Nicki Minaj has No. 1 album while Mariah Carey regains Holiday Crown

On the charts this week, Nicki Minaj scores the top album with her first studio LP in five years, and Mariah Carey reclaims the No. 1 single with her inescapable seasonal hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

Minaj has been teasing her latest album, “Pink Friday 2,” for at least four years, and for a while it seemed doubtful that it would ever happen; at one point Minaj even announced (en quickly withdrawn) her farewell to music. But “Pink Friday 2,” her fifth studio album – titled as a follow-up to her 2010 debut – finally arrived on December 8 and opens at the top of the Billboard 200 chart, becoming her third No. 1 album. “Pink Friday 2” had the equivalent of 228,000 sales in the United States, with 170 million streams and 92,000 copies sold as a complete package, 25,000 of which were on vinyl.

Also this week, Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ is at No. 2 and Drake’s ‘For All the Dogs’ is at No. 3, while 20-year-old Canadian pop singer Tate McRae arrives at No. 4 with ‘Think Later,’ her second studio -LP. Michael Bublé’s “Christmas” is in fifth place.

Carey, whose 1994 bauble “All I Want for Christmas Is You” was No. 1 for 25 years — and has spent a total of 12 weeks at the top in the past four holiday seasons — regains the top spot this week. , be first 13th cumulative time at No. 1.

For the past two weeks, the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 singles chart belonged to Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” which was released in 1958 and got a promotional push this year with a music video and TikTok spots. “Rockin’” drops to No. 2 this week.