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Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums chart returns for the 2024 season, with new offerings from Dan + Shay, Bing Crosby and Jennifer Hudson dotting the top 10 of the Nov. 2-dated ranking.
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The Top Holiday Albums chart will continue to be published on a weekly basis through early January of 2025, when it will jingle away until the next holiday season. (The chart generally returns to Billboard’s weekly chart menu every October.)
The Top Holiday Albums chart ranks the 50 most popular seasonal albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each units equals one album sales, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
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Leading the new Top Holiday Albums chart is the soundtrack to Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, notching its 16th nonconsecutive week atop the tally. It earned nearly 11,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Luminate.
Dan + Shay’s first holiday release, It’s Officially Christmas: The Double Album, debuts at No. 2 with 7,000 equivalent album units earned, with 6,000 of that sum in traditional album sales. Also new to the chart this season: Bing Crosby’s new best-of, Ultimate Christmas, at No. 6 with 3,000 units, along with Jennifer Hudson’s first holiday album, The Gift of Love, at No. 10 with 1,500 units.
As for the rest of the top 10, it’s decorated with familiar favorites: Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack (No. 3), Michael Bublé’s Christmas (No. 4), Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas (No. 5), Frank Sinatra’s Ultimate Christmas (No. 7), Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song (No. 8) and Pentatonix’s The Best of Pentatonix Christmas (No. 9).
Gigi Perez’s sensational breakout moment has reached new heights with her first ever No. 1 single on the U.K. Singles Chart.
The New Jersey-born, Florida-raised singer-songwriter has had a viral hit with “Sailor Song,” which recently peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. Perez ends Sabrina Carpenter’s nine-week run at No. 1 with “Taste,” and is the most-streamed song of the week in the U.K. with 5 million streams, according to the Official Charts Company.
Speaking to the Official Charts on her victory, Perez says, “There’s such a big hole in the conversations that we’re having in mainstream music. There’s an entire group of people – the queer community – who need representation.”
She adds: “Knowing that ‘Sailor Song’ is a vessel for that, it’s amazing. Thank you!”
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ROSÉ and Bruno Mars rise to No. 2 with their collaboration “APT.” The song bests the BLACKPINK member’s own record after she became the first K-pop female solo act to land a U.K. top five single last week.
Gracie Abrams’ has secured two entries in the top five with the simultaneous success of “That’s So True” (No. 3) and “I Love You, I’m Sorry” (No. 4). The former jumps 16 places to land Abrams’ second top 10 hit in the U.K.
“Disease,” the first taste of Lady Gaga’s upcoming seventh studio album, lands at No. 7 to give the pop icon her 16th career U.K. top 10 single, and follows her successful “Die With a Smile” collaboration with Bruno Mars.
Elsewhere, Addison Rae has secured her first top 10 entry with “Diet Pepsi,” which lands at No. 10.
In addition to his first No. 1 LP on the U.K. Albums Chart, three songs from Tyler, the Creator’s Chromakopia arrive in the top 40. Album opener “St. Chroma,” featuring Daniel Caesar, becomes the rapper’s highest ever charting single in the U.K. at No. 15, while “Noid” lands a spot later at No. 16 and “Darling, I” finishes at No. 24.
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Tyler, the Creator has landed his first chart-topping LP on the U.K. Albums Chart with Chromakopia.
Released on Monday (Oct. 28) – away from the standard Friday release date – the rap superstar’s eighth studio album still made up enough ground on Manchester band Courteeners to pip them to the top spot by 800 units across physical sales, downloads and streaming.
Chromakopia bests Tyler’s previous high of No. 4, which he achieved with both 2019’s Igor and 2021’s Call Me If You Get Lost.
Courteneers held the lead until Thursday (Oct. 31), according to an official release by the Official Charts Company, and follows their maiden No. 1 album last year with a reissue of debut album St Jude. Their seventh album, Pink Cactus Café, tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart and was the most purchased LP at independent record stores over the past week.
