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Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album

Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album
The word "Glee" is in large lowercase red print and centered on a green background with a Christmas bauble. Beneath it are the words "The Christmas Album" and above are "The Music", both in lowercase white font.
Soundtrack album by Glee Cast
Released November 9, 2010 (2010-11-09)
Recorded 2009–10
Genre Christmas music
Length 38:42
Label Columbia / 20th Century Fox TV
Producer Dante Di Loreto (exec.), Brad Falchuk (exec.), Adam Anders, Peer Åström, Ryan Murphy
Glee Cast chronology
Glee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Show
(2010)
Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album
(2010)
Glee: The Music, Volume 4
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com 4/5 stars
Allmusic 3/5 stars
The Detroit News (B)
Entertainment Weekly (B+)
Ottawa Citizen (favorable)
Philadelphia Daily News (C+)
Vanity Fair (mixed)

Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album is the fourth soundtrack album by the cast of the American musical television series Glee. The album was released on November 9, 2010 and accompanies the season two Christmas episode "A Very Glee Christmas", aired December 7, 2010. Dante Di Loreto and Brad Falchuk serve as the album's executive producers. Critical reception has been mixed, with the majority of professional reviews praising the cover version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" performed by Chris Colfer and guest star Darren Criss, as well as the vocals of Lea Michele and Amber Riley, but questioning the arrangements of some other tracks. The album debuted at the top position of the Billboard Soundtracks chart, as well as peaking at number three on the Billboard 200.

Six of the songs on the album are heard in "A Very Glee Christmas", a Christmas episode, which aired on December 7, 2010 on Fox as the last episode for the year. The tracks are "We Need a Little Christmas", "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch", "Merry Christmas Darling", "Baby, It's Cold Outside", "Last Christmas", and "The Most Wonderful Day of the Year". The cover of Wham!'s "Last Christmas" was previously released on November 24, 2009 as a charity record exclusively to the iTunes Store; part of the proceeds went to the Grammy Foundation to fund school education programs. It was never used in any season one episode, and marked the first appearance of the song on the Billboard Hot 100, at number sixty-three. It also charted on the Australian Singles Chart at number sixty, on the Canadian Hot 100 at number forty-six, and on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart at number twenty-seven. On Billboard's Holiday Songs chart, which measures sales and airplay, "Last Christmas" charted at number twenty for the 2009 holiday season.


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