Merry Christmas with Love
| Merry Christmas with Love | ||||
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| Studio album by Clay Aiken | ||||
| Released | November 16, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 Right Track Recording New York City, New York |
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| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 39:00 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer |
Phil Ramone Walter Afanasieff |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | D |
| Rolling Stone | (mixed) |
Merry Christmas with Love is Clay Aiken's first Christmas album, released by RCA Records on November 16, 2004. It was certified platinum and was recognized by Billboard as the best-selling Christmas/holiday album of 2004 and the best-selling Christian album of 2005.
The album was re-released on August 18, 2009 on the Sony label.
Aiken has toured four times with his Joyful Noise Tour (2004-2007) to promote this album.
Merry Christmas with Love debuted at number four on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with about 270,000 copies sold; this was also its peak position on the chart. By the end of 2004, around 1,004,000 copies of the album had been sold, and the album won Billboard awards for the Best-Selling Christmas Album of 2004 and the Best-Selling Christian Album of 2005. The album set a new record for fastest-selling holiday album in the SoundScan era (since March 1991) and tied Céline Dion's record for the highest debut by a holiday album in the history of Billboard magazine.
On January 6, 2005, Merry Christmas with Love was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies in the U.S. Going into the 2010 Christmas season, 1,416,000 copies had been sold in the U.S. and 2 million worldwide.
2004: The Joyful Noise Tour
2005: The Joyful Noise 2005 Tour
2006: Holiday Tour
2007: Christmas in the Heartland
Aiken has ended each of his Christmas tours with his signature Christmas song, "Don't Save It All for Christmas Day."
American Christian Music Awards
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