Posted on 12/16/2016 6:35:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Sparrow Records and Christian recording artist Amy Grant announced Thursday the release of her new Christmas album, which becomes the 200th Christmas collection Grant has produced in her career, a record among all recording artists.
The latest offering, Greatest Hits From This Year’s Christmas Albums, which compiles some of the best songs from the other six Christmas albums Grant has released this year, arrived on shelves to a robust response.
Industry experts attribute the instant success of the album to a growing sense of unrest among Christians, who had not been blessed by a new Amy Grant Christmas album in almost three months.
Since Grant’s iconic “A Christmas Album” was released in 1983, she has compiled an impressive, extensive list of yuletide offerings, including bestsellers Home For Christmas, Christmas in My Backyard, My Second Best Christmas, Christmas All Year, Christmas: The Christmas Album, We Want Christmas and We Want It Now, We Bet You’ll Buy Another Amy Grant Christmas Album, From Christmas to Christmas, the Latin-flavored Mi Christmas Su Christmas, and 1998’s two-volume set The Amy Grant and Friends Christmas Anthology Collection Live From Tennessee.
A spokesperson for Grant says she hopes the album will produce a sense of wonder and anticipation for the release of Volume Two, due out next week.
Holy cow! How old is she??
She’s exactly as old as the concept of parody news!
I can’t explain it, but in my 63 years I’ve somehow lost all appreciation for Christmas music. My wife loves it. We just abide by the standard rule that every time you play a Christmas song before Thanksgiving, a baby reindeer dies.
There are a very tiny number of Christmas songs I do like.
Breath of Heaven
Mary did you know.
I say this as someone in a southern Gospel band and member of a church choir that does Christmas shows.
200 albums? That’s nuts.
How many Christmas songs are there?
More like an unholy cow. She affirms sodomy and calling it “marriage.”
Dang! I got powned!
This is satire! It’s the Babylon Bee.
She doesn’t believe in God anymore but does believe in money.
You can also get most of them in the “digitally remastered” version, some with bonus tracks!
Bing Crosby and Andy Williams combined didn’t have that many.
I chalk it up to the degraded quality of the music. I've come to love the classic choral styles which used to be performed in many "high" church settings, free of the secular inanities, like dogs barking "Jingle Bells."
If you have access to one of the music apps, like Pandora, look for Andrew Rieu's holiday channel. You won't be disappointed.
Many albums, and I don’t know about Amy Grant albums at all, have one or two good songs; everything else is “filler”.
I contend that she never really believed in God except as a hook to make money.
I’ll give it a try. Thanks!
Must say that "A Christmas Album" and "Home For Christmas" are 2 of my favorite Christmas albums.
I heard the other day, that the reason so many artists do Christmas albums, is that most of the songs are so old, that the royalties that have to be paid on them are VERY low. The albums are pure profit.
Never realized Amy has 11 Christmas albums out.
I haven't looked, but I'm curious how many of these albums have repeat songs (maybe recorded differently)
AND have been written by her.
This could not be real. Nobody makes 200 albums of anything these days, not even Christmas music. Good to know she’s still producing though. Most entertainers who started decades ago have faded away, or ‘reinvented themselves’ a couple of times as a form of rebellion.
Didn’t she leave her husband for Vince Gill?
Amy Grant: Supplying 24/7 Christmas radio stations with new content for the next 300 years.
‘This could not be real”
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You’re right,it isn’t.
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