Biggest-selling Christmas album of the 21st century (US)

Baritone singer Josh Groban’s (USA) chart-topping 2007 album Noël has been certified 6x multi-platinum (six million units sold) in the US, making it the country’s biggest-selling album of Christmas-themed music by a solo artist or group released in the 21st century. The various-artists compilation Now That’s What I Call Christmas!, released on 23 October 2001 as part of the long-running Now! series, has also been certified 6x multi-platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).

Noël was certified 6x multi-platinum by the RIAA on 14 August 2017. The two-disc Now That’s What I Call Christmas!, featuring the likes of Nat ‘King’ Cole, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, was certified 6x multi-platinum on 15 November 2004.

Groban’s fourth studio album features his renditions of “Silent Night”, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, “The Christmas Song” and “O Come All Ye Faithful”. It spent five consecutive weeks at No.1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, from 8 December 2007 to 5 January 2008, and shares the title for the longest-running Christmas-themed chart-topper in the history of the Billboard 200 with Michael Bublé’s Christmas (4.3 million copies sold in the US), which also registered five consecutive weeks at the top, between 10 December 2011 and 7 January 2012.

Noël was the biggest-selling album in the US in 2007, with almost 2.8 million copies sold, despite only being released on 9 October that year.

Just two Christmas albums have higher all-time RIAA certifications than Noël and Now That’s What I Call Christmas!: the 1970 re-issue of Elvis Presley’s 1957 set Elvis’ Christmas Album (certified diamond, for sales of 10 million units) and Kenny G’s 1994 release Miracles – The Holiday Album (8x multi-platinum).