Merry Christmas, Baby (album)

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Merry Christmas, Baby
Cover of Rod Stewart's 2012 album 'Merry Christmas, Baby'.jpg
Studio album by Rod Stewart
Released 30 October 2012
Genre Christmas, soul
Length 46:04
Label Verve
Producer David Foster, Rod Stewart, Kevin Savigar
Rod Stewart chronology
Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V
(2010)Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V2010		 Merry Christmas, Baby
(2012)		 Time
(2013)Time2013

Merry Christmas, Baby, is the first Christmas album by Rod Stewart, released on 30 October 2012.[1] 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.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 53/100[3]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 2.5/5 stars[4]
BBC Music (positive)[5]
The Guardian 3/5 stars[6]
The Independent 3/5 stars[7]
NME 3/10[8]
Slant Magazine 3/5 stars[9]

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,[10] and spent a total of eight weeks in the top 10.[11] 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.[12] 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.[13][14]

In the UK, the album debuted at No. 2 on the Official Albums Chart and has so far spent six weeks in the top 10.[15] Its total UK sales for 2012 are 421,000 copies.[16]

In Canada, the album spent eight weeks in the top ten of the Canadian Albums Chart, with three consecutive weeks at the No. 1 spot. It was the ninth best-selling album in Canada in 2012 according to year-end sales data from Nielsen SoundScan Canada with sales of 135,000.[17]

Worldwide, the album achieved total 2012 sales of 2.6 million according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, making it the seventh best-selling album of the year.[18]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"   Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane 4:31
2. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"   J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie 2:48
3. "Winter Wonderland" (featuring Michael Bublé) Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith 2:26
4. "White Christmas"   Irving Berlin 3:49
5. "Merry Christmas, Baby" (featuring CeeLo Green & Trombone Shorty) Johnny Moore, Lou Baxter 3:53
6. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (featuring Dave Koz) Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 2:51
7. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (featuring Ella Fitzgerald & Chris Botti) Frank Loesser 3:43
8. "Blue Christmas"   Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson 3:30
9. "Red-Suited Super Man" (featuring Trombone Shorty) Rod Stewart, David Foster, Amy Foster 3:11
10. "When You Wish upon a Star"   Leigh Harline, Ned Washington 3:47
11. "We Three Kings" (featuring Mary J. Blige) John Henry Hopkins, Jr. 3:27
12. "Silent Night"   Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr 4:24
13. "Auld Lang Syne"   Traditional, Robert Burns 3:45
Total length:
 46:04

Charts and certifications

Awards and recognition

In February 2013, the album was nominated for a Canadian Juno Award in the International Album of the Year category.[52]

References

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