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Ranking the all-time greatest and hottest new Christmas songs and albums for your yuletide singalongs and party playlists.

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This Is Christmas

This Is Christmas is the tenth studio album and first Christmas album by American singer Luther Vandross released by Epic Records on October 18, 1995. The album received mixed to negative reviews from music critics. Sony Music Special Products reissued the album on January 15, 2002 as Home for Christmas with an altered order of tracks, and again in October 2012 as part of The Classic Christmas Album line with additional tracks. The two editions of the album has sold a combined total of 1,147,000 copies as of December 2012. This is Christmas lent its name to a syndicated television special Vandross hosted which aired in November and December 1995, and featured songs from this album, as well as performances by his special guests.

One Wish: The Holiday Album

One Wish: The Holiday Album is the only Christmas album by American singer Whitney Houston, released in November 2003. The album featured the single "One Wish", which reached the top twenty on Billboard '​s U.S. Adult Contemporary chart. The album spent six weeks on the Billboard 200 and as of January 2013 it had sold over 546,000 copies to date. The album also features a duet with Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina on "The Little Drummer Boy." The album also re-uses "Joy to the World" and "Who Would Imagine a King" from 1996's The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album.

The Temptations Christmas Card

The Temptations Christmas Card is a 1970 Christmas album by The Temptations for the Gordy label. The group's first holiday release, it features each Temptation leading on various popular Christmas standards and original Christmas songs.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album and the fourth studio album by American singer Mariah Carey. Released by Columbia Records on November 7, 1994, the album features cover versions of popular Christmas tunes and original material. Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote all of the original tracks, as well as producing Carey's interpretations of the covered material. The album contains a contemporary holiday theme, and featured "authentic, gospel flavored background vocals".
The album features instrumentation from keyboards, bass guitars, drums, percussion and heavy backing vocals. After its release, the album received generally positive reviews and became a worldwide success. Critics praised Carey's uplifting and flavored vocals, as well as her skilled songwriting alongside Afanasieff. Singles were released from the album, being sent to different radio stations for promotional purposes.
Merry Christmas was released at the peak of the initial stretch of Carey's career, between Music Box and Daydream. The album produced the worldwide classic single, "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which became the best-selling holiday ringtone in the US.

The Magic of Christmas

The Magic of Christmas is a 1960 album by Nat King Cole, arranged by Ralph Carmichael.
This was Cole's only full album of Christmas songs, although he had recorded several holiday singles earlier in his career. One of these, 1946's "The Christmas Song", was re-recorded for the 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story, and in 1963 The Magic of Christmas was re-issued with that recording added to the track list in place of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and the album given new cover art and retitled The Christmas Song.
It is the best-selling Christmas album released in the 1960s, and was certified by RIAA for shipments of 6 million copies in the US.

Snowflakes

Snowflakes is the first Christmas album by American R&B singer–songwriter Toni Braxton, released in the United States on October 23, 2001 by Arista Records. Along with the traditional Christmas songs "The Christmas Song" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and a cover of Vince Guaraldi's 1962 song "Christmas Time Is Here", the album contains original songs which focus not only on Christmas, but also on love. Braxton was newly married and expecting her first child while making the album. In the US the album sold 538,000 copies as of February 2012.

Nothing goes better with hot chocolate&nbsp;in the wintertime than the best R&amp;B Christmas albums of all-time.&nbsp;Featuring great&nbsp;Christmas songs ...