JFH News: Skillet's "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" Hits Number 1 on Multiple Billboard Charts

SKILLET'S "O COME, O COME EMMANUEL” SOARS TO #1 ACROSS MULTIPLE BILLBOARD CHARTS

22x Platinum Rock Band's debut Christmas track fuels trending, viral debate on X amongst Christian Community with influencers Allie Beth Stuckey, The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles and more showing support

TONIGHT at 8pm ET: Join Skillet for A Rock Feed Christmas special on YouTube

Skillet's 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel' Hits Number 1 on Multiple Billboard Charts

NEWS SOURCE: The Media Collective
December 2, 2025

Nashville, TN... December 2, 2025 - 22x platinum rock band SKILLET'S cover of“O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” has soared to #1 across multiple BILLBOARD charts: Chrisitan Digital Song Sales, Holiday Digital Song Sales, Rock Digital Song Sales, Alternative Digital Song Sales and Hard Rock Digital Song Sales. The band's debut Christmas track also saw charting on BILLBOARD's Digital Song Sales (#3), Hot Hard Rock Songs (#6), Hot Christian Songs (#12), Canadian Digital Song Sales (#12), Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (#40) and the Holiday 100 (#79) charts respectively.

Accompanied by a powerful and moving music video that garnered over 1M views in less than a week, the new version also fueled a trending, viral debate amongst the Christian community on X. With some calling the cover blasphemous or even demonic, even more have called it a powerful reminder of the hope that breaks through darkness. Popular influencers have come to the band's support, including Allie Beth Stuckey, The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles, Graham Allen, and media outlets like The Babylon Bee, CBN News, Church Leaders, Premier Christianity, Rock Feed, Blabbermouth, Yahoo!and more.

TONIGHT at 8pm ET, fans can tune in on YouTube to join SKILLET for A Rock Feed Christmas Special—an evening of music, conversation, and surprises. The event will feature a special live Q&A with U.S. military veterans, presented in partnership with VET TIX, a nonprofit organization the band has long supported. This season, SKILLET is spotlighting VET TIX alongside St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to encourage continued giving and awareness.

“O Come, O Come Emmanuel" caps off a massive year that included packed shows across Europe last summer and a sold-out Central and South American tour including Mexico City, Lima, Buenos Aires and Santiago, and the hugely succesful Awakening Tour with Jeremy Camp this past November.

Reinforcing their reputation as a band with a massive global impact, earlier this fall SKILLET announced their return to Europe the spring of 2026. The spring tour will hit 23 cities including London, Glasgow, Paris, Munich, Warsaw and Barcelona, with tickets on sale now at Skillet.com.

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ABOUT SKILLET: After nearly three decades, eleven albums, and thousands of shows worldwide, SKILLET play louder, fight harder, and sound more rebellious than ever. As of 2024, the band have received two GRAMMY® Award nominations, picked up a Billboard Music Award, and landed three albums in the Top 5 of the Billboard 200. Selling over 22 million units worldwide, they have notched multiplatinum, platinum, or gold RIAA certifications for a total of 12 singles and four full-length albums. Not to mention, they have regularly attracted over 10 million monthly listeners on Spotify, boasting “one of the most-streamed rock songs of all-time” with the 5x-platinum “Monster.” Their presence has impressively surged throughout popular culture with syncs by WWE, Marvel, ESPN, and NFL in addition to coverage from USA Today, The New York Times, and more. As a live force of nature, they have touched down on five continents and in 32 countries, packing arenas everywhere from the Middle East to Russia. Not to mention, Skillet expanded their world with the graphic novel series EDEN. The first installment stood out as Z2 Comics’ best-selling book of all-time. In 2025 the global hard rock quartet—John Cooper [lead vocals, bass], Korey Cooper [guitar, keys], Jen Ledger [drums, vocals], and Seth Morrison [lead guitar]—deliver an insurgent, infectious, and inimitable body of work with their twelfth full-length offering and first-ever independent album, REVOLUTION, led by the single “Unpopular" and focus tracks "All That Matters" and "Ash In The Wind." November 2025 saw SKILLET debut the multi-chart #1 track "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," their first-ever Christmas recording.