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Bastille’s Dan Smith’s first solo album & also features in the top 10, landing at No. 4. Three of the London band’s four studio albums – Bad Blood (2013), Wild World (2016) and Give Me The Future (2022) – have previously charted at No. 1.
Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet and Charli XCX’s Brat continue their lengthy runs in the top 10, finishing at No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.
Pop icons Tears for Fears debut at No. 6 with Songs for a Nervous Planet, their seventh top 10 on the charts and their second studio release since their 2022 reunion.
Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) returns to top 10 following the physical release of the expanded Mourner’s Edition; the record initially spent three weeks at No. 1 following its original release in August, and finishes the week at No. 8.
There’s a first top 10 placing for Aussie punks Amyl & The Sniffers, whose third album, Cartoon Darkness, slots in at No. 9, and Queen’s 1973 debut album, Queen I, reaches a new high of No. 10 following a 50th anniversary reissue.
Halsey’s The Great Impersonator finishes at No. 19; their previous high on the Albums Chart came in 2022 with If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, which finished at No. 5.
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Jelly Roll banks his sixth No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “I Am Not Okay” rises a rung on the Nov. 9-dated ranking. It increased by 12% to 33. 8 million audience impressions Oct. 25-31, according to Luminate.
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The Nashville native (born Jason DeFord) co-authored the inspirational song with Casey Brown, Ashley Gorley and Taylor Phillips, and Zach Crowell produced it. The track is the lead single from Jelly Roll’s LP Beautifully Broken, which bowed at No. 1 on Top Country Albums and the all-genre Billboard 200 dated Oct. 26 with 161,000 equivalent album units, marking his initial leader on each list. His preceding set, Whitsitt Chapel, entered and peaked at Nos. 2 and 3 on the charts, respectively, in June 2023.
“I believe in the power that music has to connect with people, and being able to see the response out on the road touring and seeing and hearing from people about this song – it’s been unreal,” Jelly Roll tells Billboard. To fans and programmers, he added, “Thank you for continuing to shine a light on therapeutic music.”
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All six of Jelly Roll’s Country Airplay entries have reigned, marking the second-longest active No. 1 run. On the Oct. 26 chart, Kane Brown added his seventh consecutive leader with “Miles on It,” with Marshmello.
Jelly Roll previously topped Country Airplay as featured on Dustin Lynch’s “Chevrolet,” for a week in September, and as a lead artist with “Halfway to Hell” (one week, June); “Save Me,” with Lainey Wilson (two weeks, December 2023); “Need a Favor” (four, beginning in August 2023); and his debut entry at the format, “Son of a Sinner” (one week, January 2023).
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Plus, George Birge achieves his second Country Airplay top 10 as “Cowboy Songs” trots two spots to No. 10 (16.4 million, up 10%). The Austin, Texas, native’s “Mind on You” hit No. 2 in January.
Per his current hit’s traditional title, it joins 10 prior top 10s, dating to the chart’s 1990 start, with “cowboy” in their titles. Chris LeDoux lassoed the first with the No. 7-peaking “Whatcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy” in 1992. Most recently, Jon Pardi’s “Ain’t Always the Cowboy” hit No. 3 in 2020.
SEVENTEEN scores its sixth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Nov. 2) as SPILL THE FEELS enters atop the list with 64,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Luminate. All six of the group’s leaders have come since 2021, and the act now ties TOMORROW X TOGETHER for the second-most No. 1s in the 2020s decade. Only Taylor Swift, with eight No. 1s since 2020, has more chart-toppers this decade.
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Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, rapper Yeat nabs his biggest sales week ever with the No. 2 debut of Lyfestyle, Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker’s reissue of Long After Dark arrives at No. 6, Kylie Minogue’s Tension II starts at No. 7, Jerry Cantrell’s I Want Blood bows at No. 8 and Dan + Shay kick off the holiday season with It’s Officially Christmas: The Double Album entering at No. 10.
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Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units.
SPILL THE FEELS’ sales were bolstered by its availability across 17 CD variants, each containing collectible branded paper ephemera (such as photocards, posters, lyric books and stickers, some randomized). Of the set’s 64,000 copies sold, 99% were CDs and the remaining sales were digital downloads.
