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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox album Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2 is the tenth soundtrack album by the cast of the American musical television series Glee, released by Columbia Records on November 11, 2011.[1]

Background

The album features twelve Christmas tunes: ten covers and two original songs. The original songs are both written by Adam Anders, Peer Åström and Shelly Peiken: "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" and "Christmas Eve with You".[2] In addition to featuring twelve of the starring characters from the television show's third season (only Dianna Agron, Jane Lynch and Harry Shum Jr. are not listed), all four of the finalists from The Glee Project are featured: Damian McGinty solos on "Blue Christmas", Samuel Larsen is featured with Cory Monteith and Mark Salling on "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", and runners-up Lindsay Pearce and Alex Newell duet on "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at number six, selling 71,000 copies in its first week.[3]

Reception

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Heather Phares of AllMusic gave the album a rating of three-and-a-half stars out of a possible five, and wrote that "listeners know what to expect" and the album "delivers just that". She praised Amber Riley's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" as "charming", Naya Rivera's "Santa Baby" as "mischievous", Heather Morris's "Christmas Wrapping" as "brilliant", and Chris Colfer and Darren Criss for their "brassy, breezy" version of "Let It Snow". She did note that the album "flags" when "unfamiliar" songs are presented and singled out the original song "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" in this regard. She also criticized the final song of the album, "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and described it as "overwrought".[4]

Track listing

Unless otherwise indicated, information is based on the liner notes.[5] Шаблон:Track listing

Notes
  • While Dianna Agron and Jane Lynch are credited as part of the Glee cast vocals in the liner notes, they are not credited on any tracks.[5]
  • "Santa Baby" samples the instrumental track of Madonna's cover version[6]
  • "River" samples the piano track from Joni Mitchell's original version[7]
  • The musical arrangement of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" is based on the Bruce Springsteen cover version[8]

Personnel

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Source: AllMusic[9]

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Chart (2011) Peak
position

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Year-end charts

Chart (2012) Position
US Billboard 200[10] 95
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[11] 3

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References

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  5. 5,0 5,1 Glee Cast. Glee: The Music, Christmas Album Vol. 2. Columbia / 20th TV. 2011. Шаблон:Cite web
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