The Beach Boys' Christmas Album

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album is the seventh studio album by the Beach Boys, released in November 1964. Containing five original songs and seven standards, the album proved to be a long-running success during subsequent Christmas seasons, initially reaching number six in the US Billboard 200 chart in its year of release and eventually going gold.

While leader Brian Wilson produced and arranged the "rock" songs, he left it to Dick Reynolds (an arranger for the Four Freshmen, a group Wilson idolized) to arrange the forty-one piece orchestral backings on the traditional songs to which the Beach Boys would apply their vocals. One single was released from the album, the original song "The Man with All the Toys" backed with the group's rendition of "Blue Christmas". "Little Saint Nick", a single which had already been released the previous year, was included on the album.

In 1977, the Beach Boys attempted to follow the album with Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys, but it was rejected by their label. The entire Christmas Album plus selections from the Merry Christmas sessions were later assembled for the 1998 compilation Ultimate Christmas.

Merry Christmas, Baby (album)

Merry Christmas, Baby, is the first Christmas album by Rod Stewart, released on 30 October 2012. The album has proved to be a top 10 success in many countries including the UK, US, Canada and Australia. It was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in November 2012 with over 1,000,000 copies sold in the US.

Critical reception

Merry Christmas, Baby received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 53, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 6 reviews.

Commercial performance

Merry Christmas, Baby debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart, with first week sales of 117,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan, and spent a total of eight weeks in the top 10. With total U.S. sales of 858,000 copies in 2012 according to SoundScan, Merry Christmas, Baby was the best-selling Christmas/holiday album of the year. The album was also the year's fifteenth best-selling album in the U.S. according to Billboard and the ninth best-selling physical album in the U.S. according to the Nielsen Company's 2012 Music Industry Report.

Merry Christmas (disambiguation)

"Merry Christmas" is a spoken or written greeting traditionally used on or before the Christmas holiday.

Merry Christmas may also refer to:

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Albums

Merry Christmas (Kate Ceberano album)

Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album recorded by Australian recording artist Kate Ceberano and was certified Gold The album included a duet with Ronan Keating.

Track listing

The 2009 edition of Merry Christmas had 12 tracks, 11 Christmas classics and 'radiate', which was on her previous album "Dallas et Kate". "Radiate" was composed by Dallas Cosmas and Ceberano

The album was re-released in 2010. The 2010 Edition removed 'Radiate' but included three new tracks including duets with David Campbell and Jimmy Little This was released on 12 November 2010.

Merry Christmas (Paulini album)

Merry Christmas is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by Australian recording artist Paulini, released through Ambition Records on 30 October 2015. It is the follow-up to her album, Come Alive released five months earlier. It’s also the second Christmas release, following an 8-track Extended Play released in 2004, titled Amazing Grace: Songs for Christmas.

In a statement, Paulini said; “Christmas time is a very special time for me. It represents family, friends, love and the spirit of giving. Every year, I’m lucky enough to perform and share in it with communities all around Australia and this album is my way of saying ‘thank you’ for my gift that I can share with the fans”.

Paulini performed "Jingle Bell Rock" on The Today Show on 7 December and "Ave Maria" live on The Morning Show on 15 December.

Track listing