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Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album, and the fourth studio album, by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey. Released by Columbia Records on November 1, 1994, the album features cover versions of popular Christmas tunes and original material. Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote all of the original tracks, as well as producing Carey's interpretations of the covered material. The album contains a contemporary holiday theme, and featured "authentic, gospel flavored background vocals". The album received generally positive reviews and became a worldwide success. Critics praised Carey's uplifting and flavored vocals, as well as her skilled songwriting alongside Afanasieff. Three singles were released from the album, of which All I Want for Christmas Is You went on to become one of the best-selling singles of all time.
Merry Christmas was released at the peak of the initial stretch of Carey's career, between Music Box (1993) and Daydream (1995). The album produced the worldwide classic single, " All I Want for Christmas Is You", which became the best-selling holiday ringtone in the US. The album has sold 5,500,000 copies in the United States as of December 2015 according to Nielsen SoundScan, and has been certified five-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of five million copies in the United States. In Japan, Merry Christmas has sold 2,500,000 copies and is the fourth best-selling album of all time by a non-Asian solo artist, behind Carey's other release #1's (1998), Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard and Carey's Daydream. Merry Christmas has sold 15 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling Christmas album of all time.
A Deluxe Anniversary Edition was released on October 23, 2015.
" Merry Christmas" is a spoken or written greeting traditionally used on or before the Christmas holiday.
Merry Christmas may also refer to:
Merry Christmas is the seventh album and first Christmas album by Johnny Mathis. Released in 1958 by Columbia Records (CL 1195/CS 8021), it was also the sixth original studio album by Mathis. This particular album had two different album covers (original cover release shown).
The album ranks highly among the many holiday albums released throughout the years due to its skillful blend of traditional Christmas carols (" Silent Night, Holy Night", " O Holy Night" and " The First Noel") with popular Christmas songs (" The Christmas Song", " White Christmas" and " Silver Bells"). As with a number of Mathis's previous albums, Percy Faith provided the album's musical direction.
In the first flush of his success, Mathis offered a safe popular music alternative to rock 'n' roll rebelliousness of Elvis Presley, also in the first flush of his success and born in the same year as Mathis. On this album, Mathis tries his hand at a Christmas song associated with Presley, " Blue Christmas".
Merry Christmas is the seventh studio album recorded by Motown girl group The Supremes, and released on Motown Records in November 1965 (see 1965 in music). The LP, produced by Harvey Fuqua, includes recordings of familiar Christmas songs such as " White Christmas", " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", " My Favorite Things", and " Joy to the World". Two originals, "Children's Christmas Song" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Me", were issued as the sides of a late 1965 Supremes holiday single.
Their version of " My Favorite Things," has become popular, getting a lot of airplay on the radio during the Holiday Season.
Merry Christmas, issued by Motown the same day as the live recording The Supremes at the Copa, was the only holiday album released by the Supremes. They charted 4 albums in 1965 with one hitting the Top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 album chart and this hitting the Top 10 of the Billboard Holiday Album Chart. (It also made the Cashbox Top 10). The album sold 600,000 copies. And this is the only Supremes' album where neither Mary Wilson or Florence Ballard appear. The Andantes back Ross up as it is stated in the newly released singles collection of 2011. Ballard only appears, as lead, in two (then) unused tracks, one of the songs later released in 1999; Wilson was not recorded on any of the album track sessions. It was reissued in 1999 in CD form with four bonus tracks, including a cover of "Just a Lonely Christmas" (originally recorded by Harvey Fuqua's group The Moonglows), and a Florence Ballard-led version of " Silent Night". This expanded version of the album was re-released in 2003 as '' 20th Century Masters - The Best of the Supremes: The Christmas Collection.'' The Christmas album was later expanded further by 2015 (in both CD and Digital Download form) to include all 19 tracks recorded for the album, plus an additional track, "Won't Be Long Before Christmas", from their canceled Disney album, a "Seasons Greetings" by the group, and a live performance of "My Favorite Things" done at the Copa.
Merry Christmas is a compilation of Christmas songs that originally appeared on That Christmas Feeling (1968), Oh Happy Day (1970), The Christmas Sound of Music (1969) and The Night Before Christmas (1984).
Merry Christmas is a holiday album by German pop singer Jeanette. It was released by Universal Records on 22 November 2004 in Germany.
Merry Christmas is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby, released in 1945 on Decca Records, catalogue A-403. It has remained in print through the vinyl, compact disc and digital music eras, currently as the disc and digital album White Christmas on MCA Records, a part of the Universal Music Group, (reissued in June 1995) and currently on vinyl as Merry Christmas on Geffen Records (re-issued in September 2014). It includes Crosby's signature song " White Christmas", the best-selling single ever, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies worldwide. The album itself has sold over 15 million copies, and is the second best-selling Christmas album of all-time behind Elvis Presley's 1957 holiday album Elvis' Christmas Album, which has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide.
Felicidades ( - international title: Merry Christmas) is a 2000 Argentine- Italian comedy drama film written and directed by Lucho Bender and starring Gastón Pauls, Pablo Cedrón, Silke, Luis Machín, Carlos Belloso and Alfredo Casero. It was premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 5 and in Argentina on September 7, 2000.
The picture was Argentina's official submission for the 73rd Academy Awards and won two Silver Condor Awards whilst being nominated for nine different categories. Lucho Bender won Best First Film.
Merry Christmas is the tenth self-released music cassette album by singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston, recorded in 1988. The back of the cover features a typed message from Daniel: "Thanks to everyone who's helped in the past year, especially those who have bought and played my album. Thanks again."
Merry Christmas is a Christmas album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released by Columbia Records in 1965. This, his second holiday LP, is focused exclusively on 20th century compositions, unlike 1963's The Andy Williams Christmas Album, which, of its 12 tracks, had six with origins predating the turn of the century.
For the six consecutive holiday seasons from 1965 through 1970, Merry Christmas charted on Billboard magazine's special year-end weekly Christmas Albums sales chart. The album spent two weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1966 and one week atop that same chart in 1969. The single from the album, " Do You Hear What I Hear?", reached number 18 on the Christmas Singles chart in 1965.
On May 23, 1968, Merry Christmas was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States. Platinum certification for sales of one million copies followed on November 10, 1989.
Merry Christmas is an album by Caspar Brötzmann and F.M. Einheit, released in April 1994 through Our Choice.
Merry Christmas is a 2013 studio album by the Leningrad Cowboys. Released exclusively in December 2013 in a box set with their book PRAVDA - The Truth About the Leningrad Cowboys, a Finnish chocolate bar, postcard, and pin. It will be available on its own in 2014.
Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album recorded by Australian recording artist Kate Ceberano and was certified Gold by ARIA. The album includes a duet with Ronan Keating.
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.
Usage examples of "merry christmas".
Joining their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog.
In fact, Ooky is so fatigued, and his puppies hurt him so much that Dancing Dan and Good Time Charley and I all feel very sorry for him, and invite him to have a few mugs of hot Tom and Jerry with us, and wish him plenty of Merry Christmas.
Thank your wife for the coffee, sir, and if I don't see you before, Merry Christmas.
But since I was so close, I just wanted to stop in at Sanctuary and wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
She stood happily at the door of the Church, beside Mr Mathias, ostensibly to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but in reality to garner compliments on the brilliance of her son.