Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album by American singer Mariah Carey. Released by Columbia Records on November 1, 1994, the album features cover versions of popular Christmas tunes and original material. Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote all of the original tracks, as well as producing Carey’s interpretations of the covered material. The album contains a contemporary holiday theme, and featured “authentic, gospel flavored background vocals.

The album features instrumentation from keyboards, bass guitars, drums, percussion and heavy backing vocals. After its release, the album received generally positive reviews and became a worldwide success. Critics praised Carey’s uplifting and flavored vocals, as well as her skilled songwriting alongside Afanasieff. Singles were released from the album, being sent to different radio stations for promotional purposes.Merry Christmas was released at the peak of the initial stretch of Carey’s career, between Music Box (1993) and Daydream (1995). The album produced the worldwide classic single, ” All I Want for Christmas Is You “, which became the best-selling holiday ringtone in the US. The album has sold 5,298,000 copies in the United States as of April 2013 according to Nielsen SoundScan, and has been certified five-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of five million copies in the United States. In Japan, Merry Christmas has sold over 2,500,000 copies and is the second best-selling album of all time by a non-Asian artist, behind only Carey’s other release Number 1’s. Merry Christmas has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling Christmas album of all time.

How to Learn The Piano Part

Learn each tone of the piano in the middle register either through visually remembering them, or perhaps by studying to read from sheet music, this is your 1st step in understanding the best way to play rock piano tunes. Learning to read music is a skill you will have to develop eventually either to read tablatures or written music, and can greatly help you prepare more strongly for performances. It also can help you to understand essential harmonies should you go on to getting an on-line piano training course or a keyboard professor. Practice everyday so you’ll be able to learn off of what you rehearsed the previous day.