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Michael Bublé Extends His Record as 'Christmas' Hits No. 1 in Canada in 10th Different Calendar Year

Bublé's 2011 holiday classic has reached the Billboard Canadian Albums top spot in 2011, 2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and now 2026.

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Michael Bublé

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UPDATE (12/30): Michael Bublé's Christmas is No. 1 again for the Billboard Canadian Albums chart dated Jan. 3, 2026. With the album now reaching No. 1 in 2025 and 2026, it has extended its record for most calendar years with a No. 1 chart entry to 10: 2011, 2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and now 2026.

It is the album's 103rd week on the chart and 19th total week at No. 1.


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It's always a Merry Christmas for Michael Bublé.

The Canadian singer's 2011 Christmas album has hit No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart again for the chart week dated Dec. 27, 2025. Bublé's album unseats Taylor Swift's juggernaut The Life of a Showgirl from the top spot after 10 weeks.

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The No. 1 placement extends his record for hitting No. 1 in the most different calendar years. The album has reached the apex in 2011, 2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and now 2025. That's nine different calendar years total, including seven consecutive.

This week's Christmas No. 1 is the 18th cumulative week the album has spent at No. 1, and its 102nd total week on the chart.

Bublé finished at No. 7 on the inaugural Top Canadian Artists year-end chart for 2025, which combines data from the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 and Canadian Albums charts. The timeless crooner's catalogue success has a lot to do with that ranking, with Christmas having earned a spot as an all-time holiday favourite in his home country. Christmas has sold over 16 million physical copies worldwide and racked up billions of streams, and has been billed by his label Reprise as the best-selling Christmas album of the 21st century.

This month, Bublé performed the album at the Vatican for an audience that included Pope Leo XIV as part of the "Concert with the Poor."

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Holiday classics are all over the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 on this final week of the year. On the chart week dated Dec. 27, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has unseated Taylor Swift's "The Fate of Ophelia" at No. 1 after 10 weeks. It's No. 1 in the U.S. this week as well, setting a record for most weeks at No. 1 (in Canada, that record still belongs to Shaboozey). In Canada, "Ophelia" has moved down to No. 4, also beneath "Last Christmas" and "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree."

Bublé is charting on the Canadian Hot 100 too, with his version of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" at No. 6 and "Holly Jolly Christmas" at No. 17, while fellow Canadian Justin Bieber's modern classic "Mistletoe" moves up to No. 21.

Amidst all the Christmas music, 21 Savage & Drake have made a debut with "Mr Recoup" at No. 44, while 21 Savage's new album What Happened To The Streets? debuts on Canadian Albums at No. 12. And after proving he's not Timothée Chalamet by featuring him on a remix, the already-charting British rapper EsDeeKid has made several moves on the Canadian Hot 100. "4 Raws" moves up from No. 75 to No. 62, "Phantom" climbs 64-57, and "LV Sandals" and "Century" re-enter the chart at No. 86 and 87.

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Find all of Billboard Canada's charts here.

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