Jackson 5 Christmas Album

Jackson 5 Christmas Album is the fourth studio album, and first Christmas album, by Motown family quintet The Jackson 5. It was released on October 15, 1970. The group's version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" was released as a single, and along with their version of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", it regularly receives radio play during the Christmas season. The album spent four weeks at the number one position on Billboard magazine's special Christmas Albums chart that the magazine published in December 1970, making it the best-selling Christmas album of that year and also of the year 1972 in the United States. This album was a top seller and had the potential to chart high on the US Billboard Top LPs ranking, but from 1963 to 1973, holiday albums were not allowed to chart in it. The album has been praised by music critics and has since sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

In the US, the album was released on CD in 1986. In 2003, Universal Motown re-released the album as part of their 20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection series. This version of the album was remastered and included the Michael Jackson solo song "Little Christmas Tree" as a bonus track (from the various artists compilation A Motown Christmas, originally released in 1973). In 2009, an expanded version of the album was released under the title Ultimate Christmas Collection. This version includes remixes, spoken word Christmas greetings from each member of the Jackson 5, and a medley of the songs from the original version of the album.