A Very Special Christmas 2

{{Infobox album

| name = A Very Special Christmas 2

| type = Compilation album

| artist = Various artists

| cover = A Very Special Christmas 2.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Cover art by Keith Haring

| released = October 20, 1992

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Christmas music, Children's music

| length = 69:34

| label = A&M

| producer = Jimmy Iovine, Vicki Iovine, Robert Sargent Shriver

| prev_title = A Very Special Christmas

| prev_year = 1987

| next_title = A Very Special Christmas 3

| next_year = 1997

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r134096/review|pure_url=yes}} link]

| noprose = yes

}}

A Very Special Christmas 2 is the second in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released on October 20, 1992, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine, Vicki Iovine and Robert Sargent Shriver for A&M Records. Tupac Shakur was supposed to be featured on the album, but due to legal trouble his song was dropped.

On December 7, 2001, A Very Special Christmas 2 was certified Double Platinum for shipment of two million copies in the United States since its 1992 release.{{cite web|url=http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database# |title=RIAA Searchable Database |work=Recording Industry Association of America |accessdate=2014-12-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830055854/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database |archivedate=2014-08-30 }} As of November 2014, it is the 21st best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States during the SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,200,000 copies according to SoundScan.{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6334706/holidays-biggest-radio-and-album-hits |title=The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays |author=Billboard Staff|work=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|date=2014-12-01|accessdate=2014-12-02}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Artist(s)

| title1 = Christmas All Over Again

| writer1 = Tom Petty

| extra1 = Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

| length1 = 4:15

| title2 = Jingle Bell Rock

| writer2 = Joe Beal and Jim Boothe

| extra2 = Randy Travis

| length2 = 4:01

| title3 = The Christmas Song

| writer3 = Mel Tormé and Bob Wells

| extra3 = Luther Vandross

| length3 = 4:30

| title4 = Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

| writer4 = John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie

| extra4 = Frank Sinatra and Cyndi Lauper

| length4 = 2:37

| title5 = The Birth of Christ

| writer5 = Nathan Morris and Shawn Stockman

| extra5 = Boyz II Men

| length5 = 2:50

| title6 = Please Come Home for Christmas

| writer6 = Charles Brown, Gene Redd

| extra6 = Jon Bon Jovi

| length6 = 2:53

| title7 = What Christmas Means to Me

| writer7 = Anna Gordy Gaye, Allen Story and George Gordy

| extra7 = Paul Young

| length7 = 2:53

| title8 = O Christmas Tree

| writer8 = Ernst Anschütz

| extra8 = Aretha Franklin

| length8 = 3:34

| title9 = Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

| writer9 = Johnny Marks

| extra9 = Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love

| length9 = 2:49

| title10 = White Christmas

| writer10 = Irving Berlin

| extra10 = Michael Bolton

| length10 = 3:39

| title11 = Christmas Is

| writer11 = Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels

| extra11 = Run-D.M.C.

| length11 = 3:19

| title12 = Christmas Time Again

| writer12 = Nuno Bettencourt and Gary Cherone

| extra12 = Extreme

| length12 = 5:06

| title13 = Merry Christmas Baby

| writer13 = Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore

| extra13 = Charles Brown and Bonnie Raitt

| length13 = 4:33

| title14 = O Holy Night

| writer14 = Adolphe-Charles Adam and John Sullivan Dwight

| extra14 = Tevin Campbell

| length14 = 2:46

| title15 = Sleigh Ride

| writer15 = Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish

| extra15 = Debbie Gibson

| length15 = 3:13

| title16 = What Child Is This?

| writer16 = Traditional

| extra16 = Vanessa Williams

| length16 = 4:10

| title17 = Blue Christmas

| writer17 = Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson

| extra17 = Ann and Nancy Wilson

| length17 = 3:48

| title18 = Silent Night

| writer18 = Josef Mohr and Franz X. Gruber

| extra18 = Wilson Phillips

| length18 = 3:04

| title19 = I Believe in You

| writer19 = Bob Dylan

| extra19 = Sinéad O'Connor

| length19 = 5:39

}}

References

External links

[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000002G0M A Very Special Christmas 2] at Amazon.com
[http://www.specialolympics.org/very_special_christmas.aspx Special Olympics: A Very Special Christmas]

Category:1992 Christmas albums

Category:Albums produced by Jimmy Iovine

Category:1992 compilation albums

Category:A&M Records compilation albums

Category:A Very Special Christmas