Christmas in the Aire

Christmas in the Aire
Studio album by Mannheim Steamroller
Released September 12 1995
Genre New Age
Length 43:11
Label American Gramaphone
Producer Chip Davis
Mannheim Steamroller chronology
To Russia with Love
(1994)
Christmas in the Aire
(1995)
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Live
(1997)
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums chronology
A Fresh Aire Christmas
(1988)
Christmas in the Aire
(1995)
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Live
(1997)
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Christmas in the Aire is the third Christmas album and twenty-first studio album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album was originally released in 1995, and was the biggest-selling holiday album in the United States that year according to Nielsen/SoundScan.[2]

On December 15, 1997, Christmas in the Aire was certified Quadruple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of four million copies in the United States.[3]

As of October 16, 2011, Christmas in the Aire was the fifth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the Nielsen/SoundScan era of music sales (March 1991 – present), having sold a total of 3,730,000 copies according to SoundScan.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Joy to the World" – 3:36
  2. "Joseph Dear, Oh Joseph Mine" – 3:08
  3. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" – 3:11
  4. "Herbei, oh ihr Gläubigen (Oh Come All Ye Faithful)" – 3:30
  5. "Pat-A-Pan" – 4:48
  6. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" – 3:55
  7. "Angels We Have Heard on High" – 3:53
  8. "Gagliarda" – 3:00
  9. "Los Peces en el Rio" – 3:50
  10. "Christmas Lullaby" – 4:06
  11. "Kling, Glöckchen" – 1:46
  12. "Jingle Bells" – 4:28

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