Gold: A 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration

Gold: A 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration
Compilation album by Johnny Mathis
Released	September 19, 2006[1]
Recorded	1958–2006
Genre	Vocal holiday pop/rock[1]
Length	49:23
Label	Columbia
Johnny Mathis chronology
The Very Best of Johnny Mathis (2006) Gold: A 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration (2006) Gold: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (2006)

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Gold: A 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration is a compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on September 19, 2006, by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings. It includes selections from four of the first five Christmas albums that he had recorded: Merry Christmas, Sounds of Christmas, Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis, and The Christmas Album. Two tracks that were recorded with other artists are also included: "O Tannenbaum", which comes from Mannheim Steamroller's 2001 album Christmas Extraordinaire, and a medley duet of "Winter Wonderland" and "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" with Bette Midler from her 2006 holiday album Cool Yule.

This first of his two 50th anniversary compilations reached number 191 during its first seasonal appearance on Billboard magazine's album chart in the issue dated December 30, 2006.^[2] The second of the two compilations, Gold: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (which was released two months after this one, on November 21),^[3] charted for one week in that same issue but positioned slightly higher, at 171.^[2] Gold: A 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration made annual chart runs on the Billboard 200 from 2013 to 2017 and had its best showing in 2016 when it reached number 104.