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''My Christmas'' is the thirteenth
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and first Christmas album released by Italian
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Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli (; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor and multi-instrumentalist. He was born visually impaired, with congenital glaucoma, and at the age of 12, Bocelli became completely blind, following a brain hemorrhage resulting fro ...
. The album is a compilation of seasonal holiday favorites, mainly in English, with a few selections in Italian, German, and French, produced by multiple
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winner
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, containing duets with Mary J. Blige, Natalie Cole,
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,
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, and
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. It also includes "God Bless Us Everyone", the only original song of the album, which Bocelli recorded for the closing of the 2009 film, ''
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''. A Spanish version of the album, called ''Mi Navidad'', was released November 23, 2009, and a PBS Christmas special of the album, filmed in the
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, was released on DVD December 8, 2010, after airing on PBS stations nationwide. 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. As of November 2014, ''My Christmas'' has sold over 3,010,000 copies in the United States, making it one of the best-selling holiday albums in the United States, since
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Release and promotion


2009

The ''
Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli (; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor and multi-instrumentalist. He was born visually impaired, with congenital glaucoma, and at the age of 12, Bocelli became completely blind, following a brain hemorrhage resulting fro ...
&
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Christmas Special'', the PBS special of the album, first aired on
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night in the United States, and continued to be broadcast in the United States and Canada throughout the month of December. In late November, the program was broadcast in Mexico and in the UK; it later aired, December 15 and 25, on Italia 1, in Italy, December 19, on
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and TROS, in Spain and the Netherlands, and
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, on vtm and RTL-TVI, in Belgium and Luxembourg. On November 3, during the World Premiere of
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's ''
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'', in
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, London, following the switching on of the annual
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and
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Christmas lights, Bocelli led the
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, and more than 14,000 people across the capital, as they broke the Official
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for the biggest ever
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, singing " Silent Night". He completed his performance in Leicester Square with, "God Bless Us Everyone", the closing song of the movie, which he provided the vocals for in English, Italian and Spanish. He returned to the United Kingdom, December 16, for an appearance on ''
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'', broadcast live by
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, and on '' The Alan Titchmarsh Show'' which aired December 18, on ITV1. On November 21, a segment of ''Leute Heute'', a German tabloid-program on ZDF, was about ''My Christmas'' and Bocelli's meeting in Rome with
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and 250 other artists, an event which was broadcast live earlier that day in Italy, by Rai Uno. Bocelli was also joined by the
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, in his home in
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, where they sang "Caro Gesù Bambino", a song from ''My Christmas'' which was originally recorded by the choir in 1960. Rai Uno also broadcast the performance later that day, during the Zecchino d'Oro Festival. The following day, Bocelli was among Fabio Fazio's guests, on his popular Italian talk-show, '' Che tempo che fa'', broadcast on Rai Tre. During the program Bocelli talked about his album and performed " The Lord's Prayer", " White Christmas", and " Silent Night". It was also announced that Bocelli will return to the show, December 20, where he will give a live concert of ''My Christmas''. Bocelli also took part in the annual 2009 ''José Carreras Gala'', on December 17, where he sang Adeste Fideles, before singing " White Christmas" with
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for the very first time, which was broadcast live, by
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, in Germany. He then returning to Italy, for a concert in the Upper Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, on December 19, which was broadcast directly after the '' Urbi et Orbi'' blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, December 25, on Rai Uno. In North America, Bocelli gave 6 concerts. On November 28, he performed in the BankAtlantic Center, in Sunrise, Florida. He later performed in the
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, in
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, Canada, in the
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, in
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, in the
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, in
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, (changed from the much larger venue, the
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, due to scheduling conflicts), in the MGM Grand, in
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, and finally in the
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, in
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, 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 ''
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''s week's Hot Tours ranking, behind the
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and
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, who both held over 5 times more concerts worldwide, compared to Bocelli's three in the United States, explaining their better showings. In the United States, Bocelli made a number of high-profile TV appearances. He first performed " White Christmas" at the 83rd annual
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, broadcast live on NBC, November 26. He then performed the song again, November 30, during ''
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'' also live. His appearance on ''
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'' during her ''Holiday Music Extravaganza'', where he sang " What Child Is This", with Mary J. Blige, and later closed the show with Adeste Fideles, was also aired the same day, and was later rebroadcast on December 23. Bocelli also sang "Adeste Fideles" and was interviewed by
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and
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on '' The View'', which aired December 2, on ABC. On December 8, he performed "
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" with
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on NBC's ''
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''. He also performed a number of songs from the album, including " The Christmas Song" with Natalie Cole, during a dinner at
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's
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in Malibu, which was feathered on '' The Dr. Phil Show'', on December 10. Bocelli also performed " White Christmas" and " Silent Night", on '' Larry King Live's'' and '' Fox & Friends''' holiday specials, broadcast December 23 on CNN, and December 19, 24 and 25 on
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. Bocelli's rendition of " Silent Night" was chosen as the
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Pick of the Week, for December 1, 2009.
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also offered ''My Christmas'' for sale, in their stores. In Brasil, following the success of the South American leg of the '' Incanto tour'', were over 100,000 people attended his free concert at the
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's "Parque Indipendencia", earlier in the year, it was announced that Bocelli would hold another Open-Air, entrance free, concert in
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, on December 28, where a crowd of about a million people was expected to attend. However, for financial and political reasons, the concert was later canceled on short notice, along with all the other events scheduled for Christmas in the city.


