Aretha Franklin "This Christmas, Aretha"

This Christmas is the first Christmas album and thirty-sixth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin. It was originally released on October 14, 2008, as a Borders Bookstore exclusive. The album was reissued in 2009 on DMI Records.

Having failed to launch her own Detroit-based label, Aretha’s Records, she chose to release this album on DMI Records. The album peaked at #102 on the Billboard album chart. As of January 2013, it had reportedly sold 142,864 copies in the United States.

Track listing
Information based on the album’s Liner Notes

1. "Angels We Have Heard on High" (James Chadwick) – 5:26
2. "This Christmas (with Edward Franklin)" (Donny Hathaway & Nadine McKinnor) – 5:23
3. "My Grown-Up Christmas List" (David Foster & Linda Thompson-Jenner) – 5:15
4. "The Lord Will Make A Way" (Traditional, Arranged by Aretha Franklin) – 5:43
5. "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber & Josef Mohr) – 5:06
6. "Ave Maria" (Charles Gounod & Johann Sebastian Bach) – 4:57
7. "Christmas Ain't Christmas (Without The One You Love)" (Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff) – 3:53
8. "14 Angels" (Engelbert Humperdinck, Arranged by Aretha Franklin) – 2:08
9. "One Night With The King" (Jeannie Tenney) – 6:09
10. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Charles Wesley & Felix Mendelssohn) – 5:24
11. "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" (Clement C. Moore; Adaptation by Aretha Franklin) – 1:52