12/30/2025

The collective of festive favorites also breaks the single-week streaming record for a holiday album.

Bing Crosby photographed circa 1950. Donaldson Collection/Getty Images

Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas reaches No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Streaming Albums chart for the first time, rising 3-1 on the Jan. 3, 2026-dated chart. The new chart reflects the tracking week ending with Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2025. It’s his first No. 1 on the two-year-old ranking.

The collective of festive favorites from the late Crosby, who died in 1977, includes such classic Holiday 100-charting tunes from Crosby as “White Christmas” (featuring The Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra), “It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and “Mele Kalikimaka” (with The Andrews Sisters).

Ultimate Christmas reaches No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart with 106,000 streaming equivalent album units earned during the tracking week in the United States according to Luminate. That figure equals 140.71 million on-demand official streams of the songs on the album — the late Crosby’s best streaming week ever for an album, and the biggest streaming week ever for any holiday album. Ultimate Christmas beats its own record, as it previously had the biggest streaming week ever for both a Crosby album, and any holiday title, with 125.77 million on the Jan. 4, 2025-dated chart.

Ultimate Christmas also hits No. 1 on the 34-year-old Catalog Albums chart for the first time (his first leader as well on that ranking) and climbs to a new peak of No. 2 (surpassing its No. 3 high from a year ago) on the overall Billboard 200 chart. Ultimate Christmas additionally returns to No. 1 on Top Holiday Albums for a second non-consecutive week.

The 50-position Top Streaming Albums chart ranks the most-streamed albums of the week in the U.S., as compiled by Luminate. Titles are ranked by streaming equivalent album (SEA) units, where each SEA unit equals 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. If an artist has multiple albums containing the same song, SEA units for that song are generally assigned to whichever album sells the most by traditional album sales in a given week.