Let's Put "Christmas Portrait" in the Top 100

Quite possibly the finest Christmas album of all-time. Karen Carpenter was born to sing Christmas music.

Today is the start of my campaign to get "Christmas Portrait" back on the charts and to peak even higher than it did in 2011. Way back in 1978 "Christmas Portrait" was on the charts and made it to #150 in the US and then in 2011 (an entire 33 years after it's release) the album reached a new peak position at #126. On the Billboard chart for the week ending December 8, 2012  "Christmas Portrait" re-entered the chart at #147. The newest edition of the chart finds the album falling down to #171 (we've got our work cut out for us). This year (2012) the goal is to get the album into the Top 100. We can do it.

The way to get the album into the Top 100 is to purchase a brand new copy of the disc. If you're purchasing it from Amazon.com (which you will find links to amazon in this post) there are options to purchase it brand new directly from Amazon.com . You will find that new copy from Amazon in the box listed Formats. It will be listed in the first row which is listed as Amazon Price. It's either available as MP3 Music or Audio CD. Click on either one of those to make your purchase.

Sales of brand new CD or MP3 copies will put the album on the charts. Purchases of used copies will not help.

Please send this link to everyone you know so we can make a difference and get "Christmas Portrait" into the Top 100 this year.

Click Here to purchase Christmas Portrait from Amazon.com

Click Here to purchase Christmas Portrait from Amazon.com

Merry Christmas Darling!

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Christmas Portrait on Billboard Chart

Very good news for fans of Karen Carpenter and the Carpenters. For the week ending December 17, 2011 the album "Christmas Portrait" is at #153 on the U.S. Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart. Last week it was at #175, it moved up an entire 22 positions.

The highest position the album has reached in the U.S. was #150 back in 1978 and so far it has been certified platinum for sales over 1 million copies.

It would be great to see "Christmas Portrait" remain on the charts for a third consecutive week. It would be even better to see it surpass it's peak of #150. But it can only happen one way and that is by generating sales. I urge those of you who yet do not own the CD to purchase it. "Christmas Portrait" is one of the most beautiful collections of Christmas music ever. In my humble opinion it is the very best Christmas album in the history of recorded music.

Below I have provided a link to the album on Amazon. But in order to keep it on the charts you have to purchase a new copy from Amazon.

Amazon is selling the disc for $12.98 brand new. (UPDATE: Since the publishing of this post Amazon has put the disc on sale and is now selling it for $11.54)

On the Amazon page for the album you will see a small box with the heading "Formats". In this box it lists MP3 Download, Audio CD 1990, Vinyl and audio Cassette.

To keep the album on the charts you can either purchase the MP3 download of the entire album for $5.99 ( that's a great price) or in the line that says Audio CD, 1990 you would purchase the first listing under the Amazon price heading for $12.98 (now on sale for $11.54).

The prices listed in the Formats box under the Amazon Prices heading is what you want to purchase to keep the album on the charts.

Now here's the link to the page:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002GHQ/ref=nosim/populasongsmu-20

Carpenters - Christmas Portrait (1978) CLICK HERE to Purchase

What are your favorite songs from "Christmas Portrait"? UPDATE! Very good news for Carpenters. "Christmas Portrait" has officially bested it's previous peak position. Back in 1978 the album reached #150. This week the album has moved up to #126 with a bullet. The next goal is to get the album into the Top 100 (that would be big news.). If you haven't bought it - go out and buy it. Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002GHQ/ref=nosim/populasongsmu-20   *** Remember in order to keep the album on the charts you either want to buy a new copy directly from Amazon.com (which is currently selling for $11.54) or you should buy a download of the entire album. If you already own it than buy a copy or a download for a friend or family member. Let's make it happen.