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For what is quite possibly one of the most exciting holiday announcements, so far… CHER IS RELEASING HER FIRST CHRISTMAS ALBUM!  Can you hear our screams of joy through the screen?

We are big fans of Cher in the Lolly Christmas household, so you can best believe we’re filled with yuletide cheer due to this musical news from the “Goddess of Pop.”

Simply titled Christmas, Cher’s new holiday album is expected to feature additional big names such as Darlene Love, Michael Bublé, Tyga, Cyndi Lauper, and Stevie Wonder.  Although a tracklisting has not been released yet, the album is said to include traditional holiday favorites as well as a brand new track called “DJ Play a Christmas Song.”

Christmas by Cher will be release on October 20th as both a CD and vinyl edition. You can collect alternate covers—including 4 different Target exclusive covers and an Amazon exclusive cover!

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Christmas is extra merry for members of the BTS ARMY fandom this year!  Kim Taehyung, also known as V, a member of the massively successful South Korean music group, BTS, has released a special holiday gift—a cover of the classic Perry Como song, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,“ which is also famously sung by Bing Crosby.

V’s rendition is available for free on Soundcloud, and you can also watch an accompanying YouTube video of him performing it in-studio (see video below).

This is not the first time the soulful singer has released music just in time for the holidays. Last year, V released “Christmas Tree” as an OST for the Korean drama Our Beloved Summer, and the year prior he dropped the track “Snow Flower” featuring Peakboy.

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Alicia Keys has finally released a Christmas album, and we’re so excited about it! There should be no doubt that the singer and songwriter is a musical prodigy, and her soulful R&B songs have earned her fifteen-time Grammy Awards, but it has been a shock that we have never gotten a Christmas album over her two decade career—well, now we have!

For her first holiday collection, “Santa Baby,“ Keys has recorded reimagined classics like, of course, “Santa Baby,” “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” and the Peanuts favorite “Christmas Time Is Here”—plus a few originals, including “December Back 2 June,” “You Don’t Have To Be Alone,” “Old Memories On Christmas,” and “Not Even The King,” which was originally included on her 2012 album, “Girl On Fire.”

“I picked each song based on my all-time favorites and I wrote the new ones based on real holiday emotions and stories,” said Keys on her Instagram story.

Check out which 11-tracks are included on “Santa Baby”and order your copy today!

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Switchfoot has released their very first Christmas LP, and they will be hitting the road to celebrate the season with a holiday concert tour.

Jon Foreman, lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning band, was struck with the idea of writing a holiday album after seeking a Christmas album that reflected his own spirit of the season, and how he felt during the time of the year—it’s not always warm and cozy, but sometimes filled with heartache.

“For some of us, Christmas reminds us of loved ones we’ve lost, or complicated relationships with friends or family. For others of us, we question the capitalist materialism that saturates the holidays. For others, it’s a sacred time of giving, celebrating the divine gift of sacrificial love. I wanted a vinyl album that would accompany a Christmas gathering: the fires lit, the cider is warm, the friends and family are over. And the songs accompany the laughter and conversation. And then when everyone’s left, and I’m doing the dishes, I wanted an album with layers of lyrical depth and introspective leverage that would give me something to reflect upon after the party ends,” Foreman shared in an official press release.

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In what basically feels like a holiday tradition at this point, PENTATONIX is releasing a brand new Christmas album this year! The a capella super group is gearing up to launch “Holidays Around the World,“ their sixth festive album that is set to release tomorrow, October 28th.

One might think the talented crew is running out of holiday classics, but they’ve found a beautiful way to honor the spirit of the season… they went global. PTX (as they’re called by their dedicated fans) members Kirstin Maldonado, Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kevin Olusola and Matt Sallee collaborated with talented artists from around the world, including Congolese gospel singer Grace Lokwa, Chinese pianist Lang Lang, Lebanese singer Hiba Tawaji, Latin band La Santa Cecilia, Indian vocalist Shreya Ghoshal, Japanese singers HIKAKIN & SEIKIN, British a cappella group The King’s Singers and Filipino singer Lea Salonga—a Broadway powerhouse who is also known for being the singing voice of Disney Princesses Jasmine and Mulan.

