Merry Christmas, Baby (album)
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| Studio album by Rod Stewart | ||||
| Released | 30 October 2012 | |||
| Genre | Christmas, soul | |||
| Length | 46:04 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | David Foster, Rod Stewart, Kevin Savigar | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 53/100 |
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| AllMusic |    |
| BBC Music | (positive) |
| The Guardian | |
| The Independent | |
| NME | 3/10 |
| Slant Magazine | |
Merry Christmas, Baby, is the first Christmas album by Rod Stewart, released on 30 October 2012. 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.
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.
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, and spent a total of eight weeks in the top 10. 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. 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.
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. Its total UK sales for 2012 are 421,000 copies.
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.
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.
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