Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas Time.
2. Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
3. Darkness - Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End
4. Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow
5. Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy
6. Robson & Jerome - I Believe
7. Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
8. Judy Collins - Amazing Grace
9. Michael Bolton - White Christmas
10. Luther Vandross - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
11. Neil Diamond - You Make It Feel Like Christmas
12. Shakin Stevens - Blue Christmas
13. Pretenders - 2000 Miles
14. Cyndi Lauper - Early Christmas Morning
15. Gloria Estefan - Love On A Layaway
16. Darlene Love - All Alone on Christmas
17. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
18. Christina Aguilera - The Christmas Song
19. Westlife - I Have A Dream
20. East 17 - Stay Another Day

Disc 2:

1. Wham - Last Christmas
2. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas
3. Elton John - Step Into Christmas
4. Dido - Christmas Day
5. Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow
6. Gary Jules - Mad World
7. Music From The Snowman - Walking In The Air
8. Charlotte Church - Dream A Dream
9. Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas
10. Steps - Merry Christmas Everybody
11. ‘N*Sync feat Justin Timberlake - I Don’t Wanna Spend One More Christmas Without You
12. Backstreet Boys - Christmas Tree
13. Britney Spears - My Only Wish This Year
14. Destiny’s Child - Little Drummer Boy
15. Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
16. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Do You Hear What I Hear?
17. Tony Bennett - Winter Wonderland
18. Doris Day - I’ll Be Home For Christmas
19. Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born
20. Cliff Richard - Millenium Prayer

Disc 3:

1. The Pogues feat Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
2. Elvis Presley - Merry Christmas Baby
3. Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
4. Brenda Lee - Rocking Around The Christmas Tree
5. Linda Ronstadt - When You Wish Upon A Star
6. Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
7. Mario Lanza - Oh Christmas Tree
8. Natalie Cole - Jingle Bells
9. Jackie Wilson - Deck The Hall
10. T -Rex - Christmas Box
11. Al Green - What Christmas Means To Me
12. Harry Belafonte - Marys Boy Child
13. Air Supply - Sleigh Ride
14. Toni Braxton - Holiday Celebrate
15. Spike Jones - All I Want For Christmas
16. The Wombles - Wombling Merry Christmas
17. Bo Selecta - Proper Crimbo
18. Auld Lang Syne
19. Aretha Franklin - Joy To The World
20. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Power Of Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1688 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .41 pounds

Album Description
Christmas Hits delivers just that: Christmas hit after Christmas hit, with a newer, fresher sound. Tracks include The Darkness "Don't Let the Bells End", Avid Merrion "Proper Crimbo", Gary Jules "Mad World", Dido "Christmas Day", Mariah Carey "All I Want for Christmas", Elvis Presley "Merry Christmas Baby", Christina Aguilera "The Christmas Song" and Bruce Springsteen "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town".

Customer Reviews

A Simple Solution.
It is a sad and simple truth that the perfect Xmas album does not exist, since no single record company or collection thereof own all the rights to all the songs you are going to want to hear. There is, however, a straightforward solution.

1)Buy this album. It is, despite its shortcomings, fantastic value(I got my copy for less than a fiver), it is after all a triple CD pack with 60 songs on it.
2)Buy "The best Christmas Album in the world...ever!"(yes there is some overlap but it does feature just about all those missing songs or superior versions that are required).
3)Make the "Most Perfect Xmas Album in the World Ever" by combining the above.If you own or have access to a computer(which I'm guessing you do if you're reading this) then it won't be too hard.

Buyer Beware!
This is just a message for the unwary before you buy this.

If, like me, you're looking for an album of Christmas classics and you want the original artists then despite the impressive-looking list of song titles, DON'T BUY THIS!!!!!

I foolishly glanced down the playlist and (duped by the title "60 Festive Favourites") immediately thought this is exactly what I was looking for. ENTIRELY my own fault - should have looked closer.

There are a number of great songs on here to be sure - a couple of my favourites are Eva Cassidy's Over the Rainbow, Gary Joules Mad World both cover versions too but who in their right minds would want to listen to Michael Bolton singing White Christmas in favour of Bing Crosby and Destiny's Child banging out Little Drummer Boy I'm afraid I fail to see.

And to be fair there are many of the original artists singing their Christmas offerings that would definitely fall into the category of "Festive Favourites" (Band Aid, Greg Lake, Jona Lewie to quote a few) but I felt the number of covers left me with an overwhelming sense of disappointment. This compilation fell way short of my expectation.

That said if you're looking for some old and new renditions of Christmas songs then this may be just what you're looking for....

5 stars if it hadn't missed out some obvious classics
At first glance, this is probably the best christmas album available, as there aren't really many songs you wish were or were not on it. But it has versions of songs which seemed better done by other people. Here are some of them...

DISC 1: 1. Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (maybe not everyone will agree with me but I much prefer the Jackson 5 rendition)
9. Michael Bolton - White Christmas (the Bing Crosby one was better)

DISC 2: 10. Steps - Merry Christmas Everybody (STEPS?! its enough to make a grown man cry! What happened to the classic Slade original?)

DISC 3: 4. Brenda Lee - Rocking Around The Christmas Tree (not that bad but the Mel & Kim was better)

Another thing, why bother putting two versions of the same song on one album (All I Want For Christmas, Little Drummer Boy). I for one would prefer losing the second versions for better christmas songs which were criminally left out from this album...
And call me sad but if they've got songs by Westlife and N*Sync, why cant we have a spice girls song like 2 Become 1 or Goodbye?

Overall though, this is great christmas album, and if you don't mind not having those songs you wish were there this is certainly one to consider, with great new additions like The Darkness and Proper Crimbo