2010

As part of the 2010 leg of the '' My Christmas Tour'', Bocelli gave two concerts in the two largest indoor arenas of the United Kingdom,
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, in London, and the M.E.N. Arena, in
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, and a concert in the largest indoor arena in Ireland, The O2, in
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, in late November 2010. His sold out concert at the O2 in London, was the most attended show in the venue's history, with 16,500 people attending the event. In early December, Bocelli gave 6 concerts in the United States. He will perform in
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, in New York City, Prudential Center, in
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,
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, in
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,
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, in
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,
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, in Los Angeles, and the MGM Grand's Garden Arena, in the
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. The Toyota Center concert, in Houston, was attended by former president George Bush Sr. and first lady
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. Bocelli also toke part in the '' Christmas in Washington'' special on December 12, in the presence of president
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and the first lady. On December 19, Bocelli gave a concert, conducted by
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, in the
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. The concert was attended by Italy's top officials including Italy's president
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,
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.
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, the
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,
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, the
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and Tarcisio Bertone,
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of the
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.


2011

Bocelli gave 5 concerts in the United States in December 2011, in support of both ''My Christmas'' and his then new live album, '' Concerto: One Night in Central Park''. Bocelli also performed White Christmas in an appearance at ''
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'', airing December 22.


Critical reception

The album received generally positive reviews. Matt Collar of ''
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'' gave the album a positive review and praised it as "not only a warm and inviting holiday album, but also a superb classical crossover entry worthy of Bocelli's discography."


Commercial performance

In the
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, despite being released in early November, ''My Christmas'' was the fifth best-selling album of 2009, and second, only to
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's debut album '' I Dreamed A Dream'', in the lists of best-selling albums released in 2009, best-selling albums during the 2009
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, and best-selling 2009 Internet Albums. It was also the best-selling holiday album of 2009, with just under 2.21 million units sold in only nine weeks, over four times as many as the year's second seasonal seller,
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's '' If on a Winter's Night...'', and nearly as many copies as the rest of the top ten seasonal best-sellers combined. It is only the second Christmas album, in
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history, to wind up in the year-end top five, the other being Josh Groban's '' Noël'', the best-selling album of 2007. By November 2014, ''My Christmas'' had sold 3.01 million copies in the US, making it one of the best-selling holiday album in the United States since
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music sales tracking began in 1991. ''My Christmas'' was also the sixth best-selling album of 2009, fifth best-selling album released in 2009, second best-selling album during the
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, and best-selling
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album, in Canada, with 228,000 units sold in the country, 222,000 of which were physical sales, making it also the sixth best-physical seller of the year. Bocelli was also the sixth and tenth best-selling artist of the year, in the United States and Canada respectively, with 2,668,000 and 264,000 units of his albums sold in both countries, in 2009. ''My Christmas'' sold over 5 million copies worldwide, in 2009 alone, despite being released internationally for a little over a month during the year, making it the 10th best selling album in 2009, worldwide.


