Half of the Billboard 200’s Top 10 Are Holiday Albums

It’s a merry and intense leading 10 on the Signboard 200 albums chart outdated Jan. 6, 2024, as half of the area is occupied by vacation titles. The leading 10 last hosted 5 seasonal albums on the Jan. 7, 2023, ranking.

The Jan. 6, 2024, chart shows the tracking week of Dec. 22-28, 2023.

Leading the vacation pack is Michael Bublé‘s chart-topping Christmaswhich climbs up 4-2 with 78,000 comparable album systems made (up 11%), according to Luminate. It’s the greatest rank for the title in 2 years, given that it invested 2 weeks in a row at No. 2 on the Jan. 1-8, 2022-dated charts. Christmas was launched in 2011 and invested 5 successive weeks at No. 1 in 2011-12.

Nat King Cole‘s The Christmas Song strikes a brand-new peak, increasing 8-4 with 64,000 systems (up 15%). The album formerly peaked at No. 5 a year earlier, on the Jan. 7, 2023, chart. The set consists of Cole’s timeless title track, in addition to Signboard Vacation 100-charting favorites consisting of “Deck the Halls,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “Joy to the World” and “Caroling, Caroling.”

The timeless multi-artist vacation album A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector leaps 14-7– a brand-new peak– with 56,000 comparable album systems made (up 17%). The album, very first launched in 1963, formerly peaked at No. 8 a year ago (on the Jan. 7, 2023, chart). It initially arrived 10 on the Jan. 8, 2022, chart, when it stepped 11-10. The album, produced by Spector, boasts familiar favorites heard throughout the holiday that were at first tape-recorded for the task. Amongst them are Holiday 100-charting hits consisting of The Ronettes’ “Sleigh Ride” and Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” and “Winter Wonderland.”

Mariah Carey‘s Merry Christmas jingles 10-8 with 56,000 comparable album systems (up 7%). The album was launched in 1994 and peaked at No. 3 that December. The set homes Carey’s traditional “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which has actually topped the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart in each of the last 5 holiday.

Completing the leading 10 of the brand-new Billboard 200 is Pentatonix‘s The Best Christmas Hitswhich vaults 60-10, a brand-new peak, with 51,000 comparable album systems made (up 147%). The 31-song set is the singing group’s newest release, and it consists of 23 earlier-released vacation favorites, in addition to 8 brand-new recordings.

The Best Christmas Hits marks Pentatonix’s 11th leading 10-charting set, and its very first given that its last collection, 2019’s The Very Best of Pentatonix Christmaspeaked at No. 7 on the Dec. 28, 2019, chart.

Here’s a wrap-up of Pentatonix’s 11 leading 10-charting albums on the Billboard 200, 6 of which are vacation sets: PTXmas (No. 7, 2013), PTX: Vol. II (No. 10, 2013), PTX: Vol. III (No. 5, 2014), That’s Christmas to Me (No. 2, 2014), Pentatonix (No. 1, 2015), A Pentatonix Christmas (No. 1 for 2 weeks, 2017), PTX Vol. IV: Classics (No. 4), PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. 1 (No. 10, 2018), Christmas Is Here! (No. 7, 2018), The Very Best of Pentatonix Christmas (No. 7, 2019) and The Best Christmas Hits (No. 10, 2024).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based upon multi-metric usage as determined in comparable album systems, put together by Luminate. Systems make up album sales, track comparable albums (TEA) and streaming comparable albums (SEA). Each system equates to one album sale, or 10 private tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand authorities audio and video streams produced by tunes from an album. The brand-new Jan. 6, 2024-dated chart will be published completely onSignboard‘s site on Jan. 3, one day behind typical due to the New Year’s Day vacation on Jan. 1. For all chart newsfollow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, previously called Twitter, and Instagram.

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