| O Holy Night | ||||
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| EP by Jackie Evancho | ||||
| Released | November 16, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2010 | |||
| Genre | Classical, holiday | |||
| Label | Syco | |||
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O Holy Night is the official debut Christmas EP by American child singer, Jackie Evancho, who was ten years old when the album was released. The album was released in 2010, only months after Evancho rose to prominence as a finalist on the reality TV show America's Got Talent. It was certified platinum in the U.S. and Canada.
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The album includes a two-disc set: a CD with four recorded tracks and a DVD with 12 minutes of footage of Evancho's performances and America's Got Talent appearances. It was released on November 16, 2010 and reached rank #1 on Amazon's bestsellers in music during pre-orders on October 19, 2010.[1] Evancho released a music video of her singing "Silent Night".[2]
O Holy Night debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 with 239,000 copies sold in its first week and sold 142,000 copies in its second week. It remained in the top five for six weeks.[3][4] This made Evancho the top-selling debut artist for 2010, and the youngest solo artist to debut in the top 10.[5] The album also debuted at #1 on the Classical Albums Chart[6] and #2 on the Billboard Holiday Albums chart.[7] As of December 10, 2010, the album was certified platinum by the RIAA with sales in excess of a million copies in the US,[8] making Evancho the youngest female solo artist to go platinum. In Canada, it debuted at #1 on the Canadian Classical Albums Chart.[9] In January 2011, after the Christmas season, sales of the album fell, and it left the Billboard charts.[10]
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By May 2011, the album had sold over 1,000,000 copies in the US.[12] In October 2011, with the approach of Christmas, the album's sales increased; it re-entered the Billboard Holiday Albums chart at #10, and in November 2011 it re-entered the Billboard 200 chart, reaching #60, and moved up to #8 on both the Billboard Catalogue Albums chart and Holiday Albums chart.[13][14]
In its 2011 year-end charts, Billboard ranked O Holy Night at the top of its Classical Albums chart for the year.[15] It also ranked the album as the #15 best selling album of 2011 in the U.S.[16] and as the #31 Canadian Album of 2011.[17]
Evancho's first stop in promoting the album was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on September 23, 2010, where she gave her first late-night talk show interview with Jay Leno.[18] She appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on October 19, 2010, the day of the EP's release, along with singers Susan Boyle and Debby Boone. She sang one of the songs from the album, "Pie Jesu", during the show.[19] Among several other talk shows and QVC appearances, Evancho performed on The Today Show on November 9, 2010,[20] The View on November 15, 2010[21] and Martha Stewart Living on November 30, 2010,[22] each of which appearances also featured interviews.[23]
Evancho also performed the title song from the album in the My Macy's Holiday Parade presented by WPXI in Pittsburgh on November 27, 2010.[19][24] On November 30, 2010, Evancho sang "O Holy Night" and, together with Katherine Jenkins, "Silent Night", on NBC's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting special, "Christmas in Rockefeller Center".[25] Such a duet had been rumoured since Piers Morgan commented on the similar appearance of these two singers.[26] On December 9, 2010, Evancho performed at the National Christmas Tree lighting event in Washington, D.C., singing "O Holy Night", with President Obama and his family present.[27] She performed "Pie Jesu" on the 27th annual Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade, which aired on ABC television on December 25, 2010.[28] In January 2011, she performed Pie Jesu at the Beverly Hills Chefs for Seals event in support of efforts to end the annual Canadian seal hunt.[29] Evancho sang Pie Jesu during Muhammad Ali's "Celebrity Fight Night" charity event in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 19, 2011.[30]
| Chart (2011)[31] | Peak position |
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| Canadian Albums Chart | 9 |
| US Billboard 200 | 2 |
| US Billboard Top Classical Albums | 1 |
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