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A Faithful Christmas is a Christmas album and the fifth studio album by American recording artist Faith Evans, released on October 25, 2005, by Capitol Records. Work on the album began in mid-2005 after the release of her fourth studio album The First Lady. A collection of holiday songs, it contains standards such as "White Christmas" and "Santa Baby" alongside two new compositions, "Happy Holiday" and "Christmas Wish", both of which were written by Evans and her daughter Chyna Griffin.

A Faithful Christmas
Studio album by
Faith Evans
ReleasedOctober 25, 2005 (2005-10-25)
GenreChristmas
Length38:00
LabelCapitol
Producer
  • Todd Russaw (exec.)
  • Faith Evans (exec.)
  • PJ Morton
  • Kowan "Q" Paul
  • Gil Smith II
Faith Evans chronology
The First Lady
(2005)		 A Faithful Christmas
(2005)		 Something About Faith
(2010)

Reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[2]
People[3]

The album received generally mixed reviews from critics. In his review for Allmusic, Andy Kellman from wrote that the album sounded "very uneven and hastily thrown together." He criticized A Faithful Christmas for switching between "thoroughly modern" and classic Christmas songs, calling Evans's original material on the album "spirited but bland." He however praised her "straightforward version" of "The Day That Love Began."[1] Chris Willman from Entertainment Weekly found that "some of her beat-heavy originals are Faith-based fun [but] misses include an old James Brown Xmas tune with way more 'Good Gods!' than any non-Godfather should attempt."[2] People magazine writer Chuck Arnold felt that "the girliness of "Santa Baby" and playfulness of "Mistletoe and Holly" don't suit [Evans]. More fittingly, the CD closes with "O Come All Ye Faithful."[3]


Track listing


No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Happy Holiday"
  • Faith Evans
  • Chyna T. Griffin
5:19
2."The Day That Love Began"
  • Ron Miller
  • Deborah Wells
3:26
3."Soulful Christmas"
3:06
4."Santa Baby"
  • Joan Javits
  • Philip Springer
  • Tony Springer
3:19
5."Merry Christmas Baby"
  • Lou Baxter
  • Johnny Moore
4:33
6."Mistletoe and Holly"
2:16
7."Christmas Wish"
  • Evans
  • Griffin
  • Lou Baxter
  • Johnny Dudley Moore
  • Toni Coleman
3:31
8."Christmas Song"
3:35
9."This Christmas"
3:51
10."White Christmas"Irving Berlin3:26
11."O Come, All ye Faithful"John Francis Wade3:37

Sample credits


Charts



Weekly charts


Chart (2005) Peak
position
scope="row"US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[4] 70
scope="row"US Top Holiday Albums (Billboard)[5] 7

References


  1. Allmusic review
  2. Willman, Chris (2005-12-16). "Xmas Cheers (and Jeers) (Page 2)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-12-23.
  3. Arnold, Chuck (2005-12-12). "Picks and Pans: Music". People. Retrieved 2012-12-23.
  4. "Faith Evans Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  5. "Faith Evans Chart History (Holiday Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 16, 2020.




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