Christmas with Scotty McCreery
album by Scotty McCreery
Christmas with Scotty McCreery is the Christmas album by season ten American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. The album was released on October 16, 2012, in the United States by Mercury Nashville. The album was certified Gold on November 26, 2012.
Background
In July 2012, Scotty McCreery revealed that he was working on a Christmas album. He indicated that he had always wanted to make a Christmas album, and had talked about it for about a year before it was given the go-ahead by his label. The album contains many of the standard Christmas songs, as well as two original Christmas songs - "Christmas in Heaven" and "Christmas Comin' Round Again". He described "Christmas in Heaven" as his favorite song on the album. McCreery revealed that he was writing a song called "Christmas in Heaven" about his grandfather, who died while he was getting ready for the album, but received a song with the same title and opted to record that instead.
The album was produced by Mark Bright, who was also the producer of McCreery's first album, Clear as Day. The Christmas album was released on October 16, 2012, in the United States.
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