A Family Christmas

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Compilation albums [ edit ] List of compilations, with selected details, chart positions, sales, and certifications Collaborative albums [ edit ] List of collaborative albums, with selected details, chart positions, sales, and certifications Italian pop tenor and crossover artist Andrea Bocelli has released seventeen pop, classical, and Latin studio albums, including one holiday album; three compilation albums; twenty two singles; four collaborative albums; eleven complete opera recordings; three live albums, and nine live video releases.

A Family Christmas - Andrea Bocelli

In 1999, his nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards marked the first time a classical artist had been nominated in the category, since Leontyne Price, in 1961. [5] [10] The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film, The Quest for Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. [5] [10] With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the No. 1, 2 and 3 positions on the US Classical albums chart. [5] [10] The next three-and-a-half years followed with Bocelli holding permanent residency at the No. 1 spot. [10] Six of his albums have since reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, [11] and a record-setting 7, have topped the Classical albums charts, in the United States. [12]

From the release of his debut album, Il Mare Calmo della Sera, after winning the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival, with the song of the same name, in 1994, [1] to the release of his first holiday album, My Christmas, the best-selling holiday album and one of the best-selling albums of 2009, [2] [3] He has sold 75 million records worldwide. [4] Thus, he is the biggest-selling singer in the history of Classical music. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Live albums [ edit ] List of live albums, with selected details, chart positions, sales, and certifications Singles [ edit ] List of singles as lead artist, showing year released, selected chart positions, certifications, and originating album As of 2018, Andrea Bocelli has sold 25.2 million albums in United States. [19] As of 1996, his first two albums have combined sales of 1.3 million sold copies. [20] Studio albums [ edit ] Pop albums [ edit ] List of pop albums, with selected details, chart positions, sales, and certifications The Bocelli family released a collection of their holiday favorites, with a few new additions to the Christmas songbook.

A Family Christmas - Album by Andrea Bocelli | Spotify

At first, the maestro admitted he wasn’t sure if he wanted to do another Christmas album. During a recent live stream, Andrea said: “Honestly at the beginning, I was not very convinced. I already did a Christmas album many years ago. But then I thought family is such an important thing… family in this period is in trouble, this is a beautiful opportunity and important message for everybody. Family for me has always been the most important thing. The opportunity to [work alongside] my family is a dream for me. Virginia’s voice is an angel’s voice and Matteo’s is a deep expressive voice and then unfortunately there is also my voice!"Classical albums [ edit ] List of classical albums, with selected details, chart positions, sales, and certifications denotes items which were not released in that country or failed to chart or the peak is unavailable.