A Family Christmas

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My Christmas re-entered the Billboard 200 chart in late November 2010, peaking at No. 11 in mid-December and selling over 70,000 units that week (fewer than 100 copies away from re-entering the top 10). [48] The album's total 2010 sales were at 371,000 copies, [27] making My Christmas the only catalog album among the five best-selling holiday albums of 2010, after topping the list the previous year, as well as Bocelli's second-best selling album ever in the U.S., surpassing his 1999 album Sogno, and trailing only his 1997 breakthrough album Romanza, with just under 2.6 million copies sold in the country in its two years of release. The album also spent four consecutive weeks at No. 1, on Billboard's Catalog Albums Chart, in December 2010. [49] [50] [51] [52] The only previous time Bocelli had topped the Catalog Chart was in 2000, over a decade earlier, with his album Romanza. [53] My Christmas was the second best selling Catalog album of the year, surpassed only by Adele's 2008 album, 19. [54] The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Andrea Bocelli; 'My Christmas ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Bocelli gave 5 concerts in the United States in December 2011, [24] in support of both My Christmas and his then new live album, Concerto: One Night in Central Park. Bocelli also performed White Christmas in an appearance at Good Morning America, airing December 22.

Compilation albums [ edit ] List of compilations, with selected details, chart positions, sales, and certifications a b c d e f g h i j k "My Christmas - Andrea Bocelli (2009)". Billboard Magazine . Retrieved 2009-11-25. a b "Italian tenor's album sales top five million". Thaindian News.com, Dec 30, 2009 article . Retrieved 2010-06-24. My Christmas spent a total of 3 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Italian FIMI Albums Chart, debuting at No. 7, with just under 10,000 copies sold in its first week of release, [94] and climbing, the following week, to No. 3 with around 16,000 sold in its second. [95] In its third week, the album climbed another notch to No. 2, with an additional 28,000 copies, [96] before reaching the No. 1 spot, with 72,000 units sold in its fourth week, [97] where it remained the following 2 week, with 92,000 units sold in its fifth week, [98] and 23,000 units sold in its sixth week of release. [99] Hungary and Poland [ edit ] My Christmas first arrived at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, and at No. 1 on both the US Classical albums and holiday albums charts, with 149,000 copies sold on its first week, marking Bocelli's fifth top 10 effort and a record-setting seventh No. 1 peaking, on the Billboard 200 chart and Classical albums chart, respectively. It also marked, at the time, Bocelli's best sales week since Cieli di Toscana blew through 177,000 over Christmas week of 2001, and his second-best debut sales week, trailing only Bocelli's 1999 album Sogno, which pulled in a slightly better first-week number. [35] [36] Moreover, at No. 3, it marked Bocelli's highest chart debut in America, since his 2006 album, Amore. [36] However, the album climbed one notch to No. 2, with 136,000 units sold (down a scant 8%) in its second week, [37] and remained at No. 2 the following four weeks, with 185,000 units sold (a gain of 36%) in its third week, [38] 218,000 sold (a gain of 18%) in its fourth, [39] and another 428,000 (up 97%) sold in its fifth week, [40] 20,000 of which were digital copies, making it the top selling album on iTunes and the No. 1 US Digital Album, of the week. [41] [42] [43] Its fifth week marked Bocelli's best sales week in America to date, in which My Christmas surpassed a million in total (1,12 million), and became his best-selling album in the States, since the release of Amore in 2006 (1,66 million), as well as his highest-charting album in the country. [40] The album then continued to play runner-up to Susan Boyle's Dream, for a third week, with an additional 400,000 units sold (down 7%) in its sixth week. [44]Danish album certifications – Andrea Bocelli – My Christmas". IFPI Danmark . Retrieved 8 January 2019.

