Grown-Up Christmas List (EP)
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Grown-Up Christmas List is the first Christmas
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 extended play
Extended play
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 and the fourth album by Filipina
Filipino people
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 pop and R&B singer Charice
Charice Pempengco
Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco , popularly known by the mononym Charice, is a Filipino recording artist and actress who rose to popularity through YouTube. Dubbed by Oprah Winfrey as the Most Talented Girl in the World, she released her first international studio album Charice in 2010...

, released on November 30, 2010.

Promotion

Charice appeared in NBC's Christmas Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center on November 30, 2010, where she performed "Grown-Up Christmas List
Grown-Up Christmas List
"Grown-Up Christmas List" is a Christmas song composed by David Foster and Linda Thompson-Jenner , and originally recorded by Foster for his 1990 non-holiday album River of Love. Though it was also released as a single, the song was not a hit upon its first appearance...

" and "Jingle Bell Rock
Jingle Bell Rock
"Jingle Bell Rock" is the name of a popular Christmas song first released by Bobby Helms in 1957. It has received frequent airplay in the United States during every Christmas time since then. "Jingle Bell Rock" was composed by Joseph Carleton Beal , and James Ross Boothe...

" accompanied by David Foster
David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...

. She also appeared on Japan’s Mezamashi TV, where she performed "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
"Happy Xmas " is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir....

". Her promotions also took her to Japan
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 radios where she performed "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" live on J-Wave.

Covers

Charice made her own rendition of "Grown-Up Christmas List
Grown-Up Christmas List
"Grown-Up Christmas List" is a Christmas song composed by David Foster and Linda Thompson-Jenner , and originally recorded by Foster for his 1990 non-holiday album River of Love. Though it was also released as a single, the song was not a hit upon its first appearance...

", originally recorded by Foster (with singer Natalie Cole on vocals) and notably renewed by Kelly Clarkson
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 in 2003, the popular lively festive track “Jingle Bell Rock
Jingle Bell Rock
"Jingle Bell Rock" is the name of a popular Christmas song first released by Bobby Helms in 1957. It has received frequent airplay in the United States during every Christmas time since then. "Jingle Bell Rock" was composed by Joseph Carleton Beal , and James Ross Boothe...

”, and John Lennon
John Lennon
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's classic "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
"Happy Xmas " is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir....

".

Track listing

Charts

The song "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" debuted on Billboard Japan Hot 100 at no. 83. It also debuted at #7 on J-Wave
J-Wave
J-Wave is a commercial radio station based in Tokyo, Japan, broadcasting on 81.3 FM from the Tokyo Tower to the Tokyo area. J-Wave airs mostly music covering a wide range of formats. The station is considered the most popular among FM broadcasts in Tokyo, and has surprised the radio broadcast...

's Tokio Hot 100 chart and peaked at #3 for the week of December 26, 2010.
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