Billboard Christmas Holiday charts#Holiday Streaming Songs
{{Short description|Music rankings by the trade magazine Billboard of Christmas Holiday Music}}
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Billboard magazine only charted Christmas singles and albums along with the other popular non-holiday records until the 1958 holiday season when they published their first section that surveys only Christmas music.
An increase of Christmas records began charting Billboard in 1957. The popular music surveys charted 9 Christmas singles, including the debut of the Bobby Helms' standard "Jingle Bell Rock" {{small|(Top 100 Sides #6)}}.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bobby-helms/ | title=Bobby Helms | magazine=Billboard }} Gene Autry's newly recorded version of his 1949 original "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"{{cite web |title=Gene Autry - Here Comes Santa Claus |website=Discogs |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/635694-Gene-Autry-Here-Comes-Santa-Claus |access-date=8 February 2023 |language=en}} made the Top 100 Sides at No. 70."Top 100 Sides." The Billboard, vol. 69, no. 53, December 30, 1957, p. 34. The Best Selling Pop LP's had 11 seasonal albums chart including the debut of Elvis' Christmas Album that topped the survey for 3 weeks.
Bing Crosby's all-time best-selling single{{cite web | url=https://www.alltopeverything.com/top-10-songs-of-all-time/ | title=Top 10 Best-selling Songs of All Time - All Top Everything | date=2 April 2023 }} "White Christmas" returned to the Top 40 again in 1957 at No. 34. It has charted Billboard's surveys almost annually since it first spent 11 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on their Best Selling Retail Records chart beginning Oct. 31, 1942{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/white-christmas-bing-crosby-number-1-rewinding-charts/ | title=Rewinding the Charts: In 1942, Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' Reigned at No. 1 | magazine=Billboard }} It reached the top spot again in 1945 for two more weeks and made its 14th #1 week on December 28, 1946.{{cite web | url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/bing-crosby/white-christmas | title=White Christmas by Bing Crosby - Songfacts }} Crosby's "Silent Night" {{small|(Top 100 Sides #54)}} and "Silver Bells" {{small|(Top 100 Sides #78)}} also made the Top 100 Sides in 1957. All 3 of these titles are included on his Merry Christmas which returned to No. 1 in January 1958 after charting Billboard{{'s}} album surveys since its debut in 1945.
Top 10 charting Christmas singles 1940-1957
The "Billboard Music Popularity Chart" began weekly publication in their July 27, 1940 issue, with lists covering jukebox play, radio play, record sales and sheet music sales. The following are the most popular Christmas holiday singles that charted prior to 1958 according to those surveys.{{cite web | url=https://www.recordresearch.com/books/christmas-in-the-charts-1920-2004/ | title=Christmas in the Charts 1920-2004 by Joel Whitburn }}
Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks
On November 24, 1958, the magazine published Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks. Described as the records played most frequently by disk jockeys each Christmas season, according to a survey made by The Billboard, the section consisted of 3 top 10 lists charting the top Holiday Singles, LP Albums and for the only time on Billboard's Christmas/Holiday surveys, EP Albums. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" was the No. 1 single, Percy Faith's 1954 Music of Christmas{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/release/10546562-Percy-Faith-And-His-Orchestra-Music-Of-Christmas | title=Percy Faith and His Orchestra - Music of Christmas | website=Discogs | date=20 September 1954 }} was the No. 1 LP and Pat Boone's 1957 Merry Christmas{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/release/6264611-Pat-Boone-Merry-Christmas | title=Pat Boone - Merry Christmas | website=Discogs | date=November 1957 }} was the No. 1 EP."Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks." The Billboard, vol. 70, no. 47, November 24, 1958, p. 2. A Holiday survey would not be published again until the annual Christmas Records section is launched in 1963.
Seven holiday singles charted the first year of Billboard's Hot 100 in 1958 including the debut of "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" {{small|(Hot 100 #1 for 4 weeks)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/david-seville/ | title=David Seville | magazine=Billboard }} and Harry Simeone's "Little Drummer Boy" {{small|(Hot 100 #13)}}."Hot 100 for the week ending January 4." The Billboard, vol. 69, no. 53, December 29, 1958, p. 28. Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" returned to the charts at No. 35. Eight holiday albums charted on Billboard's Best-Selling LP's survey in 1958 including the debut of Johnny Mathis' Merry Christmas that peaked at No. 3 on December 27."Best Selling LPS." The Billboard, vol. 71, no. 1, January 5, 1959, p. 20. Mitch Miller & The Gang's first holiday album Christmas Sing Along with Mitch peaked at No. 1 on January 8, 1959. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" made its first Hot 100 appearance in 1959 at No. 59. Perry Como debuted his second Christmas album Season's Greetings from Perry Como on The Billboard's TOP LP'S on January 8, 1960, peaking at No. 22."TOP LP's." The Billboard, vol. 72, no. 1, December 4, 1960, p. 28.
The 1960 Hot 100 had 10 holiday singles including the debut of an annual charting of Brenda Lee's standard "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" {{small|(Hot 100 #14)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/culture/lifestyle/brenda-lee-rockin-around-christmas-tree-interview-8546803/ | title=What Christmas Music Icon Brenda Lee Thinks About Mariah Carey's Holiday Song | magazine=Billboard }} and the return of Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)" {{small|(Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks #2, Hot 100 #80)}}.{{cite web | url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/nat-king-cole/the-christmas-song | title=The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole - Songfacts }} Bing Crosby's "Silent Night" {{small|(Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks #8, Hot 100 #54)}} also returned in 1960 and the flip side "Adeste Fidelis" {{small|(Hot 100 #45)}} also from his 1945 Merry Christmas album made its first charting.The Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending January 1." The Billboard, vol. 72, no. 52, December 26, 1960, p. 32.
Bobby Helms returned to the Hot 100 at No. 36 in 1960 with the start of an annual charting of "Jingle Bell Rock". Harry Simeone's "Little Drummer Boy" and "The Chipmunk Song" re-charted the Hot 100 every year after their initial release just as Christmas Sing Along with Mitch and Johnny Mathis' Merry Christmas album had on Billboard's Best-Selling LPs chart. The Chipmunks with David Seville followed up in 1960 with a cover of "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" that peaked at No. 21 on the Hot 100. Bobby Rydell & Chubby Checker's cover of "Jingle Bell Rock" peaked at No. 21{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bobby-rydell/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Bobby Rydell | Biography, Music & News | magazine=Billboard }} and "Baby's First Christmas" by Connie Francis peaked at No. 26 in 1961, both re-charting the following year.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/connie-francis/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Connie Francis | Biography, Music & News | magazine=Billboard }} Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" returned to the Hot 100 in 1961 at No. 12Hot 100 for the week ending December 31." Billboard Music Week, vol. 73, no. 57, December 25, 1961, p. 4. and in 1962 at No. 38.
Billboard's TOP LP's charted 21 holiday albums in 1962. Mitch Miller's Gang peaked at No. 1 again with their latest Christmas album Holiday Sing Along with Mitch.{{cite web | url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-m/mitchmiller.htm | title=Rock on the Net: Mitch Miller Info Page}} Bing Crosby returned with Merry Christmas {{small|(Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks #3, Top Mono LP's #46)}} and debuted his latest I Wish You a Merry Christmas {{small|(Top Mono LP's #50)}}."TOP LP's." The Billboard, vol. 74, no. 52, December 29, 1962, p. 2. The 1962 Hot 100 had 12 seasonal singles including new releases like The 4 Seasons cover of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" {{small|(Hot 100 #23)}} and re-charting holiday standards like Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" {{small|(Hot 100 #65)}}. Billboard debuted their first annual Christmas Records charts the following year.
