03/01/2023
You either love them or you hate them: With Christmas songs, there is no in-between. After Mariah Carey's 1994 hit All I Want for Christmas Is You hit one billion streams on Spotify last year, Last Christmas by Wham! has achieved the same milestone as our chart shows.
While All I Want for Christmas Is You accumulated an additional 300 million plays between December 2021 and December 2022, Wham!'s Christmas classic from 1984 passed the one billion mark by adding more than 200 million streams over the last twelve months. When taking the years since the release of the corresponding song into consideration, Ariana Grande might take the cake. Even though Santa Tell me only places third, the song racked up 773 million plays.
Titles that aren't likely to challenge the dominance of Carey, Wham! and Grande make up the last four spots of the top 8, with classics like Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee from 1958 and the upbeat Jingle Bell Rock released in 1957 by Bobby Helms beating Justin Bieber's Mistletoe from 2011.
