Rejoyce: The Christmas Album by Jessica Simpson
ReJoyce: The Christmas Album is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by American pop singer Jessica Simpson. It was released by Columbia Records on November 23, 2004. The album features cover versions of popular Christmas songs and includes a duet with her sister, Ashlee Simpson, on the song "Little Drummer Boy". Additionally, it also includes a duet with Nick Lachey, Simpson's husband at the time, on "Baby, It's Cold Outside". The cover of Amy Grant's "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)" was notable, as Simpson has said that Amy Grant is one of her favorite recording artists and her role model. Two singles were released from the album: "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" and "What Christmas Means to Me" (although no accompanying video was produced). Song "O Holy Night" had an accompanying music video. ReJoyce: The Christmas Album was released after Simpson's most successful studio album of her career In This Skin (2003). The album has sold 669,000 copies in the United States, as of February 23, 2009, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in January 2005.
It’s a Christmas album and Santa has not delivered any instruments, so Pentatonix are here to harmonise and beatbox their way through this festive selection. Old favourites (“Sleigh Ride”, “Winter Wonderland”) are given gleeful and dazzling new a capella arrangements, with a couple of more sober choices (Fleet Foxes’ “White Winter Hymnal”, “Mary, Did You Know?”) for seasonal variety. Their wordless and intricate take on “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” is perhaps the most unexpected gift of them all.
