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| Released | October 18, 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 1965 | |||
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| Length | 35:37 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Robert Mersey[2] | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [3] |
Merry Christmas is the second Christmas album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released by Columbia Records in 1965, and his seventeenth studio album overall. This seasonal LP is focused exclusively on 20th century compositions, unlike 1963's The Andy Williams Christmas Album, which, of its 12 tracks, had six with origins predating the turn of the century.
For the six consecutive holiday seasons from 1965 through 1970, Merry Christmas charted on Billboard magazine's special year-end weekly Christmas Albums sales chart.[4] The album spent two weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1966 and one week atop that same chart in 1969.[4] The single from the album, "Do You Hear What I Hear?", reached number 18 on the Christmas Singles chart in 1965.[5]
On May 23, 1968, Merry Christmas was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States.[6] Platinum certification for sales of one million copies followed on November 10, 1989.[6]
- ^ a b "Merry Christmas - Andy Williams". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ (1965) Merry Christmas by Andy Williams [album jacket]. New York: Columbia Records CS 9220.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1498. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ a b Whitburn 2004, p. 203.
- ^ Whitburn 2004, p. 65.
- ^ a b "Gold & Platinum". riaa.com. Retrieved 27 March 2017. Type Andy Williams in the Search box and press Enter.