Talking Heads 1981-1991: Height of commercial success and break-up What point was considered the height of their commercial success? 1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit,
Was that their best selling album?
Was Speaking in Tongues the Talking Heads best selling album?
After releasing four albums in barely four years, the group went into hiatus, and nearly three years passed before their next release, although Frantz and Weymouth continued to record with the Tom Tom Club. In the meantime, Talking Heads released a live album The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, toured the United States and Europe as an eight-piece group, and parted ways with Eno, who went on to produce albums with U2.  1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit, "Burning Down the House". Once again, a striking video was inescapable owing to its heavy rotation on MTV. The following tour was documented in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, which generated another live album of the same name. The tour in support of Speaking in Tongues was their last.  Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures (which featured the hit singles "And She Was" and "Road to Nowhere"), 1986's True Stories (Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared), and 1988's Naked. Little Creatures offered a much more American pop-rock sound as opposed to previous efforts. Similar in genre, True Stories hatched one of the group's most successful hits, "Wild Wild Life", and the accordion-driven track "Radio Head", which became the etymon of the band of the same name. Naked explored politics, sex, and death, and showed heavy African influence with polyrhythmic styles like those seen on Remain in Light. During that time, the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control and, after Naked, the band went on "hiatus".  It took until December 1991 for an official announcement to be made that Talking Heads had broken up. Their final release was "Sax and Violins", an original song that had appeared earlier that year on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World. During this breakup period, Byrne continued his solo career, releasing Rei Momo in 1989 and The Forest in 1991. This period also saw a revived flourish from both Tom Tom Club (Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom and Dark Sneak Love Action) and Harrison (Casual Gods and Walk on Water), who toured together in the summer of 1990. CANNOTANSWER
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Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band was composed of Scottish-born David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s", the group helped to pioneer new wave music by integrating elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with an anxious, clean-cut image.

As former art school students who became involved in the 1970s New York punk scene, Talking Heads released their 1977 debut album, Talking Heads: 77, to positive reviews. They collaborated with producer Brian Eno on a trio of critically acclaimed releases—More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978), Fear of Music (1979), and Remain in Light (1980)—which blended their art school punk sensibilities with influence from artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic and Fela Kuti. By the early 1980s, they began to expand their band by including a number of additional musicians in recording sessions and stage shows, notably guitarist Adrian Belew, keyboardist Bernie Worrell, singer Nona Hendryx, and bassist Busta Jones.

After a hiatus, Talking Heads hit their commercial peak in 1983 with the U.S. Top 10 hit "Burning Down the House" from the album Speaking in Tongues and released the concert film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme. For these performances, the band was joined by Worrell, guitarist Alex Weir, percussionist Steve Scales, and singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt. In 1985, Talking Heads released their best-selling album, Little Creatures. They produced a soundtrack album for Byrne' film True Stories (1986), and released their final album, worldbeat-influenced Naked (1988), before disbanding in 1991. Without Byrne, the other band members performed under the name Shrunken Heads, and released an album, No Talking, Just Head, as the Heads in 1996.

In 2002, Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of their albums appear in Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and three of their songs ("Psycho Killer", "Life During Wartime", and "Once in a Lifetime") were included among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Talking Heads were also number 64 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In the 2011 update of Rolling Stones "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", they were ranked number 100.

History

1973-1977: Early years
In 1973, Rhode Island School of Design students David Byrne (guitar and vocals) and Chris Frantz (drums) formed a band, the Artistics. Fellow student Tina Weymouth, Frantz's girlfriend, often provided transportation. The Artistics dissolved the following year, and the three moved to New York City, eventually sharing a communal loft. After they were unable to find a bassist, Weymouth took up the role. Frantz encouraged Weymouth to learn to play bass by listening to Suzi Quatro albums. Byrne asked Weymouth to audition three times before she joined the band.

