Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits
| Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits (1935–1954) | |
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| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | 1989 |
| Genre | Christmas music |
| Label | Rhino |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  |
| Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits (1955–Present) | |
|---|---|
| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | 1989 |
| Genre | Christmas music |
| Label | Rhino |
| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  |
Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits is a set of two Christmas-themed compilation albums released by Rhino Records in 1989, each featuring ten popular Christmas recordings from 1935 to 1983, many of which charted on the Billboard record charts. Both volumes were certified Gold by the RIAA in the U.S., with the second volume being certified Platinum.
Shawn Haney of Allmusic says the album a "charming collection of golden classic Christmas favorites" that "should appeal to all ages." Featuring "everybody and everything from the Bing himself to Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to "All I Want for Christmas," a comedic, hilarious family favorite".
Allmusic critic Stewart Mason calls the album "a rather skimpy but nonetheless useful compilation of Christmas songs" and says it "wisely steers mostly clear of the annoying novelty Christmas songs of the rock era." While it does include the "horrifyingly bad 'Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer'," it also includes "Charles Brown's 'Please Come Home for Christmas', maybe the best R&B Christmas song ever".
Rhino Records subsequently released four other albums as Billboard Christmas hits:
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