MUMBAI: Mariah Carey seems to have received an early Christmas present this year --  the diva's second holiday album in 16 years, Merry Christmas II You, made a Top 5 debut on the charts.

Led by the cheery single Oh Santa!,... the new collection of holiday recordings entered at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with 55,000 copies sold in its first week. This marks Mimi's 16th album to bow in the Top 10, putting her behind only Barbra Streisand (30) and Madonna (19) to have as many albums enter the territory in their first week out.

With a little more than a month to go until Christmas, the mother-to-be bested  the first week of her 1994 seasonal release Merry Christmas, which debuted at No. 3 with 45,000 units sold. The album went on to sell 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling X-mas CDs of all time.