Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Wrapped in Red is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Kelly Clarkson, released on October 25, 2013 by RCA Records. Primarily produced by Greg Kurstin, it is her first Christmas-themed release and her first album to be solely released by RCA. Consisting of fourteen tracks, it features cover versions of Christmas standards and contains five original songs, all of which she had co-written with various musicians.Working extensively to create a contemporary holiday theme to classics, Clarkson has cited both Bing Crosby's and Rosemary Clooney's soundtracks for the 1954 film White Christmas and the 2003 film Love Actually as her inspirations for the album, whereas Kurstin cited Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas and A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector as his inspirations, which led him to evoke a "Wall of Sound" treatment during the album's production. She described the music of Wrapped in Red as a representation to explore different genres apart from pop music, which included jazz, country and Memphis soul, with an overall lyrical theme of the color red—which to her represents love, lust, envy, pain, and beauty, apart as a prominent holiday color.Upon its release, Wrapped in Red garnered a positive response from music critics, who noted the album's unique track selection and lauded its original songs as prospective Christmas standards. It became a commercial success in the United States, where debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number 3 and topped the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart with 70,000 copies sold in its first week of release, For nine consecutive weeks, Wrapped in Red stayed on the top ten of both charts and was quickly certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies. According to Billboard and Nielsen Soundscan, the album eventually became the best-selling Christmas release of 2013 in the United States. Its lead single "Underneath the Tree" became a top forty Christmas hit song and was pegged by critics as a future Christmas standard. To coincide with the album's release, Clarkson filmed the television special Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale at The Venetian Las Vegas on October 30, 2013, which was first broadcast on NBC on December 11, 2013.. }
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- Wrapped_in_Red abstract "Wrapped in Red is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Kelly Clarkson, released on October 25, 2013 by RCA Records. Primarily produced by Greg Kurstin, it is her first Christmas-themed release and her first album to be solely released by RCA. Consisting of fourteen tracks, it features cover versions of Christmas standards and contains five original songs, all of which she had co-written with various musicians.Working extensively to create a contemporary holiday theme to classics, Clarkson has cited both Bing Crosby's and Rosemary Clooney's soundtracks for the 1954 film White Christmas and the 2003 film Love Actually as her inspirations for the album, whereas Kurstin cited Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas and A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector as his inspirations, which led him to evoke a "Wall of Sound" treatment during the album's production. She described the music of Wrapped in Red as a representation to explore different genres apart from pop music, which included jazz, country and Memphis soul, with an overall lyrical theme of the color red—which to her represents love, lust, envy, pain, and beauty, apart as a prominent holiday color.Upon its release, Wrapped in Red garnered a positive response from music critics, who noted the album's unique track selection and lauded its original songs as prospective Christmas standards. It became a commercial success in the United States, where debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number 3 and topped the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart with 70,000 copies sold in its first week of release, For nine consecutive weeks, Wrapped in Red stayed on the top ten of both charts and was quickly certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies. According to Billboard and Nielsen Soundscan, the album eventually became the best-selling Christmas release of 2013 in the United States. Its lead single "Underneath the Tree" became a top forty Christmas hit song and was pegged by critics as a future Christmas standard. To coincide with the album's release, Clarkson filmed the television special Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale at The Venetian Las Vegas on October 30, 2013, which was first broadcast on NBC on December 11, 2013.".