What I Really Want for Christmas

What I Really Want For Christmas is a solo Christmas album of the U.S. singer and composer Brian Wilson. The album was produced by Brian Wilson. It was released by the record company Arista Records in 2005.

Genesis

2004 Brian Wilson had released the album Smile. In addition to an international, global media coverage, great critical acclaim and recognition of the fans, he was awarded for this album also won a Grammy Award. Overall, for over a million copies of Smile over the counters.

Wilson announced, driven by this success, in 2005 a new album. His fans, he presented four projects:

Wilson and his advisors decided on the Christmas album. This sparked a storm of protest among the fan base. You wait for years to repeatedly announced rock ' n ' roll album and were of the opinion that the Wilson - the Christmas album " Christmas Album " by the Beach Boys, could never outperform in 1964.

However, Wilson has made, along with the band, who had already recorded Smile in May 2005 to work to record the album. In addition to eight traditional Christmas carols, there were two new recordings of older Wilson compositions (" The Man With All The Toys " and "Little Saint Nick "), which were represented on the Beach Boys Christmas album from 1964. The album was completed by two new Wilson - pieces. The title song - " What I Really Want For Christmas " - is a collaboration with Elton John lyricist Bernie Taupin. The second new song - " Christmasey " - was written by the famous composer and lyricist Jimmy Webb for Brian Wilson.

In addition to these twelve songs are three bonus tracks on this album. These bonus tracks are Christmas songs that Brian had taken in 2001-2003 for his fans and made ​​public on its website.

The album was recorded live in a studio and not - as usual today - " piecemeal ".

The album reached number # 200 in the U.S. Billboard charts and ranked # 25 in the charts in the first XMas Appreciation Week. The track " Deck The Halls " was ranked # 9 in the Adult Contemporary charts.

Title list

• Album ( rock )
• 2005 album
• Christmas album