The band played their first gig as Talking Heads opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 5, 1975. According to Weymouth, the name Talking Heads came from an issue of TV Guide, which "explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head-and-shoulder shot of a person talking as 'all content, no action'. It fit." Later that year, the band recorded a series of demos for CBS, but did not earn a record contract. However, they drew a following and signed to Sire Records in November 1976. They released their first single in February the following year, "Love → Building on Fire". In March 1977, they added Jerry Harrison, formerly of Jonathan Richman's band the Modern Lovers, on keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals.

The first Talking Heads album, Talking Heads: 77, received acclaim and produced their first charting single, "Psycho Killer". Many connected the song to the serial killer known as the Son of Sam, who had been terrorizing New York City months earlier; however, Byrne said he had written the song years prior. Weymouth and Frantz married in 1977.

1978–1980: Collaborations with Eno

More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) was Talking Heads' first collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp; the title of Eno's 1977 song "King's Lead Hat" is an anagram of the band's name. Eno's unusual style meshed with the group's artistic sensibilities, and they began to explore an increasingly diverse range of musical directions, from post-punk to psychedelic funk to African music, influenced prominently by Fela Kuti and Parliament-Funkadelic. This recording also established the band's relationship with Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. More Songs About Buildings and Food included a cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River". This broke Talking Heads into the general public's consciousness and gave the band their first Billboard Top 30 hit.

The collaboration continued with Fear of Music (1979), with the darker stylings of post-punk rock, mixed with white funkadelia and subliminal references to the geopolitical instability of the late 1970s. Music journalist Simon Reynolds cited Fear of Music as representing the Eno-Talking Heads collaboration "at its most mutually fruitful and equitable". The single "Life During Wartime" produced the catchphrase "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco." The song refers to the Mudd Club and CBGB, two popular New York nightclubs of the time.

Remain in Light (1980) was heavily influenced by the afrobeat of Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti, whose music Eno had introduced to the band. It explored West African polyrhythms, weaving these together with Arabic music from North Africa, disco funk, and "found" voices. These combinations foreshadowed Byrne's later interest in world music. In order to perform these more complex arrangements, the band toured with an expanded group, including Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell, among others, first at the Heatwave festival in August, and later in their concert film Stop Making Sense. During this period, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz also formed a commercially successful splinter group, Tom Tom Club, influenced by the foundational elements of hip hop, and Harrison released his first solo album, The Red and the Black. Likewise, Byrne—in collaboration with Eno—released My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which incorporated world music and found sounds, as well as including a number of other prominent international and post-punk musicians. All were released by Sire.

Remain in Lights lead single, "Once in a Lifetime", became a Top 20 hit in the UK, but initially failed to make an impression in the USA. It grew into a popular standard over the next few years on the strength of its music video, which was named one of Time's All-TIME Best Music Videos.

1981–1991: Commercial peak and breakup
After releasing four albums in barely four years, the group went into hiatus, and nearly three years passed before their next release, although Frantz and Weymouth continued to record with the Tom Tom Club. In the meantime, Talking Heads released a live album The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, toured the United States and Europe as an eight-piece group, and parted ways with Eno, who went on to produce albums with U2.

1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit, "Burning Down the House". Once again, a striking video was inescapable owing to its heavy rotation on MTV. The following tour was documented in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, which generated another live album of the same name. The tour in support of Speaking in Tongues was their last.

Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures (which featured the hit singles "And She Was" and "Road to Nowhere"), 1986's True Stories (Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared), and 1988's Naked. Little Creatures offered a much more American pop-rock sound as opposed to previous efforts. Similar in genre, True Stories hatched one of the group's most successful hits, "Wild Wild Life", and the accordion-driven track "Radio Head". Naked explored politics, sex, and death, and showed heavy African influence with polyrhythmic styles like those seen on Remain in Light. During that time, the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control and, after Naked, the band went on "hiatus". In 1987 Talking Heads released a book by David Byrne called What the Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs with Harper Collins that contained artwork by some of the top New York visual artists of the decade.

