Most consecutive years for a holiday album on the US Billboard 200 year-end chart

Christmas by Michael Bublé (Canada/Italy) has spent nine consecutive years (2011-19) on the annual Billboard 200 Albums end-of-year survey, which highlights the biggest-selling albums in the US over a 12-month period. The singer’s 2011 collection of festive-themed songs made its first appearance on the list at No.82 in its year of release before peaking at No.2 (behind Adele’s 21) in 2012. In subsequent years, it landed at No.35 (2013), No.51 (2014), No.77 (2015), No.125 (2016), No.146 (2017), No.154 (2018) and No.130 (2019) as Christmas made its yearly return to the Billboard 200 chart over the holiday period.

Other holiday albums that have enjoyed enduring success on Billboard’s year-end tally include Josh Groban’s Noël (2007), which racked up five consecutive years (2010-14) and seven years in total (2007-08 and 2010-14). Like Bublé’s Christmas, Noël also peaked at No.2 on the year-end chart, in 2008. My Christmas by Andrea Bocelli (2009-12) and Pentatonix’s That’s Christmas to Me (2015-18) both charted for four years in a row, peaking respectively at No.6 and No.14, while Susan Boyle’s The Gift (2010-12), Chris Tomlin’s Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship (2010-12) and Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas (2016-18) all registered three consecutive years on the end-of-year Billboard 200 Albums chart.

Billboard’s year-end music recaps are based on sales performance across a non-calendar-year 12-month period. In 2019, for example, the qualification period was the charts dated 24 November 2018 to 16 November 2019.