Cheers, It's Christmas

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Cheers, It's Christmas
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 2, 2012 (2012-10-02)
Studio Ocean Way, Nashville
Genre Christmas, country
Length44:34
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer Scott Hendricks
"Home" produced by Scott Hendricks and Brent Rowan
Blake Shelton chronology
Red River Blue
(2011)
Cheers, It's Christmas
(2012)
Based on a True Story...
(2013)
Singles from Cheers It's Christmas
  1. "Savior's Shadow"
    Released: April 8, 2016
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Times Record News B+ [6]

Cheers, It's Christmas is the first Christmas album and seventh studio album by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released on October 2, 2012, through Warner Bros. Nashville. [7] Shelton co-wrote three tracks for the album.

Contents

Content

Included on the album is a rendition of Michael Bublé's "Home", done here as a duet with the original artist and featuring Christmas-themed lyrics written by Bublé at Shelton's request. Other collaborators on the album include Shelton's former wife, Miranda Lambert; the supergroup Pistol Annies, which is composed of Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley; Shelton's mother, Dorothy Shackleford; Trypta-Phunk, a funk side project founded by Shelton's touring band; [8] Kelly Clarkson, whose then-partner and now ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, is Shelton's manager; Reba McEntire, who is Blackstock's stepmother; [9] and Xenia, who placed fifth on the first season of The Voice , a televised singing competition on which Shelton is a judge.

The Hallmark Channel holiday film, "Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas," which premiered on December 15, 2018 starring Josh Henderson and Megan Park, was inspired by the track Shelton wrote with his mother. [10] [11]

The album was re-released in 2017 with new artwork and three additional tracks: "Savior's Shadow" (from the 2016 album If I'm Honest), "Two Step ’Round the Christmas Tree" and "Christmas Eve" (a version of Gwen Stefani's Christmas Eve). [12] [13] [14]

The album re-released for a second time in 2022 with three additional tracks: "Up on the House Top", "Holly Jolly Christmas" and a cover of "Cheer for the Elves", which originally appeared on the deluxe edition of Gwen Stefani's album, "You Make It Feel Like Christmas". [14] [15]

Commercial performance

In its first week of release, the album sold 9,000 copies in the U.S. [16] The album sold a total of 428,000 copies in the US in 2012, and was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 9, 2012. [17] The album re-entered the charts on November 20, 2013 at number 44 on the Billboard 200, selling 8,000 copies for the week. [18] As of November 2017, the album has sold 688,400 copies in the US. [19]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jingle Bell Rock" (featuring Miranda Lambert)
  • Joe Beal
  • Jim Booth
2:03
2."White Christmas" Irving Berlin 3:37
3."Oklahoma Christmas" (featuring Reba McEntire)
3:28
4."Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"2:48
5."There's a New Kid in Town" (featuring Kelly Clarkson)4:30
6."Santa's Got a Choo Choo Train"
3:35
7."Home" (featuring Michael Bublé)3:46
8."Winter Wonderland"2:15
9."The Christmas Song"
3:55
10."Blue Christmas" (featuring Pistol Annies)
  • Billy Hayes
  • Jay W. Johnson
2:06
11."I'll Be Home for Christmas"3:24
12."Silver Bells" (featuring Xenia)3:10
13."Time for Me to Come Home" (featuring Dorothy Shackleford)
  • Shelton
  • Shackleford
2:40
14."The Very Best Time of Year" (featuring Trypta-Phunk)
  • Shelton
  • Byus
  • Broussard
  • Tackett
2:58

Personnel

Orchestra

Horns and Woodwinds
Strings

Production

Studios

Charts and certifications

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