Carey’s Christmas tune just now No. 1

‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ was released in 1994.

It’s annual “All I Want For Christmas Is You” season, also known as “December.”

Mariah Carey’s ode to love and Christmas has done well every year since its 1994 release, but the infectious carol only now officially reigns from the top of the charts.

Billboard revealed Monday that “All I Want For Christmas Is You” rests comfortably at the top spot on the Hot 100 chart for the week of Dec. 21.

The feat means Carey’s song has now broken multiple records: “All I Want” is the first holiday song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 since the Chipmunks’ 1958 “The Chipmunk Song;” it’s the most-streamed track on Spotify by a female artist in a 24-hour window; and its 20 weeks in the U.K. singles Top 10 chart is the most of any Christmas song.

This is Carey’s 19th time on top of the Hot 100, beating her own previous record for the most No. 1 hits by a soloist. She’s also just one more hit away from matching the Beatles’ record of 20.

“All I Want For Christmas Is You” always does well on the holiday-specific charts, but it’s been surging on general charts in recent years, with its biggest successes coming in a musical landscape that’s dramatically different from the one in which Carey recorded it.

In June 1994, Carey hung up Christmas decorations in the Hamptons rental home where she was staying to create the right mood. Former frequent collaborator Walter Afanasieff, who co-wrote “All I Want,” came up with a basic chord structure. Sitting together at the piano, Carey offered vocal melodies that Afanasieff wasn’t so sure about, but he soon changed his mind, he told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2013.