This Christmas, Aretha is the 2008 Christmas album by Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...

. Initially a Borders

Borders Group

Borders Group, Inc. was an international book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company employed approximately 19,500 throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores....

 exclusive, it was reissued in 2009 on DMI Records.

It is her first ever Christmas album in her 52-year career of releasing albums. Having failed to launch her own Detroit-based label, Aretha Records, she chose to release this album on DMI Records. It peaked at #102 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

album chart and has reportedly sold close to 100,000 copies to date.

Track listing

1. "Angels We Have Heard on High
   Angels We Have Heard on High
   "Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol. The song commemorates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ found in the Gospel of Luke, in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child....
   
   " (James Chadwick) (5:26)
2. "This Christmas (with Edward Franklin)" (Donny Hathaway
   Donny Hathaway
   Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer-songwriter and musician. Hathaway contracted with Atlantic Records in 1969 and with his first single for the Atco label, "The Ghetto, Part I" in early 1970, Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music."His collaborations...
   
   & Nadine McKinnor) (5:23)
3. "My Grown-Up Christmas List
   Grown-Up Christmas List
   "Grown-Up Christmas List" is a Christmas song composed by David Foster and Linda Thompson-Jenner , and originally recorded by Foster for his 1990 non-holiday album River of Love. Though it was also released as a single, the song was not a hit upon its first appearance...
   
   " (David Foster
   David Foster
   David Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
   
    & Linda Thompson Jenner) (5:15)
4. "The Lord Will Make A Way" (Traditional, Arranged by Aretha Franklin) (5:43)
5. "Silent Night
   Silent Night
   "Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...
   
   " (Franz Gruber & Josef Mohr) (5:06)
6. "Ave Maria
   Ave Maria
   Ave Maria may refer to:*Ave Maria , the "Hail Mary", a traditional Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox prayer calling for the intercession of Mary, the mother of Jesus-Music:...
   
   " (Johann Sebastian Bach & Charles Gounod) (4:57)
7. "Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without The One You Love)" (Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff) (3:53)
8. "14 Angels" (Engelbert Humperdinck
   Engelbert Humperdinck
   Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel. Humperdinck was born at Siegburg in the Rhine Province; at the age of 67 he died in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.-Life:After receiving piano lessons, Humperdinck produced his first composition...
   
   , Arranged by Aretha Franklin) (2:08)
9. "One Night With The King" (Jeannie Tenney) (6:09)
10. "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...
    
    " (Charles Wesley & Felix Mendelssohn) (5:24)
11. "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" (Clement C. Moore; Adaptation by Aretha Franklin) (1:52)