitchell Tenpenny ‒ We Got History

13 14 Dylan Gossett ‒ Coal

14 09 Zach Bryan ‒ Sun To Me

15 ** Cher ‒ DJ Play A Christmas Song

16 18 Fridayy ‒ When It Comes To You

17 ** The Weeknd, JENNIE & Lily Rose Depp ‒ One Of The Girls

18 17 Ciara & Chris Brown ‒ How We Roll

19 13 Zach Bryan ‒ Revival

20 21 Chris Brown feat. Davido & Lojay ‒ Sensational

21 ** Tee Grizzley, Mariah The Scientist & Chris Brown ‒ IDGAF

22 20 Chris Janson ‒ All I Need Is You

23 22 Bryan Martin ‒ We Ride

24 19 Jenn Carter, Kyle Richh & TaTa ‒ Bent

25 ** Sonder ‒ What You Heard

Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ Leads Billboard Hot 100 for Second Week

By Gary Trust | 12/11/2023

 

The classic gained by another 18% in streams, following its historic coronation a week earlier.

 

Brenda Lee spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with her holiday standard “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” A week earlier, the song led the list for the first time – 65 years after its release – and became Lee’s third Hot 100 No. 1, and her first since 1960.

 

Lee – who celebrates a birthday today (Dec. 11), as she turns 79 years young – reminisced to Billboard on Dec. 4 about recording the carol, when she was 13, after learning of its ascent to No. 1 at last from Universal Music Group Nashville chair/CEO Cindy Mabe. “The producer cut the air way down in the studio,” Lee recalled. “He had a big Christmas tree and everyone was there – the Anita Kerr Singers and the ‘A-team’ [of Nashville studio musicians], as we called them. It was like a little touch of magic kind of sprinkled in, and it turned out to be magic. It really did.”

 

Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” on Decca/MCA Nashville/UMe, drew 41.3 million streams (up 18%) and 20.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 1%) and sold 6,000 downloads (up 109%) in the Dec. 1-7 tracking week, according to Luminate.

 

The single holds at No. 1 for a third total week atop the Streaming Songs chart, after it first ruled the last frame of the 2022 holiday season; rebounds to its No. 4 high, from No. 12, on Digital Song Sales; and keeps at No. 33 on Radio Songs, where it has hit a No. 17 best.

 

The song was originally recorded and released in 1958. Written by Johnny Marks and produced by Owen Bradley, it first hit the Hot 100 in December 1960 and reached an original No. 14 peak two weeks later. It went on to spend nine weeks at No. 2 on the Hot 100 between December 2019 and last holiday season.

 

For its 65th anniversary this year, Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” received its first official video, featuring cameos from country stars Tanya Tucker and Trisha Yearwood, Nov. 3. Plus, Lee performed it on NBC’s Christmas at the Opry, which aired Dec. 7. She has also joined TikTok, where she’s been sharing posts about the song and her career.

 

The song is just the third holiday No. 1 ever on the Hot 100, with all three now having led for multiple weeks. “The Chipmunk Song,” by The Chipmunks with David Seville, also from 1958, spent four weeks on top beginning that December, and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” released in 1994, has notched 12 weeks at No. 1, from its first scaling of the summit in December 2019 through last holiday season.

 

With another week at No. 1, Lee extends her record for the longest span of an artist topping the Hot 100: 63 years and five months, from her first week at No. 1 with “I’m Sorry” (July 18, 1960) through the latest list.

 

Plus, Lee, at 79 years of age as of today, expands by another week her mark as the senior-most artist to have ruled the Hot 100.

 

Meanwhile, Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” leads the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart, which uses the same methodology as the Hot 100, for a second week.

 

Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” repeats at No. 2 on the Hot 100, with across-the-board gains in streams (38.5 million, up 19%), airplay (24.1 million, up 12%) and sales (5,000, up 29%). With its 2019 triumph, Carey claimed her 19th Hot 100 No. 1, extending her record for the most among soloists and moving to within one of The Beatles’ overall record 20. The single also reigns as the No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs retrospective.

 

Next up among holiday songs on the Hot 100, two carols return to their best ranks: Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (4-3), from 1957, and Wham!’s “Last Christmas” (5-4), from 1984.

 

Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me” slips 3-5 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it became his third No. 1. Still, the chart’s top nonholiday song wins the list’s top Airplay Gainer award for a second consecutive week (37.7 million, up 26%, as it becomes his third top 10 on Radio Songs, surging 17-10), while also increasing in streams (27.6 million, up 10%). It concurrently tops the multi-metric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fourth week each.

 

Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” is steady at No. 6 on the Hot 100, with the 1964 nugget having hit a No. 4 high.

 

Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” holds at No. 7 on the Hot 100, following four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in October. It also rebounds for a seventh week atop Radio Songs (63.6 million, down 3%) – surpassing the six-week reign of “Blank Space” in 2014-15 as the sole longest-leading No. 1 of Swift’s eight career leaders on the airplay chart.

 

Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” originally released in 1963, lifts 10-8 on the Hot 100. The late singer now sports a record span of 64 years, two months and one week from his first week in the top 10 with “Lonely Street” in October 1959 through his latest frame. (Excluding holiday fare, The Beatles broke the record for the longest top 10 span last month: 59 years, nine months and three weeks, from “I Want To Hold Your Hand” in 1964 to the debut of their newly-released single “Now and Then.”)

 

SZA’s “Snooze” keeps at No. 9 on the Hot 100’s top 10, after reaching No. 2, as it leads the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart for a 19th week. As noted Dec. 9, upon the one-year anniversary of the release of parent album SOS, “Snooze” is the only song to have appeared on the Hot 100 each week in 2023 to date.

 

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” descends 8-10, after it led for three nonconsecutive weeks beginning in September.