Feanor Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 (edited) Quote But while music wholesalers concede that the genre is not having the greatest holiday season in terms of sales, they counter there’s another reason this year’s numbers are sluggish. They argue 2022 is missing a key ingredient that in the past has proved to be a big catalyst for the overall genre during the holidays: a big, new Christmas album that drives traffic and fuels sales across the entire genre. “While a lot of the new albums are doing fine and have done a decent volume, not one of them has been a breakaway hit,” says Alliance Entertainment senior vp of purchasing and marketing Laura Provenzano. In years past, big holiday music albums came from the likes of Josh Groban and his Noel album, which scanned 3.7 million album copies in its debut year of 2007 and now totals 6.32 million album consumption units in the U.S.; Michael Buble‘s Christmas, which scanned 2.45 million copies in its release year of 2011 and a total of 4.5 million album consumption units to date; or, going back further, Kenny G‘s Miracle, the Holiday Album, which scanned nearly 3 million copies in its 1994 debut. Those albums really stoked the genre’s sales numbers in the years they were released. Quote If only, music merchandisers lament, there was that one big [Christmas] album emerging from the pack. Billboard While Christmas music is seemingly becoming more and more popular and profitable with every passing year, there has been a noticeable lack of big Christmas albums by newer acts à la Buble's 'Christmas' or Groban's 'Noel' in recent years. Who do you think could and is also most likely to actually swoop in and release that "big, new Christmas" album the industry is craving for? Edited July 27, 2023 by Feanor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanes Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 No thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
State of Grace. Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Hopefully NOT Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgos Groove Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 It's gonna be Adele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco_g2 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Christmas music tends to grow bigger over time, Santa Tell Me is as close to a "out of the gates" hit we're gonna get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue. Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Why would Taylor need a Christmas album? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGood2Me Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Calling Ari!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totami Legend Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 ava this is your moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahauntingnearu Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 No gay wants this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsJustMe. Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 how hard is it to make a big bubblegum-esque catchy christmas tune people are just doing too much these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBJT2786 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 We have enough thank you. Why do we need another artist rehashing the same old Christmas songs( just with their voice) with one or two new ones that have 1 in 800 million chance of it becoming a classic hit? Arguably the last major new one was Santa Tell Me and that took YEARS to get popular. The last actual hit was Underneath the Tree and that's almost a decade old. So NOOOO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheers Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Adele should do it. Could see it working for her over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allforyou Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 If Adele released a christmas album it would do some serious numbers (or maybe Ariana too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infrared Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Christmas albums are dated - and have always been cash grabs. It’s incredibly hard to breakthrough unless you’re the icon of the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZIVERT Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 If Adele did a Christmas album, it would be huge. I feel like Lana could do a Christmas album justice, ala her cover of Blue Velvet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Jacobs Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 No thank you We already have tons of those Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharapov Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 xmas music is horrible so no thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninasayers Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Girl... we really don't need any more christmas music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delirious Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 55 minutes ago, Totami Legend said: ava this is your moment! yess please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen99 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M!X Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 literally why Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauvender Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 No… if anything someone needs to make a Thanksgiving song and become the Mariah Carey of thanksgiving. Halloween Music >>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Call Arianka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConceptD Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 The market is saturated and most Christmas music that is released is just cringe, but I really feel like someone like Lana could do a very dark, melancholy Christmas album for all the little humbugs like me out there. She sounded beautiful on the performance she did with kacey a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugden Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 please do we really need more christmas songs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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