Billboard Top Christmas Albums of the 1990s


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The Top Christmas Albums (renamed Top Holiday Albums in 2000) is published weekly by Billboard during the holiday season of each year tracking the best-selling Christmas albums in the United States.

Number-one Top Christmas Albums of the 1990s

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The following are the albums that reached the Number one position on the Top Christmas Album Charts before it was renamed Top Holiday Albums on November 25, 2000.

The 50 Top Christmas Albums of the 90s

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These are the top 50 albums that charted The Top Christmas Albums survey. The chart was renamed Top Holiday Albums at the beginning of the 2000 holiday season.[72][73] The peak position reflects the highest position the album charted between December 22, 1990 until January 15, 2000, but the top 10 and total weeks include the total weeks charted since the first Christmas Records chart in 1958,[74] all the Christmas album surveys from November 30, 1963 until December 22, 1973[75][76][77][78] and the weeks charted on the Christmas Hits survey from December 17, 1983 until January 6, 1990.[79][80][81][82] Many of the albums continued to chart on the Top Holiday Albums chart. [a]

  1. '^ Billboard's online Top Holiday Album chart history only goes back to the December 21, 1985 Christmas Hits chart. Most of the survey weeks of the Top Christmas Album charts were not available in print. Only the data for the #1 positions are listed online for the weeks of November 28, 1992, December 5, 1992, November 26, 1994 and November 22, 1997.
  2. ^ Mannheim Steamroller's A Fresh Aire Christmas peaked at #1 for 2 additional weeks during the 1980s on the Christmas Hits chart starting 12/24/1988.
  3. ^ A Very Special Christmas peaked at #1 on the Christmas Hits chart 12/12/1987.
  4. ^ Nat "King" Cole's The Christmas Song peaked at #2 on the Best Bets For Christmas 12/13/1969.
  5. ^ New Kids On The Block's Merry, Merry Christmas peaked at #1 on the Christmas Hits chart 12/23/1989.
  6. ^ The Carpenter's Christmas Portrait peaked at #2 on the Christmas Hits chart 12/15/1984.
  7. ^ George Winston's December peaked at #2 on the Christmas Hits chart 12/15/1984.
  8. ^ Barbra Streisand's A Christmas Album peaked at #1 on the Best Bets For Christmas 12/2/1967.
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