Christmas Extraordinaire Explained

Christmas Extraordinaire
Type:studio
Artist:Mannheim Steamroller
Cover:ChristmasExtraordinaire.jpg
Released:October 30, 2001
Recorded:2001
Genre:Christmas
Length:45:20
Label:American Gramaphone
Producer:Chip Davis
Prev Title:Fresh Aire 8
Prev Year:2000
Next Title:American Spirit
Next Year:2003

Christmas Extraordinaire is Mannheim Steamroller's sixth Christmas album overall and the group's fourth Christmas studio album. The album was originally released in 2001. The song "O Tannenbaum" features a lead vocal by Johnny Mathis.

Five of the album's tracks were included in the group's 2004 compilation Christmas Celebration.

On June 21, 2004, Christmas Extraordinaire was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of three million copies in the United States.[1]

As of November 2014, Christmas Extraordinaire is the fourteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. in the Nielsen SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,920,000 copies according to SoundScan.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: RIAA Searchable Database. https://archive.today/20141203020849/http://riaa.org/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=Christmas_Extraordinaire&artist=Mannheim_Steamroller&format=ALBUM&category=GROUP&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&awardDescription=Multi_Platinum&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=12&startYear=1958&endYear=2014&sort=Artist&perPage=25. dead. 2014-12-03. Recording Industry Association of America. 2014-12-02.
  2. Web site: The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays . . . December 1, 2014 . December 1, 2014.