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Concord Records has released ‘A Swingin’ Christmas,’ an album of yuletide hits sung by multi-platinum Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Michael Bolton with the bang of a big band orchestra behind him.
Originally released last year (exclusively at Target), this beautiful and inspirational holiday collection adds two brand-new tracks: “Silent Night” and “Joy To The World.”
‘A Swingin’ [...]

The 2006 release of Hall & Oates first Christmas album is the focus of this year’s holiday tour by the group. The holiday tour starts November 20th in Chicago.
“Last year we didn’t tour the album — instead [we did] a lot of promotion for it,” Hall tells Billboard.com. “This year, we’re not doing much [...]

A Toby Keith Classic Christmas, a one-hour special, will premiere on Nov. 24 on CMT. Taped in Nashville, the program features Keith’s renditions of “Winter Wonderland,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “The First Noel” and others. Keith and special guest Jewel sing together on “The Christmas Song” and “Go Tell It [...]

Miss Patti’s Christmas is the first new Christmas album by Philadelphia native Patti Labelle in nearly two decades, since 1990’s Gamble & Huff-produced This Christmas, on Universal’s MCA label. The new album’s 10 songs intersperse Christmas classics (”It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?”), contemporary numbers (remakes [...]

Sister Hazel is planning to do a special set of tour dates, dubbed the “12 Days of Christmas Tour 2007,” to celebrate the recent release of their holiday record, “Santa’s Playlist.”
The tour kicks off in late November and goes through the end of the year, and it features stops at a number of seated [...]

The Manic Street Preachers have shelved plans to release a Christmas single, because it is “too cheesy”.
However, the track could be made available as a download.
“We wanted to put out a single for Christmas,” drummer Sean Moore said. “However, we were worried, so we aren’t going to make it an official release. We’ll give [...]

Hallmark announced today that Grammy-winning music icon Barry Manilow is this year’s Christmas CD artist. Manilow will give fans something to swing and sing about with the exclusive Hallmark Gold Crown Christmas album “In the Swing of Christmas.”
Manilow personally selected all ten songs for this special album which was produced and arranged by Manilow [...]

Tracy Lawrence will release his first holiday album, All Wrapped Up in Christmas, on Oct. 23 on his own label, Rocky Comfort Records. Lawrence includes three new songs in addition to classics like “Here Comes Santa Claus” and “Frosty the Snowman,” which were chosen by his daughters. “As much as I love the holidays, [...]