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2 Personnel  


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3 Chart performance  




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Christmas
Studio album by
Alabama
ReleasedSeptember 1985 (1985-09)
Recorded1982 (Track 10), 1985 (Other Tracks)
GenreCountry
Length37:09
LabelRCA Nashville
ProducerHarold Shedd and Alabama
Alabama chronology
40-Hour Week
(1985) 		Christmas
(1985) 		Greatest Hits
(1985)
Singles from Alabama Christmas

  1. "Christmas in Dixie"
    Released: December 6, 1982

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Christmas is the first Christmas albumbycountry band Alabama. The album was released on RCA Nashville in 1985. It was certified double platinum for shipment of 2 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 11, 1996.[2] Since 1991 when SoundScan started to collate sales data, 515,300 copies have been sold in the United States.[3]

The album is Alabama's first Christmas album and includes one of their more popular holiday songs, 1982's "Christmas in Dixie," which charted on two of Billboard magazine's music popularity charts in six different calendar years.[4] "Christmas in Dixie" peaked at No. 35 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in January 1983, and also reached No. 3 on Billboard's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Singles chart in December 1983.[4]

Track listing[edit]

  1. "Santa Claus (I Still Believe In You)" (John Jarrard, Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen, Greg Fowler, Linda Gentry) – 4:07
  2. "Joseph and Mary's Boy" (Don Cook, Keith Whitley) – 4:06
  3. "Happy Holidays" (Ronnie Rogers, Swain Schaefer) – 3:18
  4. "Christmas Memories" (Becky Hobbs, John Greenebaum, Randy Albright) – 3:21
  5. "Tonight Is Christmas" (Keith Worsham, Stan Munsey Jr., Don Matthews, Steve Baccus) – 4:19
  6. "Thistlehair The Christmas Bear" (Donny Lowery) – 4:06
  7. "Tennessee Christmas" (Gary Chapman, Amy Grant) – 3:40
  8. "A Candle In The Window" (Susan Longacre, Walt Aldridge, Gary Baker) – 3:51
  9. "Homecoming Christmas" (Rogers) – 3:52
  10. "Christmas in Dixie" (Mark Herndon, Randy Owen, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry) – 3:37

Personnel[edit]

Alabama[edit]

Mark Herndon, Alabama's drummer, does not play on this album.

Additional Musicians[edit]

Strings performed by the "A" Strings, arranged by Bergen White.

Chart performance[edit]

Chart (1985) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 8
U.S. Billboard 200 75

Certifications[edit]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[2] 2× Platinum 2,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References[edit]

  1. ^ ChristmasatAllMusic
  • ^ a b "American album certifications – Alabama – Alabama Christmas". Recording Industry Association of America.
  • ^ Bjorke, Matt (November 26, 2017). "Top Country Catalog Sales Chart: November 26, 2017". Roughstock. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  • ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2004). Christmas in the Charts (1920–2004). Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 17. ISBN 0-89820-161-6.

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