Yeat logs his biggest sales week ever as Lyfestyle bows at No. 2 with 60,000 sold. Lyfestyle’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across many variants, exclusively sold through the artist’s webstore. Lyfestyle’s opening-week sales actually exceed the cumulative sales of the rapper’s entire album catalog before this past week. Until Lyfestyle’s release, his catalog of albums had sold a combined 35,000 copies.
Jelly Roll’s Beautifully Broken dips 1-3 in its second week (33,000; down 71%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is steady at No. 4 (11,000; down 17%) and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess falls 3-5 (nearly 11,000; down 26%).
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ Long After Dark, first released in 1982, makes its debut on Top Album Sales at No. 6, following its deluxe remastered reissue on Nov. 18. In the tracking week, the album – with all versions, new and old, combined – sold 10,000 copies. The reissue was available in multiple permutations, including a deluxe digital download, two vinyl variants, and two CD/Blu-ray audio combo editions (most inclusive of additional unearthed bonus tracks).
Kylie Minogue’s Tension II starts at No. 7 on Top Album Sales with 9,000 copies sold. It’s the sequel set to her 2023 release Tension. The new album was issued in four CD variants, four vinyl editions, two download editions and a cassette tape.
Jerry Cantrell’s I Want Blood bows at No. 8 with nearly 9,000 sold, marking his best sales week as a soloist since 2002. It’s also his first top 10-charting effort as a solo artist on the ranking. The set was available across five vinyl variants, three CD editions and a download.
Charli XCX’s Brat falls 2-9 with almost 9,000 sold (down 82%).
Rounding out the top 10 on the new Top Album Sales chart is the debut of Dan + Shay’s It’s Officially Christmas: The Double Album at No. 10 with 6,000 sold. It’s the first holiday release from the duo – and the first seasonal effort to reach the top 10 on Top Album Sales in 2024. The set was issued in two vinyl variants, two CD variants and a digital download.
Amyl and The Sniffers are turning heads on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, debuting at No. 2 with their high-energy third album, Cartoon Darkness.
It’s a big moment for the Melbourne punk rockers, who’ve managed to climb even higher than their self-titled debut in 2019, which landed at No. 22, and almost match their 2021 release Comfort To Me, which peaked at No. 2. Their chart presence, paired with three ARIA Awards (including Best Group in 2022), marks them as a fierce force in the Australian music scene.
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While Amyl and The Sniffers were poised to snatch the top spot, it was hip-hop innovator Tyler, The Creator who claimed No. 1 with Chromakopia. Released on an unusual Monday schedule, Tyler’s album marks his seventh studio effort and his first ARIA Albums Chart topper, narrated by none other than his mother, Bonita Smith. The record features the hit single “Noid,” debuting at No. 13, alongside four other tracks in the Top 50. Tyler’s star power in Australia continues to rise, building on his previous top 10 albums, with Igor reaching No. 3 in 2019 and Call Me If You Get Lost landing at No. 2 in 2021.
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Meanwhile, Aussie favorites Sheppard re-enter the chart at No. 10 with their fourth album, Zora, which had earlier peaked at No. 8, meaning they’ve now locked in four consecutive Top 10 albums.
Green Day makes a throwback splash, too, with the 20th-anniversary edition of American Idiot hitting No. 12. The 2004 classic, which spent two weeks at No. 1 upon its initial release, is proving its staying power, especially as fans celebrate its recent reissue.
On another nostalgic note, Powderfinger’s Parables For Wooden Ears re-enters the chart at No. 36 for its 30th anniversary. Originally peaking at No. 51 in 1994, the album now returns as fans reflect on Powderfinger’s legacy, including six No. 1 albums and a massive 18 ARIA Awards to their name.
On the singles front, Rosé and Bruno Mars continue their reign at the top with “APT.,” making history as Rosé becomes the first solo Korean artist to hold the No. 1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for more than a week since PSY’s “Gangnam Style” in 2012.
Bruno Mars also holds steady at No. 4 with his duet with Lady Gaga, “Die With A Smile,” showing his consistent staying power in the Australian market.
