Mannheim Steamroller Christmas / Mannheim Steamroller ~ 6,000,000.
The Christmas Song / Nat King Cole ~ 6,000,000. Miracles: The Holiday Album / Kenny G ~ 7,370,000. Elvis's Christmas Album (1970 version) / Elvis Presley ~ 10,000,000. For albums released before SoundScan started collecting data in 1991, Billboard used their RIAA certification to determine sales. In November 2016, Billboard has compiled a list of the top ten selling Christmas albums, using both RIAA certification information and actual point-of-sale data from Nielsen SoundScan. įrom March 1, 1991, through the present day, the Nielsen SoundScan tracking system has been more widely used to accurately track sales of record albums and singles at the point of sale (POS) based on inventory bar code scans.īest-selling Christmas albums (using RIAA certifications and Nielsen SoundScan sales through November 2016) (3 million copies of the original 1957 release on RCA Victor Records, plus 10 million copies of a "budget" edition first released by RCA Camden in 1970 and then by Pickwick Records in 1975, and 4 million copies of another RCA reissue titled It's Christmas Time released in 1985). According to the most recent record album certifications, the holiday album title that has shipped the most copies in the United States is Elvis Presley's 1957 LP Elvis' Christmas Album, which is certified by the RIAA for shipment of 17 million copies in the U.S. Prior to March 1, 1991, the only means of tracking sales figures for record albums and singles in the United States was via the certification system of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), based specifically on shipments (less potential returns) on a long-term basis. It includes artists from all over the world, but it only includes sales in the United States of America. I had already written most of the song, and we worked on the bridge and produced it together.This page shows the best-selling Christmas albums in the United States. I’m a terrible piano player, but sometimes the biggest songs for come just sitting down at the piano and messing around. And you know what? That is true, because I don’t usually start writing songs on the piano. So when I got with …I recently read something he spoke about in, I don’t, 2014 or something, where he said when I brought the song to him, he didn’t like the melody and it was very simplistic. I wanted to put a love twist onto a Christmas song, two of my favorite things in the world…. I just want this other person.’ And I guess that was my thing. Somebody said the other day, ‘It’s the saddest Christmas song ever, because you’re like, I don’t care about all these things. I think that’s why it’s such a festive record. I just started thinking about all things Christmas and growing up as a kid that loves Christmas. And on the song’s origins, she said, “I wrote the beginning and the middle on the keyboard in a little house in Upstate New York, in a room by myself.
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