Michael Bublé – Christmas (2011)Christmas is the fifth studio album by Michael Bublé, released in October 2011 on Reprise Records and produced by Bob Rock and Humberto Gatica. It has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time, reaching No. 1 in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. The album has charted in the UK every year since its release — a remarkable feat that places it alongside Bing Crosby's White Christmas and Elvis's Christmas Album as a perennial seasonal fixture. Bublé's warm, effortlessly swinging baritone is perfectly suited to the Great American Songbook and classic Christmas repertoire, and the album's production — lush orchestral arrangements, big band swing and intimate ballad settings — gives the familiar material a freshness and generosity that explains its extraordinary and sustained commercial success. The album features guest appearances by Shania Twain on White Christmas and The Puppini Sisters on It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.Highlights It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (feat. The Puppini Sisters) — The album's most joyful and immediately festive moment; the Puppini Sisters' close-harmony vocal style gives the classic Meredith Willson song a vintage Andrews Sisters quality that suits Bublé's swing sensibility perfectly, and the result is one of the most charming Christmas recordings of the modern era. White Christmas (feat. Shania Twain) — The Irving Berlin standard reimagined as a warm, country-tinged duet; Twain and Bublé's voices complement each other with surprising ease and the arrangement gives the most recorded song in history a genuinely fresh and appealing reading. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas — Bublé's most emotionally direct solo performance on the album; a beautifully restrained reading of the Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane standard that showcases his ability to deliver a ballad with complete sincerity and without sentimentality. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town — The album's most energetic and swinging moment; a big-band arrangement that gives Bublé the opportunity to demonstrate his ease in the classic swing idiom and captures the album's most joyful and celebratory spirit. Holly Jolly Christmas — A warm, uptempo seasonal favourite that showcases Bublé's lighter touch; the production is bright and generous and the performance is relaxed and charming, making it one of the album's most immediately appealing and replayable moments. CD Details Title: Christmas Artist: Michael Bublé Year: 2011 Label: Reprise Records / Warner Bros. Producer: Bob Rock, Humberto Gatica Format: CD Album Barcode: 093624953234 ConditionCondition: VG/VG — see our Condition Grading Guide.Browse our full 2010s CD collection. You might also enjoy our Blu-ray titles or our Vinyl Records.
