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It Was All Christmas Bells On Billboard's Holiday Week Chart

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It Was All Christmas Bells On Billboard's Holiday Week Chart

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Michael Bublé’s Christmas popped 2-1 on Billboard’s final Canadian Albums chart of 2021, earning the highest on-demand streams for the week. It is the album’s 9th week at No. 1 since the album was originally released in 2011.


Adele’s 30, the No. 1 album for the last five weeks, fell to. 2nd place, but still earning the highest album sales total for the week. Ed Sheeran’s = edged 4-3.

With the final chart week of the year encompassing Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, six more holiday albums in addition to Bublé placed in the top ten. Bing Crosby’s White Christmas posted at 4, followed by Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas at 5, Nat King Cole’s Christmas Song at 6, Vince Guaraldi Trio’s Charlie Brown Christmas at 7, Phil Spector’s Christmas Gift For You at 8, and Frank Sinatra’s Ultimate Christmas at 10.

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The top new release for the week went to the soundtrack for the new Disney movie Encanto at No. 24, while Nas’ Magic entered at 58.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch

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Michael Jackson performs in concert circa 1988.
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Michael Jackson performs in concert circa 1988.

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Michael Jackson Shatters His Best Streaming Week Total After Biopic Release, as Catalogue Floods Charts

The late icon more than doubles his previous best total, as Thriller and "Billie Jean" lead his albums and songs' returns.

Confirming projections reported in late April, Michael Jackson obliterates his personal-best domestic streaming week following the release of the Michael biopic. The King of Pop’s solo song catalogue registered a collective 137.5 million official on-demand streams for the week of April 24-30 in the United States, according to Luminate, up 146% and more than doubling his previous career high.

Before his nine-digit streaming haul, Jackson’s solo catalogue achieved a new personal benchmark last week at 55.9 million song clicks. Prior to the Michael era, the late icon, who died in 2009, recorded a high of 53.7 million for the week of Oct. 25-31, 2019, spurred by the now-annual Halloween resurgence for “Thriller.”

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