Best Bets for Christmas
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Beginning with the issue dated November 30, 1963, Billboard magazine no longer charted Christmas albums or singles on its existing music charts. For the next 10 years, these titles could only be found in their new annual best-selling Christmas Records section {{small|(retitled Billboard Top Christmas Sellers in 1965"Billboard Top Christmas Sellers." Billboard, vol. 77, no. 50, December 11, 1965, p. 7. and then Billboard Best Bets for Christmas in 1966"Billboard Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 78, no. 49, December 3, 1966, p. 56. through 1973)}}.{{efn-ua|"Pretty Paper" by Roy Orbison had already began charting on the Hot 100 in 1963 and did not appear on Billboard's Christmas Singles Chart until the following year. It did peak at No. 1 for 4 weeks on 1963's Cashbox magazine's short-lived Christmas Record Activity singles chart."Christmas Record Activity". Cash Box, vol. 25, no 13, December 6, 1963, p. 6.}} The 5-position survey ranking of top-selling Christmas Singles{{efn-ua|The top-selling Christmas Singles was titled Best Selling Christmas Singles in 1966}} and Christmas LP's{{efn-ua|The top-selling Christmas LP's was titled Christmas Albums in 1963 and Best Selling Christmas LP's in 1966}} ran for 3–5 weeks each holiday season expanding in size as sales activity increased."Christmas Records." Billboard, vol. 75, no. 48, November 30, 1963, p. 11.
The Andy Williams Christmas Album was the first number one album and his version of "White Christmas" from the same album was the first number one single, both peaking at No. 1 for the 5 week entirety of the section run in 1963."Christmas Records." Billboard, vol. 75, nos. 48-52, November 30, 1963 - December 28, 1963, pp. 11, 8, 8, 8 & 7. The chart size increased each holiday season until peaking at 38 singles and 117 LPS in 1967."Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 79, no. 48, December 30, 1967, p. 40. Beginning in 1971, the Best Bets for Christmas only ran 2–3 weeks a year and listed significantly less titles with the singles chart only having 3 positions on December 18 of that year.
Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas {{small|(LPs #2)}} spent 39 weeks on the LP survey from 1963 to 1973, more than any other album at the time. Harry Simeone's album The Little Drummer Boy {{small|(LPs #1)}}{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/release/9612657-The-Harry-Simeone-Chorale-The-Little-Drummer-Boy-A-Christmas-Festival | title=The Harry Simeone Chorale - the Little Drummer Boy: A Christmas Festival | website=Discogs | year=1963 }} and Nat King Cole's album The Christmas Song {{small|(LPs #1)}} tie at second, both charting 35 weeks between 1963 and 1973. Crosby's Merry Christmas, Cole's The Christmas Song and Johnny Mathis' Merry Christmas {{small|(LPs #2)}} spent more than 25 weeks each in the top 10. The Andy Williams Christmas Album spent the most time on top of the chart at 9 inconsecutive weeks between 1963 and 1965. Andy Williams follow up, Merry Christmas spent 3 inconsecutive weeks at number one from 1966 to 1969."Billboard Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 78, no. 50, December 10, 1966, p. 40"Billboard Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 81, no. 51, December 20, 1969, p. 12. Barbra Streisand's 1967 A Christmas Album topped the second most with 6 weeksBillboard Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 79, no. 48, December 2, 1967, p. 8. and Harry Simeone's The Little Drummer Boy album comes in 3rd with 4 weeks at number one on the Best Bets For Christmas album chart.""Christmas Records." Billboard, vol. 76, no. 49, December 5, 1964, p. 25."Billboard Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 78, no. 51, December 17, 1966, p. 36.
Harry Simeone's "The Little Drummer Boy" single peaked at No. 1 for 10 weeks between 1964 and 1968, the most of any title on Billboard's Christmas 45 rpm record surveys. His hit and 1960's "Please Come Home For Christmas" by Charles Brown {{small|(45's #1)}} spent more time than any other single in the top 10 of the Best Bets for Christmas survey at 33 weeks each. Both, along with Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" {{small|(45's #1)}}, Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" {{small|(45's #1)}} and Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas" {{small|(45's #1)}} spent more than 30 weeks each on the Christmas singles survey between 1963 and 1973. Andy William's "White Christmas" and 1967's "Snoopy's Christmas" by The Royal Guardsmen topped the chart 5 times each tying both for the second most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Christmas Singles chart.
The Carpenters "Merry Christmas, Darling" was No. 1 on the singles chart the most during the 1970s with 3 weeks."Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 85, no. 49, December 8, 1973, p. 28. Second is the Jackson 5's "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town' which topped the survey twice that decade."Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 83, no. 51, December 18, 1971, p. 49. Both debuted on the Best Bets For Christmas in 1970."Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 82, no. 51, December 19, 1970, p. 12. The Jackson 5 Christmas Album topped the album chart the most in the 70's with 3 weeks."Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 84, no. 53, December 23, 1972, p. 4. 1971's A Partridge Family Christmas Card"Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 83, no. 52, December 25, 1971, p. 49 and Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas"Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 84, no. 51, December 9, 1972, p. 40. tie for second with each peaking at No. 1 for 2 weeks.
Titles on these Christmas surveys did not appear on Billboard's other charts until 1973 when "Please Daddy" by John Denver {{small|(Hot 100 #69,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/john-denver/chart-history/hsi/ | title=John Denver | magazine=Billboard }} Hot Country Singles #69){{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/john-denver/chart-history/csi/ | title=John Denver | magazine=Billboard }}}} and "If We Make It Through December" by Merle Haggard {{small|(Hot 100 #28,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/merle-haggard/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Merle Haggard | magazine=Billboard }} Hot Country Singles #1)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/merle-haggard/chart-history/csi/ | title=Merle Haggard | magazine=Billboard }} both peaked at No. 7"Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 85, no. 51, December 22, 1973, p. 22. on the Best Selling Christmas Singles chart as well as appearing on the Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles chart.{{efn-ua|The only exceptions were The Harry Simeone Chorale's 1964 "O'Bambino" and the 1966 single "There Won't Be Any Snow"{{Cite web|url=https://www.45cat.com/record/r4656us|title=45cat - Derrik Roberts - There Won't Be Any Snow (Christmas In The Jungle) / A World Without Sunshine - Roulette - USA - R-4656}} by Derrik Roberts.{{cite web | url=https://davidlatta.org/tag/derrick-roberts/ | title=Derrick Roberts | date=8 November 2012 }} Both charted for 1 week on the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 survey at No. 105 the same week that each debuted on the Christmas singles chart. On a few occasions, Christmas singles would chart Billboard's weekly charts instead of the Christmas singles chart. In 1970, James Brown's "Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay" charted Best Bets For Christmas peaking at No. 7 while "Hey America" from the same holiday album Bubbled Under the Hot 100 at No. 105."Billboard Top Christmas Sellers." Billboard, vol. 77, no. 52, December 25, 1965, p. 12}} Holiday albums only charted the Best Bets for Christmas that year. Christmas music surveys were not published after the December 22, 1973 Best Bets For Christmas until the section continues in 1983 retitled Christmas Hits.
Billboard sporadically provided a section entitled New Christmas Selections from 1974 until 1976 that alphabetically listed titles of holiday record albums and singles. Many singles and albums have re-charted over the years, but hundreds of titles only appeared in these best-seller sections that are unavailable on Billboard's website. The charts are extensively researched in Joel Whitburn's Christmas in the Charts 1920-2004 that contain statistics on every Christmas single and album that charted all of Billboard's music surveys. From 1974 until 1982, the magazine reverted to charting seasonal hits only on their weekly popular music surveys such as the Eagles' 1978 cover of "Please Come Home For Christmas" {{small|(Hot 100 #18)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/eagles/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Eagles | magazine=Billboard }} and Dan Fogelberg's 1980 "Same Old Lang Syne" {{small|(Hot 100 #9,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/dan-fogelberg/ | title=Dan Fogelberg | magazine=Billboard }} Adult Contemporary #8)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/dan-fogelberg/chart-history/asi/ | title=Dan Fogelberg | magazine=Billboard }} as well as LPs and tapes like John Denver's 1975 Rocky Mountain Christmas {{small|(Top LPs & Tapes #14){{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/john-denver/chart-history/tlp/ | title=John Denver | magazine=Billboard }}}} and Kenny Rogers' 1981 Christmas {{small|(Top LPs & Tapes #34,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/kenny-rogers/chart-history/tlp/ | title=Kenny Rogers | magazine=Billboard }} Top Country LPs #10)}}.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/kenny-rogers/chart-history/clp/ | title=Kenny Rogers | magazine=Billboard }}
Christmas Hits
After 9 years, Billboard began publishing the best-selling Christmas Album and Single chart survey section again under the title Christmas Hits on December 17, 1983. The top 10 charts ran for two weeks each holiday season for the next 3 years"1983 Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 95, no. 51, December 17, 1983, p. 6. then returned in 1987 as a 30 position album only chart. Unlike the Best Bets For Christmas, Christmas Hits would often also chart Billboard's other music surveys such as Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton's 1984 Once Upon A Christmas {{small|(Top 200 Albums #31, Top Country Albums #12)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/dolly-parton/chart-history/clp/ | title=Dolly Parton | magazine=Billboard }} and 1985's Alabama Christmas {{small|(Top 200 Albums #75, Top Country Albums #8)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/alabama/chart-history/clp/ | title=Alabama | magazine=Billboard }} which both peaked at No. 1 on the Christmas Hits album survey.1984 Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 96, no. 50, December 15, 1984, p. 8.
