Christmas, with Love
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| Studio album by Leona Lewis | ||||
| Released | 29 November 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
| Genre | Christmas | |||
| Length | 32:40 | |||
| Label | Syco, RCA | |||
| Producer | Richard "Biff" Stannard, Ash Howes, Leona Lewis | |||
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| Singles from Christmas, with Love | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Female First | |
| The Gay UK | |
| The Guardian | |
| Knoxville.com | |
| So So Gay | (5.8/10) |
| Virgin Media | |
Christmas, with Love is a Christmas album and the fourth studio album by British recording artist Leona Lewis. It was released on 29 November 2013, by Syco Music and RCA Records. Work on the album began in February 2013, during which Lewis began writing "immediately" after the release of her less-commercially successful album Glassheart (2012). In June 2013, it was revealed (and later confirmed) that Lewis' fourth studio album would be a Christmas album, based on the recommendation of Syco boss Simon Cowell. Lewis enlisted two producers for the album: Richard "Biff" Stannard and Ash Howes, with Lewis herself contributing to the album's production.
Upon release, Christmas, with Love was met with positive reviews from critics, praising the album's original songs. Other critics noted the album as "one of the best modern Christmas albums in memory." Initially, the album charted at twenty five in the United Kingdom; the following week, the album rose to number thirteen on the chart becoming Lewis' lowest-charting album to date. However, it was certified Gold by the BPI for shipments of 100,000 copies within four weeks of its release, and has since become the thirteenth best selling Christmas album in the United Kingdom as of December 2016.
The album was preceded by one single "One More Sleep", which was released on 5 November 2013 and debuted at number 34 on the UK Charts. Lewis promoted the album through a large amount of live performances, including the Regent Street Christmas lights switch-on event in London, England and on tenth series of The X Factor; this led to the song rising to number 3, which in turn made it Lewis' highest-charting single since 2009's "Happy".
In February 2013, a representative from Syco Music, Lewis' record label, announced that she was about to start writing and recording material "imminently" for her fourth studio album, and that it would be released in late 2013. The news came after Lewis announced that she had parted ways from Modest! Management, the management team who had represented her since she won the third series of The X Factor in 2006. Various media outlets speculated that this was due to the weak commercial performance of her third studio album, Glassheart, which was released in November 2012. It became her first album to not debut at number one or earn platinum certification in the United Kingdom. It was also reported that the second single from the album, "Lovebird", had sold fewer than 600 copies, meaning it failed to attain one of 200 chart positions on the UK Singles Chart, was another contributing factor to her departure.
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