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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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While two earlier efforts to sell the firm in 2017 and 2022 came up short, sources suggest that in the third go-round, the successful Goldman Sachs-shopped deal saw at least two bids come in above the $600 million mark, even though most other bidders were said to be in the $500 million to $600 million range before dropping out. In all, sources suggested that about a dozen suitors kicked the tires on Anthem.

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