Kenny Roger's 1981 Christmas was number one on the album chart for the first two weeks of the Christmas Hits survey. A Very Special Christmas spent the most weeks at the top of the album chart during the 1980s with 3 consecutive weeks starting December 12, 1987."Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 99, no. 51, December 19, 1987, p. 73.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/1988-12-10/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} Mannheim Steamroller's A Fresh Aire Christmas spent 2 consecutive weeks at No. 1 starting December 24, 1988 and went on to top the chart 4 more weeks during the 1990s.
Barbra Streisand's A Christmas Album {{small|(Christmas Hits #2)}} and 1978's Christmas Portrait by The Carpenters {{small|(Christmas Hits #2)}} charted all 13 weeks of the Christmas Hits album chart. Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's Once Upon a Christmas, Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song {{small|(Christmas Hits #5)}} and 1984's Mannheim Steamroller Christmas {{small|(Christmas Hits #2)}} tie for second most times on the chart during the eighties with 11 weeks each.1985 Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 97, no. 51, December 21, 1985, p. 57. Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas, Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song and Elvis's Christmas Album spent more than 40 weeks each on the Best Bets for Christmas and Christmas Hits surveys, more weeks than other LP during the entire holiday album chart run at the time."Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 101, no. 1, January 7, 1989, p. 71."Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 102, no. 1, January 6, 1990, p. 87.
Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" returned to the top of the singles chart for the first week of the Christmas Hits survey. His hit has charted the most with 37 total weeks during the entire Christmas singles survey run. Bobby Helms comes in second with "Jingle Bell Rock" charting a total of 36 weeks. Harry Simeone's "Little Drummer Boy", Charles Brown's "Please Come Home For Christmas", Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" and Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas " also charted over 30 weeks each during the entirety of the Christmas singles survey. All 6 of these records peaked at No. 1 over the duration of Billboard's Christmas singles charts.
Elmo 'N Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" spent the most weeks at top of the Christmas Hits singles chart during the 1980s with 4 consecutive weeks starting December 24, 1983.1983 Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 95, no. 52, December 24, 1983, p. 6. It was also the only single that crossed over charting the Hot Country Singles chart at No. 92 in 1984. Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" {{small|(Hot 100 #13)}}{{cite web | url=https://www.musicvf.com/Band+Aid.art | title=Band Aid Songs ••• Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts }} reached number 6 on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales chart in 1984 and had sold an estimated 2.5 million copies in the U.S. by January 1985,{{cite news | url=https://thehistoryofrockandroll.net/christmas-music-part-two/ | title=Christmas Music (Part Two) by Meagan Paese}} but did not appear on Billboard's Christmas Hits best selling singles survey.{{efn-ua|"Do They Know It's Christmas" has charted every year of the Holiday Songs chart peaking at No. 6 in 2003.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-songs/|title=Holiday Airplay|magazine=Billboard |date=2 January 2013|access-date=18 May 2023}}}}
Bruce Springsteen's cover of "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town" had peaked at No. 1 when Billboard published their last Christmas Hits single survey on December 28, 1985.1985 Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 97, no. 52, December 28, 1985, p. 57. An alphabetical listing of Christmas singles would be featured in the magazine's "Reviews and Previews" section, but a seasonal album chart would be the only Christmas survey published until the introduction of Holiday Songs in 2001. For the next 25 years, best-sellers like 1989's "This One's For The Children" by New Kids On The Block {{small|(Hot 100 #7,"Hot 100 Singles." Billboard, vol. 101, no. 51, December 23, 1989, p. 98. Adult Contemporary #7,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/new-kids-on-the-block/chart-history/asi/ | title=New Kids on the Block | magazine=Billboard }} Hot Black Singles #55)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/new-kids-on-the-block/chart-history/bsi/ | title=New Kids on the Block | magazine=Billboard }} and 1993's "Let It Snow" by Boyz II Men Featuring Brian McKnight {{small|(Hot 100 #32,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/boyz-ii-men/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Boyz II Men | magazine=Billboard }} Hot R&B Singles #17){{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/boyz-ii-men/chart-history/bsi/ | title=Boyz II Men | magazine=Billboard }}}} were only surveyed on their weekly popular music charts until Billboard began surveying best selling Christmas songs in 2010 on the Holiday Digital Song Sales chart and also on the Holiday 100 beginning the following year.
Top charting Christmas singles 1958-1985
The Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks, Christmas Records, Top Christmas Sellers. Best Bets For Christmas and Christmas Hits single surveys ran 46 weeks and charted 134 titles from 1958 until 1985. These are Billboard's top ranking Christmas 45 rpm record singles."Christmas Records." Billboard, vol. 75-76, no. 48-52 & 49-52, November 30, 1963-December 26, 1964, pp. 11, 8, 8, 7, 25, 22, 22, 34 & 36."Billboard Top Christmas Sellers." Billboard, vol. 77, no. 50-52, December 11, 1965-December 25, 1965, pp. 7, 15 & 12."Billboard Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 78-81, no. 49-52, 48-52, 49-52 & 49-52, December 3, 1966-December 27, 1969, pp. 56, 40, 36, 33, 8, 92, 61, 50, 40, 82, 84, 69, 57, 11, 10, 12, & 10."Best Bets For Christmas." Billboard, vol. 82-85, no. 51-52, 51-52, 51-53 & 49-51, December 19, 1970-December 22, 1973, pp. 12, 59, 49, 49, 40, 51, 4, 28, 25 & 22."1983 Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 95, no. 51-52, December 17, 1983-December 24, 1983, pp. 6 & 6."1984 Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 96, no. 50-51, December 15, 1984-December 22, 1984, pp. 8 & 8."1985 Christmas Hits." Billboard, vol. 97, no. 51-52, December 21, 1985-December 28, 1985, pp. 57 & 57.
=A-Side and B-Side chartings=
Both the A-side and B-sides of the following 6 records charted the Christmas single surveys.{{efn|Bobby Vinton's Songs Of Christmas was the only EP that charted the singles survey peaking at No. 9 on 12/14/1963."Christmas Records." Billboard, vol. 75, no. 50, December 14, 1963, p. 8. " It contains the 4 songs "Silver Bells", "White Christmas", "O Holy Night" and "The Christmas Song".{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/master/1225147-Bobby-Vinton-Songs-Of-Christmas | title=Bobby Vinton - Songs of Christmas | website=Discogs | year=1963 }}}}
=Artists with multiple charted singles=
The following artists had more than one single chart the Christmas surveys (A-Side and B-Side chartings of the same single count as one).
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Top Holiday Albums
After no holiday charts were published in 1986, the Christmas Hits section resumed December 12, 1987 with a 30-position album survey, but Billboard stopped publishing a singles sales chart. Only alternate weeks of the survey were available in print with alternating weeks available via the Billboard Information Network. The various artist collection A Very Special Christmas topped the survey for the first 3 weeks of its return. Billboard published the chart for 2 consecutive weeks in 1987, then in 1988 began to run the survey every other week 2-3 times a holiday season.