In December 1991, Talking Heads announced that they had disbanded. Frantz said that he learned that Byrne had left from an article in the Los Angeles Times, and said: "As far as we're concerned, the band never really broke up. David just decided to leave." Their final release was "Sax and Violins", an original song that had appeared earlier that year on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World. Byrne continued his solo career, releasing Rei Momo in 1989 and The Forest in 1991. This period also saw a revived flourish from both Tom Tom Club (Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom and Dark Sneak Love Action) and Harrison (Casual Gods and Walk on Water), who toured together in 1990.

1992–2002: Post-breakup and final reunion
Weymouth, Frantz, and Harrison toured without Byrne as Shrunken Heads in the early 90s. In 1996, they released an album, No Talking, Just Head, under the name the Heads. The album featured a number of vocalists, including Gavin Friday of The Virgin Prunes, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, Andy Partridge of XTC, Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes, Michael Hutchence of INXS, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays, Richard Hell, and Maria McKee. It was accompanied by a tour with Napolitano as the vocalist. Byrne took legal action to prevent the band using the name The Heads, which he saw as "a pretty obvious attempt to cash in on the Talking Heads name". The band briefly reunited in 1999 to promote the 15th anniversary re-release of Stop Making Sense, but did not perform together.

Harrison produced records including the Violent Femmes' The Blind Leading the Naked, the Fine Young Cannibals' The Raw and the Cooked, General Public's Rub It Better, Crash Test Dummies' God Shuffled His Feet, Live's Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper and The Distance to Here, No Doubt's song "New" from Return of Saturn. Frantz and Weymouth have produced several artists, including Happy Mondays and Ziggy Marley. The Tom Tom Club continue to record and tour intermittently.
Talking Heads reunited to play "Life During Wartime", "Psycho Killer", and "Burning Down the House" on March 18, 2002, at the ceremony of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined on stage by former touring members Bernie Worrell and Steve Scales. Byrne said further work together was unlikely, due to "bad blood" and being musically "miles apart". Weymouth has been critical of Byrne, describing him as "a man incapable of returning friendship" and saying that he doesn't "love" her, Frantz, and Harrison.

Influence
AllMusic stated that Talking Heads, one of the most celebrated bands of the 1970s and 1980s, by the time of their breakup "had recorded everything from art-funk to polyrhythmic worldbeat explorations and simple, melodic guitar pop". Talking Heads' art pop innovations have had a long-lasting impact. Along with other groups such as Devo, Ramones, and Blondie, they helped define the new wave genre in the United States. Meanwhile, the more worldly popularities like 1980's Remain in Light helped bring African rock to the western world.  Their 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme, was critically acclaimed upon its theatrical release, and is considered one of the best concert films ever released.

Talking Heads have been cited as an influence by many artists, including Eddie Vedder, Foals, the Weeknd, Vampire Weekend, Primus, Bell X1, the 1975, the Ting Tings, Nelly Furtado, Kesha, St. Vincent, Danny Brown, Trent Reznor, Franz Ferdinand and Radiohead, who took their name from the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from the 1986 album True Stories. The Italian filmmaker and director Paolo Sorrentino, in receiving the Oscar for his film La Grande Bellezza in 2014, thanked Talking Heads, among others, as his sources of inspiration.

Members
 David Byrne – lead vocals, guitar (1975–1991, 2002)
 Chris Frantz – drums, backing vocals (1975–1991, 2002)
 Tina Weymouth – bass, backing vocals (1975–1991, 2002)
 Jerry Harrison – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals (1977–1991, 2002)

Additional musicians
Adrian Belew – lead guitar, vocals (1980–1981)
Alex Weir – guitar, vocals (1983–1984)
Bernie Worrell – keyboards, backing vocals (1980–1984, 2002)
Busta Jones – bass (1980–1981)
Steve Scales – percussion, backing vocals  (1980–1984, 2002)
Dolette McDonald – vocals, cowbell (1980–1981)
Ednah Holt – vocals (1983–1984)
Lynn Mabry – vocals (1983–1984)
Nona Hendryx – vocals (1980)