United States

''My Christmas'' was listed in the top three on the
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in its first eight weeks on the chart, selling over 100,000 copies on each of those weeks, and spending five of them at the No. 2 position, making it the first album to spend five or more weeks peaking in the runner-up position, since '' Now 8'', in 2001, and the 11th to do so in the last 25 years. It also held the No. 1 position on the US Classical albums chart, for nine consecutive weeks, and on the Holiday albums chart for eight consecutive weeks, slipping to No. 2 on its ninth week of release (the week after Christmas). On December 7, 2009, ''My Christmas'' was certified double platinum by the
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(RIAA) for shipments of more than two million copies in the US. ''My Christmas'' first arrived at No. 3 on the
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, and at No. 1 on both the US
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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. Moreover, at No. 3, it marked Bocelli's highest chart debut in America, since his 2006 album, '' Amore''. However, the album climbed one notch to No. 2, with 136,000 units sold (down a scant 8%) in its second week, and remained at No. 2 the following four weeks, with 185,000 units sold (a gain of 36%) in its third week, 218,000 sold (a gain of 18%) in its fourth, and another 428,000 (up 97%) sold in its fifth week, 20,000 of which were digital copies, making it the top selling album on
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and the No. 1 US Digital Album, of the week. 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. The album then continued to play runner-up to
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's ''
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'', for a third week, with an additional 400,000 units sold (down 7%) in its sixth week. After five weeks stuck at No. 2, ''My Christmas'' slipped one notch to No. 3 with 390,000 units sold (down 3%) in its seventh week, in which the album blew through 1,9 million copies and became Bocelli's third-best seller in America, behind '' Romanza'' (4.2 million) and '' Sogno'' (2.5 million), and his best-seller released in the first decade of the 21st century. Bocelli remained at No. 3 the following week, with an additional 284,000 units sold (down 27%) on the album's eighth week, before slipping thirty-one positions to No. 34, with only 17,000 units sold (down 94%) in its ninth and final sales week of 2009. ''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). The album's total 2010 sales were at 371,000 copies, 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
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's Catalog Albums Chart, in December 2010. The only previous time Bocelli had topped the Catalog Chart was in 2000, over a decade earlier, with his album ''Romanza''. ''My Christmas'' was the second best selling Catalog album of the year, surpassed only by
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's 2008 album, '' 19''."Top Pop Catalog albums: Best of 2011"
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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, 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
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, '' Concerto, One Night in Central Park'' returned to the Top 10, reaching No. 8. 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, and giving Bocelli a second week with 2 albums in the Top 20, as ''Concerto'' also rose to No. 6, with 79,000 copies sold. 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. The following week, the Christmas album dropped to No. 36, slipping to No. 2 on the Catalog chart after spending 3 straight week a top the chart, while the live album dropped to No. 13. ''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. The album was also 9th on the Billboard Year-End top-selling Catalog album chart,"Top Pop Catalog albums: Best of 2012"
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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. In November 2012, ''My Christmas'' reentered the
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, reaching No. 2 on the Catalog Albums Chart, second only to
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's 2011 Christmas album, on its second week of the season. For the week ending December 2, the album jumped 43 positions to No. 36, with nearly 20,000 copies sold on its 31st week on the chart, also reaching No. 3 on the Catalog albums chart, and reentering the Top 10 of the Holiday albums chart. The following week, the album climbed another spot on both the Billboard 200 and Holiday albums charts, reaching No. 35, and No. 9, respectively, its peak positions of the season on both charts. It also spent another week at No. 3 on the Catalog albums Chart. ''My Christmas'' sold a total of 123,000 copies in 2012, placing it in the top 10 of the Top selling seasonal albums of the year, at No. 10, for the fourth consecutive year, dropping to fourth among Catalog Holiday albums after being first the two previous years.


