A Fresh Aire Christmas was the second Christmas music

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 album released by new age

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 musical group Mannheim Steamroller

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. The album was originally released in 1988.

On June 21, 2004, A Fresh Aire Christmas was certified 6x Platinum

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 by the Recording Industry Association of America

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 for shipment of six million copies in the United States, making it one of the best-selling holiday albums in the U.S.

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As of October 16, 2011, A Fresh Aire Christmas was the sixth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the Nielsen/SoundScan

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 era of music sales (March 1991-present), having sold a total of 3,610,000 copies according to SoundScan.

Track listing

1. "Hark! the Herald Trumpets Sing"
2. "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
   Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
   “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” is a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems, having been written by Charles Wesley. This is not the version widely known today. A sombre man, Wesley had requested and received slow and solemn music for his lyrics, not the...
   
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3. "Veni Veni (O Come, O Come Emmanuel)
   O come, O come, Emmanuel
   O come, O come, Emmanuel is a translation of the Latin text by John Mason Neale and Henry Sloane Coffin in the mid-19th century. It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons , which now serves as a popular Advent hymn...
   
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4. "The Holly and the Ivy
   The Holly and the Ivy
   "The Holly and the Ivy" is an English traditional Christmas carol. The carol contains intermingled Christian and Pagan imagery, with holly and ivy representing Pagan fertility symbols. Holly and ivy have been the mainstay of Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and...
   
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5. "Little Drummer Boy
   Little Drummer Boy
   "The Little Drummer Boy," originally known as "Carol of the Drum," is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer/teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. It was recorded 1955 by the Trapp Family Singers and further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry...
   
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6. "Still, Still, Still
   Still, Still, Still
   Still, Still, Still is an Austrian Christmas carol and lullaby. In German its first line is "Still, still, still, weil's Kindlein schlafen will!" The melody is a folk tune from the State of Salzburg...
   
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7. "Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming"
8. "In Dulci Jubilo
   In Dulci Jubilo
   In dulci jubilo is a traditional Christmas carol. In its original setting, the carol is a macaronic text of German and Latin dating from the Middle Ages. Subsequent translations into English, such as J.M...
   
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9. "Greensleeves
   Greensleeves
   "Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca.A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves". It then appears in the surviving A Handful of...
   
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10. "Carol of the Bells
    Carol of the Bells
    "Carol of the Bells" is the common English language title of a Christmas carol of Ukrainian origin, which has in recent years grown in popularity, particularly in English-speaking countries. The work was originally a choral miniature composition by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych based on...
    
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11. "Traditions of Christmas"
12. "Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night
    O Holy Night
    "O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...
    
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