List of Billboard Top Holiday Albums number ones of the 2020s

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The Top Holiday Albums chart is a seasonal chart published weekly by Billboard during the holiday months of each year. It tracks the best-selling Christmas and holiday albums in the United States. Throughout the 2020s, many albums, compilation albums, extended plays, and soundtrack albums reached the top spot of the chart.

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Issue dateTitleArtistRef.
January 4, 2020 Christmas Michael Bublé [1]
January 11, 2020 The Best of Pentatonix Christmas Pentatonix [2]
October 10, 2020 My Gift Carrie Underwood [3]
October 17, 2020 A Holly Dolly Christmas Dolly Parton [4]
October 24, 2020My Gift Carrie Underwood [5]
October 31, 2020 [6]
November 7, 2020 A Holly Dolly Christmas Dolly Parton [7]
November 14, 2020My Gift Carrie Underwood [8]
November 21, 2020 [9]
November 28, 2020 A Holly Dolly Christmas Dolly Parton [10]
December 5, 2020My Gift Carrie Underwood [11]
December 12, 2020Christmas Michael Bublé [12]
December 19, 2020 [13]
December 26, 2020 [14]
January 2, 2021 [15]
January 9, 2021 [16]
October 9, 2021My Gift Carrie Underwood [17]
October 16, 2021Soundtrack Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas [18]
October 23, 2021 [19]
October 30, 2021 When Christmas Comes Around Kelly Clarkson [20]
November 6, 2021Soundtrack Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas [21]
November 13, 2021 [22]
November 20, 2021Christmas Michael Bublé [23]
November 27, 2021 [24]
December 4, 2021 [25]
December 11, 2021 [26]
December 18, 2021 [27]
December 25, 2021 [28]
January 1, 2022 [29]
January 8, 2022 [30]
October 22, 2022Soundtrack Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas [31]
October 29, 2022 A Very Backstreet Christmas Backstreet Boys [32]
November 5, 2022Soundtrack Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas [33]
November 12, 2022 [34]
November 19, 2022Christmas Michael Bublé [35]
November 26, 2022 [36]
December 3, 2022 [37]
December 10, 2022 [38]
December 17, 2022 [39]
December 24, 2022 [40]
December 31, 2022 [41]
January 7, 2023 [42]
November 4, 2023 Christmas Cher [43]
November 11, 2023Soundtrack Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas [44]
November 18, 2023Christmas Michael Bublé [45]
November 25, 2023 [46]
December 2, 2023 [47]
December 9, 2023 [48]
December 16, 2023 [49]
December 23, 2023 [50]
December 30, 2023 [51]
January 6, 2024 [52]

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