Wham! Edges Ahead of Mariah Carey in Early Christmas Streaming Count
Wham!'s "Last Christmas" has moved ahead of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" in the early count for the holiday streaming race. According to early Luminate data reported by Billboard, the Wham! song led over the first two days of the following week.
Luminate, the company that counts streams and sales for the US charts, has the race much closer over the earlier week. For Nov. 1 to 7, Carey's song drew nearly 9.99 million official on-demand streams, which are plays a listener chooses and starts themselves. "Last Christmas" was only slightly behind, with nearly 9.98 million. Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" came third with 7.38 million.
The two leaders moved in different directions compared with the same week in 2025. Carey's total was down about 4 percent, while "Last Christmas" was up 17 percent.
The lead changed hands on Nov. 8 and 9. In early Luminate figures for those two days, "Last Christmas" drew a combined 3.1 million streams, against 2.9 million for Carey's song. That works out to about 7 percent more.
Both songs also returned to the Billboard Hot 100, the main US singles chart, which ranks songs using sales, radio airplay and streaming. On the chart dated Nov. 14, "Last Christmas" sits at No. 37 and "All I Want for Christmas Is You" at No. 39.
Carey kicked off the season on Nov. 1 with her traditional "It's Time" video, a yearly post she has made to mark the start of the holiday period. The full-week totals for the coming days will show whether the lead holds.
