8 Days of Christmas
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8 Days of Christmas
- Artist: Destiny's Child
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- Release Date: October 23, 2001
- Total Time: 41:35
- Type: Christmas
- Genre: Rhythm & Blues
Review
Destiny's Child's holiday album, 8 Days of Christmas, is pretty much what you'd expect -- divided equally between strained hip-hop-soul and smooth adult contemporary pop directly targeted at a crossover paradise. Since holiday albums have to have a hook, or at least one novelty to draw in an audience, there's the title track that recasts "12 Days of Christmas" as a modern, commercialistic, sub-hip-hop rant. Things get better than that, as the tailor-made "Winter Paradise" works much better, as does "A 'DC' Christmas Medley," which may be a little formulaic, but appealing. Then, there's a huge stretch that features the individual members of Destiny's Child singing a carol apiece (plus "Little Drummer Boy," which features Solange, who isn't in the group) -- good way of prepping for the inevitable solo careers, I suppose. Then, the album pretty much runs out with ballads and songs that emphasize some of the more irritating aspects of Destiny's Child (the skittering verses of "Spread a Little Love on Christmas Day," for instance, complete with its chorus of "I got your back on Christmas Day"), as well as their crossover attempts, including a version of "Opera of the Bells." So, yes, this is uneven, as much as any holiday album is uneven, and even if it lacks anything distinctive, it's still Destiny enough to please many hardcore fans. Ultimately, it doesn't really feel all that distinctive one way or another, which may be worse than being really bad or really great. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi| 8 Days a Week/I Don't Want To (1981 Album by The Beatles) | |
| 8 Days of Christmas [Australia Bonus Tracks] (2001 Album by Destiny's Child) |
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8 Days of Christmas
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| Studio album (holiday album) by Destiny's Child | ||||
| Released | October 30, 2001 (See release history) |
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| Recorded | July–September 2001 | |||
| Genre | Holiday, R&B | |||
| Length | 41 min (original) 53 min (special edition) |
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| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Demon Elliott, Kurt Farguhar, Focus..., Alan Foyd, Rob Fusari, Alonzo Jackson, Beyoncé Knowles, Errol McCalla Jr., Falante Moore, Willie Morris, Ric Wake, Erron Williams, Bama Boyz | |||
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8 Days of Christmas is a Christmas album by R&B girl group Destiny's Child, released by Columbia Records in October 2001 in the United States (see 2001 in music).
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Background
The album contains seven traditional Christmas songs and four original songs. Most of them are re-arranged with up-tempo beats in a contemporary R&B style. The album was recorded in Summer 2001 in the United States, but Kelly Rowland stated during the "8 Days of Christmas" video premiere on BET's 106 & Park in Fall 2001 that parts of the album were also recorded in Japan during Destiny's Child's overseas promo tour. In the same interview Beyoncé Knowles revealed: Actually we wrote the song two years ago, when we went in the studio to do some Christmas something. That's what started the idea of doing a Christmas album.[3] The song "8 Days of Christmas" was first released in November 2000 on the 2CD re-issue of "The Writing's on the Wall".
Reception
The album debuted at number seventy-five on the U.S. Billboard 200 selling over 23,000 copies during its first week of release, and it eventually peaked at number thirty-four a few weeks later. It was certified gold by the RIAA in December 2001 for over 500,000 copies shipped in the United States. In 2004, a re-issued version of the album was released, containing previously unreleased records.
Track listing
- "8 Days of Christmas" (Erroll McCalla Jr., Beyoncé Knowles) – 3:31
- "Winter Paradise" (B. Knowles, Rob Fusari, Falante Moore, G. Michael) – 3:36
- "A 'DC' Christmas Medley" (H. Gillespie, F. Coots, S. Nelson, J. Rollins, J. Marks, G. Autry, O. Halderman) – 3:59
- "Silent Night" (by Beyoncé Knowles) – 3:41
- "Little Drummer Boy" (featuring Solange Knowles) (K. Davis, H. Onorati, H. Simeone) – 3:36
- "Do You Hear What I Hear" (by Kelly Rowland) (N. Rigney, G. Shain) – 3:47
- "White Christmas" (I. Berlin) – 1:43
- "Platinum Bells" (R. Evans, J. Livingston – 1:27
- "O' Holy Night" (by Michelle Williams) (A. Adam) – 4:25
- "Spread a Little Love on Christmas Day" (B. Edwards Jr., B. Knowles) – 3:42
- "This Christmas" (N. McKinnor, D. Hathaway) – 3:38
- "Opera of the Bells" (M. Dythrovych) – 4:35
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 13. | "Proud Family" (by Solange featuring Destiny's Child) | Kurt Farquhar, Gerald "Gee Gee" Harbour | 2:17 | ||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 13. | "Home for the Holidays" | B. Knowles, S. Knowles, Bama Boyz | 3:10 | ||||||
| 14. | "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" | 2:31 | |||||||
| 15. | "Proud Family" (by Solange featuring Destiny's Child) | 2:17 | |||||||
| 16. | "Emotion (with strings)" | 4:22 | |||||||
| DualDisc edition, DVD side | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "8 Days of Christmas" (music video) | ||||||||
| 2. | "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (music video) | ||||||||
| 3. | "8 Days of Christmas" (live performance) | ||||||||
| 4. | "Behind the scenes holiday visit at the Ronald McDonald House" | ||||||||
| 5. | "Coming soon: Live DVD trailer" | ||||||||
| 6. | "All 12 songs in enhanced PCM Stereo" | ||||||||
Release history
| Region | Date | Format |
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| United States | October 23, 2001 | Compact disc |
| Europe[4] | November 12, 2001 | Compact disc |
| United States | October 18, 2005 | DualDisc |
Charts
| Chart (2001) | Provider | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Albums Chart | ARIA | 64[5] | |
| Austrian Albums Chart[6] | Media Control | 20 | |
| Dutch Albums Chart[6] | MegaCharts | 24 | |
| French Albums Chart[6] | SNEP/IFOP | 134 | |
| German Albums Chart[7] | Media Control | 80 | |
| Japanese Albums Chart[8] | Oricon | 20 | |
| U.S. Billboard 200[6] | Billboard | 34 | Gold |
References
- ^ 8 Days of Christmas Destiny's Child Allmusic.com Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- ^ Destiny's Child 8 Days of Christmas Slantmagazine.com Sal Cinquemani November 11, 2001
- ^ "Keyta's Vibe - DESTINY'S CHILD". Freewebs.com. http://www.freewebs.com/keytasvibe/destinyschild.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "8 Days of Christmas: Destiny's Child: Amazon.de: Musik". Amazon.de. http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00005QZ3S. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "Pandora Archive". Pandora.nla.gov.au. 2006-08-23. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20020221-0000/www.aria.com.au/Issue618.pdf. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ a b c d "DESTINY'S CHILD – 8 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (ALBUM)". Swisscharts. http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Destiny%27s+Child&titel=Destiny+Fulfilled&cat=a. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
- ^ musicline.de / PhonoNet GmbH. "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche". musicline.de. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Destiny%27s+Child/?type=longplay. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
- ^ "Destiny's Child – 8 Days Of Christmas". Oricon. http://ranking.oricon.co.jp/free_contents/search/ranking_list.asp?itemcd=460446&samecd=1&chart_kbn=11A&linkcd=30054844. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
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