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This is an incomplete list of the best-selling Christmas/holiday singles in the United States based on certification by the RIAA. This list provides a more complete representation of the best-selling Christmas/holiday albums in history, as it includes those released well before the Nielsen/SoundScan era of music sales.
The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christmas singles charts during the Christmas seasons of 1983–1985, [249] [173] and bubbled under the Hot 100 in 1992. [132] The best-selling novelty Christmas single of all time in the U.S., [citation needed] it spawned toys and an animated TV special that remain popular each year. "A Great Big Sled" The ...
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. [298]
The Christmas number one is considered especially prestigious, more so than any other time of year. [2] [3] Christmas number one singles have often also been the best-selling song of the year, though in recent years, the accolade has gone to reality television contestants and charity efforts. Due to the common practice of dating a chart by the ...
The quintessential Christmas crush song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" finally hit No. 1 in 2019—25 years after its initial release! 2. Nat King Cole, "The Christmas Song"
The best-selling Christmas album of 1972 was The Jackson 5 Christmas Album, by The Jackson 5. [14] The best-selling Christmas album of 1973 was Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas, by Elvis Presley. The best-selling Christmas album of 1974 was The Waltons' Christmas Album, by Earl Hamner, Jr./The Holiday Singers. [15]
Released in 1994, this Mariah Carey remains one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. To date, the song has sold more than 10 million units, making it one of only 85 songs to earn a ...
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".