Discography

 Talking Heads: 77 (1977)
 More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978)
 Fear of Music (1979)
 Remain in Light (1980)
 Speaking in Tongues (1983)
 Little Creatures (1985)
 True Stories (1986)
 Naked (1988)

See also
List of dance-rock artists
List of funk rock bands
List of new wave artists and bands
List of post-punk bands

References

Further reading
 David Bowman, This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century (New York: HarperCollins, 2001). .
 David Byrne, How Music Works (San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2012). .
 Chris Frantz, "Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
 David Gans, Talking Heads (New York: Avon Books, 1985). .
 Krista Reese, The Name of This Book is Talking Heads (London: Proteus Books, 1982). .
 Sytze Steenstra, Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present (New York and London: Continuum Books, 2010). .
 Talking Heads and Frank Olinsky, What the Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs (New York: Harper & Row, 1987). .

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This page shows the best-selling Christmas albums in the United States. It includes artists from all over the world, but it only includes sales in the United States of America.

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.  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. (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).

From 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.

Best-selling Christmas albums (using RIAA certifications and Nielsen SoundScan sales through November 2016)
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. For albums released before SoundScan started collecting data in 1991, Billboard used their RIAA certification to determine sales.

 Elvis's Christmas Album (1970 version) / Elvis Presley ~ 10,000,000
 Miracles: The Holiday Album / Kenny G ~ 7,370,000
 The Christmas Song / Nat King Cole ~ 6,000,000
 Mannheim Steamroller Christmas / Mannheim Steamroller ~ 6,000,000
 A Fresh Aire Christmas / Mannheim Steamroller ~ 6,000,000
 Noël / Josh Groban ~ 5,890,000
 Merry Christmas / Mariah Carey ~ 5,500,000
 These Are Special Times / Celine Dion ~ 5,440,000
 A Christmas Album / Barbra Streisand ~ 5,370,000
 Merry Christmas / Johnny Mathis ~ 5,240,000

Best-selling Christmas albums from Nielsen SoundScan tracking data (through December 1, 2014)
This is a list of the 25 best-selling Christmas albums of the Nielsen SoundScan era in the United States for cumulative sales as tracked by Nielsen SoundScan through December 1, 2014. Nielsen Music began tracking sales data for Billboard on March 1, 1991.

 Miracles: The Holiday Album / Kenny G ~ 7,310,000
 Noël / Josh Groban ~ 5,710,000
 Merry Christmas / Mariah Carey ~ 5,370,000
 These Are Special Times / Celine Dion ~ 5,310,000
 Christmas in the Aire / Mannheim Steamroller ~ 3,740,000
 A Fresh Aire Christmas / Mannheim Steamroller ~ 3,660,000
 Mannheim Steamroller Christmas / Mannheim Steamroller ~ 3,500,000
 Now That's What I Call Christmas! / various artists ~ 3,480,000
 Christmas Eve and Other Stories / Trans-Siberian Orchestra ~ 3,430,000
 A Charlie Brown Christmas / Vince Guaraldi Trio ~ 3,410,000
 Christmas / Michael Bublé ~ 3,390,000
 When My Heart Finds Christmas / Harry Connick, Jr. ~ 3,150,000
 My Christmas / Andrea Bocelli ~ 3,010,000
 Christmas Extraordinaire / Mannheim Steamroller ~ 2,920,000
 Home for Christmas / *NSYNC ~ 2,760,000
 Faith: A Holiday Album / Kenny G ~ 2,750,000
 Beyond the Season / Garth Brooks ~ 2,650,000
 Home for Christmas / Amy Grant ~ 2,540,000
 A Very Special Christmas / various artists ~ 2,520,000
 The Lost Christmas Eve / Trans-Siberian Orchestra ~ 2,380,000
 A Very Special Christmas 2 / various artists ~ 2,200,000
 The Gift / Susan Boyle ~ 2,180,000
 Christmas Portrait / The Carpenters ~ 1,950,000
 White Christmas / Bing Crosby ~ 1,950,000
 The Christmas Album / Neil Diamond ~ 1,910,000

Best-selling Christmas albums by RIAA certification
This is an incomplete list of the best-selling Christmas albums in the United States based on shipment certification by the RIAA.  This list provides a more complete representation of the best-selling Christmas albums in history, as it includes those released well before the Nielsen/SoundScan era of music sales.

