The Greatest Of All Time!

I knew it was coming.I knew we were close.By the end of last year, the rumblings were getting louder.And now ... it has happened.Break out the champagne!As of today — August 13, 2026 — the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has officially certified Vince Guaraldi's 1965 soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas as sextuple platinum, meaning six million units of sales......making it the best-selling jazz album of all time: finally, officially, surpassing Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. (Sorry, Miles.)Let me emphasize that again.Not merely the best-selling Christmas album of all time, or the best-selling soundtrack album of all time.The best-selling jazz album of all time.Like, wow.A quick primer: Back in the day, such a count would have been tabulated solely by physical album sales: LPs and CDs. The RIAA included streams beginning in February 2016, so this Charlie Brown Christmas milestone is based on more than 6 million "equivalent album units" purchased over various formats,…