Wintersong

Wintersong is the sixth album and first Christmas album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, released in October 2006. It was produced by longtime collaborator Pierre Marchand and includes contributions from Jim Creeggan of Barenaked Ladies. The album also includes a collaboration with Jazz musician Diana Krall. In 2007, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. In 2015, all songs from Wintersong plus five more tracks were released as The Classic Christmas Album.

Track listing
A "sampler" CD exists, featuring similar artwork on a cardboard sleeve, which omits "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "Song for a Winter's Night", and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".

Singles
"River" was released as a single from that album in September 2006. The song was performed in mid-October on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Ellen DeGeneres Show and reached No. 71 in the Billboard Hot 100. McLachlan's video for "River" premiered on Yahoo! music, on 1 November 2006. Silent Night from this album was used in an ASPCA commercial

Sales
Wintersong debuted on the Billboard 200 album sales chart at number 42, selling about 20,000 copies in its first week. The album later peaked at number 7 on the chart.

Wintersong was also the best-selling holiday album of 2006 in the United States according to sales figures from Nielsen/SoundScan, with total sales of 759,000 copies that year.

On 13 December 2007, Wintersong was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies in the U.S. In Canada, it has sold over 200,000 copies, and has been certified Double Platinum.

On the week of 17 December 2011, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at number 195.

Personnel

 * Sarah McLachlan - Vocals, Piano, Harp, Dobro
 * Pierre Marchand - Keyboards, Programming, Synth Bass, Quartet Manipulations, Vienna Keyboard Strings
 * Jim Creeggan - Double Bass
 * Colin Cripps - Guitar, Dobro
 * Diana Krall - Piano on "Christmas Time Is Here".
 * Ashwin Sood - Drums, Percussion
 * Luke Doucet - Guitar
 * Bill Dillon - Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Bass
 * Bob Doige - Sleigh Bells
 * Daryl Johnson - Bass
 * Vince Mai - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
 * Brian Minato - Bass
 * David Kershaw - Keyboards
 * David Sinclair - Guitar