Billboard Christmas Holiday charts

The popular music surveys charted 9 Christmas singles, including the debut of the Bobby Helms' standard "Jingle Bell Rock" (Top 100 Sides #6).

[1] Gene Autry's newly recorded version of his 1949 original "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"[2] made the Top 100 Sides at No.

Bing Crosby's all-time best-selling single[4] "White Christmas" returned to the Top 40 again in 1957 at No.

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.

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.

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.

[63] Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas (LPs #2) spent 39 weeks on the LP survey from 1963 to 1973, more than any other album at the time.

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 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.

His hit has charted the most with 37 total weeks during the entire Christmas singles survey run.

[210] In 1992, Billboard increased the survey to 7 weeks and started compiling the Top Christmas Albums chart using actual sales figures (SoundScan).

[211] 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.

[221] The original soundtrack to 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas has topped the chart for 15 inconsecutive weeks beginning October 21, 2017.

In the mid-1990's, holiday songs with no commercial single availability had begun appearing more often on Billboard's airplay charts.

[290] 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.

[292] 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.

[293] Billboard later began to compile the chart data from all-format radio airplay audience impressions, as measured by Mediabase and provided by Luminate.

Billboard increased the survey to 30 positions and ran the chart 6–9 weeks each holiday season starting in 2006.

The Holiday Season Digital Song Sales survey of music download purchases debuted on October 16, 2010.

[304] Carey has charted 4 different versions on Holiday Digital Song Sales, including the 2011 "SuperFestive!"

The top 15 Holiday Digital Song Sales occasionally appear in the print magazine.

25 on the Hot 100 with "Christmas Lights", making it the first holiday song in their top 40 in the past 11 years.

[319] Topping the inaugural Hot Holiday Songs ranking was Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You".

2, Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" topped the chart for 3 inconsecutive weeks starting December 9, 2023.

[323][324][325][326] The other songs that have taken the #1 spot on the Holiday 100[327] are Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe" in 2012,[328] Ariana Grande's "Santa Tell Me" in 2015[329][330] and both Pentatonix's "Little Drummer Boy" in 2013[331] and "Mary, Did You Know?"

The weekly 25 position charts are based on points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song.

Lee Gillette (who died in 1981 at age 68) topped the inaugural Holiday 100 Producers chart for seven production credits.