It's a Wonderful Christmas is Michael W. Smith

Michael W. Smith

Michael Whitaker Smith is a Billboard top ten Billboard Hot 100 recording artist and Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian music. Smith also has achieved a considerable amount of...

's twenty-first album. This is Smith's third album of Christmas music.

Background

This is Michael's third holiday themed album. He performed with numerous choirs for certain tracks, including "Christmas Angels," "The Promise," "Son of God," and "Christmas Day

Christmas Day (Michael W. Smith song)

"Christmas Day" is a Christian song by Michael W. Smith featuring Mandisa. The single is from Michael W. Smith's album, It's a Wonderful Christmas.-Charts:...

." Other songs were instrumental, including "What Child is This," "Audrey's Gift" and "It's a Wonderful Christmas."

Track listing

1. "Christmas Angels"
2. "It’s A Wonderful Christmas"
3. "The Promise"
4. "Song For The King"
5. "Christmas Day" (Featuring Mandisa
   Mandisa
   Mandisa Hundley is an American gospel singer, who was the ninth-place finalist in the fifth season of American Idol.-Early life:...
   
   )
6. "A Highland Carol"
7. "Sing Noel, Sing Hallelujah"
8. "Son of God"
9. "What Child Is This"
10. "Audrey’s Gift"
11. "All Year Long"

Commercial performance

The album sold 12,759 copies in its first week, 6,000 of them digital. The album has since sold 39,000 copies.

Critical reception

The album was a critical success, receiving 4 stars out of 5 with every critic. However, Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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gave the album mixed reviews.

Personnel

• Songwriting - Michael W. Smith
  Michael W. Smith
  Michael Whitaker Smith is a Billboard top ten Billboard Hot 100 recording artist and Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian music. Smith also has achieved a considerable amount of...
  
  
• Producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   - Matthew West
  Matthew West
  On July 26, 2002, only a week or two before signing a record contract with Universal South Records, West had an injury to his left arm which threatened his musical career and guitar playing. He says, "I locked myself out of my house. But I'd done that before, and I had a way of breaking in through...
  
  , Clint Lagerberg, Sam Mizell
• Vocals - Michael W. Smith, Mandisa
  Mandisa
  Mandisa Hundley is an American gospel singer, who was the ninth-place finalist in the fifth season of American Idol.-Early life:...
  
  , Choristers of Reigate St. Mary's, Nashville Children's Choir, New Cumberland Choir
• Executive Producer
  Executive producer
  An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
  
   - David Hamilton
• Bagpipes
  Bagpipes
  Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...
  
   - Skip Cleavinger
• Lyricist
  Lyricist
  A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...
  
   - Tony Wood

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	59
US Billboard Top Christian Albums Chart	2
US Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums Top Pop Catalog Albums Top Pop Catalog Albums is a fifty-position weekly albums chart produced by Billboard magazine which ranks the best selling catalog titles, regardless of genre. Billboard defines a catalog title as one that is more than eighteen months old and that has fallen below position 100 on the Billboard 200...	15
US Billboard Top Holiday Albums (2007)	4
US Billboard Top Holiday Albums (2010)	2

Awards

In 2008, the album won a Dove Award for Christmas Album of the Year at the 39th GMA Dove Awards.