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Michael Bublé sleighs the Canadian music charts as BԪַChristmasBԪַ makes history at No. 1

Christmas only album to reach No. 1 in 5 different calendar years on the Billboard Canadian chart
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Host Michael Bublé is shown on stage at the Juno Awards in Vancouver, Sunday, March, 25, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Michael Bublé is proving heBԪַs still got plenty of jingle as king of the Christmas music charts.

A decade after release, his perennial favourite BԪַChristmasBԪַ has marked a new milestone by becoming the only album to reach No. 1 in five different calendar years on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart.

BԪַChristmasBԪַ knocked AdeleBԪַs BԪַ30BԪַ out of the top spot for the week that ended Dec. 30, 2021.

Chart position tabulator MRC Data says itBԪַs the ninth non-consecutive week the album has reached peak position on that chart.

The Burnaby, B.C. crooner was helped by various deluxe editions of BԪַChristmasBԪַ released to mark the 10th anniversary, each of them packaged with two new tracks, BԪַThe Christmas SweaterBԪַ and BԪַLet It Snow.BԪַ

BubléBԪַs record label Warner Music Canada celebrated the season with a new vinyl box set packed with an array of goodies, including both a CD and LP of BԪַChristmas.BԪַ The set also featured an extra seven-track CD of bonus songs, a Christmas ornament and a book.

On streaming services, the anniversary edition of BԪַChristmasBԪַ included 25 tracks, with each play helping it rank on the album chart through a metric called streaming equivalent albums, which counts accumulated streams as one album sale.

Warner says BԪַChristmasBԪַ has sold more than 16 million albums and racked up four billion streams in its life span, including 72 million streams in Canada this year alone. In total, the album has spent 69 weeks on the Canadian albums chart.

Bublé isnBԪַt letting all of this attention go to waste. Over the Christmas season, he started teasing fans with sample clips of his next album, saying that new music would arrive on Jan. 14.

BԪַDavid Friend, The Canadian Press

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