With Cartoon Darkness, Amyl and The Sniffers remind us that punk is alive, well, and making serious waves on the charts. Their gritty, unfiltered sound is resonating louder than ever, bringing fresh energy to the Australian rock scene and showing that they’re here to stay.
Karol G tallies a seventh consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart as “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” rules the Oct. 26-dated ranking. The song lengthens the third-longest command in 2024, following the 11-week coronation by Valentino Merlo and The La Planta’s “Hoy” and Mesita, Nicki Nicole, Tiago PZK and […]
One of the most successful regional Mexican groups, Calibre 50 is no stranger to leading the pack, and the group is at again with its record-extending 26th No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart, as “El Amor De Mi Vida” jumps 2-1 to lead the Nov. 2-dated list. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts […]
One of hip-hop’s earliest hitmakers is back on the Billboard charts, returning with his first new song to reach the rankings in more than two decades. Young MC’s “Fun Part,” released on the rapper’s Disco Theory label, lands a No. 38 debut on the Rhythmic Airplay chart and gives its creator his first visit to a Billboard chart with a new song since “Heatseeker” in 2002. Among other placements, “Heatseeker” reached No. 6 on the Hot Singles Sales chart and No. 92 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list.
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“It feels exhilarating and nerve-wracking at the same time,” Young MC tells Billboard upon his new track’s entrance to the charts. “On the one hand, it’s a validation for all the hard work I’ve put in over decades to grow as an artist and a producer. But at the same time, I feel the pressure to keep the momentum going. I’m looking forward to the challenge.”
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Born Marvin Young, the artist who later became Young MC first came to prominence as a songwriter on two 1989 hits for Tone-Loc that broke barriers as some of hip-hop’s earliest crossover success stories on the charts. “Wild Thing” soared to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 – at the time, the genre’s highest peaking hit on the flagship chart – while “Funky Cold Medina” nearly duplicated the feat, reaching a No. 3 best.
That same year, the rapper also touched a third classic, but this time, as the main attraction. “Bust a Move,” which features the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea on drums, flew to No. 7 on the Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award for best rap performance. The single has lived on with countless uses in pop culture, including in films such as Dude, Where’s My Car? and The Blind Side, a 1997 commercial for Priceline in which William Shatner recited some of the song’s lyrics, and moments on TV’s Glee and The Big Bang Theory.
Thirty-five years on from his first hit, landing a new one in a new generation of hip-hop isn’t lost on the pioneer. “It’s wild to think that many of the people listening to ‘Fun Part’ weren’t even born when I released ‘Bust a Move’,” he says. “I’m finding the delicate balance of appealing to them while not alienating those people who were fans of ‘Bust a Move’ when it was out and still come to shows to see it today.”
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An underlying reason for Young MC’s return? Last year’s celebrations surrounding the 50th anniversary of hip-hop’s creation, dating to its accepted 1973 origin in New York City, and virtually every major music publication and organization’s salute to the genre’s expansion from a potential fad to a world-conquering sound. “I can only speak for myself, but I was impacted by seeing all the Hip-Hop 50 stuff flying around. I reflected on what I had personally given to hip-hop during the 50 years and if I could possibly give more.”
And he isn’t the only one of his generation back in the game. LL Cool J wrapped a decade-long hiatus from music with the September release of The Force album, his first since 2013. Its current single, the Eminem-assisted “Murdergram Deux,” begins at No. 39 on Rhythmic Airplay, directly below “Fun Part.” The dual resurgences, to Young MC, feel connected. “I can relate to all the legacy artists putting out new music today – for most of us, it’s a ‘want to’ more than a ‘have to,’” he explains.
But at least the response to his latest song gives him peace over those concerns about whether he still had more to offer: “’Fun Part’” proves to me that the answer to that question is a resounding ‘yes!’”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps” becomes the fifth song in the 13-month history of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart to reign for at least four weeks, spending its fourth straight frame at No. 1 via the Nov. 2-dated ranking, while A.J. & Big Justice’s social media smash “We Bring the Boom” is one of the week’s top debuts.
