Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has passed 16.3 million TikTok videos, according to two trackers reading the platform’s own video counts on 10 November 2026 — and it is still growing. The song, released in 1994, is the biggest Christmas sound on TikTok and one of the biggest sounds on the platform in any category.
Postdom’s weekly list of popular TikTok songs, read on 10 November 2026, puts the song at No. 5 in the US songs chart with 16.3 million videos. Kabo’s daily sound board, read the same day, agrees exactly: 16.3 million videos, with a daily gain of 6,800 — a rise of less than 0.1 per cent, which is what you would expect from a song that is already enormous. The two trackers agreeing to the digit is a good sign the figure is solid.
The Christmas switch-over
The song’s TikTok life is tied to a specific format: the holiday switch-over video. Creators film a shop, a menu or a window going festive for the season, and the moment the decorations go up, Mariah Carey starts playing. Postdom’s trend notes describe it as exactly that — a clip of a space changing from ordinary to Christmas, set to the most famous Christmas song of the modern era.
The timing is no accident. The song’s video count climbs every November as the festive season begins, and this year it has been climbing since the start of the month. Yesterday’s post on this site covered the “defrost” — the moment Mariah Carey returns to the feed each year, with 18 million views in 12 hours. Today’s figure is the total: 16.3 million videos and counting.
A song that owns November
The scale is hard to overstate. The next-biggest Christmas sound on TikTok, “Christmas” by neozilla, has 1.1 million videos, according to Postdom — less than a tenth of Mariah Carey’s total. The song is not just the biggest Christmas sound; it is one of the biggest sounds on TikTok, full stop, and it gets there every year without a new release, a new video or a new campaign.
It is also a reminder of how TikTok’s charts work. The songs chart ranks momentum — what is being used in new posts this week — and “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is No. 5 there. But the video count, 16.3 million, is the total built up over years. The song is both the sound of this week and the sound of every November since TikTok began.
What the numbers mean
All of the figures in this story are tracker estimates, read from TikTok’s own video counts on 10 November 2026. The 16.3 million figure is confirmed by two independent trackers reading the same count, which makes it more reliable than a single-tracker’s estimate. The daily gain of 6,800 videos is small in percentage terms but large in absolute terms — nearly 7,000 new videos a day, every day, for a song released 32 years ago.
Read also: Mariah Carey Defrosts on TikTok: 18 Million Views in 12 Hours; Deck the Halls Pajama Dance Is TikTok’s Christmas Hit 2026
Sources: Postdom popular TikTok songs, week of 9–15 Nov 2026, read 10 Nov 2026; Kabo trending TikTok sounds, snapshot 10 Nov 2026 00:10 UTC.
