Rock This Christmas
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Rock This Christmas is the ninth album, and second Christmas
album, by Christian
pop
group Jump5
. It was released on November 22nd, 2005. It contains seven original songs, three traditional Christmas carols, and the Christian hymn Amazing Grace
. Rock This Christmas is the first Jump5 album to be released independently by the group through Nevaeh Records and not by Jump5's former label Sparrow Records
.
In December 2007, Jump5 released the album Christmas like This which contains 10 re-recorded versions of all the songs from this album, with the exception of "Amazing Grace."
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
album, by Christian
Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
group Jump5
Jump5
- History :Siblings Brandon and Brittany Hargest had competed on the same dance team as Lesley Moore, and were familiar with Chris Fedun and Libby Hodges through the competitive dance circuit. The mother of Hodges held an open casting call to find additional members to form a new pop group with her...
. It was released on November 22nd, 2005. It contains seven original songs, three traditional Christmas carols, and the Christian hymn Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton , published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God,...
. Rock This Christmas is the first Jump5 album to be released independently by the group through Nevaeh Records and not by Jump5's former label Sparrow Records
Sparrow Records
-Background:Sparrow Records was founded in 1976 by Billy Ray Hearn, then A&R director at Myrrh Records. Purchased by EMI in 1992, it is now part of the EMI Christian Music Group, and has been named by Billboard Magazine as "America's Best Christian Music Record Label"...
.
In December 2007, Jump5 released the album Christmas like This which contains 10 re-recorded versions of all the songs from this album, with the exception of "Amazing Grace."