A Family Christmas

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a b "American album certifications – Andrea Bocelli – My Christmas". Recording Industry Association of America.

The album is a compilation of seasonal holiday favorites, mainly in English, with a few selections in Italian, German, and French, produced by multiple Grammy Award winner David Foster, containing duets with Mary J. Blige, Natalie Cole, Reba McEntire, Katherine Jenkins, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the Muppets. [3] It also includes "God Bless Us Everyone", the only original song of the album, which Bocelli recorded for the closing of the 2009 film, A Christmas Carol. [4] [5] In North America, Bocelli gave 6 concerts. On November 28, he performed in the BankAtlantic Center, in Sunrise, Florida. He later performed in the Air Canada Centre, in Toronto, Canada, in the Izod Center, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the William Saroyan Theatre, in Fresno, California, (changed from the much larger venue, the Save Mart Center, due to scheduling conflicts), in the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, and finally in the Honda Center, in Anaheim, California, on December 3, 5, 8, 12, and 13. His last three arena concerts alone grossed a total of over 5.6 million dollars, placing him third on Billboard 's week's Hot Tours ranking, behind the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Il Divo, who both held over 5 times more concerts worldwide, compared to Bocelli's three in the United States, explaining their better showings. [11] Bocelli performed the song with Blige for his PBS My Christmas Special, which aired on PBS stations throughout the month of December. He later performed the song with Blige on the Holiday Music Extravaganza edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which aired November 30, 2009. [113] In 1999, his nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards marked the first time a classical artist had been nominated in the category, since Leontyne Price, in 1961. [5] [10] The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film, The Quest for Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. [5] [10] With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the No. 1, 2 and 3 positions on the US Classical albums chart. [5] [10] The next three-and-a-half years followed with Bocelli holding permanent residency at the No. 1 spot. [10] Six of his albums have since reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, [11] and a record-setting 7, have topped the Classical albums charts, in the United States. [12]With over 2.2 million copies sold in the last two months of 2009 in the United States alone, the album was the best-selling holiday album of the year, and one of the best-selling albums of 2009, with worldwide sales exceeding 5 million copies. [7] [8] [9] The album yet again reentered the chart in mid November 2011. For the week ending December 4, the album jumped 33 positions to No. 17, [55] in its 24th week on the chart, with 35,000 copies sold, topping the Catalog Albums Chart for the second straight year, and for a fifth week since its release. Bocelli was the only artist with two albums in the top 20 during that week, as his 2011 live album, Concerto, One Night in Central Park returned to the Top 10, reaching No. 8. [56] The following week, the album jumped one spot to No. 16, the highest position achieved by a catalog album that season, with 49,000 copies sold, spending a sixth non-consecutive week a top the Catalog Chart, [57] and giving Bocelli a second week with 2 albums in the Top 20, [58] as Concerto also rose to No. 6, with 79,000 copies sold. [59] Bocelli had yet another week with 2 albums in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 chart, as My Christmas slipped only 3 positions to No. 19 with 48,000 copies sold, remaining on top of the Catalog Chart, while Concerto sold 76,000 more copies, sliding just two positions to No. 8 on the chart. [60] The following week, the Christmas album dropped to No. 36, [61] slipping to No. 2 on the Catalog chart after spending 3 straight week a top the chart, [62] while the live album dropped to No. 13. [63] My Christmas sold a total of 247,000 copies in 2011, placing it in the top 10 of the Top selling seasonal albums of the year, at No. 6, for the third consecutive year, and making it the best selling Catalog Holiday album for the second year. [28] The album was also 9th on the Billboard Year-End top-selling Catalog album chart, [64] slipping from being second the previous year. In the meantime Bocelli's other album Concerto sold 460,000 copies in its 6 weeks of release during the year, making it the 8th top selling albums during the 2011 Holiday Season. [28] My Christmas was listed in the top three of the Canadian Albums Chart for six consecutive weeks, and was No. 2 in four of those weeks.

