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It's Christmas Time So Michael Bublé Must Be No. 1 On the Chart

Michael Bublé’s Christmas skips 3-1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest on-demand streams for the week.

It's Christmas Time So Michael Bublé Must Be No. 1 On the Chart

By FYI Staff

Michael Bublé’s Christmas skips 3-1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest on-demand streams for the week. It is the album’s seventh week at the top of the chart and has reached No. 1 in each of the last three years during Christmas week.


With the addition of a number of new songs, Eminem’s enhanced Music To Be Murdered By moves 55-2. The album spent four weeks at No. 1 back in January and February.

Last week’s No. 1 album, Taylor Swift’s evermore, falls to 3rd place, Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas bullets 12-4 and Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon drops to No. 5.

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Paul McCartney’s McCartney III debuts at 7, picking up the highest album sales for the week. It is his follow-up to the No. 3 Egypt Station in September 2018.

Three more holiday albums move into the top ten, with Bing Crosby’s White Christmas at No. 8, Nat King Cole’s Christmas Song at No. 9 and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s Charlie Brown Christmas at No. 10.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC’s Paul Tuch.

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Billboard Canadian Hot 100 & Billboard Canadian Albums Charts Undergo Methodology Changes for 2026
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Billboard Canadian Hot 100 & Billboard Canadian Albums Charts Undergo Methodology Changes for 2026

Below is an explainer on the charts’ new streaming weights.

Following the switch of the Billboard Canadian Albums chart to a new weighting methodology to match that of the United States-based Billboard 200, the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 songs chart has shifted to the updated paid to ad-supported 1:2.5 streaming ratio. This is effective with the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 chart dated Jan. 31, 2026

As previously reported, Billboard’s charts have added more weight to on-demand streaming to better reflect an increase in streaming revenue and changing consumer behaviors. As part of the change, paid/subscription on-demand streams continue to be weighted more favourably compared to ad-supported on-demand streams, with the ratio between the two tiers narrowing from 1:3 to 1:2.5 based on analysis of streaming revenue.

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