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Brett Eldredge Announces New Holiday Album ‘Merry Christmas (Welcome To The Family)’

September 17, 2024/by Lorie Hollabaugh

Brett Eldredge. Photo: Alysse Gafkjen

Brett Eldredge is helping us usher in the holidays in glamorous style once again this year, releasing Merry Christmas (Welcome to the Family), his third Christmas album.

The new collection of eight holiday originals is the first on his own label, Warm and Cozy Records. A duet with Kelly Clarkson, “Sweet December,” is available now before the album’s release.

“After singing ‘Under the Mistletoe’ together, I knew there was no one else in the world I wanted to sing this song with…Kelly’s voice has this soulful retro feeling,” says Eldredge. “I’ve never done a Christmas song in this style, and I really love it.”

Clarkson adds, “I’ve been fortunate enough to record songs with Brett, go see him live, and have him on my show! He has one of my favorite voices and I will sing with him anytime, anywhere! I hope people dig ‘Sweet December’ as much as we do!”

“I had a story in my head of introducing a stranger to my really wacky experience of going home for the holidays and meeting all of the interesting, crazy, beautiful, and awesome characters in my family,” explains Eldredge about the new album’s title. “I had just experienced another Christmas with 50 people in my house. We opened presents, went to Christmas service, and everybody was sleeping in the attic. At the end of the song, I introduce everyone to my family, everyone from my brother and mother to Uncle Jim and Aunt Margo.”

This year, Eldredge invites fans to unplug and gather around the kitchen table with Welcome to the Family: The Game, an exclusive board game printed onto the inner gatefold of the album’s vinyl edition. Fans who roll Santa’s special virtual die could win surprise holiday prizes, and the vinyl will be accompanied by a printed inner sleeve and will be available in a website exclusive signed Christmas splatter LP, retail exclusive Evergreen LP, Amazon exclusive red LP and black LP. The signed Christmas splatter LP will only be available to members of the Locals Fan Club, a community for Eldredge fans.

Eldredge has served up two fan-favorite holiday albums in years past, Glow [2016] and Mr. Christmas [2021]. Among the highlights are his cover of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside!” featuring Meghan Trainor, which emerged as a staple and generated over 207 million Spotify streams and counting. Glow ignited the spark for his annual holiday “Glow Tour” as well.

Merry Christmas (Welcome to the Family) Track List:
1. “Merry Christmas (Welcome to the Family)”
2. “It Must Be Christmas”
3. “Sweet December (featuring Kelly Clarkson)”
4. “Warm and Cozy”
5. “The Night St. Nick Got Sick”
6. “Season of Lights and Wonder”
7. “Who Will You Be Kissing on New Year’s Eve? (featuring Idarose)”
8. “Welcome to the Family (Reprise)”

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Lorie Hollabaugh
Lorie Hollabaugh
Hollabaugh, a staff writer at MusicRow magazine, has over 20 years of music business experience and has written for publications including American Profile, CMA Close Up, Nashville Arts And Entertainment, The Boot and Country Weekly. She has a Broadcast Journalism and Speech Communication degree from Texas Christian University, (go Horned Frogs), and welcomes your feedback or story ideas at lhollabaugh@musicrow.com.
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