Heavenly Christmas

Heavenly Christmas
Evancho, with her straight blond hair falling on her shoulders, sitting in a large Christmas wreath, facing the camera, and wearing a red party-dress.
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1, 2011 (2011-11-01)
Genre
Length37:50
Label
ProducerRob Mounsey
Jackie Evancho chronology
Dream With Me
(2011)
Heavenly Christmas
(2011)
Songs from the Silver Screen
(2012)

Heavenly Christmas is American singer Jackie Evancho's first full-length Christmas album, and her fourth album overall. It was released when she was eleven years old. This album contains ten tracks and was produced by Rob Mounsey, with arrangements by Mounsey and Ryan Shore for Sony Music Entertainment.[1][2]

The album was released on November 1, 2011, exclusively at Walmart and Walmart.com in the U.S.,[3] and at other U.S. sellers on October 16, 2012.[4] Evancho is accompanied by the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the New York Chorus of St. Cecilia, conducted by Rob Mounsey.[2] The album climbed to No. 11 on the Billboard 200 chart and peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Classical Albums chart, No. 3 on the Holiday Albums chart and No. 9 on the Canadian Albums chart.[5]

Billboard ranked Heavenly Christmas as the No. 2 Classical album in the U.S. in 2012[6] and No. 41 on the 2012 Canadian Albums chart.[7]

  1. ^ Shirley Halperin, Sophie Schillaci (September 1, 2011), "'America's Got Talent' Star Jackie Evancho to Release Christmas Album", The Hollywood Reporter, retrieved October 7, 2011
  2. ^ a b Evancho, Jackie. Liner notes, Heavenly Christmas, November 1, 2011, Sony Music Entertainment
  3. ^ Heavenly Christmas Archived May 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Jackieevancho.com, November 1, 2011, accessed October 17, 2012
  4. ^ Hampp, Andrew. "6 Questions with Jackie Evancho", Billboard magazine, October 20, 2012, p. 34
  5. ^ Heavenly Christmas, Billboard.com, accessed December 15, 2011
  6. ^ "Best of 2012: Classical Albums", Prometheus Global Media, December 15, 2012
  7. ^ "Best of 2012: Top Canadian Albums", Billboard.com, December 15, 2012