American music chart publisher Billboard magazine began publishing annual Christmas singles and albums charts, the Billboard Best Bets for Christmas,[a] in surveys from 1963 to 1973 for a total of 46 weeks.
Each survey included a top-selling Christmas LP's and a Christmas Singles chart that ran for 3–5 weeks each holiday season expanding in size as sales activity increased.
Before then, Christmas-themed hits were only included on the Hot 100 or on their other weekly charts.
[1] Billboard charted Christmas albums and singles exclusively in this section until 1972.
[2] These are Billboard's Best Bets for Christmas number-one albums and singles: These are the LPs that reached the top 10 on Billboard's Christmas Record charts from 1958 until 1973.