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''Heavenly Christmas'' is American singer Jackie Evancho's first full-length Christmas album, and her fourth album overall. It was released when she was eleven years old. This album contains ten tracks and was produced by Rob Mounsey, with arrangements by Mounsey and Ryan Shore for Sony Music Entertainment.〔Evancho, Jackie. Liner notes, ''Heavenly Christmas'', November 1, 2011, Sony Music Entertainment〕 The album was released on November 1, 2011, exclusively at Walmart and Walmart.com in the U.S.,〔(''Heavenly Christmas'' ), Jackieevancho.com, November 1, 2011, accessed October 17, 2012〕 and at other U.S. sellers on October 16, 2012.〔Hampp, Andrew. "6 Questions with Jackie Evancho", ''Billboard'' magazine, October 20, 2012, p. 34〕 Evancho is accompanied by the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the New York Chorus of St. Cecilia, conducted by Rob Mounsey.〔 The album climbed to No. 11 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart and peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Classical Albums chart, No. 3 on the Holiday Albums chart and No. 9 on the Canadian Albums chart.〔(''Heavenly Christmas'' ), Billboard.com, accessed December 15, 2011〕 ''Billboard'' ranked ''Heavenly Christmas'' as the No. 2 Classical album in the U.S. in 2012〔("Best of 2012: Classical Albums" ), Prometheus Global Media, December 15, 2012〕 and No. 41 on the 2012 Canadian Albums chart.〔("Best of 2012: Top Canadian Albums" ), Billboard.com, December 15, 2012〕 ==Promotion== Walmart ran some brief television advertisements to promote the album in early November 2011, and Evancho released videos of three songs from the album.〔("Jackie Evancho – 'Believe'" ), JackieEvanchoVEVO, YouTube, December 2, 2011〕 In December 2011, Evancho made talk show appearances on all the major television networks to promote ''Heavenly Christmas'', singing "The First Noël" on ''The View''〔Micco, Cindy Cusic. ("Jackie Evancho Sings 'The First Noel' on ABC's ''The View'', Then Talks Kitten for Christmas" ), ''Pine-Richland Patch'', December 6, 2011〕 and ''The Talk'',〔Micco, Cindy Cusic. ("Jackie Evancho Sings on 'The Talk,' Reconnects With AGT Judge Sharon Osbourne" ), ''Pine-Richland Patch'', December 7, 2011〕 and "Believe" on ''The Tonight Show'',〔(Episode December 9, 2011 ), ''The Tonight Show'', NBC, December 9, 2011〕 as well as giving solo concerts in Buffalo, New York; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Pittsburgh, in mid-December 2011.〔Micco, Cindy Cusic. ("Jackie Evancho Performs for Hometown Crowd" ), ''Pine-Richland Patch'', December 16, 2011〕 Evancho sang 14 songs in each of these concert appearances, including songs from all three of her albums, mixing Christmas music with her classical crossover repertoire.〔Micco, Cindy Cusic. ("Jackie Evancho Brings Crowd to its Feet at Benedum Concert" ), ''Pine-Richland Patch'', December 21, 2011; see also the theatre program for Evancho's Pittsburgh Benedum Center concert on December 20, 2011〕 On this mini-tour, Evancho invited 20-year-old Canadian tenor Christopher Dallo, who had beaten her in the 2009 David Foster talent search contest,〔(Dallo's winning performance and interview ), YouTube, October 24, 2009; (Evancho's runner-up performance and interview ), YouTube, October 24, 2009; ("David Foster and Friends Concert with Jackie Evancho and Christopher Dallo" ), YouTube, November 21, 2012〕 to sing three solos, and to duet with her in ''The Prayer''.〔Kanny, Mark. ("Hot picks: Jackie Evancho, Greg Warren, Day of Thirds" ), ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', December 14, 2011〕〔(David Foster & Friends concert at Prudential Center. ) YouTube.com, accessed December 18, 2011〕 Evancho released music videos of three songs from the album.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heavenly Christmas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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