The Billboard chart listings for the week ending December 29, 2007:
Top 200 Albums: Home For The Holidays: #113
Comprehensive Albums: Elvis Christmas #92
Comprehensive Albums: Home For The Holidays: #142
Comprehensive Albums: It's Christmas Time #125
Comprehensive Albums: ELV1S 30 #1 Hits: #178
Pop Catalogue Albums: Elvis Christmas #15
Pop Catalogue Albums: It's Christmas Time #24
Pop Catalogue Albums: ELV1S 30 #1 Hits #38
Country Catalogue Albums: Elvis Christmas #1
Country Catalogue Albums: ELV1S 30 #1 Hits #5
Country Catalogue Albums: Blue Christmas #24
Independent Albums: Home For The Holidays: #7
Holiday Albums: Elvis Christmas: #21
Holiday Albums: Home For The Holidays: #35
Holiday Albums: It's Christmas Time: #29
Hot Singles Recurrents: #17
Hot Singles Recurrent Airplay: #19
Hot Holiday Songs: Blue Christmas: #19
Music Video: ELV1S #1 Hits Performances: #23
A Record Lost
Holiday sales might be depressing, but it's no blue Christmas for Josh Groban. He just broke a chart record Elvis set back when Eisenhower was President.
Josh Groban's Noël claimed an unprecedented fourth straight week at number one, a feat never before accomplished by a holiday album. Elvis Presley set the previous record, three weeks, half a century ago with 1957's Elvis' Christmas Album.
Friday Chart Update - A #1 Won, A Record Lost
December 21, 2007 | Music
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stu wrote on
December 21, 2007
"Elvis' Christmas Album" did have four weeks at No1, but non-consecutive. With the publicity Josh's album had, you'd expect it to be No1 for weeks!
Steve V wrote on
December 22, 2007
Not a big deal - the record stood for over 50 years and Im sure Josh's total sales will never equal Elvis' total sales for a Christmas album. By the way, I contributed to the broken record (oh no!) by buying Josh's CD. Best version of Silent Night I ever heard. Nowhere near a pop album, just a pure voice singing Christmas songs. Very festive.