Christmas (Mannheim Steamroller album)

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas (also known as Christmas 1984) is the first Christmas album and sixth studio album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The group has released five subsequent Christmas studio albums, most recently Christmasville in October 2008. It was the band's first album to crack the Billboard album chart, peaking at #50.

On June 21, 2004, Mannheim Steamroller Christmas was certified 6× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of six million copies in the United States since its 1984 release, making it one of the best-selling Christmas/holiday albums in the U.S.^[2]

As of October 16, 2011, Mannheim Steamroller Christmas was the seventh 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 3,480,000 copies according to SoundScan.^[3]

Track listing

• Songs are traditional except where noted

1. "Deck the Halls" – 3:43
2. "We Three Kings" (Hopkins) – 3:45
3. "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" – 2:32
4. "Coventry Carol" – 2:38
5. "Good King Wenceslas" – 3:29
6. "Christmas Suite: Wassail, Wassail" – 2:20
7. "Christmas Suite: Carol Of the Birds" (Bas-Quercy) – 2:03
8. "Christmas Suite: I Saw Three Ships" – 1:28
9. "Christmas Suite: "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen" – 1:37
10. "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" – 4:19
11. "Stille Nacht" (Silent Night) (Gruber) – 5:26

Personnel

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