Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)

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"Wonderful Dream (Holidays are Coming)"
Wonderful Dream.jpg
Single by Melanie Thornton
from the album Ready to Fly
ReleasedNovember 26, 2001
Recorded2001
Genre
Length4:00
Label X-Cell
Songwriter(s)
  • Melanie Thornton
  • Mitchell Lennox
  • Julien Nairolf
  • Ben Naftali
  • Terry Coffey
  • Jon Nettlesbey
  • Rich Airis
  • Scott Temper
Producer(s)
  • Julien Nairolf
  • Mitchell Lennox
Melanie Thornton singles chronology
"Makin' Oooh Oooh (Talking About Love)""
(2001)
"Wonderful Dream (Holidays are Coming)"
(2001)
"In Your Life"
(2002)

"Wonderful Dream (Holidays are Coming)" is a song by American-German recording artist Melanie Thornton. It was written by Thornton, Mitchell Lennox, Julien Nairolf, Ben Naftali, Terry Coffey, Jon Nettlesbey, Rich Airis, and Scott Temper and produced by Lennox and Nairolf. The song was also featured in a Coca-Cola Christmas promotional campaign, which makes use of altered lyrics.

Contents

Track listings

European CD maxi single
  1. "Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) (Radio Version)" – 3:50
  2. "Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) (Art-Of-Soul Tight Mix)" – 3:34
  3. "Memories" – 4:22

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (2001–2023)Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [1] 5
Germany (Official German Charts) [2] 3
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100) [3] 50
Poland (Polish Streaming Top 100) [4] 71
Slovenia (SloTop50) [5] 21
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [6] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (2002)Position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [7] 37
Germany (Official German Charts) [8] 44
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [9] 31

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Austria (IFPI Austria) [10] 2× Platinum80,000*
Germany (BVMI) [11] 2× Platinum1,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Joe McElderry version

"Wonderful Dream (Holidays are Coming)"
Joemcelderryholidaysarecoming.jpg
Single by Joe McElderry
ReleasedNovember 17, 2013
Recorded2013
Genre Pop, Christmas
Length3:48
Label Touchstone Media
Songwriter(s)
  • Melanie Thornton
  • Mitchell Lennox
  • Julien Nairolf
  • Ben Naftali
  • Terry Coffey
  • Jon Nettlesbey
  • Rich Airis
  • Scott Temper
Producer(s) Martin Jay
Joe McElderry singles chronology
"One World One Song"
(2013)
"Wonderful Dream (Holidays are Coming)"
(2013)
"Gloria"
(2017)

On November 17, 2013, British singer Joe McElderry released a cover of the song as a single.

Charts

Chart (2013)Peak
position
UK Indie (OCC) [12] 37

Margaret version

Polish singer Margaret recorded Polish-language version of the song titled "Coraz bliżej święta", which featured the finalists of the sixth season of The Voice of Poland . It was used in Polish Coca-Cola Christmas commercial, [13] and was released for digital download on 3 November 2015. [14] The song reached number 32 in Poland the year it was released, and has re-entered the Polish charts each holiday season since, peaking at number 29 in 2021. [15]

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