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\n\tThe legendary Bing Crosby<\/a> is back in the top 10 on the Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart for the first time in nearly 64 years, as his new holiday compilation Ultimate Christmas<\/em> climbs 18-9 on the chart dated Dec. 14.<\/p>\n \n\tThe entertainer, who died in 1977, was last in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with his classic Merry Christmas<\/em> album, which ranked at No. 9 on the Dec. 31, 1960-dated chart. It had previously spent a week at No. 1 on Jan. 6, 1958-dated chart.<\/p>\n \n\tMerry Christmas<\/em> became the second holiday album to top the Billboard 200, following its launch as a regularly published weekly chart in March 1956. Elvis Presley\u2019s Elvis\u2019 Christmas Album<\/em> was the first chart-topping holiday set, as it topped the chart for three weeks in December 1957, moved aside for Crosby for a week and then returned to No. 1 for one more week in January 1958.<\/p>\n \n\tUltimate Christmas<\/em> is available as 14-song standard album, an expanded 28-song edition, and a deluxe 58-song version. All versions of the album contain such classic Holiday 100<\/a>-charting tunes from Crosby as \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d (featuring The Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra), \u201cIt\u2019s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas,\u201d \u201cDo You Hear What I Hear?,\u201d \u201cMele Kalikimaka\u201d (with The Andrews Sisters) and \u201cSilent Night\u201d (featuring John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and Max Terr\u2019s Mixed Chorus).<\/p>\n \n\tIn the tracking week ending Dec. 5, as reflected on the Dec. 14-dated Billboard 200 chart, Ultimate Christmas<\/em> earned 50,000 equivalent album units in the week ending (up 59%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 46,000 (up 62%; equaling 61.37 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks; it jumps 16-6 on Top Streaming Albums).<\/p>\n \n\tThe Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Dec. 14, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard\u2019s website on Tuesday, Dec. 10. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n