Best-selling Christmas albums by year
In 1963, Billboard magazine began publishing a special weekly sales charts for Christmas album sales named "Christmas Albums" for three to four weeks during each holiday season.  Titles that appeared on these charts were excluded from the regular Billboard 200 album sales charts.  These special, year-end "Christmas Albums" charts were published from 1963 to 1973.  The chart was discontinued from 1974 to 1982, when holiday titles were once again included in the regular Billboard 200 chart.  "Christmas Albums" started up again in 1983 and appeared each year until 1985 (during these three years, holiday titles were eligible for inclusion on the weekly Billboard 200 chart).  It was discontinued in 1986, but resumed in 1987 and continued each year under the "Christmas Albums" name until 1993.  In 1994, the chart was renamed to "Holiday Albums" and has been published by Billboard each year since.  Billboard'''s special Christmas albums sales charts have varied in size over the years, from a low of 5 chart positions to a high of 117 chart positions.

1940s
The best-selling Christmas album of 1945 was Merry Christmas, by Bing Crosby.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1946 was Merry Christmas, by Bing Crosby.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1947 was Merry Christmas, by Bing Crosby.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1948 was Merry Christmas, by Bing Crosby.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1949 was Merry Christmas, by Bing Crosby.

1950s
The best-selling Christmas album of 1950 was Merry Christmas, by Bing Crosby.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1951 was Mario Lanza Sings Christmas Songs, by Mario Lanza.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1952 was Christmas Hymns and Carols, by The Robert Shaw Chorale.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1953 was Christmas with Arthur Godfrey and All the Little Godfreys, by Arthur Godfrey.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1954 was Selections from Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", by Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Peggy Lee.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1955 was Happy Holiday, by Jo Stafford.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1956 was Merry Christmas from Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music, by Lawrence Welk.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1957 was Elvis' Christmas Album, by Elvis Presley.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1958 was Christmas Sing-Along with Mitch, by Mitch Miller & the Gang.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1959 was Christmas Sing-Along with Mitch, by Mitch Miller & the Gang.

1960s
The best-selling Christmas album of 1960 was Christmas Sing-Along with Mitch, by Mitch Miller & the Gang.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1961 was Holiday Sing Along with Mitch, by Mitch Miller & the Gang.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1962 was Merry Christmas, by Johnny Mathis.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1963 was The Andy Williams Christmas Album, by Andy Williams.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1964 was The Andy Williams Christmas Album, by Andy Williams.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1965 was The Little Drummer Boy: A Christmas Festival, by the Harry Simeone Chorale.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1966 was Merry Christmas, by Andy Williams.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1967 was A Christmas Album, by Barbra Streisand.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1968 was That Christmas Feeling, by Glen Campbell.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1969 was Jim Nabors' Christmas Album, by Jim Nabors.

1970s
The best-selling Christmas album of 1970 was The Jackson 5 Christmas Album, by The Jackson 5.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1971 was A Partridge Family Christmas Card, by The Partridge Family.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1972 was The Jackson 5 Christmas Album, by The Jackson 5.
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.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1975 was Rocky Mountain Christmas, by John Denver.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1976 was Christmas Jollies, by The Salsoul Orchestra.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1977 was Christmas Jollies, by The Salsoul Orchestra.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1978 was Christmas Portrait, by The Carpenters.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1979 was A Christmas Together, by John Denver and The Muppets.

