Christmas Christmas

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Christmas Christmas
Cheap Trick Christmas Christmas.png
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 20, 2017
Recorded2017
Genre Christmas, Hard rock, Power pop
Length39:07
Label Big Machine
Producer
Cheap Trick chronology
We're All Alright!
(2017)
Christmas Christmas
(2017)
In Another World
(2021)

Christmas Christmas is a Christmas album and the nineteenth studio album by American rock band Cheap Trick. It was released on October 20, 2017. [1]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Merry Christmas Darlings" Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson 3:45
2."I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" Roy Wood 3:35
3."I Wish It Was Christmas Today" Jimmy Fallon, Horatio Sanz 3:14
4."Merry Xmas Everybody" Noddy Holder, Jim Lea 3:17
5."Please Come Home For Christmas" Charles Brown, Gene Redd3:29
6."Remember (Christmas)"Harry Nilsson3:01
7."Run Rudolph Run" Johnny Marks, Marvin Brodie3:59
8."Father Christmas" Ray Davies 3:56
9."Silent Night" Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr 3:56
10."Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)" Joey Ramone 2:07
11."Our Father of Life"Zander, Nielsen, Petersson3:17
12."Christmas Christmas"Zander, Nielsen, Petersson2:17

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Christmas Christmas
Chart (2017)Peak
position
US Top Holiday Albums (Billboard) [2] 5
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [3] 9
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [4] 93


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