Andrea, Matteo and Virginia with Andrea’s wife Veronica and son Amos. (Photo: Decca Records)

Andrea Bocelli is another music icon who is teaming up with his very own family for a special holiday album! Andrea released “A Family Christmas” today, a collection of holiday songs performed with two of his three children, Matteo and Virginia Bocelli.

The album was produced by composer and multi-Grammy and Academy Award nominee Stephan Moccio and set to stunning new arrangements. The 13-track Christmas collective features traditional favorites, such as “Do You Hear What I Hear?,” “The First Noël,” “Joy To The World,” “Buon Natale,” “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”—the lead single is “The Greatest Gift”, which you can watch the music video for below.

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If you loved Norah Jones’ first Christmas album, “I Dream of Christmas,“ which released last year—you’ll be happy to know that the singer re-released it for the new holiday season with a special deluxe 2-disc edition!

The original 13-track collective of festive tunes now has 11 additional songs, including a “I Dream of Christmas” title track and five live versions of other songs that Norah performed at the Empire State Building in New York City.

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Dolly Parton has re-released her #1 best-selling 2020 holiday album, “A Holly Dolly Christmas,“ as an ultimate deluxe expansion that includes 8 additional tracks—including a duet of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with Rod Stewart from his Grammy Award-winning 2004 album, “Stardust…the Great American Songbook, Volume III.”

The album, which is available in CD, vinyl and digital formats, also features the unreleased tracks, “A Smoky Mountain Christmas,” “(I’d Like To Spend) Christmas With Santa,” and “Wrapped Up In You” all from Dolly’s 1986 holiday film, A Smoky Mountain Christmas.

“Three Candles” and “The Wish Book” – originally released as digital-only bonus tracks – will make their CD and LP debuts on the Ultimate Deluxe Edition. Lastly, the album features the digital debut for “Something Bigger Than Me” and “Silent Night,” songs that Dolly contributed to the 1997 animated holiday film, Anabelle’s Wish.

This is a true collector’s edition of a Christmas album for every Dolly fan! Check out the full tracklisting below and order your copy at Amazon, or listen to the album on streaming platforms.

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Grammy Award winning music icon, Gloria Estefan, is releasing new Christmas music this holiday season and joining forces with her daughter, Emily Estefan, and her grandson, Sasha Estefan-Coppola, on an album. The three will release “Estefan Family Christmas,“ on October 13th; her first and only Christmas album, “Christmas Through Your Eyes,” was released nearly 30 years ago, so this is a highly-anticipated holiday release.

This is such a special project to do with your multi-generational family, and a wonderful Christmas memory their family can treasure while also creating something timeless for families all over the world to listen to throughout the holiday season. There are even appearances from other family members—including Gloria’s husband, Grammy Award winner Emilio Estefan, Jr.—on songs such as “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” and “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” as Sasha’s parents Nayib Estefan and Lara Estefan Coppola are featured.

There are 17 classic and original songs featured on the album, and they’re sung in both English and Spanish. You can check out the tracklisting below and pre-order your copy!

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Chris Isaak announced last month that he would be releasing a brand new Christmas album this year called “Everybody Knows It’s Christmas,“ featuring the lead single “Almost Christmas”.  This will be the second Christmas album by the GRAMMY-nominated singer and actor, who is known for his smoldering vocals; he previously released the chart-topper, simply titled “Christmas”, back in 2004.

“The holidays are such a special time for me and the pandemic left us all so isolated. I felt like a holiday album was a great opportunity to bring people together this year. I had so much fun making this album and designing the cover,” he said in an official statement. “It was a joy to work with Dave Cobb and we worked in his iconic RCA studio where John Prine had placed a year-round Christmas tree to keep the holidays alive. I loved that idea so I’m going to keep that spirit alive.”