The album-only Christmas Hits section was retitled Top Christmas Albums in 1990. Barry Manilow's Because It's Christmas was the No. 1 album for the first 2 weeks under the survey's new name."Top Christmas Albums." Billboard, vol. 102, no. 51, December 22, 1990, p. 82. Billboard began running the chart 5 consecutive weeks each holiday season in 1991, but all weeks are still not available in print."Top Christmas Albums." Billboard, vol. 103, no. 50, December 14, 1991, p. 47. In 1992, Billboard increased the survey to 7 weeks and started compiling the Top Christmas Albums chart using actual sales figures (SoundScan).Whitburn, Joel. "Chart Histories - Christmas Albums." Billboard 100th Anniversary Issue (1894-1994), November 1, 1994, p. 269. After a 6-week run in 1993, Billboard increased the survey size to 40 positions and began publishing the chart 7–10 weeks a year starting with the 1994 holiday season.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/|title=Top Holiday Albums|magazine=Billboard |date=2 January 2013|access-date=18 May 2023}}
Kenny G's Miracles: The Holiday Album topped the Christmas Albums chart for 17 weeks starting December 12, 1994, the most of any album during the 1990s. Kenny G also spent 5 more weeks at No. 1 in the nineties with his Faith: A Holiday Album from 1999. Celine Dion's These Are Special Times spent the second most weeks at the top during the 90's with 9 weeks at number one starting November 21, 1998. The album made its tenth week at No. 1 on October 29, 2016.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/2016-10-29/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }}
Christina Aguilera's My Kind of Christmas topped the chart when Billboard renames the survey [https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/ Top Holiday Albums] on November 25, 2000. The chart size increased to 50 positions in 2002{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/2002-11-23/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} and expanded an 11-week run in 2006.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/2007-01-27/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} On October 20, 2007, Billboard began publishing the chart online in October for 14–15 weeks each holiday season.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/2008-10-11/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }}
Josh Groban's Noël started a 12-week consecutive run at number one on October 27, 2007. It topped the chart 6 more weeks in 2008 making it the top charting Holiday Album of the first decade of the century. Now That's What I Call Christmas! was the second top charting album of the 2000s with 14 inconsecutive weeks at number one from 2000 to 2003.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/josh-groban/chart-history/xml/ | title=Josh Groban | magazine=Billboard }} Two follow ups also topped the chart for 2 weeks each that decade, Now That's What I Call Christmas!: The Signature Collection went to number one beginning November 22, 2003{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/2003-12-13/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} and Now That's What I Call Christmas! 3 beginning January 13, 2007.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/2007-01-20/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} Andrea Bocelli's My Christmas, Susan Boyle's The Gift and Sarah McLachlan's Wintersong all topped the Top Holiday Albums chart for 8 weeks that decade.
On November 11, 2011, Michael Bublé's Christmas went to No. 1 for its first week. To date, it has spent 52 total weeks at No. 1 on the Top Holiday Albums, the most of any album on the entire Christmas album survey.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/michael-buble/chart-history/xml/ | title=Michael Bublé | magazine=Billboard }} Pentatonix spent 47 weeks at No. 1 with 4 different albums during the 2010s with 2014's That's Christmas to Me {{small|(18 weeks)}}, 2016's A Pentatonix Christmas {{small|(18 weeks)}}, 2018's Christmas Is Here! {{small|(2 weeks)}} and 2019's The Best of Pentatonix Christmas {{small|(3 weeks)}}.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pentatonix/chart-history/xml/ | title=Pentatonix | magazine=Billboard }} The original soundtrack to 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas has topped the chart for 15 inconsecutive weeks beginning October 21, 2017.
So far this decade, Michael Bublé's Christmas has topped the chart for 30 inconsecutive weeks. The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack has topped the chart for 8 weeks since 2021. Carrie Underwood's My Gift was no. 1 for 7 weeks beginning October 10, 2020. Billboard reduced the Top Holiday Album chart run to 12 weeks in 2022{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/2023-01-07/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} then 10 weeks in 2023.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/2024-01-06/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }}
=Most weeks at No. 1=
For over 60 years, Billboard has provided a Christmas holiday album survey, consecutively since the 1987 Christmas Hits charts. The following albums have spent at least 6 weeks at the #1 position.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} They have been sorted by the total weeks charted on all the various named Christmas album charts since Deejay's Favorite Christmas Disks was published on November 24, 1958.{{efn|'Billboard's online Top Holiday Album chart history goes back to the December 21, 1985 Christmas Hits chart.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/1985-12-21/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} Only the data for the #1 position are listed for the weeks of 11/28/92,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/1992-11-28/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} 12/5/92,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/1992-12-05/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} 11/26/94{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/1994-11-26/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }} and 11/22/97.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/1997-11-22/ | title=Top Holiday Albums | magazine=Billboard }}}}{{cite web | url=https://popculturemadness.com/PCM/popular-christmas-albums/ | title=Most Popular Christmas Albums | date=29 November 2022 }}
=Most weeks on the survey=
The following albums have charted over 200 weeks on Billboard's Christmas Holiday Album surveys since November 24, 1958.
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! rowspan="2"| Weeks ! rowspan="2"| Album ! rowspan="2"| Artist ! rowspan="2"| Rlsd. ! rowspan="2"| Debut ! rowspan="2"| Peak |
| align="center"| 357{{efn|Elvis' Christmas Album charted for 31 weeks from 1963-1973. It charted in print on 11/26/1994
and charted 189 weeks under the title It's Christmas Time beginning 2003.}} | Elvis' Christmas Album{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/elvis-presley/chart-history/xml/ | title=Elvis Presley | magazine=Billboard }} | {{sortname|Elvis|Presley}} | align="center"| 1957 | 12/7/1963 | align="center"| #2 |
| align="center"| 334{{efn|Bing Crosby's White Christmas album first charted for 41 weeks under the original title, Merry Christmas, prior to 1987. It charted in print on 12/5/1992 and 11/26/1994.}}
| White Christmas{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bing-crosby./chart-history/xml/ | title=Bing Crosby | magazine=Billboard }} | {{sortname|Bing|Crosby}} | align="center"| 1945 | 11/24/1958 | align="center"| #2 |
| align="center"| 326{{efn|A Charlie Brown Christmas charted in print the week of 12/5/1992.}}
| A Charlie Brown Christmas (soundtrack){{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/vince-guaraldi-trio/chart-history/xml/ | title=Vince Guaraldi Trio | magazine=Billboard }} | {{sortname|Vince|Guaraldi Trio}} | align="center"| 1965 | 12/12/1987 | align="center"| #2 |
| align="center"| 317{{efn|Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas charted in print the week of 11/22/1997.}}
| Merry Christmas{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/mariah-carey/chart-history/xml/ | title=Mariah Carey | magazine=Billboard }} | {{sortname|Mariah|Carey}} | align="center"| 1994 | 11/26/1994 | align="center"| #1 |
| align="center"| 311{{efn|Nat "King" Cole's The Christmas Song album charted for 37 weeks prior to 1985 and also charted in print the weeks of 12/5/1992, 11/26/1994 and 11/22/1997.}}
| {{sortname|The|Christmas Song|The Magic of Christmas (Nat King Cole album)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nat-king-cole/chart-history/xml/ | title=Nat King Cole | magazine=Billboard }} | {{sortname|Nat King|Cole}} | align="center"| 1960 | 12/14/1963 | align="center"| #1 |
| align="center"| 289
| These Are Special Times{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/celine-dion/chart-history/xml/ | title=Celine Dion | magazine=Billboard }} | {{sortname|Celine|Dion}} | align="center"| 1998 | 11/21/1998 | align="center"| #1 |
| align="center"| 252{{efn|The Carpenter's Christmas Portrait charted for 3 weeks prior to 1985 and also charted in print the weeks of 12/5/1992, 11/26/1994 and 11/22/1997.}}
| Christmas Portrait{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/carpenters/chart-history/xml/ | title=Carpenters | magazine=Billboard }} | {{sortname|The|Carpenters}} | align="center"| 1978 | 12/15/1984 | align="center"| #2 |
| align="center"| 243
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (soundtrack) | {{sortname|Burl|Ives}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/burl-ives/chart-history/xml/ | title=Burl Ives | Biography, Music & News | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1964 | 11/21/1998 | align="center"| #5 |
| align="center"| 242
| Christmas Eve and Other Stories{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/trans-siberian-orchestra/chart-history/xml/ | title=Trans-Siberian Orchestra | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1996 | 11/28/1996 | align="center"| #3 |
| align="center"| 209
| Noël | {{sortname|Josh|Groban}} | align="center"| 2007 | 11/20/2007 | align="center"| #1 |
=Most albums on the survey=
The following artists or series have had at least 6 albums chart Billboard's Christmas Holiday Album surveys since November 24, 1958.
