Tabernacle Choir Christmas album hits No. 1 on Billboard charts

dnews TabChoirChristmasConcertfea ja — The Tabernacle Choir sings along with performers at the Conference Center.

Jeffrey Allred, *Deseret News*

The pandemic may have prevented most in-person rehearsals the past 18 months, but that hasn’t stopped the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square from again reaching the coveted top spot on the Billboard’s Traditional Classical chart.

The week of November 27, 2021, the Choir's newest album Christmas Best hit number 1. This is the 15th time the Choir has made it to the top.

Worshipful, moving, and vibrant messages of joy, peace, and love shine from this must-have Christmas album—a collection of the very best songs by the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square from the last fifteen years. The ultimate backdrop for a meaningful Christmas celebration at home.

“The Choir’s mission, especially at Christmas, is to help people feel closer to the divine and to help them sense the great love God has for all his children,” said Choir President Michael O. Leavitt in a press release. “We hope in this season of peace, hope, and goodwill that these treasured Christmas songs on this album will touch hearts and homes everywhere.”

The album's track list includes:

Christmas Is Coming
The Little Drummer Boy (“Carol of the Drum”)
Christmas Children (from Scrooge)
Ring Those Christmas Bells
O Holy Night
The Twelve Days of Christmas
O Come, Little Children
Somewhere in My Memory (from Home Alone)
The Wexford Carol
March of the Three Kings (“Farandole,” from L’arlésienne Suite, no. 2)
In the Bleak Midwinter
A Christmas Meditation (“Away in a Manger”)
Silent Night

In addition to the new album, a commemorative DVD with highlights from the past 20 years of Tabernacle Choir Christmas concerts is also available.

Celebrate twenty years of the Choir Christmas concert with this unique, behind-the-scenes look at the spiritual spectacle we've come to know and love.

For those who would rather read than watch or listen, a commemorative book full of stories and photographs from previous concerts makes for an ideal Christmas read:

Each year the Christmas concert is hosted by a distinguished special guest, including Jane Seymour, Tom Brokaw, Kristin Chenoweth, and Hugh Bonneville. These holiday story adaptions have ranged from The Gift of the Magi to the story behind the writing of the hymn, "It Is Well With My Soul" to the inspiring tale of "The Candy Bomber"—an unlikely American WWII hero who dropped candy from his airplane to the children of Germany.

This coffee table edition is the perfect holiday keepsake for all ages and features photographs of the stage productions alongside the stories, which also includes a weblink to hear the stories from every performance.