Album · 2025
The Christmas Album
by Chris Rea
The Christmas Album is a 2025 rock album by Chris Rea. It runs 8 tracks across 35 minutes on Rhino. Riffiter listeners rate it 3.5/5 from 15 ratings.
Rock · Blues · Classic Rock
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- 3.5 /5
- 15 ratings
- 8
- Tracks
- 35 min
- Runtime
- 92 bpm
- Tempo
- A major
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The Christmas Album album cover
The The Christmas Album cover was designed by Stuart Crouch Creative, illustrated by Mark Entwistle, and art-directed by Stuart Crouch Creative.
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- Stuart Crouch Creative
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- Mark Entwistle
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- Stuart Crouch Creative
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8 tracks · 35 min
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Released on 28th November 2025, ‘The Christmas Album’ is Rea’s first album for the Christmas season; this eight track compilation album brings together tracks from throughout his catalogue that embrace a Christmas theme. ‘Driving Home For Christmas’ naturally opens ‘The Christmas Album’, but also closes it with the original version many may not be familiar with! The original 1986 version was a b-side of ‘Hello Friend’, but Rea decided to re-record and release it in 1988, alongside some of his other early songs for his album, ‘New Light Through Old Windows’. Originally it found modest success, but as time moved on it has become a staple of Christmas radio airwaves, compilation albums, movies and playlist that dominate December and has gone on the chart in the UK Top 40 every year since 2007!
In brief
- Is The Christmas Album good?
- Riffiter listeners rate The Christmas Album 3.5/5 from 15 ratings.
- When was The Christmas Album released?
- The Christmas Album was released in 2025 on Rhino.
- How many tracks are on The Christmas Album?
- The Christmas Album has 8 tracks, with a runtime of 35 minutes.
- What genre is The Christmas Album?
- The Christmas Album is catalogued under Rock, Blues, Classic Rock.
- What BPM is The Christmas Album?
- The Christmas Album runs at a median tempo of 92 BPM across its tracks, most often in A major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to The Christmas Album?
- Listeners of The Christmas Album also rate The Boys of Dungeon Lane by Paul McCartney, Privateering by Mark Knopfler, The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler: Private Investigations by Dire Straits.