Merry Christmas with Love is the first Christmas album and second studio album by American recording artist Clay Aiken. It was released on November 16, 2004, through RCA Records. The production on the album was produced by Phil Ramone and Walter Afanasieff.
Aiken has toured four times with his Joyful Noise Tour (2004-2007) to promote this album. The album was re-released on August 18, 2009, on the Sony label.
36-city, 40-concert U.S. and Canada tour (November - December 2005)
The concert featured a traveling cast of actors, singers, and dancers, as well as a supporting cast recruited from each host city, to provide the theatrical component that threaded together the musical performances.
The opening act and contributing musician was pop-classical pianist William Joseph.
Merry Christmas with Love debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 270,000 copies in its first week.[4] This became Aiken's second US top-ten debut.[4] By the end of 2004, the album sold 1,004,000 copies.[14] The album set a new record for fastest-selling holiday album in the SoundScan era (since March 1991) and tied Celine Dion's record for the highest debut by a holiday album in the history of Billboard magazine.[15] On January 6, 2005, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over a million copies.[5] As of February 2011, the album has sold 1.4 million copies in the United States.[16]
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