Holiday Songs
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In the mid-1990's, holiday songs with no commercial single availability had begun appearing more often on Billboard's airplay charts. New songs like 1995's "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra {{small|(Adult Contemporary #34,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/trans-siberian-orchestra/chart-history/asi/ | title=Trans-Siberian Orchestra | magazine=Billboard}} Adult Top 40 #25,{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/trans-siberian-orchestra/|title=Trans-Siberian Orchestra|magazine=Billboard|access-date=18 May 2023}} Hot 100 Airplay #49)}} and "The Chanukah Song" by Adam Sandler {{small|(Adult Contemporary #35, Adult Top 40 #32, Hot 100 Airplay #10,{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/adam-sandler/|title=Adam Sandler|magazine=Billboard|access-date=18 May 2023}} Mainstream Rock #20,[https://www.billboard.com/artist/adam-sandler/chart-history/rtt/ Adam Sandler. Chart History] Billboard.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517022959/https://www.billboard.com/artist/adam-sandler/chart-history/rtt/ |date=2023-05-17 }} Modern Rock Tracks #25[https://www.billboard.com/artist/adam-sandler/chart-history/mrt/ Adam Sandler. Chart History] Billboard.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230527014631/https://www.billboard.com/artist/adam-sandler/chart-history/mrt/ |date=2023-05-27 }})}} would re-chart annually each Christmas season along with older titles such as 1984's "Last Christmas" by Wham! {{small|(Adult Contemporary #22,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/wham/chart-history/asi/ | title=Wham! | magazine=Billboard }} Adult Top 40 #40,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/wham/chart-history/atf/ | title=Wham! | magazine=Billboard }} Hot 100 Airplay #58)"Hot 100 Airplay." Billboard, vol. 110, No. 2, January 10, 1998, p. 85.}} and 1979's "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney {{small|(Adult Contemporary #29, Adult Top 40 #32){{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/paul-mccartney/|title=Paul McCartney|magazine=Billboard|access-date=18 May 2023}}}}
The Hot Country Singles & Tracks and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay survey were also charting earlier classics such as The Temptations' "Silent Night" {{small|(Hot R&B Airplay #16){{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-temptations/|title=The Temptations|magazine=Billboard|access-date=18 May 2023}}}} and new songs like Jeff Foxworthy's "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas" {{small|(Hot Country Singles & Tracks #18)."Hot Country Singles & Tracks." Billboard, vol. 108, No. 1, January 6, 1996, p. 26.}} On the Hot 100, Christina Aguilera's cover of "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)" peaked at #18 for 2 weeks starting December 25, 1999, and Kenny G's "Auld Lang Syne (The Millennium Mix)" peaked at No 7 on January 8, 2000, making both the first holiday songs to enter their top 40 in the past 6 years.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/2000-01-08/ | title=Billboard Hot 100™ | magazine=Billboard }}
Billboard introduced the 25-position Holiday Songs survey online December 8, 2001. The top 15 has occasionally appeared in the print magazine.""Hot Holiday Songs." Billboard, vol. 119, no. 49, December 8, 2007, p. 94. The chart differed from the discontinued best-selling Christmas singles survey(s) by ranking songs based solely on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen BDS of Adult Contemporary and a few Adult Top 40 stations, most of which switch to all or nearly all Christmas music around Thanksgiving.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-songs/2001-12-08/ | title=Holiday Airplay | magazine=Billboard }} Billboard later began to compile the chart data from all-format radio airplay audience impressions, as measured by Mediabase and provided by Luminate. The first number one Holiday Song was the 1977 track "Celebrate Me Home" by Kenny Loggins. The initial chart had a 3-week run, then expanded to 6 weeks in 2002. Billboard increased the survey to 30 positions and ran the chart 6–9 weeks each holiday season starting in 2006.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-songs/2006-11-25/ | title=Holiday Airplay | magazine=Billboard }}
Amy Grant has charted the most songs on the Holiday Song survey with nine.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/amy-grant/chart-history/asx/ | title=Amy Grant | magazine=Billboard }} Michael Bublé is second with 6 charted songs.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/michael-buble/chart-history/asx/ | title=Michael Bublé | magazine=Billboard }} 1964's "A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives {{small|(Holiday Songs #1)}} and 1963's "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" by Andy Williams {{small|(Holiday Songs #2)}} have both charted 132 weeks, the most of any songs on the survey. Both Brenda Lee's 1958 "Rockin" Around The Christmas Tree" {{small|(Holiday Songs #1)}} and Gene Autry's 1949 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" {{small|(Holiday Songs #2)}} tie for second most chart appearances with 130 charted weeks each.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/gene-autry/chart-history/asx/ | title=Gene Autry | magazine=Billboard }}
The most weeks at the top of the Holiday Songs survey is held by Mariah Carey's 1994 Hot 100 Airplay Christmas classic, "All I Want for Christmas Is You".{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-songs/2008-12-13/ | title=Holiday Airplay | magazine=Billboard }} It has held the number one position for 55 weeks.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-songs/2024-01-06/ | title=Holiday Airplay | magazine=Billboard }} Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" has peaked at No. 1 for a total of 30 weeks and Ives' "A Holly Jolly Christmas"{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-songs/2017-12-19/ | title=Holiday Airplay | magazine=Billboard }} has topped the survey the third most times with 20 inconsecutive weeks.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/burl-ives/chart-history/asx/ | title=Burl Ives | magazine=Billboard }} Since December 4, 2010, these three songs and 1971's "Feliz Navidad" by Jose Feliciano have alternated the #1 position on the Holiday Songs chart.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-songs/2014-12-20/ | title=Holiday Airplay | magazine=Billboard }}
Billboard changed the name of the Holiday Songs survey to Holiday Airplay after the launch of the Holiday 100 in 2011 and run the charts concurrently each holiday season. At over 20 years, the Holiday Airplay chart is their longest running holiday single or song survey and their second longest running holiday survey after the Top Holiday Albums chart.