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The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity from Oct. 21-27. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Maps” joins similar reigns by Alek Olsen’s “Someday I’ll Get It” and Flo Milli’s “Never Lose Me,” both in 2024, for four weeks each; Mitski’s “My Love Mine All Mine” ruled for six weeks in 2023; while the all-time leader, Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby,” secured the top spot for 10 weeks beginning in May.
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Released in 2003 on Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ debut LP Fever to Tell, “Maps” reigns via a pair of trends on TikTok, one involving a dance while the other has creators using a filter to remove their facial features and have them cascade back down onto their countenance in the clip. While the original version of the song has been widely used, a sped-up remix has also contributed to the success of “Maps” on the chart.
The top three of the TikTok Billboard Top 50 remains intact from the previous week (Oct. 26), with Alphaville’s “Forever Young” and Akon’s “Akon’s Beautiful Day” following at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. While it’s Akon’s second week at No. 3, Alphaville has now stood at No. 2 for three weeks in a row and hasn’t fallen below No. 3 since mid-September.
Vines’ “Being Loved Isn’t the Same As Being Understood,” following its No. 8 debut on the Oct. 26 survey, crashes the party as the lone new entrant in the top five, jumping to No. 4 in week two. The song, self-released in March by the artist known also as Cassie Wieland, continues its ascent thanks to a trend on TikTok where the user posts about either themselves or someone they know, usually as a photo collage, to “sum up the kind of person” they are or were. Some of the top-performing clips discuss a person who has since died.
“Being Loved Isn’t the Same As Being Understood” sported a 99% leap in official U.S. streams to 116,000 in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Luminate.
Gigi Perez’s “Sailor Song,” following its first week in the top 10 (No. 10) on the Oct. 26 chart, also rises four spots, leaping 10-6. The 2024 tune, which leapt another 4% in streams to 13.5 million in the week ending Oct. 24, has benefited from a variety of trends since it first began exploding on TikTok in the summer, often relationship- and romance-related.
It’s followed by Oscar Maydon and Fuerza Regida’s “Tu Boda,” which vaults 14-7, its first week in the top 10. The song has exploded on TikTok – as well as on streaming services – in recent weeks, particularly following the release of its music video on Oct. 14.
“Tu Boda” concurrently catapults 157% in streams to 15.2 million in the week ending Oct. 24, enough to blast the song to a No. 23 debut on the Billboard Hot 100.
The tune’s TikTok ecosystem includes edits and trends involving the 2005 movie Corpse Bride, plus lip-synch content.
The Cramps’ cover of “Goo Goo Muck” sports the week’s top TikTok Billboard Top 50 debut, starting at No. 9. Released in 1981 on the rockers’ album Psychedelic Jungle, the tune returned to prominence in 2022 when it was featured in the Netflix series Wednesday.
In recent weeks on TikTok, “Goo Goo Muck” has been embraced in a link to its status as a Halloween-time standard, following a trend where the user is running from danger but then runs back when realizing their pursuer is attractive, often starting to take off their shirt in the process.
Gabriela Bee’s “Maybe” is the third new entrant into the top 10, rounding it out at No. 10 after its No. 11 debut on Oct. 26. Usages of the song revolve around its “Maybe one day I’ll get married/ And you’ll be my maid of honor” lyric, with creators either remembering their own weddings or noting who they’d like to be the maid of honor at their wedding.
And A.J. & Big Justice bring the boom to the TikTok Billboard Top 50, with “We Bring the Boom!” debuting at No. 15. The father-and-son TikTok stars released what’s become their theme song to streaming services in July, and the tune has only risen as prominence as the duo (plus others often featured in their uploads, from family members to The Rizzler) has gained in popularity on the platform, currently boasting over 2 million followers.
The majority of the top-performing videos using “We Bring the Boom!” are from the A.J. & Big Justice account itself, though others have gotten in on the song’s accompanying dance as well — including professional athletes in game.
In the tracking week ending Oct. 24, “We Bring the Boom!” earned 327,000 streams in the U.S., up 24%.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.