A Deluxe edition that features the standard CD and a bonus DVD containing highlights from the PBS My Christmas Special was released on November 23, 2009. Another Deluxe edition, containing the same DVD and, Mi Navidad, the Spanish version of the album, was released December 1, 2009.My Christmas was listed in the top three of the Canadian Albums Chart for six consecutive weeks, and was No. 2 in four of those weeks. No strangers to holiday albums, the dynamic duo of David Foster and Katharine McPhee released their completed “Christmas Songs” collection earlier this year. This is one for the traditionalists among us: jazz-y, theatrical interpretations of Christmas classics that deliver a nostalgic satisfaction, amplified by their combined, immense talent. Well, theirs, and the skills of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, whose reimagined “Amazing Grace,” arranged by Foster, is a song to behold. My Christmas was also a major component of a PBS Great Performances special, filmed September 15, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, airing in the New York City/ tri-state viewing area on THIRTEEN's Great Performances series on Thanksgiving night, November 26, with additional broadcasts, which continued throughout December, on PBS stations nationwide, featuring Bocelli and Foster with additional guests including Natalie Cole, Mary J. Blige, Reba McEntire, Katherine Jenkins and the Muppets. [164] The DVD of the full program was internationally released December 8, 2009. Bocelli covered " What Child Is This?" for the album, singing the carol with American R&B singer Mary J. Blige. The single was released in North America on November 3, 2009, the same release date as the album. A

a b "Boyle's 'Dream' Continues At No. 1 On Billboard 200". Billboard Magazine, Dec 9, 2009 article . Retrieved 2009-12-09. Andrea Bocelli live in Dublin, Ireland". Archived from the original on 2012-03-09 . Retrieved 2011-02-12. In the United Kingdom, My Christmas debuted at No. 18, with over 41,000 units sold on its first week of release, [106] then slipped to No. 24, on its second, and stayed there on its third, before slipping one notch to No. 25 on its fourth week, with a three-week total exceeding 100,000 copies. Mi Navidad, the Spanish version of the album, arrived at No. 180 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling just under 7,000 copies on its first week, and peaked at No.1 on both the US Latin Albums and the US Latin Pop Albums charts, and at No. 3, on the US Classical Albums chart, [6] at which time Bocelli held the No. 1 and No. 3 spots simultaneously on the chart, with the two versions of the album, for 4 consecutive weeks. [107] [108] [109] [110] Mi Navidad shipped 50,000 units in 2009 in the United States, and was certified gold by the RIAA. [111] Singles [ edit ] "White Christmas" [ edit ] Collaborative albums [ edit ] List of collaborative albums, with selected details, chart positions, sales, and certificationsThe album yet again reentered the chart in mid November 2011. For the week ending December 4, the album jumped 33 positions to No. 17, [55] in its 24th week on the chart, with 35,000 copies sold, topping the Catalog Albums Chart for the second straight year, and for a fifth week since its release. Bocelli was the only artist with two albums in the top 20 during that week, as his 2011 live album, Concerto, One Night in Central Park returned to the Top 10, reaching No. 8. [56] The following week, the album jumped one spot to No. 16, the highest position achieved by a catalog album that season, with 49,000 copies sold, spending a sixth non-consecutive week a top the Catalog Chart, [57] and giving Bocelli a second week with 2 albums in the Top 20, [58] as Concerto also rose to No. 6, with 79,000 copies sold. [59] Bocelli had yet another week with 2 albums in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 chart, as My Christmas slipped only 3 positions to No. 19 with 48,000 copies sold, remaining on top of the Catalog Chart, while Concerto sold 76,000 more copies, sliding just two positions to No. 8 on the chart. [60] The following week, the Christmas album dropped to No. 36, [61] slipping to No. 2 on the Catalog chart after spending 3 straight week a top the chart, [62] while the live album dropped to No. 13. [63] My Christmas sold a total of 247,000 copies in 2011, placing it in the top 10 of the Top selling seasonal albums of the year, at No. 6, for the third consecutive year, and making it the best selling Catalog Holiday album for the second year. [28] The album was also 9th on the Billboard Year-End top-selling Catalog album chart, [64] slipping from being second the previous year. In the meantime Bocelli's other album Concerto sold 460,000 copies in its 6 weeks of release during the year, making it the 8th top selling albums during the 2011 Holiday Season. [28] The album is a compilation of seasonal holiday favorites, mainly in English, with a few selections in Italian, German, and French, produced by multiple Grammy Award winner David Foster, containing duets with Mary J. Blige, Natalie Cole, Reba McEntire, Katherine Jenkins, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the Muppets. [3] It also includes "God Bless Us Everyone", the only original song of the album, which Bocelli recorded for the closing of the 2009 film, A Christmas Carol. [4] [5] Chart Beat Thursday: "Glee" Cast, Andrea Bocelli, Neil Diamond, Billboard.com Dec 17, 2009 article. Italian album certifications – Andrea Bocelli – My Christmas" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved October 18, 2017. Select "Tutti gli anni" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "My Christmas" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione".