Jimmy Fallon Jingles Onto Billboard Charts With Festive New ‘Holiday Seasoning’ Album
The entertainer's first holiday album makes a chart-topping debut.
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Jimmy Fallon’s first festive album, ‘Holiday Seasoning,’ debuts at No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums chart and at No. 1 on the Comedy Albums chart (both dated Nov. 16). It’s the entertainer’s first album release since 2012.
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The star-studded set launches with nearly 13,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 7, according to Luminate. Traditional album sales comprise nearly 12,000 of that sum. On Comedy Albums, Holiday Seasoning is the Grammy Award and Emmy Award-winner’s second No. 1 on the 20-year-old ranking. The NBC Tonight Show host previously led the list with Blow Your Pants Off in 2012.
Holiday Seasoning also bows at No. 3 on Top Album Sales and No. 9 on Vinyl Albums (dated Nov. 16).
All Nov. 16-dated charts will refresh to Billboard’s website on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
Holiday Seasoning includes some previously released collaborations, including “It Was a… (Masked Christmas),” featuring Ariana Grande and Megan The Stallion, and “Almost Too Early for Christmas” with Dolly Parton. Among the new tracks on the set: “Holiday” with Jonas Brothers, “You’ll Be There” with Justin Timberlake and “New Year’s Eve Polka (5-4-3-2-1)” with “Weird Al” Yankovic and The Roots.
At No. 1 on Top Holiday Albums is a familiar festive face, as Michael Bublé’s Christmas jumps 3-1 for its 53rd nonconsecutive week atop the ranking with just over 13,000 equivalent album units earned (up 190%).
On the all-genre Billboard 200, five holiday albums dot the tally. Bublé’s former leader Christmas re-enters at No. 72, Fallon bows at No. 84, Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas re-enters at No. 93, Bing Crosby’s new compilation Ultimate Christmas debuts at No. 150 (his first debut on the list since 2012) and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s TV soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas re-enters at No. 170.
Top Holiday Albums will continue to be compiled and published weekly through the season, until it dashes away in early January 2025. It typically returns to Billboard’s weekly chart menu in late October each year.
