While over in the UK, punters haven’t been too fussed about Wrapped In Red as a whole – preferring the single Underneath The Tree, which reached an Official Singles Chart high of Number 15 last year and clocking 84 million streams to date. No such messing around with Kelly Clarkson, as When Christmas Comes Around marks her second foray into the festive pop market following 2013’s Wrapped In Red. MORE: New Christmas songs for 2021 - how to they compare to the classics? Kelly Clarkson – When Christmas Comes Around If it follows the form of previous solo albums, it could become his fourth Number 1 following last year’s Music Played By Humans. He’s called on a few friends too, such as Sheridan Smith on the album's big single How Christmas Is Supposed To Be, plus Aled Jones, Puppini Sisters and Sheku Kanneh-Mason on a mix of new songs and old. So to try and make things a bit special, I started writing these songs." Claims Gazza: “(last year) was a really hard Christmas for so many because of the scenario we all found ourselves in. Possibly prompted by the success of Robbie’s 2019 Official Albums Chart Number 1 The Christmas Present, Gary has taken matters into his own hands and assembled The Dream of Christmas in order to cheer everyone up. It’s a bit of a surprise after 30 years into a pop career that Gary has only just got around to making a Christmas album. Here at Official Charts, we’ve rounded up some of the new and new-ish (updated for 2021) entries into the advent event vying to become family favourites. Now, in the last decade, UK acts have been playing catch-up with Robbie Williams, Saint Etienne, Tracey Thorn, honorary Brit Kylie and more entering into the spirit of an album of yuletide bops, and now the schedules from September onwards are increasingly festive. It started the pre-rock era, when Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Jim Reeves were the big hitters, and then through the generations everyone was at it – Elvis Presley, Phil Spector, Dolly Parton, Destiny’s Child, Christina Aguilera onwards.īy comparison, UK acts had stuck primarily to Christmas singles, with only a few such as Cliff Richard or Elaine Paige going down the full-length route. Once upon a time, artists releasing Christmas albums was very much a US thing.
0 kommentar(er)
