Pop Shop Podcast – Billboard

The Billboard charts are getting ever extra festive within the march to Christmas.

On the Billboard Hot 100 songs and Billboard 200 albums charts (each dated Dec. 10), the lists are trying very merry and vivid. On the Hot 100, Mariah Carey’s evergreen chart-topper “All I Want for Christmas Is You” vaults to No. 2 and Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 album Christmas jingles up the Billboard 200 into the highest 5. Christmas was launched in 2011 and spent 5 weeks atop the record late that yr and in early 2012 and has returned to the highest 10 in each subsequent vacation season.

Speaking of Bublé, earlier this yr on the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, he joined hosts Katie and Keith to debate his then-new album Higher (a current Grammy Award nominee for finest conventional pop vocal album). Well, the newest Pop Shop Podcast (hear beneath) has a particular unheard second from that interview, the place Bublé was requested about his Christmas album and what it means to know that the ever-popular set has develop into a favourite in properties world wide annually, soundtracking household gatherings.

“Well, can you imagine how lucky I feel to be invited into all of that?” Bublé tells the Pop Shop Podcast. “I mean, I knew what I was doing when I made the record. I had high hopes. I was quite ambitious. Because I really genuinely love the songs. I never had any idea that it would be like this ever, ever.”

“And it’s funny, years ago, I would complain about it [the album’s success], and I would say [exasperated] ‘Well, you know, they keep talking about the Christmas album,’” he recalled. “But it was when my son acquired sick, I keep in mind sitting within the hospital, and I simply keep in mind pondering how fortunate I used to be. I simply keep in mind pondering so clearly, , how fantastic that is, that this is part of your legacy. …

“What’s interesting, too, is it’s become less about what religion you are and it’s become about just a time when us human beings might need a bit of a break. And there’s a little more empathy and kindness. And I thought, man, to be connected to something so beautiful, there are much worse things in life.”

Also on the newest Pop Shop Podcast, Katie and Keith focus on the demise of singer-songwriter Christine McVie and the pop sensibility she dropped at her work with Fleetwood Mac. Plus, the Pop Shop workforce chats about Amber Riley (spoiler alert!) profitable The Masked Singer and what it might imply for her profession sooner or later. They additionally discuss her Dec. 5 visitor look on The Jennifer Hudson Show, the place Riley and Hudson duetted on “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls.

The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop store for all issues pop on Billboard‘s weekly charts. You can always count on a lively discussion about the latest pop news, fun chart stats and stories, new music, and guest interviews with music stars and folks from the world of pop. Casual pop fans and chart junkies can hear Billboard‘s executive digital director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard’s senior director of charts Keith Caulfield each week on the podcast, which could be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded in Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast supplier. (Click right here to hearken to the earlier version of the present on Billboard.com.)