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}} ''Merry Christmas II You'' is the second Christmas album and thirteenth studio album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released by Island Records on November 2, 2010. Recording began in April 2010 and continued while Carey became pregnant. She was the executive producer of ''Merry Christmas II You'' and worked with various record producers, including Bryan-Michael Cox, Jermaine Dupri, Randy Jackson, James Poyser, Marc Shaiman, James "Big Jim" Wright and Johnny "Sev" Severin of RedOne. The album features Carey's mother Patricia Carey as a guest vocalist on "O Come All Ye Faithful" / "Hallelujah Chorus". The album is composed of original songs and covers, ballads and uptempo tracks. It incorporates R&B, soul and house music in its composition. The album received mixed reviews from music critics, who complimented its relaxed yet lively and contemporary feel, while others felt it was predictable and too overproduced in places. It debuted at number four on the United States ''Billboard'' 200 album chart, and reached number one on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Holiday Albums chart. It was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments exceeding 500,000 copies. Elsewhere, however, the album failed to make an impact, reaching the top thirty in Australia and Hungary, and the top fifty in Austria and Italy. It missed out on the top one-hundred in the United Kingdom by one position, peaking at one-hundred and one on the albums chart. The album produced four singles, including the US Adult Contemporary record-breaking song "Oh Santa!". It reached number-one in its second week, the quickest ascent in the history of the chart and the only song to do so. Other singles included "Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem)", a single release version of "When Christmas Comes" in 2011 with John Legend and "Christmas Time Is in the Air Again" in 2012. To support the album, Carey made promotional appearances on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' and ''Lopez Tonight'', and hosted her own television special called '' Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to You''. ==Background and production== Mariah Carey's twelfth studio album, ''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'', was released in 2009. It produced the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top ten and platinum certified track "Obsessed". However, subsequent single releases failed to replicate its success, with "I Want to Know What Love Is" peaking at number 60 on the Hot 100, and "H.A.T.E.U." reaching number 72 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Carey revealed that she intended to re-release ''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'' as a remix album in early 2010, titled ''Angels Advocate'', which would consist of remixes of the standard songs with new featured artists, including Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, Trey Songz, R. Kelly, T-Pain, Gucci Mane and OJ da Juiceman. A release date of February 23, 2010, was slated, and then pushed back to March 9.〔 It was then further pushed back to March 30. "Angels Cry" and "Up Out My Face" from ''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'' were released as remixes with Ne-Yo featuring on the former and Nicki Minaj on the latter.〔 However, it was confirmed in March 2010 that production of ''Angels Advocate'' had halted and the project was shelved indefinitely.〔 Carey's record label Island Def Jam stated that the singer was instead working on a new project and "new surprises".〔 ''Metro'' revealed that Carey was either recording a new studio album or possibly a Christmas album. In an interview for ''Rap-Up'' in April 2010, Jermaine Dupri said that he and Carey had already begun working on new songs, stating "The song of the decade crew is back in the lab. This () the first day of the new shit." On April 24, David LaChapelle said that he had shot the album artwork with fake snow and wooden cutout reindeers, thus confirming that the project was a Christmas album. On May 5, Dupri confirmed that he and Carey were in the early stages of production for the album, that Bryan-Michael Cox and Johntá Austin were involved in the project and that they hoped to release a single by the end of the year. Roger Friedman of Showbiz411 revealed some information about the album on June 3, 2010, saying "Mariah’s Christmas album is said to be very lush, with lots of strings and no hip hop. A lot of it is said to be 'live' and there’s an ochestra" and would feature a new version of her 1994 Christmas single, "All I Want for Christmas Is You". It was reported by Showbiz411 in August 2010 that Carey had enlisted Broadway composer Marc Shaiman to work on the then untitled album; the magazine described the pairing as "unusual" but noted that the outcome could be "colossal". On September 1, 2010, ''Rap-Up'' exclusively revealed the title of the album, ''Merry Christmas II You'', and that it would be released on November 2 with original songs as well as covers. The ''II'' represents being a sequel to Carey's first Christmas album, ''Merry Christmas'' (1994).〔 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「Merry Christmas II You」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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