A Very Special Christmas 2

A Very Special Christmas 2
A Very Special Christmas 2
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	October 20, 1992
Genre	Christmas music, Children's music
Length	69:34
Label	A&M
Producer	Jimmy Iovine, Vicki Iovine, Robert Sargent Shriver
Various artists chronology

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A Very Special Christmas 2 is the second in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit Special Olympics. The album was released on 20 October 1992, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine, Vicki Iovine and Robert Sargent Shriver for A&M Records. Tupac Shakur was supposed to be featured on the album but due to legal trouble his song was dropped.

On December 7, 2001, A Very Special Christmas 2 was certified Double Platinum for shipment of two million copies in the United States since its 1992 release.^[1] As of November 2014, it is the twenty-first best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States during the SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,200,000 copies according to SoundScan.^[2]

Track listing

Track	Song Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Time
1.	"Christmas All Over Again"	Tom Petty	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	4:15
2.	"Jingle Bell Rock"	Joe Beal and Jim Boothe	Randy Travis	4:01
3.	"The Christmas Song"	Mel Tormé and Bob Wells	Luther Vandross	4:30
4.	"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"	John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie	Frank Sinatra and Cyndi Lauper	2:37
5.	"The Birth of Christ"	Nathan Morris and Shawn Stockman	Boyz II Men	2:50
6.	"Please Come Home for Christmas"	Charles Brown, Gene Redd	Jon Bon Jovi	2:53
7.	"What Christmas Means to Me"	Anna Gordy Gaye, Allen Story and George Gordy	Paul Young	2:53
8.	"O Christmas Tree"	Ernst Anschütz	Aretha Franklin	3:34
9.	"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"	Johnny Marks	Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love	2:49
10.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	Michael Bolton	3:39
11.	"Christmas Is"	Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels	Run-D.M.C.	3:19
12.	"Christmas Time Again"	Nuno Bettencourt and Gary Cherone	Extreme	5:06
13.	"Merry Christmas Baby"	Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore	Charles Brown and Bonnie Raitt	4:33
14.	"O Holy Night"	Adolphe-Charles Adam and John Sullivan Dwight	Tevin Campbell	2:46
15.	"Sleigh Ride"	Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish	Debbie Gibson	3:13
16.	"What Child Is This?"	Traditional	Vanessa Williams	4:10
17.	"Blue Christmas"	Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson	Ann and Nancy Wilson	3:48
18.	"Silent Night"	Josef Mohr and Franz X. Gruber	Wilson Phillips	3:04
19.	"I Believe in You"	Bob Dylan	Sinéad O'Connor	5:39

References

^ "RIAA Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2014-12-02. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Staff, Billboard (2014-12-01). "The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2014-12-02.

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[1] "RIAA Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2014-12-02. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[2] Staff, Billboard (2014-12-01). "The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2014-12-02.

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