Hit Parade: Make My Wish Come True Edition
b'Music fans in 2019 are gobsmacked that the No. 1 song in America is not only a Christmas song but a 25-year-old recording: Mariah Carey\\u2019s holiday perennial \\u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You.\\u201d Even more amazingly, it\\u2019s the first Christmas song to top Billboard\\u2019s Hot 100 in 61 years, since \\u201cThe Chipmunk Song\\u201d in December 1958. This leads to so many \\u201cwhys\\u201d: Why were there no Christmas No. 1s for six decades? Why didn\\u2019t \\u201960s, \\u201970s and \\u201980s holiday classics like \\u201cChristmas (Baby Please Come Home),\\u201d \\u201cFeliz Navidad\\u201d and \\u201cLast Christmas\\u201d become Hot 100 hits? Why did Carey\\u2019s classic not chart in 1994, when it was released\\u2014and why did it only start charting in the 2010s and seem to get more popular every year this decade?\\nIn this special holiday edition of Hit Parade we answer all of these questions, and explain how virtually everything had to change about the music business for Mariah\\u2019s Christmas chestnut to reach No. 1: from Billboard chart rules, to digital music technologies, to even the tragic passing of a fellow music diva. It all combined to give Carey her incredible 19th No. 1 on the Hot\\xa0100\\u2014just one chart-topper away from the Beatles.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'