1980s
The best-selling Christmas album of 1980 was Christmas in the Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album, by Meco.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1981 was Christmas, by Kenny Rogers.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1982 was Christmas, by The Oak Ridge Boys.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1983 was Christmas, by Kenny Rogers.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1984 was Once Upon a Christmas, by Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1985 was Alabama Christmas, by Alabama.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1986 was Merry Christmas Strait to You!, by George Strait.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1987 was A Very Special Christmas, by various artists.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1988 was A Fresh Aire Christmas, by Mannheim Steamroller.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1989 was Merry, Merry Christmas, by New Kids on the Block.

1990s
The best-selling Christmas album of 1990 was Because It's Christmas, by Barry Manilow.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1991 was A Fresh Aire Christmas, by Mannheim Steamroller.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1992 was Beyond the Season, by Garth Brooks.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1993 was When My Heart Finds Christmas, by Harry Connick, Jr.
The best-selling Holiday album of 1994 was Miracles: The Holiday Album, by Kenny G.
The best-selling Holiday album of 1995 was Christmas in the Aire, by Mannheim Steamroller.
The best-selling Holiday album of 1996 was Miracles: The Holiday Album, by Kenny G.
The best-selling Holiday album of 1997 was Snowed In, by Hanson.
The best-selling Holiday album of 1998 was These Are Special Times, by Celine Dion.
The best-selling Holiday album of 1999 was Faith: A Holiday Album, by Kenny G.

2000s
The best-selling Holiday album of 2000 was Dream a Dream, by Charlotte Church.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2001 was Now That's What I Call Christmas!, by various artists.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2002 was Now That's What I Call Christmas!, by various artists.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2003 was Harry for the Holidays, by Harry Connick, Jr.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2004 was Merry Christmas with Love, by Clay Aiken.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2005 was The Christmas Collection, by Il Divo.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2006 was Wintersong, by Sarah McLachlan.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2007 was Noël, by Josh Groban.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2008 was Noël, by Josh Groban.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2009 was My Christmas, by Andrea Bocelli.

2010s
The best-selling Holiday album of 2010 was The Gift, by Susan Boyle.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2011 was Christmas, by Michael Bublé.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2012 was Merry Christmas, Baby, by Rod Stewart.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2013 was Wrapped in Red, by Kelly Clarkson.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2014 was That's Christmas to Me, by Pentatonix.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2015 was That's Christmas to Me, by Pentatonix.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2016 was A Pentatonix Christmas'', by Pentatonix.
The best-selling Holiday album of 2017 was Everyday Is Christmas, by Sia

See also

 Christmas music
 List of popular Christmas singles in the United States
 List of best-selling Christmas singles in the United States
 List of best-selling albums in the United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era
 List of best-selling albums by year in the United States
 List of Billboard Top Holiday Albums number ones of the 2000s
 List of Billboard Top Holiday Albums number ones of the 2010s
 List of Billboard Top Holiday Albums number ones of the 2020s

References

United States, Christmas Holiday albums
United States
United States Rasmus Seebach is the debut solo music album by Danish singer, songwriter and music producer Rasmus Seebach. The highly successful album was released on ArtPeople record label on 28 September 2009. By May 2010 it had sold over 120,000 copies and was certified Platinum album. It was the 2nd best-selling album in Denmark in 2009 to the top selling Michael Jackson album The Collection, the best-selling album of 2010, the 7th best-selling album of 2011, the 17th best-selling album of 2012, the 47th best-selling album of 2013, the 81st best-selling album of 2014 and the 60th best-selling album of 2015.
At 227 weeks, it is the all-time 2nd longest-charting album in Denmark, only behind his own Ingen kan love dig i morgen (228 weeks).

Track listing

Release history

Charts
The album was at the top of the Danish Albums Chart Tracklisten for a total of 25 weeks including 7 weeks in 2009 (weeks 43-44, 49-53) and 18 more weeks in 2010 (weeks 1-4, 7-9, 11-12, 17, 26-32, 35).
It spent 104 weeks inside the chart's top 10 and a total of 224 weeks in the top 40.

Certifications

References

2009 albums
Rasmus Seebach albums