The Billboard 200 chart dated Jan. 3, 2026, sets a record with seven holiday albums in the top 10, topping the previous week's tie of six. Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl holds No. 1 for an 11th nonconsecutive week, matching her 1989 and Fearless runs, fueled by new vinyl editions. The chart's tracking week ends Christmas Day for the first time since 2014.
Building on the Dec. 27 chart's record-tying six holiday albums in the top 10, the Jan. 3, 2026, Billboard 200 marks history with seven festive titles in the top 10, surpassing the prior high first set in 1959.
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl notches an 11th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 with 141,000 equivalent album units for the tracking week ending Dec. 25 (up 35% from 104,000 the prior week), per Luminate. Sales led at 97,000 units (up 76%), driven by three new color vinyl variants via Swift’s webstore from Nov. 24 (shipping starting ~Dec. 19), with 43,000 streaming equivalent albums (56.23 million streams, down 11%) and 1,000 track equivalent albums.
Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas vaults 6-2, its peak, with 110,000 units fueled by a record 140.71 million on-demand streams—the biggest ever for a holiday album or Crosby release. It hits No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums. Highlights include “White Christmas,” “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?,” and “Mele Kalikimaka” with The Andrews Sisters.
Other holiday albums: Michael Bublé’s Christmas at No. 3 (104,000 units, up 51%), Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song at No. 4 (93,000, up 70%), A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector at No. 5, new peak (81,000, up 70%), Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas at No. 7 (74,000, up 49%), Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas at No. 8 (72,000, up 58%), and Frank Sinatra’s Ultimate Christmas at No. 9, new high (65,000, up 65%).
Non-holidays: Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem at No. 6 (75,000, up 3%) and KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack at No. 10 (62,000, down 13%).
The chart tallies multi-metric consumption: one album sale, 10 track sales, or 1,250 paid/3,750 ad-supported streams per equivalent unit. The holiday surge reflects the Christmas-ending tracking period.