Classical albums [ edit ] List of classical albums, with selected details, chart positions, sales, and certifications denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart or the peak is unavailable. Danish album certifications – Andrea Bocelli – My Christmas". IFPI Danmark . Retrieved 8 January 2019. Corriere della Sera, ed. (19 January 2010). "Tiziano Ferro, il cd più venduto del 2009 (Italian)" . Retrieved 12 August 2010. Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli got the whole family together for a new, deluxe edition of their first album together, “A Family Christmas.” Andrea, his 26-year-old son Matteo and his 11-year-old daughter Virginia teamed up for the release, adding four new recordings to the collection: “Let It Snow,” “Silver Bells,” “E’ Natale!” and “Winter Wonderland.” If you can listen to the famed tenor harmonize with his children and not shed a tear, you're a stronger person than most.a b "Italian FIMI Albums Chart, Week 50/2009". FIMI.com. Archived from the original on 2013-07-02 . Retrieved 2009-12-30.

My Christmas re-entered the Billboard 200 chart in late November 2010, peaking at No. 11 in mid-December and selling over 70,000 units that week (fewer than 100 copies away from re-entering the top 10). [48] The album's total 2010 sales were at 371,000 copies, [27] making My Christmas the only catalog album among the five best-selling holiday albums of 2010, after topping the list the previous year, as well as Bocelli's second-best selling album ever in the U.S., surpassing his 1999 album Sogno, and trailing only his 1997 breakthrough album Romanza, with just under 2.6 million copies sold in the country in its two years of release. The album also spent four consecutive weeks at No. 1, on Billboard's Catalog Albums Chart, in December 2010. [49] [50] [51] [52] The only previous time Bocelli had topped the Catalog Chart was in 2000, over a decade earlier, with his album Romanza. [53] My Christmas was the second best selling Catalog album of the year, surpassed only by Adele's 2008 album, 19. [54]

a b c "The Nielsen Company & Billboard's 2011 Music Industry Report". Businesswire.com, Jan 5, 2012 article . Retrieved 2012-01-05. My Christmas first arrived at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, and at No. 1 on both the US Classical albums and holiday albums charts, with 149,000 copies sold on its first week, marking Bocelli's fifth top 10 effort and a record-setting seventh No. 1 peaking, on the Billboard 200 chart and Classical albums chart, respectively. It also marked, at the time, Bocelli's best sales week since Cieli di Toscana blew through 177,000 over Christmas week of 2001, and his second-best debut sales week, trailing only Bocelli's 1999 album Sogno, which pulled in a slightly better first-week number. [35] [36] Moreover, at No. 3, it marked Bocelli's highest chart debut in America, since his 2006 album, Amore. [36] However, the album climbed one notch to No. 2, with 136,000 units sold (down a scant 8%) in its second week, [37] and remained at No. 2 the following four weeks, with 185,000 units sold (a gain of 36%) in its third week, [38] 218,000 sold (a gain of 18%) in its fourth, [39] and another 428,000 (up 97%) sold in its fifth week, [40] 20,000 of which were digital copies, making it the top selling album on iTunes and the No. 1 US Digital Album, of the week. [41] [42] [43] Its fifth week marked Bocelli's best sales week in America to date, in which My Christmas surpassed a million in total (1,12 million), and became his best-selling album in the States, since the release of Amore in 2006 (1,66 million), as well as his highest-charting album in the country. [40] The album then continued to play runner-up to Susan Boyle's Dream, for a third week, with an additional 400,000 units sold (down 7%) in its sixth week. [44] Bocelli covered " What Child Is This?" for the album, singing the carol with American R&B singer Mary J. Blige. The single was released in North America on November 3, 2009, the same release date as the album. In early December, Bocelli gave 6 concerts in the United States. He will perform in Madison Square Garden, in New York City, Prudential Center, in Newark, New Jersey, TD Garden, in Boston, Toyota Center, in Houston, Staples Center, in Los Angeles, and the MGM Grand's Garden Arena, in the Las Vegas Strip. [19] The Toyota Center concert, in Houston, was attended by former president George Bush Sr. and first lady Barbara Bush. a b c d e "The Nielsen Company 2009 Year-End Music Industry Report". Businesswire.com, Jan 7, 2010 article . Retrieved 2010-01-07.