Chart performance All I Want for Christmas Is You

carey performing want christmas @ national christmas tree lighting ceremony near white house on december 6, 2013

in united kingdom, song entered uk singles chart @ #5 during week of december 10, 1994. following week, song peaked @ #2, staying there final 3 weeks of december (held out of coveted christmas no. 1 honor east 17 s stay day ). of january 27, 2017, had spent seventy-eight weeks on uk singles chart.

as of december 19, 2013, want christmas has sold 1 million copies in uk. on december 11, 2015, certified double platinum british phonographic industry shipment of 1.2 million units (including streams) , remains carey s best-selling single in uk. in 2010, want christmas named no. 1 holiday song of decade in united kingdom.

the song peaked @ no. 2 on australian singles chart , certified triple-platinum australian recording industry association (aria), denoting shipments of on 210,000 units. in denmark, peaked @ no. 4, staying in chart sixteen weeks , being certified gold international federation of phonographic industry (ifpi).

want christmas became carey s best-selling single in japan. used theme song popular drama 29-sai no christmas (29才のクリスマス, lit. christmas in 29 years, 29th christmas ), , titled koibito-tachi no christmas (恋人たちのクリスマス, lit. lovers christmas ). sold in excess of 1.1 million units in japan. due strong sales , airplay, song re-charted in japan in 2010, peaking @ no. 6 on japan hot 100. single has been certified million award recording industry association of japan (riaj) on 2 different formats (compact disc , ringtone), in 1994 , 2008, respectively.

in united states, in first week of january 1995, want christmas peaked @ number 6 on billboard hot adult contemporary , @ no. 12 on hot 100 airplay chart. song placed on these 2 charts again in december 1995 , in december 1996. song ineligible inclusion on billboard hot 100 during original release, because not released commercially single. rule lapsed in 1998, however, allowing song chart on billboard hot 100 (peaking @ no. 83 in january 2000).

the song topped billboard hot digital songs chart in december 2005, unable attain new peak on billboard hot 100 chart because considered recurrent single , ineligible chart re-entry. every december 2005 2008, song topped billboard hot 100 re-currents chart. in 2012, after recurrent rule revised allow songs in top 50 onto billboard hot 100 chart, single re-entered chart @ no. 29 , attained new peak of no. 21 on week ending january 5, 2013, dropping out following week. in december 2013, song re-entered billboard hot 100 @ number 26.

it has become best-selling holiday ringtone, , first holiday ringtone certified double-platinum recording industry association of america (riaa). additionally, of songs recorded before year 2000, nineteenth best-selling digital single , best-selling digital single woman, , overall best-selling holiday digital single. in december 2015, song peaked @ 11 on billboard hot 100, making highest peak since original release. of november 2016, nielsen soundscan estimated total sales of digital track @ 3,200,000 downloads.