=Holiday Digital Song Sales=
The Holiday Season Digital Song Sales survey of music download purchases debuted on October 16, 2010. Billboard published the 50-position chart for at least 12 weeks each holiday season mostly coinciding with the Top Holiday Albums chart, until they reduced it to a 7-week run at the beginning of December 2021 and then 6 weeks concurrently with the Holiday 100 in 2022.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-season-digital-song-sales/ | title=Holiday Digital Song Sales | magazine=Billboard }} Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was the chart's first No. 1 and has topped the survey the most with 77 inconsecutive weeks.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/mariah-carey/ | title=Mariah Carey | magazine=Billboard }} Carey has charted 4 different versions on Holiday Digital Song Sales, including the 2011 "SuperFestive!" duet with Justin Bieber that also peaked at number one for one week.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-season-digital-song-sales/2011-11-19/ | title=Holiday Digital Song Sales | magazine=Billboard }} Beginning November 5, 2011, Bieber's "Mistletoe" topped the chart for 11 inconsecutive weeks.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/justin-bieber/|title=Justin Bieber|magazine=Billboard|access-date=18 May 2023}} "Hallelujah" by Pentatonix has spent the second most weeks at No. 1 on the survey with 19 inconsecutive weeks beginning November 12, 2016.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.comup/artist/pentatonix/|title=Pentatonix|magazine=Billboard|access-date=18 May 2023}}
Holiday Digital Song Sales has charted over 750 songs, significantly more titles than any of the Holiday Songs or Christmas Singles surveys. Pentatonix has charted 49 songs on the survey.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pentatonix/chart-history/xdt/ | title=Pentatonix | magazine=Billboard }} The Glee Cast,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/glee-cast/chart-history/xdt/ | title=Glee Cast | magazine=Billboard }} Kelly Clarkson{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/kelly-clarkson/chart-history/xdt/ | title=Kelly Clarkson | magazine=Billboard }} and Michael Bublé{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/michael-buble/chart-history/xdt/ | title=Michael Bublé | magazine=Billboard }} have also charted at least 20 songs each. Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You",{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/mariah-carey/chart-history/xdt/ | title=Mariah Carey | magazine=Billboard }} Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Eve" {{small|(Holiday Digital Song Sales #2),{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/trans-siberian-orchestra/chart-history/xdt/ | title=Trans-Siberian Orchestra | magazine=Billboard }}}} and Wham!'s "Last Christmas" {{small|(Holiday Digital Song Sales #2){{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/wham!/chart-history/xdt/ | title=Wham! | magazine=Billboard }}}} have appeared on all 160 weeks surveyed. The top 15 Holiday Digital Song Sales occasionally appear in the print magazine.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-season-digital-song-sales/2010-10-16/ | title=Holiday Digital Song Sales | magazine=Billboard }} Billboard reduced the chart to 25 positions with a 5-week run starting December 2, 2023.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-season-digital-song-sales/2023-12-02/ | title=Holiday Digital Song Sales | magazine=Billboard }}
Holiday 100
An increase of Christmas songs occurred on the Hot 100 in 2010 when 6 holiday songs appeared on the survey with 4 more Bubbling Under the Hot 100. On December 25, Coldplay reached No. 25 on the Hot 100 with "Christmas Lights", making it the first holiday song in their top 40 in the past 11 years.{{cite magazine | url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/coldplay/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Coldplay | Biography, Music & News | magazine=Billboard }} On December 10, 2011, Billboard expanded the Holiday Song chart to 50 positions, reduced it back to a 5-6 week run and renamed it Holiday Airplay. The newly reconfigured Hot Holiday Songs, like the Hot 100, ranks holiday tracks based on a formula blending airplay, download sales and streaming data as tracked by Nielsen Entertainment.{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/see-the-formula-that-turned-these-popular-christmas-songs-into-holiday-hits/2749805/| title=BILLBOARD See the Formula That Turned These Popular Christmas Songs Into Holiday Hits by Andrew Williams| date=7 December 2021}} The 50-position chart survey begins to appear in print and [https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/ Billboard.com] in early December for 5–6 weeks each year. On December 14, 2013, Holiday Songs was expanded to 100 positions and renamed the Holiday 100, although only the top 50 remain in print.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/2013-12-14/ | title=Holiday 100 | magazine=Billboard }}
Topping the inaugural Hot Holiday Songs ranking was Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You"."Billboard Revamps Holiday Chart." Billboard, vol. 123, nos. 45, December 10, 2011, p. 9. It has been #1 for 60 total weeks.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/2023-01-07/ | title=Holiday 100 | magazine=Billboard }}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/holiday-100-mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-five-burning-questions-1235181995/ | title=Five Burning Questions The Holiday 100 By Katie Atkinson, Jason Lipshutz, Glenn Rowley, Andrew Unterberger, Christine Werthman | magazine=Billboard}} After 34 weeks at No. 2, Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" topped the chart for 3 inconsecutive weeks starting December 9, 2023.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/2023-12-09/ | title=Holiday 100 | magazine=Billboard }}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/2023-12-23/ | title=Holiday 100 | magazine=Billboard }}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/brenda-lee-rockin-around-christmas-mariah-no-1-1235515850/ | title=Is It Finally Brenda Lee's Year to be 'Rockin'{{'}} Atop the Hot 100? | magazine=Billboard }}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/2024-01-06/ | title=Holiday 100 | magazine=Billboard }} The other songs that have taken the #1 spot on the Holiday 100{{cite web | url=https://djrobblog.com/archives/17441 | title=The Christmas songs that once knocked Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" from No. 1 on Billboard's Holiday chart (And where they stand now) | date=16 December 2022 }} are Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe" in 2012,{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/2012-01-07/ | title=Holiday 100 | magazine=Billboard }} Ariana Grande's "Santa Tell Me" in 2015{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/2015-01-10/ | title=Holiday 100 | magazine=Billboard }}{{cite news | url=https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/billboard-holiday-charts-history.html| title=What the Holiday 100 Reveals About Our Love of Christmas Music It's Mariah's world (obviously)--but Ariana and Kelly are settling into it. By Chris Molanphy}} and both Pentatonix's "Little Drummer Boy" in 2013{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/2013-12-21/ | title=Holiday 100 | magazine=Billboard }} and "Mary, Did You Know?" for 2 weeks in 2014.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/2014-12-13/ | title=Holiday 100 | magazine=Billboard }}{{cite web | url=https://www.ajc.com/life/radiotvtalk-blog/billboards-holiday-100-over-the-past-decade-shows-people-stick-to-what-they-know-and-love/UPM6B2BCLFBONCCIKPFG6TAD5I/ | title=Billboard's Holiday 100 over the past decade shows people stick to what they know and love by Rodney Ho, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution}} Michael Bublé, Pentatonix and Bing Crosby have charted the most songs on the Holiday 100 with 15 or more each.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bing-crosby/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Bing Crosby | magazine=Billboard }}
=Holiday Streaming Songs=
Billboard also began publishing their 25-position Holiday Streaming Songs chart on December 14, 2013.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-streaming-songs/2003-12-14/ | title=Holiday Streaming Songs | magazine=Billboard }} The survey runs for 5–6 weeks concurrently with the Holiday 100 each holiday season. The chart size increased to 50 positions in 2016.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-streaming-songs/2016-12-10/ | title=Holiday Streaming Songs | magazine=Billboard }} The survey measures the top streamed holiday radio songs, on-demand songs and videos from the leading U.S. online music services.{{cite web | url=https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3982 | title="Billboard" Starts to Include YouTube Streams in its Calculation of the Most Popular Songs of the Week : History of Information }} Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has been #1 for 47 inconsecutive weeks on the survey.{{cite magazine |date=December 31, 2022 |title=Holiday Streaming Songs |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-streaming-songs/2022-12-31/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=December 28, 2022}} Besides Carey's hit, the only other songs that have topped the Holiday Streaming Songs charts are Pentatonix's "Mary, Did You Know?" for 3 weeks, Grande's "Santa Tell Me"{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-streaming-songs/2015-01-03/ | title=Holiday Streaming Songs | magazine=Billboard }} for 2 weeks and most recently Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" for 6 weeks.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-streaming-songs/2024-01-06/ | title=Holiday Streaming Songs | magazine=Billboard }}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/brenda-lee-rockin-around-the-christmas-tree-number-one-hot-100-second-week-1235550742/ | title=Brenda Lee's 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' Leads Billboard Hot 100 for Second Week | magazine=Billboard }}
Michael Bublé has charted 15 songs on the Holiday Streaming Songs survey.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/michael-buble/chart-history/xss/ | title=Michael Bublé | magazine=Billboard }} Bing Crosby{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bing-crosby/chart-history/xss/ | title=Bing Crosby | magazine=Billboard }} and Pentatonix{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pentatonix/chart-history/xss/ | title=Pentatonix | magazine=Billboard }} tie for second most songs with 10 each. Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You", Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)" {{small|(Holiday Streaming Songs #2)}},{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nat-king-cole/chart-history/xss/ | title=Nat King Cole | Biography, Music & News | magazine=Billboard }} Gene Autry's "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" {{small|(Holiday Streaming Songs #2)}} and 2011's "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" by Michael Bublé {{small|(Holiday Streaming Songs #2)}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/gene-autry/chart-history/xss/ | title=Gene Autry | magazine=Billboard }} have charted all 58 weeks of the Holiday Streaming Songs survey. Mariah Carey's chart topping success{{cite news | url=https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142704853/mariah-carey-billboard-charts-all-i-want-christmas/| title=Why All I Want for Christmas Is You tops the charts every year (2022 included)}}{{cite web | url=https://time.com/6344652/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-charts/ | title=How 'All I Want for Christmas' Still Dominates the Charts | date=11 December 2023 }} and other songs that appear on Billboard's Holiday Song surveys every year have met criticism.{{cite news | url=https://www.economist.com/business/2021/12/04/how-streaming-killed-the-christmas-charts | title=How streaming killed the Christmas charts| newspaper=The Economist}}
=Holiday 100 Songwriters and Producers=
In 2022, Billboard launched the Holiday 100 Songwriters and Producers charts that run during the same seasonal period as the Holiday 100. The weekly 25 position charts are based on points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song. They join Billboard's 26 other songwriter and producer rankings covering the Hot 100 and all other "Hot"-named genre charts: Christian, country, dance/electronic, gospel, Latin, R&B/hip-hop, R&B, rap, rock & alternative, rock, alternative and hard rock. On the inaugural Holiday 100 Songwriters survey, Johnny Marks {{small|(who died in 1985 at age 75)}} was No. 1 for seven songwriting credits on the Holiday 100. Lee Gillette {{small|(who died in 1981 at age 68)}} topped the inaugural Holiday 100 Producers chart for seven production credits.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/billboard-launches-seasonal-holiday-songwriter-producer-charts-1235180301/ | title=Billboard Launches Seasonal Holiday Songwriter & Producer Charts | magazine=Billboard }} Both have held their number 1 positions for the 12 weeks each chart has run.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-100-producers/2024-01-06/ | title=Holiday 100 Producers | magazine=Billboard }}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-100-songwriters/2024-01-06/ | title=Holiday 100 Songwriters | magazine=Billboard }}
==Holiday 100 most charted songs==
Billboard's Holiday 100 has charted 305 songs. The following ranked by peak position have consecutively charted all 68 weeks since its debut on December 10, 2011.
