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Christmas | ||||
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Released | September 1985 | |||
Recorded | 1982 (Track 10), 1985 (Other Tracks) | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 37:09 | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Producer | Harold Shedd and Alabama | |||
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Singles from Alabama Christmas | ||||
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Christmas is the first Christmas album by country band Alabama. The album was released on RCA Nashville in 1985. It was certified double platinum for shipment of 2 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 11, 1996. [2] Since 1991 when SoundScan started to collate sales data, 515,300 copies have been sold in the United States. [3]
The album is Alabama's first Christmas album and includes one of their more popular holiday songs, 1982's " Christmas in Dixie," which charted on two of Billboard magazine's music popularity charts in six different calendar years. [4] "Christmas in Dixie" peaked at No. 35 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in January 1983, and also reached No. 3 on Billboard's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Singles chart in December 1983. [4]
Mark Herndon, Alabama's drummer, does not play on this album.
Strings performed by the "A" Strings, arranged by Bergen White.
Chart (1985) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 8 |
U.S. Billboard 200 | 75 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States ( RIAA) [2] | 2× Platinum | 2,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |