Navidades
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Navidades is a Christmas album by Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 singer Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri is a Mexican singer. He is widely known only by the name Luis Miguel and is often referred to as "El Sol de México"...

 released on November 14, 2006.

The album is the first "Christmas" album released by the singer and peaked at #51 on the Billboard 200 Chart. Two promo singles were released: "Mi Humilde Oración" and "Santa Claus Llegó a la Ciudad". The album was produced by Luis Miguel. Longtime collaborator Juan Carlos Calderón (along with Edgar Cortázar) did all the Spanish adaptations of the tracks.

This album received a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 nomination for Best Latin Pop Album
Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album was awarded from 1984 to 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Latin Pop Performance*From 1992 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Latin Pop Album...

 at the 50th Grammy Awards
50th Grammy Awards
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.

Track listing

# Title Composer Time
1 Santa Claus Llegó A La Ciudad (Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is a Christmas song. It was written by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie, and was first sung on Eddie Cantor's radio show in November 1934....

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Fred Coots/Naven Gillespie/Juan Carlos Calderón 1:56
2 Te Deseo Muy Felices Fiestas (Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane...

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Martin Blane/Juan Carlos Calderón 4:15
3 Frente A La Chimenea (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer with a glowing red nose. He is popularly known as "Santa's 9th Reindeer" and, when depicted, is the lead reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve. The luminosity of his nose is so great that it illuminates the team's path through...

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Edgar Cortázar/Johnny Marks 1:54
4 Blanca Navidad (White Christmas
White Christmas
A white Christmas refers to the presence of snow on Christmas Day. This phenomenon is most common in the northern countries of the Northern Hemisphere...

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Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...

/Juan Carlos Calderón
3:30
5 Navidad, Navidad (Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
"Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857...

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Traditional/Juan Carlos Calderón 2:34
6 Estaré En Mi Casa Esta Navidad (I'll Be Home for Christmas) Buck Ram/Kim Gannon/Walter Kent/Juan Carlos Calderón 2:48
7 Mi Humilde Oración
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...

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...

/Linda Thompson
3:18
8 Va A Nevar (Let It Snow
Let It Snow
"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", also known as "Let It Snow", is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in 1945. The song was written in July 1945 in Hollywood, California during one of the hottest days on record. First recorded by Vaughn Monroe, it became a popular...

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Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn 1:52
9 Sonríe (Smile) Charles Chaplin/Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn 3:07
10 Llegó La Navidad (Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland
"Winter Wonderland" is a winter song, popularly treated as a Christmastime pop standard, written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith . Through the decades it has been recorded by over 150 different artists.-History:...

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Dick Smith/Felix Bernard 2:05
11 Noche De Paz (Silent Night
Silent Night
"Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...

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Traditional/Juan Carlos Calderón 3:39

Chart performance

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Mexico Top 100 AMPROFON 1
Spanish PROMUSICAE Album Chart 4
US Billboard Top Latin Albums
Billboard Top Latin Albums
Latin Albums is a record chart published by Billboard magazine and is labeled as the most important music chart for Spanish language, full-length albums in the American music market. Like all Billboard album charts, the chart is based on sales...

1
US Billboard Latin Pop Albums 1
US Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

51
US Billboard European Top 100 Albums 82
US Billboard Top Holiday Albums 7

Sales and certifications

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