Snowflakes is the first
Christmas albumChristmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly thereafter.- Content :...
(fourth overall) by American
R&BContemporary R&B is a music genre of western popular music. Although the acronym “R&B” originates from its association with traditional rhythm and blues music, the term R&B is today most often used to define a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in the 1980s...
singer–songwriter
Toni BraxtonToni Michelle Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter actress; and philanthropist whose successful career sky rocketed from 1989 till the present day . Braxton has won six Grammy Awards and has sold over 40 million records worldwide...
, released in the United States on October 23, 2001 by
Arista RecordsArista Records is an American record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
. Along with the traditional
ChristmasChristmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini...
songs "
The Christmas Song“The Christmas Song” , commonly referred to as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire“ or “Merry Christmas to You”, is a classic Christmas song, written by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...
" and "
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a Christmas 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...
" and a
coverIn popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
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Vince GuaraldiVincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi was an American jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California...
's 1962 song "Christmas Time Is Here", the album contains original songs which focus not only on Christmas, but also on love. Braxton was newly married and expecting her first child while making the album.
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Snowflakes is the first
Christmas albumChristmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly thereafter.- Content :...
(fourth overall) by American
R&BContemporary R&B is a music genre of western popular music. Although the acronym “R&B” originates from its association with traditional rhythm and blues music, the term R&B is today most often used to define a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in the 1980s...
singer–songwriter
Toni BraxtonToni Michelle Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter actress; and philanthropist whose successful career sky rocketed from 1989 till the present day . Braxton has won six Grammy Awards and has sold over 40 million records worldwide...
, released in the United States on October 23, 2001 by
Arista RecordsArista Records is an American record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
. Along with the traditional
ChristmasChristmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini...
songs "
The Christmas Song“The Christmas Song” , commonly referred to as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire“ or “Merry Christmas to You”, is a classic Christmas song, written by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...
" and "
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a Christmas 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...
" and a
coverIn popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of
Vince GuaraldiVincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi was an American jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California...
's 1962 song "Christmas Time Is Here", the album contains original songs which focus not only on Christmas, but also on love. Braxton was newly married and expecting her first child while making the album.
Track listing
- "Holiday Celebrate" (Toni Braxton, Keri Lewis, Tamar Braxton
Tamar Braxton is an American R&B singer. She is the youngest sister of Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Toni Braxton and was a singer of the now-defunct R&B group, The Braxtons.-Biography:...
) – 3:59
- "Christmas in Jamaica
"Christmas in Jamaica" is the second and final single from Toni Braxton's Christmas album, Snowflakes . The song features vocals from Shaggy.-Charts:...
" (featuring ShaggyOrville Richard Burrell , better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Grammy-nominated Jamaican-American reggae singer who takes his nickname from Scooby-Doo's companion—a nickname given to him by his friends during his teenage years because his name bore a similarity to the Scooby Doo character...
) (Braxton, Donnie ScantzDarnley Scantlebury, known to most as Donnie Scantz, is a music producer, musician and songwriter. He is the founder of State of Emergency, a music and extreme lifestyle allegiance dedicated to producing R&B, Pop, Hip-Hop and Rock. He is a two time Grammy Nominee and has worked with artists such...
, Lewis, Orville Burrell, Craig Love, Dave Kelly) – 4:22
- "Snowflakes of Love
"Snowflakes of Love" is the lead single from Toni Braxton's Christmas album, Snowflakes . The song samples the instrumental of Earl Klugh's "Now We're One", written by Isaac Hayes for the soundtrack to the 1974 film Truck Turner.-Charts:...
" (Braxton, Lewis, Isaac HayesIsaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s...
) – 4:24
- Contains elements and samples of Earl Klugh
Earl Klugh is an American smooth jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer. Klugh currently resides in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia....
's "Now We're One" (Isaac Hayes)
- "Christmas Time Is Here" (Vince Guaraldi
Vincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi was an American jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California...
, Lee MendelsonLee Mendelson is an American television producer. He is best known as the executive producer of the many Peanuts animated specials....
) – 4:11
- "Santa Please..." (Braxton, Lewis) – 4:32
- "...Pretty Please (Interlude)" – 1:00
- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a Christmas 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...
" (Ralph BlaneRalph Blane was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.-Biography:Born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Blane was the son of grocery store owners. He attended Tulsa Central High School...
, Hugh MartinHugh Martin is an American musical theatre and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the classic 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door", The Trolley Song, and Have Yourself a Merry...
) – 4:34
- "This Time Next Year" (Babyface, David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter and arranger.-Career:Foster was a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, whose song “Wildflower” was a top ten hit in 1972...
, Braxton) – 4:22
- "The Christmas Song
“The Christmas Song” , commonly referred to as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire“ or “Merry Christmas to You”, is a classic Christmas song, written by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...
" (Mel TorméMelvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...
, Robert Wells) – 3:23
- "Snowflakes of Love" (Brent Fischer Instrumental) – 4:36
- "Christmas in Jamaica" (Remix featuring Shaggy) – 3:39
Charts
| Chart (2001) |
Peak
position |
| German Albums Chart The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband der phonographischen Wirtschaft...
|
92 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling new 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...
|
119 |
| U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...
|
57 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Holiday Albums |
9 |