The ‘Season’ For Charting
Michael Bublé’s ever-popular, former Billboard 200 No. 1 Christmas spends its 29th nonconsecutive week leading the Top Holiday Albums chart as the list livens up with the march toward Dec. 25 beginning in earnest. The set scored 17,000 equivalent-album units in the United States during the week ending Nov. 11 (up 70%), according to MRC Data. The top nine albums on the list also appear on the all-genre Billboard 200 — a mere tease of what’s soon to come. At the end of the 2020 season, on the Jan. 2, 2021-dated chart, a whopping 47 holiday albums dotted the Billboard 200, with a record-tying six in the top 10.
Meanwhile, on the new Top Holiday Albums chart, former Journey frontman Steve Perry (above) sees his first holiday album, The Season, debut at No. 4 with 11,000 units. It also arrives at No. 80 on the Billboard 200 — his fourth solo entry on the list.