This Christmas, Aretha

This Christmas is the 2008 Christmas album by Aretha Franklin. Initially a Borders exclusive, it was reissued in 2009 on DMI Records.

It is her first ever Christmas album. Having failed to launch her own Detroit-based label, Aretha Records, she chose to release this album on DMI Records. It peaked at #102 on the Billboard album chart and has reportedly sold close to 100,000 copies to date.

Track listing

1. "Angels We Have Heard on High" (James Chadwick) (5:26)
2. "This Christmas (with Edward Franklin)" (Donny Hathaway & Nadine McKinnor) (5:23)
3. "My Grown-Up Christmas List" (David Foster & Linda Thompson Jenner) (5:15)
4. "The Lord Will Make A Way" (Traditional, Arranged by Aretha Franklin) (5:43)
5. "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber & Josef Mohr) (5:06)
6. "Ave Maria" (Johann Sebastian Bach & Charles Gounod) (4:57)
7. "Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without The One You Love)" (Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff) (3:53)
8. "14 Angels" (Engelbert Humperdinck, Arranged by Aretha Franklin) (2:08)
9. "One Night With The King" (Jeannie Tenney) (6:09)
10. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Charles Wesley & Felix Mendelssohn) (5:24)
11. "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" (Clement C. Moore; Adaptation by Aretha Franklin) (1:52)