Jackson 5 Christmas Album

Background

Christmas Album is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by Motown family quintet The Jackson 5. It was released on October 15, 1970. The group's version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" was released as a single, and along with their version of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", it regularly receives radio play during the Christmas season. The album spent four weeks at the number one position on Billboard magazine's special Christmas Albums chart that the magazine published in December 1970, making it the best-selling Christmas album of that year and also of the year 1972 in the United States. This album was a top seller and had the potential to chart high on the US Billboard Top LPs ranking, but from 1963 to 1973, holiday albums were not allowed to chart in it. The album has been praised by music critics and has since sold over 3 million copies worldwide.