Ren_e Fleming's Sacred Songs moved back into the top spot on the chart, pushing Andr_ Rieu's The Flying Dutchman to number two. Movers on the chart included Joshua Bell's recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (also with the Berlin Philharmonic), which jumped from number eight to number four, and Dawn Upshaw's recording of Osvaldo Golijov's Grammy-nominated Ayre, which moved from number 24 to number 11.

On the classical-crossover chart, Il Divo's Christmas Collection remained at number one, with the group's Il Divo at number two. John Williams' score for the film Memoirs of a Geisha, which features cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Itzhak Perlman, jumped from number six to number three, its highest showing.