Hot This Week: December 21

Three new movies on this week's list are led by the horror flick The Rental. A new album from Shawn Mendes takes over the music chart, which sees a number of seasonal favorites make an appearance as well. The fiction list stays largely the same, while nonfiction sees two new titles, including an examination of the days leading up to the murder of John Lennon in 1980.

Movies

1. Unhinged (Blu-ray)
2. Mulan (Blu-ray | 4K)
3. Buddy Games
   
4. The New Mutants (Blu-ray | 4K)
5. Iron Mask (Blu-ray)
6. The Rental (Blu-ray)
7. Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot
8. Smiley Face Killers (Blu-ray)
   
9. 2067 (Blu-ray)
   
10. Bill & Ted Face the Music (Blu-ray)

Music

1. Shawn Mendes, Wonder
   
2. Ariana Grande, Positions
   
3. Michael Buble, Christmas
4. Carrie Underwood, My Gift
   
5. Pop Smoke, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon
6. Nat King Cole, The Christmas Song
7. Pentatonix, The Best of Pentatonix Christmas
8. Mariah Carey, Merry Christmas
9. Taylor Swift, Folklore
   
10. Miley Cyrus, Plastic Hearts

Fiction

1. Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline
2. A Time for Mercy, John Grisham
3. The Return, Nicholas Sparks
4. Daylight, David Baldacci
5. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
6. The Law of Innocence, Michael Connelly
7. The Awakening, Nora Roberts
   
8. The Sentinel, Lee Child and Andrew Child
9. Fortune and Glory, Janet Evanovich
10. Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
    

Nonfiction

1. A Promised Land, Barack Obama
2. The Last Days of John Lennon, James Patterson, Casey Sherman, and Dave Wedge
3. World of Wonders, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4. Becoming, Michelle Obama
5. Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
6. Untamed, Glennon Doyle
7. The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson
8. Is This Anything?, Jerry Seinfeld
9. Modern Warriors, Pete Segseth
10. Killing Crazy Horse, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard