Venerable superstar Mariah Carey scores her 19th top 10 album with Here for It All. CBS Photo Archive/CBS via Getty Images/CBS hide caption
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Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey and Busta Rhymes were among the stars who performed — and took home awards — at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards. Manny Carabel (2) and Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for MTV hide caption
Southern rap duo OutKast, consisting of André 3000 and Big Boi, is among the 14 artists being considered for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2025 class. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2025 shortlist includes OutKast, Maná, Phish and Billy Idol
SZA accepts a Grammy Award for best R&B song for "Snooze" on Feb. 4, 2024. At that point, the album on which "Snooze" appears, SOS, was already 14 months old. This week, nearly 11 months after the Grammys, SOS has returned to the top of the Billboard album chart thanks to the release of a deluxe version. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
On the albums chart, the K-pop group Stray Kids debuts at No. 1 with HOP; the group has debuted atop the Billboard 200 with its first six charting albums, which is a new record to kick off a career. Penske Media/via Getty Images hide caption
Mariah Carey (shown performing in New York City in 2014) released "All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 1994, but it took 25 years for the song to reach the top of Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart. Since 2019, it has topped the chart each December for a total of 16 weeks at No. 1 — so far. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images hide caption
The season of Christmas songs is here. Will the classics make room for anything new?
A single Black Friday title — Taylor Swift's Target-exclusive physical editions of The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology — has sent TTPD soaring back to the top of the Billboard 200. Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management hide caption
Mariah Carey says her "heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother" — and, in a tragic turn of events, the singer's older sister also died on the same day. Carey is seen her performing last year in Los Angeles. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images hide caption
This combination of photos shows, from left, Mary J. Blige, Cher, and Mariah Carey, who are among the 2024 nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. AP hide caption
Mariah Carey, pictured performing at 2019 Billboard Music Awards, has topped the charts again with her signature Christmas hit. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption
Why 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' tops the charts every year (2022 included)
Mariah Carey performs at the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in 2014 in New York City. Patent authorities have decided she can't be the only "Queen of Christmas." Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP hide caption
Mariah Carey performs on stage at the Wembley Arena in London in 1996. Mark Baker/Sony Music Archive via Getty Images hide caption
Whether you're a tote bag or Telfie babe, the spirit of roséwave lives in us all. Kara Frame/NPR hide caption
Mariah Carey performs during the 2019 Billboard Music Awards. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for dcp/Getty Images hide caption
Mariah Carey performs onstage during her "All I Want For Christmas Is You" tour at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 15, 2019 in New York City. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images hide caption
Mariah Carey performs during the 2019 Billboard Music Awards. In 2020, she celebrated 30 years of releasing music, dubbed "MC30." Kevin Winter/Getty Images for dcp hide caption
The previously unreleased song is the first single from her upcoming album, The Rarities. Angela Weiss/Getty Images hide caption
Thousands of new holiday songs have been released since 1994, but none have become standards in the way pop songs about Christmas routinely did in the '60s, '70s and '80s. What's the challenge of cracking the tiny yuletide canon? Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images hide caption
Mariah Carey performs onstage during 2016 VH1's Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night at Kings Theatre on December 2, 2016 in New York. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images hide caption
Roséwave is officially back for another summer of pink drinks and seasonally-appropriate bops, bangers and deep cuts. Emily Bogle/NPR hide caption
This winter, think pink (and red and green and white). Morgan Noelle Smith & Kaylee Domzalski/NPR hide caption