| 词条 | Because It's Christmas |
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| name = Because It's Christmas | type = Studio album | artist = Barry Manilow | cover = Barrycuzitsxmas.jpg | alt = | released = September 25, 1990 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Pop Easy listening | length = 42:35 | label = Arista | producer = Barry Manilow & Eddie Arkin[1] | prev_title = Live on Broadway | prev_year = 1990 | next_title = Showstoppers | next_year = 1991 }}{{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[2] |rev2 = Entertainment Weekly |rev2score = C+[3] }} Because It's Christmas is the first of three Christmas albums released by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was released in 1990 and was a huge success, becoming Manilow's first platinum album since 1984's 00 AM Paradise Cafe. It also began a period in Manilow's career in which he recorded cover albums. Each album would focus on a particular style of music. He continued this pattern until the release of Here at the Mayflower in 2001. The version of "Jingle Bells" on the album is a cover of the 1943 recording by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters with the girl group Exposé taking the Andrews Sisters' part. Because It's Christmas was the best-selling Christmas album of 1990 in the U.S. The album peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart,[4] and spent five weeks at number 1 on Billboard magazine's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Albums sales chart in December 1990 and January 1991.[4]On July 19, 2002, Because It's Christmas was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies in the U.S.[5] Track listing[1]Side 1
Side 2
References1. ^1 CD packaging {{Barry Manilow}}{{1990s-pop-album-stub}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Barry Manilow}}2. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r12338|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review] 3. ^Entertainment Weekly review 4. ^1 {{cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Christmas in the Charts (1920-2004) | publisher = Record Research Inc. |year=2004 | location = Wisconsin | page = 163 | isbn = 0-89820-161-6 }} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://riaa.org/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=Because&artist=Barry%20Manilow&format=ALBUM&debutLP=&category=SOLO&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&awardDescription=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=12&startYear=1958&endYear=2010&sort=Artist&perPage=25 |title=RIAA Searchable Database - Gold & Platinum Certifications |work=Recording Industry Association of America |accessdate=2010-12-16 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 5 : 1990 Christmas albums|Christmas albums by American artists|Barry Manilow albums|Arista Records Christmas albums|Pop Christmas albums |
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