Canada

''My Christmas'' was listed in the top three of the
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for six consecutive weeks, and was No. 2 in four of those weeks. It debuted at No. 15 on the chart, and climbed to No. 8 in its second week on the chart. On its third week however, with an additional 16,000 units sold, it shot up six positions to No. 2, marking Bocelli's highest peak positioning in Canada since '' Sogno'' topped the Canadian Albums chart, on its debut week a decade earlier, in 1999. On its fourth week, the album slipped one notch to No. 3, and stayed there, with another 42,000 units sold, on its fifth week. The following week, the album was back on the No. 2 spot on the chart, and stayed there the following 2 weeks, with an additional 53,000 units sold on its seventh week of release, and around 30,000 on its eighth. In its ninth week, the last sales week of 2009, the album slipped twenty positions to No. 22 on the chart, but remained No. 1 on the ''Canadian classical albums chart'', a position it held in all its nine weeks, in 2009.


Italy

''My Christmas'' spent a total of 3 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Italian FIMI Albums Chart, debuting at No. 7, with just under 10,000 copies sold in its first week of release, and climbing, the following week, to No. 3 with around 16,000 sold in its second. In its third week, the album climbed another notch to No. 2, with an additional 28,000 copies, before reaching the No. 1 spot, with 72,000 units sold in its fourth week, where it remained the following 2 week, with 92,000 units sold in its fifth week, and 23,000 units sold in its sixth week of release.


Hungary and Poland

''My Christmas'' also topped the
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, achieving triple platinum status, and becoming the second best selling album of 2009 in the country. The album also topped the
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, for 3 consecutive weeks in 2009. In December 2011, exactly two years later, ''My Christmas'' reentered the Polish album chart at No. 2, and went on to top it the following week, giving it a total of four non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the chart.


United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, ''My Christmas'' debuted at No. 18, with over 41,000 units sold on its first week of release, then slipped to No. 24, on its second, and stayed there on its third, before slipping one notch to No. 25 on its fourth week, with a three-week total exceeding 100,000 copies.


Mi Navidad chart performance

''Mi Navidad'', the Spanish version of the album, arrived at No. 180 on the
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, selling just under 7,000 copies on its first week, and peaked at No.1 on both the US Latin Albums and the US Latin Pop Albums charts, and at No. 3, on the US
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chart, at which time Bocelli held the No. 1 and No. 3 spots simultaneously on the chart, with the two versions of the album, for 4 consecutive weeks. ''Mi Navidad'' shipped 50,000 units in 2009 in the United States, and was certified
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by the RIAA.


Singles


"White Christmas"

" White Christmas" was recorded by Bocelli for the album. The song debuted at No. 7 on the Hungarian Singles Chart.


"What Child is This"

Bocelli covered "
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" 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. 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 ''
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'', which aired November 30, 2009. "What Child is This" entered the US Hot Digital Songs chart on December 9, 2009, at number 63.


