Vince Guaraldi Trio’s evergreen soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas hits a new peak on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, as the set rises 5-2 (on the list dated Dec. 24). That surpasses its previous high, notched just a week ago, when the album rose 7-5, beating its earlier peak of No. 6, achieved last holiday season (Watch video below)
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a consistent strong performer on vinyl, as it was the top-selling holiday album on vinyl annually in the U.S. from 2012 through 2021.
Since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991, A Charlie Brown Christmas has sold 4.3 million in traditional album sales across all formats (CD, vinyl, cassette, digital download album, etc.), with 469,000 of that sum in vinyl LP sales.
Here, Schroeder is on keyboards (natch!), Pig Pen on the drum kit, Snoopy on the standup bass, Linus on lead vocals, and so on.
The Peanuts property has been invigorated recently with the popular theatrical release of The Peanuts Movie.
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In Season 2 an opening sequence to one of the episodes featured a Paul McCartney gravestone, a parody of the 1960s ‘Paul Is Dead’ rumours. In another episode, at Stanley and Martha Peterson’s wedding, their vows include two lines from ‘Martha My Dear.’ In one of the episodes of Season 7 ‘Golden Slumbers’ is featured in Homer’s dream sequence. In an episode of Season Five first screened on Thursday April 14 1994 Marge and Homer engage a deprogrammer to deprogramme Bart out of believing he is Mr Burn’s son. When Marge and Bart ask the deprogrammer how effective he is, he replies, “I got Paul McCartney out of Wings, didn’t I?” A furious Homer says, “You idiot! He was the most talented one!”
Paul and Linda agreed to appear in animated form in the American cartoon and to provide their own voices in the episode ‘Lisa The Vegetarian’, first screened in the U.S. on October 15 1995. It was the first episode of Season Seven and the two introduce Lisa to vegetarianism after a meeting at Apu’s roof garden. When Lisa meets them she exclaims, “Wow! Paul McCartney! I read about you in history class.”
Ringo was featured in ‘Brush With Greatness’, the second season episode of the popular animated series, numbered 7F18 and first screened in America on April 11 1991.