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| "All I Want For Christmas Is You"{{efn|Mariah Carey first peaked at No. 12 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart on December 31, 1994 with "All I Want For Christmas Is You".{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/mariah-carey/chart-history/hsb/ | title=Mariah Carey | magazine=Billboard }} Songs with no commercial single available were ineligible for the Hot 100 until December 5, 1998. The song debuted on the Hot 100 at No. 83 on Christmas Day 1999 and went to No. 1{{Cite web|url=https://www.etonline.com/mariah-careys-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-hits-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100-for-first-time-ever|title=Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' Hits No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 for First Time Ever | Entertainment Tonight|date=16 December 2019|website=Entertainment Tonight|access-date=18 May 2023}} in 2019.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/mariah-carey/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Mariah Carey | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Mariah|Carey}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/mariah-carey/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Mariah Carey | magazine=Billboard}} | align="center"| 1994 | 12/10/2011 | rowspan="3" align="center"| 1 | align="center"| 60{{efn|Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" peaked at No. 1 for 6 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100. It also peaked at No. 1 for 7 on the Holiday Digital Songs Sales chart in 2010 prior to the Holiday 100.}} | align="center"| 68 | align="center"| 68 |
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| "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"{{efn|Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" peaked at No. 1 for 23 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-songs/2016-12-10/ | title=Holiday Airplay | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Brenda|Lee}} | align="center"| 1958 | 12/9/2023 | align="center"| 3 | align="center"| 68 | align="center"| 68 |
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| "Mistletoe"{{efn|Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe" peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100 in 2011.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/justin-bieber/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Justin Bieber | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Justin|Bieber}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/justin-bieber/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Justin Bieber | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 2011 | 1/7/2012 | align="center"| 1 | align="center"| 5 | align="center"| 68 |
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| "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"{{efn|Andy Williams' It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" peaked at No. 5 on the Hot 100 in 2021.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/andy-williams/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Andy Williams | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Andy|Williams}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/andy-williams/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Andy Williams | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1963 | 12/8/2018 | rowspan="3" align="center"| 2 | align="center"| 4{{efn|Andy Williams' "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" peaked at No. 2 for 3 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/andy-williams/chart-history/asx/ | title=Andy Williams | magazine=Billboard }}}} | align="center"| 68 | align="center"| 68 |
| align="center"| 5
| "Jingle Bell Rock"{{efn|Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" peaked at No. 1 for 9 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bobby-helms/chart-history/asx/ | title=Bobby Helms | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Bobby|Helms}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bobby-helms/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Bobby Helms | magazine=Billboard }}{{efn|Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" began to re-chart the Hot 100 annually in 2015, eventually peaking at No. 3 in 2020.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bobby-helms/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Bobby Helms | magazine=Billboard }}}} | align="center"| 1957 | 12/24/2016 | align="center"| 2 | align="center"| 66 | align="center"| 68 |
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| "{{sortname|The|Christmas Song}} (Merry Christmas To You)"{{efn|Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" peaked at No. 1 for 7 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nat-king-cole/chart-history/asx/ | title=Nat King Cole | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Nat King|Cole}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nat-king-cole/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Nat King Cole | magazine=Billboard }} & Ralph Carmichael Orch. | align="center"| 1961 | 1/4/2014 | align="center"| 1 | align="center"| 63 | align="center"| 68 |
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| "{{sortname|A|Holly Jolly Christmas}}"{{efn|Burl Ives' "Holly Jolly Christmas" peaked at No. 1 for 16 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.}} | {{sortname|Burl|Ives}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/burl-ives/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Burl Ives | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1964 | 12/14/2019 | rowspan="3" align="center"| 3 | align="center"| 4 | align="center"| 64 | align="center"| 68 |
| align="center"| 8
| "Feliz Navidad"{{efn|Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" peaked at No. 2 on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jose-feliciano/chart-history/asx/ | title=José Feliciano | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|José|Feliciano}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jose-feliciano/chart-history/hsx/ | title=José Feliciano | magazine=Billboard }}{{efn|Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" first entered the Hot 100 in 2017 and has re-charted annually, peaking at No. 6 in 2021.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jose-feliciano/chart-history/hsi/ | title=José Feliciano | magazine=Billboard }}}} | align="center"| 1970 | 1/7/2012 | rowspan="2" align="center" | 1 | align="center"| 63 | align="center"| 68 |
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| "Last Christmas"{{efn|Wham's "Last Christmas" first charted in Billboard on the Hot 100 airplay chart at No. 58 in 1997."Adult Contemporary." Billboard, January 10, 1998, p. 77. It peaked at #4 on the Hot 100 in 2023{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/wham!/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Wham! | magazine=Billboard }}}} | Wham!{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/wham/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Wham! | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1984 | 12/7/2019 | align="center"| 51 | align="center"| 67 |
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| "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)"{{efn|The same recording of "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" first charted by Savatage on the Hot 100 Airplay chart in 1995, then re-charted as by Trans-Siberian Orchestra peaking at No. 49 in 1996 and 1997.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/trans-siberian-orchestra/chart-history/hsb/ | title=Trans-Siberian Orchestra | magazine=Billboard }}}}{{efn|Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Eve" peaked at No. 3 for 4 weeks on the Holiday Digital Songs Sales chart in 2010 prior to the Holiday 100.}} | Trans-Siberian Orchestra{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/trans-siberian-orchestra/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Trans-Siberian Orchestra | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1995 | 12/5/2012 | align="center"| 4 | align="center"| 1 | align="center"| 19 | align="center"| 54 |
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| "White Christmas"{{efn|Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" peaked at No. 1 on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bing-crosby/chart-history/asx/ | title=Bing Crosby | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Bing|Crosby}} with Ken Darby Singers & | align="center"| 1947 | 12/12/2015 | align="center"| 5 | align="center"| 2 | align="center"| 19 | align="center"| 67 |
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| "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"{{efn|Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" peaked at No. 3 for 2 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.}} | {{sortname|Gene|Autry}} and The Pinafores{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/gene-autry/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Gene Autry | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1949 | 12/22/2018 | align="center"| 7 | align="center"| 3 | align="center"| 13 | align="center"| 67 |
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| "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas"{{efn|Michael Buble's "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" peaked at No. 96 on the Hot 100 in 2011. It began charting the Hot 100 annually in 2020 peaking at No. 19 in 2023.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/michael-buble/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Michael Bublé | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Michael|Bublé}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/michael-buble/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Michael Bublé | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 2011 | 12/4/2021 | align="center"| 8 | align="center"| 1 | align="center"| 5 | align="center"| 66 |
| align="center"| 14
| "Christmas Canon" | Trans-Siberian Orchestra | align="center"| 1998 | 12/17/2011 | rowspan="2" align="center" | 9 | align="center"| 2 | align="center"| 4 | align="center"| 38 |
