Groban's Christmas Album Shatters Records
Orlando Sentinel
December 27, 2007
Josh Groban's holiday album, Noel, has become the hottest CD of the year. Here are some of the heights it has hit:
* Noel will be the biggest-selling album of the year, snagging the top spot from the High School Musical 2 soundtrack.
* Noel is the first Christmas album to spend four consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart.
* Noel is the first Christmas album to spend four weeks at No. 1 since Elvis Presley's 1957 holiday album. (The King's four weeks at No. 1 were not consecutive.)
* Noel sold 669,000 copies in one recent week, the biggest single-week tally for a Christmas album since Kenny G's Miracles: The Holiday Album sold 819,000 copies back in 1994.
* Noel is expected to sell more than 3 million copies this year -- the only CD to do so.
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