Today Is Christmas

Today Is Christmas
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Studio album by LeAnn Rimes
Released	October 16, 2015
Recorded	2015
Genre	Christmas, country
Length	40:28
Label	Kobalt
Producer	Darrell Brown, LeAnn Rimes, Niko Bolas
LeAnn Rimes chronology
Spitfire (2013)Spitfire2013 Today Is Christmas (2015)

Today Is Christmas is a 2015 Christmas album by LeAnn Rimes. It features holiday classics and two original songs co-written by Rimes. The album has sold 35,700 copies in the United States as of January 2016.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Today Is Christmas" (Holiday Theme for NBC's Today)	Darrell Brown Rimes	3:22
2.	"We Need a Little Christmas"	Jerry Herman	3:00
3.	"That Spirit of Christmas" (duet with Aloe Blacc)	Parnell Davison Mable John Joel Webster	4:55
4.	"I Still Believe in Santa Claus"	Brown Rimes	3:07
5.	"Holly Jolly Christmas/Frosty the Snowman"	Johnny Marks Walter E. Rollins Steve Nelson	2:12
6.	"Celebrate Me Home" (duet with Gavin DeGraw)	Bob James Kenny Loggins	4:14
7.	"Must Be Santa"	Bill Fredericks Hal Moore	2:47
8.	"Christmas Time Is Here"	Vince Guaraldi Lee Mendelson	1:55
9.	"The Heartache Can Wait"	Brandi Carlile Phil Hanseroth	3:50
10.	"Little Drummer Boy"	Katherine K. Davis Henry Onorati Harry Simeone	4:25
11.	"Joy (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Angels We Have Heard on High/Hark the Herald Angels Sing)"	Brown Rimes	4:46
12.	"Auld Lang Syne"		1:55

Target exclusive bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Ring Them Bells"	Bob Dylan
14.	"Pretty Paper"	Willie Nelson
15.	"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"	John Lennon Yoko Ono

Personnel

• Tariqha Akuni - acoustic guitar
• Rob Arthur - Hammond B-3 organ, upright piano
• Dave Audé - keyboards
• Ryan Bast - background vocals
• Aloe Blacc - vocals on "That Spirit of Christmas"
• Darrell Brown - keyboards, background vocals, producer, songwriter
• Vinnie Colaiuta - drums
• Jim Cox - upright piano
• Summer Davis - background vocals
• Tim Davis - background vocals
• Gavin DeGraw - vocals on "Celebrate Me Home"
• Ron Dzuibla - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Steve Ferrone - drums
• Bob Glaub - bass guitar
• James Gadson - drums
• Booker T. Jones - Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer
• Suzie Katayama - string arrangements
• Nick Lane - trombone
• Deborah Lippmann - background vocals
• Ray Parker Jr. - electric guitar
• Steve Richards - cello
• LeAnn Rimes - lead vocals, background vocals, producer, songwriter
• Lee Thornburg - flugelhorn, trombone, trumpet, horn arrangements
• Willie Weeks - bass guitar

Celebrate Me Home

Celebrate Me Home promo single according to Mediabase radio charts reached #2 on the Holiday Radio Play chart and #7 on Adult Contemporary chart. The Video for Celebrate Me Home was created as a Facebook awareness video for Disable American Veterans and proved to be a great success with over 5.6 million native views as of January 2016.

Chart performance

Chart (2015)	Peak position
US Billboard 200	88
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)	9
US Top Holiday Albums (Billboard)	2
US Independent Albums (Billboard)	2

References