Track listing


Personnel

Unless otherwise indicated, credits are adapted from liner notes *
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- vocals (tracks 1, 4, 11-14, lead on 2-3, 5-10, 15), melodica (3), flute solo (8, 14) *Janet Adderly - kids choir conductor (track 3) *The Adderly School Kids Choir - background vocals (track 3) *
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- Muppets group member voiced by
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Conradt, Stacy. "11 People Who Bring the Muppets to Life". Mental Floss. 29 April 2013. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/50164/11-people-who-bring-muppets-life (track 9) *
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- orchestral recording engineer (tracks 1-6, 8-14) *Tom Bender - assistant audio mixing (track 15) * Mary J. Blige - lead vocals (track 6) *Courtney Blooding - production coordinator (All tracks), background vocals (tracks 6, 8, 10) *Edie Lehmann Boddicker - choir contractor (track 2) * Daniele Bonaviri - guitar solo (track 6) * Brian Bromberg - bass played by (track 4) *Valerio Calisse - choir conductor (track 7), additional recording engineer (1-6, 8-14) *Scott Campbell - recording engineer (track 15) *Peter Cobbin - choir recording engineer (track 15) *
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- drums (tracks 4, 11) * Natalie Cole - vocals (track 4) *Devilli - Italian Lyrics written by (track 1) * Terry Edwards - London choir master (track 15) *
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- musical arrangement, orchestral arrangement (tracks 2, 5-6, 8-10), keyboards (1, 4, 6, 8, 10-11, 14), piano (5, 12-13), organ played by (2, 5) *
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- musical arrangement (tracks 8, 10) *Jordan D. Foster - musical arrangement (tracks 8-9) *
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- musical arrangement (tracks 2, 8) * Fozzie Bear - Muppets group member voiced by
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(track 9) *
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- Muppets group member voiced by Dave Goelz (track 9) *Mark Graham - LA choir master (track 15) *Isobel Griffiths - orchestra contractor (All tracks) *Pierpaolo Guerrini - additional recording engineer (tracks 1-6, 8-14) *
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- audio mixing (track 15) *Roy Hendricks - Mary J. Blige's vocal recording engineer (track 6) *
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- Muppets group member voiced by Steve Whitmire (track 9) *
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- vocals (track 11) *Chris Owens - assistant recording engineer (tracks 1-6, 8-14) * Miss Piggy - Muppets group member voiced by Eric Jacobson (track 9) *
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- choir vocal performers (track 5) *
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- vocals (track 9) * Maurice Murphy - trumpet solo (track 8) *
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- background vocals (track 6) *Fabrizio Palma - background vocals (track 7) * Dean Parks - guitar (tracks 4, 8, 11), rhythm guitar (6) * Pepe the King Prawn - Muppets group member voiced by Bill Barretta(track 9) *Paul Pritchard - assistant recording engineer (tracks 1-6, 8-14) *Roman Academy Choir - background vocals (track 7) * William Ross - orchestral arrangements (All tracks), musical arrangement (track 12) *Jochem Van Der Saag - music programming, sound designer (All tracks), musical arrangement (track 12), recording engineer (1-6, 8-14), audio mixing (1-14) *Salvation Army Boys Choir - background vocals (tracks 8, 10) * Dennis S. Sands - orchestral recording engineer (track 15) *Renato Serio - musical arrangement (track 7) *Luciano Torani - recording engineer (track 7) *Jorge Vivo - recording engineer (tracks 1-6, 8-14) *Lucy Whalley - orchestra contractor (All tracks) *
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- choir conductor, choir vocal arrangements (track 5)


Charts and certifications


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Sales and certifications

;''My Christmas''


PBS special

''My Christmas'' was also a major component of a PBS ''
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'' special, filmed September 15, 2009, at the
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in Los Angeles, airing in the New York City/ tri-state viewing area on
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's Great Performances series on
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night, November 26, with additional broadcasts, which continued throughout December, on PBS stations nationwide, featuring Bocelli and Foster with additional guests including Natalie Cole, Mary J. Blige,
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,
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.Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas Preview of the Concert
''
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'' on PBS.com, Nov 17, 2009 article.
The DVD of the full program was internationally released December 8, 2009.


Deluxe CD/DVD edition

A Deluxe edition that features the standard CD and a bonus DVD containing highlights from the PBS ''
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'' was released on November 23, 2009. Another Deluxe edition, containing the same DVD and, ''Mi Navidad'', the Spanish version of the album, was released December 1, 2009.


Release history

The USA version of the album was released November 3, 2009, by
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in North America, whereas the International version, containing an extra track, was released November 20, by
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in Italy, and by
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in the rest of the world, except for the UK and Ireland, where it was released November 30, by
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. The CD/DVD package was released Internationally November 23, 2009, except for the UK and Ireland, where it was released November 30, the same day as the album. ''Mi Navidad'', the Spanish version of the album, was released Internationally, by
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, also on November 23, 2009. Its CD/DVD package was released by the same label, on December 1.


See also

* Best-selling albums in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began * Best-selling Christmas/holiday albums in the United States * List of ''Billboard'' Top Holiday Albums number ones of the 2000s * List of ''Billboard'' Top Holiday Albums number ones of the 2010s * List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2009 * List of number-one Billboard Latin Pop Albums of 2009 *
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*
My Christmas Special ''The Andrea Bocelli & David Foster Christmas Special'', is the PBS Great Performances Christmas special of Andrea Bocelli's first ever Holiday album, ''My Christmas'', produced by multiple Grammy Award winner David Foster. Released on December 8 ...
, the PBS concert of the album.


References

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