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Cheers, It's Christmas

Cheers, It's Christmas
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Studio album by Blake Shelton
Released October 2, 2012 (2012-10-02)
Genre Christmas, country
Length 44:34
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer Scott Hendricks
"Home" produced by Scott Hendricks and Brent Rowan
Blake Shelton chronology
Red River Blue
(2011)
Cheers, It's Christmas
(2012)
Based on a True Story...
(2013)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars
Roughstock 4/5 stars

Cheers, It's Christmas is the first Christmas album and seventh studio album by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released on October 2, 2012, through Warner Bros. Nashville. Shelton co-wrote three tracks for the album.

Included on the album is a rendition of Michael Bublé's "Home", done here as a duet with the original artist and featuring Christmas-themed lyrics written by Bublé at Shelton's request. Other collaborators on the album include Shelton's former wife, Miranda Lambert; the supergroup Pistol Annies, which is composed of Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley; Shelton's mother, Dorothy Shackleford; Trypta-Phunk, a funk side project founded by Shelton's touring band;Kelly Clarkson; Reba McEntire; and Xenia, who placed fifth on the first season of The Voice, a televised singing competition on which Shelton is a judge.

In its first week of release, the album sold 9,000 copies in the U.S. The album sold a total of 428,000 copies in the US in 2012, and was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 9, 2012. The album re-entered the charts on November 20, 2013 at number 44 on the Billboard 200, selling 8,000 copies for the week. As of December 2016, the album has sold 659,700 copies in the US.

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone


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