CHART FINAL: ADELE, TAY & HOLIDAY FAVES

Columbia’s Adele, having previously scored the year’s biggest debut, logs another week at #1 on the HITS Top 50 with 30. The acclaimed set posts 284k in week two, surpassing 1m in total activity. Fellow record-setter and market-leader Taylor Swift follows with Red (Taylor’s Version) (Republic), which earns 102k in its third week. The megastars’ blockbuster albums are jointly responsible for 2m units in the last three weeks.

Incredibly, Swift has four other titles in the Top 50, three of which have moved up in position and activity: evermore (#21, +22%), Lover (#29, +12%) and Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (#30, +12%).

Holiday titles are also flying up the chart like Santa’s reindeer, led by Michael Bublé’s Christmas (Reprise), which leaps to #3 with 59k. Nat King Cole’s Christmas Song (Capitol) enters the Top 10 for the first time this year, while a handful of other holiday classics breach the Top 20.

The Beatles’ non-holiday classic Let It Be (Capitol), the making of which is the subject of Peter Jackson’s much-discussed docuseries on Disney+, soars to #20 as folks who spent Thanksgiving weekend bingeing the show return to both this album and Abbey Road (#38) with new perspective.

Streeting this week are projects from Right Hand/RCA’s Khalid, Columbia’s Polo G, CMG/Warlike/Interscope’s EST Gee and Flawless/RCA’s Nardo Wick.