Sales and Chart Performance
Merry Christmas with Love debuted at number four on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with about 270,000 copies sold; this was also its peak position on the chart. By the end of 2004, around 1,004,000 copies of the album had been sold, and the album won Billboard awards for the Best-Selling Christmas Album of 2004 and the Best-Selling Christian Album of 2005. The album set a new record for fastest-selling holiday album in the SoundScan era (since March 1991) and tied Céline Dion's record for the highest debut by a holiday album in the history of Billboard magazine.
On January 6, 2005, Merry Christmas with Love was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million copies in the U.S. Going into the 2010 Christmas season, 1,416,000 copies had been sold in the U.S. and 2 million worldwide.
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