 In the United States, Merry Christmas II You debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 album chart, with first week sales of 55,000 copies. It became her sixteenth top ten album, and placed her third amongst women for the most top ten entries, after Madonna with nineteen and Barbra Streisand with thirty. It also peaked at number one on both the Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums chart and the Holiday Albums chart (her second to do so on the latter, following Merry Christmas in 1994). The album also peaked at number seven on the Digital Albums chart. It was certified Gold denoting shipments exceeding 500,000 copies by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on January 11, 2011. As of March 2013, it has sold 523,000 copies in the United States. In Canada, the album peaked at number fourteen. Outside of the United States, the album failed to achieve similar success. It reached the top thirty in Australia and Hungary, peaking at number twenty-seven and number thirty, respectively. It peaked at number forty-one in Italy, and number forty-five in Austria. It peaked at number one-hundred and one on the UK Albums Chart on November 27, 2010.
