| 'Tis the SeaSon | ||||
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| Released | October 28, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | Summer 2016 amidst touring. | |||
| Genre | Christmas, country pop | |||
| Length | 39:31 | |||
| Label | Mailboat | |||
| Producer | Mac McAnally • Michael Utley | |||
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'Tis the SeaSon is the second Christmas album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, and is his twenty-ninth studio album overall.
Released on October 28, 2016, it is the follow-up to Buffett's Christmas Island , released twenty years prior. After the recording of the album was mentioned in interviews and on social media throughout summer 2016, the name, album cover, and release date were officially announced on September 26, 2016. [2] [3]
The album debuted on Billboard 200 at No. 50, [4] and at the Top Country Albums at No. 6, selling 10,000 copies in its first week. [5] The album has sold 56,500 copies in the United States as of December 2016. [6]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Wonderful Christmastime" | Paul McCartney | 4:00 |
| 2. | "Jingle Bell Rock" | Joe Beal, Jim Boothe | 2:10 |
| 3. | "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" | Donald Yetter Gardner | 2:39 |
| 4. | "Drivin' the Pig (Manejando el Cerdo)" | Jimmy Buffett, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer | 3:47 |
| 5. | "The Twelve Days of Christmas (Parrothead Version)" | 3:50 | |
| 6. | "What I Didn't Get for Christmas" | Mac McAnally | 2:36 |
| 7. | "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" | Johnny Marks | 2:04 |
| 8. | "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" | Marks | 3:32 |
| 9. | "Santa Stole Thanksgiving" | Buffett, Guth, Mayer | 2:35 |
| 10. | "Mele Kalikimaka" (feat. Jake Shimabukuro) | Robert Alexander Anderson | 2:39 |
| 11. | "Winter Wonderland" (feat. Robert Greenidge) | Richard B. Smith | 3:20 |
| 12. | "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (feat. Nadirah Shakoor) | Frank Loesser | 2:54 |
| 13. | "White Christmas" | Irving Berlin | 3:10 |
| Total length: | 39:31 | ||
Credits from AllMusic. [7]
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