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| "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"{{efn|John Lennon's "Happy Xmas" peaked at No. 2 for 4 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/john-lennon/chart-history/asx/ | title=John Lennon | magazine=Billboard }} It also peaked at No. 1 on the Holiday Digital Songs Sales chart on October 23, 2010 prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/john-lennon/chart-history/xdt/ | title=John Lennon | magazine=Billboard }}}} | John{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/john-lennon/ | title=John Lennon | magazine=Billboard }} & Yoko & the Plastic Ono Band | align="center"| 1971 | 12/10/2011 | align="center"| 1 | align="center"| 2 | align="center"| 62 |
| align="center"| 16
| "Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season"{{efn|Andy William's "Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season" peaked at No. 9 for 2 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.}} | {{sortname|Andy|Williams}}{{efn|Andy Williams'" Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season" peaked at No. 18 on the Hot 100 in 2021.}} | align="center"| 1963 | 12/14/2019 | rowspan="2" align="center"| 12 | align="center"| 7 | align="center"| — | align="center"| 60 |
| align="center"| 17
| "Blue Christmas"{{efn|Elvis Prelsey's "Blue Christmas" peaked at No. 9 for 3 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/elvis-presley/chart-history/asx/ | title=Elvis Presley | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Elvis|Presley}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/elvis-presley/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Elvis Presley | magazine=Billboard }}{{efn|Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas" began to re-chart the Hot 100 annually in 2017, peaking at No. 18 on January 6, 2024.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/elvis-presley/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Elvis Presley | magazine=Billboard }}}} | align="center"| 1957 | 1/5/2013 | align="center"| 1 | align="center"| — | align="center"| 63 |
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| "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"{{efn|"You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" first peaked at No. 2 on the Holiday Digital Songs Sales chart on January 1, 2011 prior to the Holiday 100.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-season-digital-song-sales/|title=Holiday Digital Song Sales|magazine=Billboard |date=5 December 2013|access-date=18 May 2023}}}} | {{sortname|Thurl|Ravenscroft}}{{efn|"You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" peaked at No. 31 on the Hot 100 in 2022.}} | align="center"| 1966 | 1/7/2017 | align="center"| 14 | align="center"| 1 | align="center"| — | align="center"| 68 |
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| "Wonderful Christmastime"{{efn|Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" first charted Cashbox magazine in 1979 on their Top 100 peaking at No. 83 on January 12, 1980. It first appeared in Billboard peaking at No. 10 on its Christmas Hits chart in 1984."CASHBOX Top 100 Singles." CASHBOX, vol. XLI, no. 35, January 12, 1980, p. 4.}}{{efn|Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" peaked at No. 8 for 3 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/paul-mccartney/chart-history/asx/ | title=Paul McCartney | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Paul|McCartney}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/paul-mccartney/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Paul McCartney | magazine=Billboard }}{{efn|Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" first charted the Hot 100 in 2018, peaking at No. 26 on January 6, 2024.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/paul-mccartney/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Paul McCartney | magazine=Billboard }}}} | align="center"| 1979 | 12/8/2018 | rowspan="2" align="center" | 15 | rowspan="2" align="center" | 2 | rowspan="2" align="center" | — | align="center"| 68 |
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| "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas"{{efn|Johnny Mathis' "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas" peaked at No. 3 on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/johnny-mathis/chart-history/asx/ | title=Johnny Mathis | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Johnny|Mathis}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/johnny-mathis/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Johnny Mathis | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1986 | 12/10/2016 | align="center"| 38 |
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| "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"{{efn|Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" peaked at No. 13 on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bruce-springsteen-the-e-street-band/ | title=Bruce Springsteen & the e Street Band | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Bruce|Springsteen}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/bruce-springsteen-the-e-street-band/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Bruce Springsteen & the e Street Band | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1981 | 1/7/2012 | align="center" | 16 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | — | align="center" | 25 |
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| "Christmastime Is Here"{{efn|The Vince Guaraldi Trio's "Christmastime Is Here" peaked at No. 39 on the Hot 100 on January 6, 2024.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/vince-guaraldi-trio/chart-history/hsi/ | title=Vince Guaraldi Trio | Biography, Music & News | magazine=Billboard }}}} | {{sortname|Vince|Guaraldi Trio}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/vince-guaraldi-trio/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Vince Guaraldi Trio | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1965 | 1/7/2017 | align="center"| 17 | align="center"| 1 | align="center"| — | align="center"| 61 |
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| "Santa Baby"{{efn|Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby" first charted in 1953 peaking at No. 4 on January 2, 1954 on Billboards Best Selling Singles chart."Top Popular Records." Billboard, vol. 66, no. 1, January 2, 1954, p. 22.}} | {{sortname|Eartha|Kitt}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/eartha-kitt/ | title=Eartha Kitt | magazine=Billboard }} with Henri René and his Orch. | align="center"| 1953 | 12/21/2013 | rowspan="3" align="center" | 18 | rowspan="2" align="center"| 2 | rowspan="2" align="center"| — | align="center"| 52 |
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|"It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas"{{efn|Bing Crosby's "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" peaked at No. 12 on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.}} | {{sortname|Bing|Crosby}} with Jud Conlon's | align="center"| 1951 | 12/10/2011 | align="center"| 34 |
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| "Please Come Home For Christmas"{{efn|The Eagles' "Please Come Home For Christmas" peaked at No. 2 for 2 weeks on the Holiday Songs chart prior to the Holiday 100.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/eagles/chart-history/asx/ | title=Eagles | magazine=Billboard }}}} | Eagles{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/eagles/chart-history/hsx/ | title=Eagles | magazine=Billboard }} | align="center"| 1978 | 1/5/2013 | align="center" | 1 | align="center" | — | align="center"| 59 |
The following songs debuted on the Holiday 100 after December 20, 2011, and have consecutively charted every week following for at least two holiday seasons.
==Holiday 100 artists with the most charted songs==
The following artists have had at least 4 songs chart the Holiday 100.
Lists of albums, singles and songs on ''Billboard'''s Christmas/Holiday charts
- Best Bets for Christmas 1963–1973
- Christmas Hits 1983–1989
- List of number one Holiday Songs:
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
- Top Christmas Albums of the 1990s
- Top Holiday Albums number ones:
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
See also
- Billboard magazine
- Charts
- Greatest Christmas Hits CD collection
- Hot 100 Holiday Songs with the Biggest drops off the chart
- Hot 100 Holiday Songs with the Most weeks on the chart
- List of Hot 100 top-ten Holiday season singles:
- 2017 2018 2019 2020
- 2021 2022 2023
- Christmas: Music
- Hit Christmas singles in the United Kingdom
- Popular Christmas singles in the United States
- U.S. best-selling Christmas albums & singles
Notes
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References
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''Billboard'' external links
=Articles=
- [https://www.billboard.com/lists/top-25-holiday-albums-christmas-best-sellers/my-christmas-andrea-bocelli/ Billboard’s Top 25 Holiday Albums, From Crosby & Cole to Bublé & Bocelli: By Paul Grein, 12/8/2022]
- [https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-christmas-songs/ The 100 Best Christmas Songs of All Time: Billboard Staff List, 11/30/2022]
- [https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/best-holiday-song-last-50-years-critics-take-7632297/ The Best Holiday Song From Each of the Last 50 Years: By Andrew Unterberger, 12/1/2017]
=Christmas Singles Chart=
- [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive: a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.] {{small|(Billboard chart reference books)}}
- [https://www.45cat.com/45_list_view_record.php?li=2272 Records That Made Billboard's Christmas Singles Charts 1963-1985 (45cat.com)]
- [https://worldradiohistory.com/index.htm WorldRadioHistory.Com: A non-profit free online library] {{small|(back issues of Billboard and other music charts)}}
=Current Holiday charts {{small|(Subscription required for full chart data.)}}=
- [https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-songs/ Airplay]
- [https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-season-digital-song-sales/ Digital Song Sales]
- [https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-holiday-songs/ Holiday 100]
- [https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-100-producers/ Holiday 100 Producers]
- [https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-100-songwriters/ Holiday 100 Songwriters]
- [https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-streaming-songs/ Streaming Songs]
- [https://www.billboard.com/charts/holiday-albums/ Top Albums]
=Greatest of All Time=
- [https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-of-all-time-holiday-100-songs/ Holiday 100 Songs]
- [https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-of-all-time-top-holiday-albums/ Top Holiday Albums]
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