What a Wonderful Christmas

2001 compilation album by Anne Murray

Compilation album by

Anne Murray

Released

October 9, 2001 (2001-10-09)

Recorded

1981, 88, 93, 2001

Genre

Country, Holiday, Orchestral, Easy Listening

Length

1:33:10

Label

Straightway Records

Producer

Anne Murray
Jim Ed Norman
Steve Sexton
Tommy West

Anne Murray chronology

What a Wonderful World
(1999)

What a Wonderful Christmas
(2001)

Country Croonin'
(2002)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

What a Wonderful Christmas is an album by Canadian artist Anne Murray. It was released by Straightway Records on October 9, 2001. The album peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, number 6 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and number 83 on the Billboard 200.^[2]

Track listing

Disc 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Joy to the World"	Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts	2:09
2.	"Coventry Carol/White Christmas"	Traditional/Irving Berlin	3:43
3.	"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"	Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis	3:12
4.	"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"	Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne	2:48
5.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith	2:59
6.	"O Little Town of Bethlehem"	Phillips Brooks, Lewis Redner	3:10
7.	"Coventry Carol/Christmas in Killarney"	James Cavanaugh, John Redmond, Frank Weldon, Traditional	2:45
8.	"This Season Will Never Grow Old"	Rita MacNeil	3:10
9.	"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"	Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin	3:14
10.	"O Come All Ye Faithful"	Frederick Oakeley, John Francis Wade	4:26
11.	"Do You Hear What I Hear?"	Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne Baker	2:48
12.	"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"	Meredith Willson	2:46
13.	"Sweet Little Jesus Boy"	Robert MacGimsey	3:49
14.	"I'll Be Home for Christmas"	Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram	3:36
Total length:			44:35

Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Jolly Old Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"	John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie, Traditional	5:41
2.	"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Frosty the Snowman"	Johnny Marks, Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins	3:39
3.	"Away in a Manger"	Traditional	3:01
4.	"We Three Kings"	John Henry Hopkins Jr.	3:02
5.	"Silver Bells"	Ray Evans, Jay Livingston	2:44
6.	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone	3:46
7.	"The First Noël"	Traditional	3:20
8.	"Go Tell It on the Mountain"	John Wesley Work Jr., Traditional	2:50
9.	"Christmas Wishes"	Art Podell, Randy Sparks	2:32
10.	"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"	Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley	2:59
11.	"Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord"	Jester Hairston	3:56
12.	"O Holy Night"	Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight	3:08
13.	"Coventry Carol/The Christmas Song"	Mel Tormé, Robert Wells, Traditional	3:34
14.	"Silent Night"	Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr	4:23
Total length:			48:35

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2001)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[3]	83
US Christian Albums (Billboard)^[4]	4
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[5]	6
US Top Holiday Albums (Billboard)^[6]	5

Year-end charts

Chart (2002)	Position
Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[7]	56
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[8]	53

References

^ Johnson, Zac. "What a Wonderful Christmas review". Allmusic. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
^ "What a Wonderful Christmas Charts". Allmusic. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
^ "Anne Murray Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
^ "Anne Murray Chart History (Christian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
^ "Anne Murray Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
^ "Anne Murray Chart History (Holiday Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
^ "Top 100 country albums of 2002 in Canada". Jam!. Archived from the original on December 4, 2003. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2002". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2020.