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We’ll be ‘rockin’ around the Christmas tree this year thanks to We The Kings!

The American rock band who hit the music scene back in 2007 with their single, “Check Yes Juliet” has released several albums in the last decade, but now WTK is ready to spread some holiday cheer with their first Christmas record, Season’s Greetings From The Sandbar.

The album will feature two original songs (“There Is a Light”, “One People”) as well as eight holiday classics. The band collaborates with Elena Coats on “Baby It’s Cold Outside”, Anna Maria Island on their rendition of “Silent Night” and indie pop musician, Frankie, lends her vocals for “Jingle Bells”.

In a sea of songs centered around the chilly holiday season on most traditional holiday records, the band wanted to create something that Christmas lovers in warmer climates could relate to.

Pictured: (l-r) Chrissy Teigen, John Legend — (Photo by: F. Scott Schafer/Columbia Records/NBC)

John Legend is following in the festive footsteps of Michael Bublé, Pentatonix and Gwen Stefani …he’s getting his own NBC Christmas special!

The network announced today that the recent EGOT winner and his wife, Chrissy Teigen (model, author of “Cravings by Chrissy Teigen” and co-host of “Lip Sync Battle”) would be getting us into the holiday spirit this season with NBC’s “A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy”.

In the hour-long special, Legend will perform songs from his upcoming Christmas album, “A Legendary Christmas,” as the beloved duo is joined by friends and family, as well as other well-known personalities who will be announced at a later date.

“A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy” airs Wednesday, November 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

 
Stay merry!

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A few weeks ago I told you about John Legend working on an upcoming Christmas album, and today he officially announced it this morning–along with a tour and a sneak peek one of the songs!

The recent EGOT winner (that stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, btw!) took to social media to give us the scoop on his new holiday record, A Legendary Christmas. The video included a behind-the-scenes peek at the album art photoshoot with his family as a snippet of “Bring Me Love”, one of six original tracks on the album plays over the montage.

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Pentatonix has another Christmas album on the way!

In what has become a new tradition, the beloved a capella group (consisting of vocalists Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola and Matt Sallee) announced last week that they’re releasing their fourth holiday album this October entitled, Christmas Is Here!

In addition to the album announcement, PTX also told fans that they would be embarking on a concert tour to support the record. They posted the dates of their Christmas Is Here! Tour on their social accounts and added that the first single off of the record would be a cover of “Making Christmas” from the Tim Burton classic, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.

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Jessie J joins the list of artists giving us all new Christmas music this year!

The British singer is gearing up to release her very first holiday album, This Christmas Day, on October 26th. The album includes the title track original song as well as several classics produced with a legendary team: David Foster, Rodney Jerkins, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

Jessie included “Man with the Bag” on the record, which was previously released in 2015–and she teams up with Boyz II Men on “Winter Wonderland” and Babyface on “The Christmas Song”.

Jessie talked about making This Christmas Day in an official press release, “I had so much fun recording this holiday album! I did it in fourteen days around my Summer tour, flying back and forth to LA from Europe. The chance to work with David Foster, Babyface, Rodney Jerkins, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Boyz II Men was a DREAM COME TRUE. The talent they all have blows my mind.”

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After getting a Christmas in September surprise yesterday with the full line-up of all the Hallmark movies coming this holiday season, LeAnn Rimes decided to drop us goodies to further fuel the hype.

The Grammy award-winning Country singer is making her debut in Hallmark Channel’s upcoming original movie “It’s Christmas, Eve” during the Countdown to Christmas line-up…and she’s releasing a soundtrack to go with it! That’s right, you can now pre-order the “It’s Christmas, Eve” soundtrack where you’ll get instant access to the song, “The Gift Of Your Love” and a limited amount of early pre-orders will receive an autographed copy of the record.

But wait, there’s more…

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Hey, hey–The Monkees are releasing a Christmas album!

Rolling Stone announced today that the iconic music group is set to make their first holiday album, Christmas Party, and it’s set to release on October 12th.

Christmas Party will include new songs written by Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo (“What Would Santa Do”) and Andy Partridge of XTC (“Unwrap You At Christmas”); Scott McCaughey of The Minus 5 and R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wrote the title track–they also play on a cover of Big Star’s “Jesus Christ”. The album is produced by Fountain of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger.

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If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you may have seen when I re-posted Ingrid Michaelson‘s announcement that she would be releasing her first holiday record this year!

The name of the record is Songs of the Season, and it includes covers of holiday classics–including: “White Christmas”, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, “All I Want for Christmas is You” and many more.

The first single “Looks Like a Cold Cold Winter” released today!

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Calling all Diana Ross fans! According to this Facebook post, ‘The Boss’ Ms. Ross is planning to spread some holiday cheer this year buy releasing a special musical package that combines 20 tracks from her two 1994 Christmas albums: “A Very Special Season” and her Hallmark edition, “Making Spirits Bright”. The holiday album, “Wonderful Christmas Time” will also include new liner notes and cover art specially commissioned by her.

You can pre-order “Wonderful Christmas Time” on Amazon and expect a release on October 26th!

Stay merry!

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been eagerly awaiting an announcement of a new Christmas album—so, needless to say, I was pretty excited when I saw that David Archuleta would be releasing a second holiday album, Winter in the Air this fall! His first, Christmas from the Heart, was released in 2009.

The 27-year-old “American Idol” alum shared an exclusive listen of his first single, “Christmas Every Day” on Billboard.com, so make sure you check it out. Other songs to expect on the album include the classics “Mary, Did You Know” and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” as well as the original, “He Is Born”–co-written with producer Cason Cooley.