 In November 2016, "Billboard" has compiled a list of the top ten selling Christmas albums, using both RIAA certification information and actual point-of-sale data from Nielsen SoundScan.For albums released before SoundScan started collecting data in 1991, "Billboard" used their RIAA certification to determine sales.This is a list of the 25 best-selling Christmas albums of the Nielsen SoundScan era in the United States for cumulative sales as tracked by Nielsen SoundScan through December 1, 2014.