A Christmas Cornucopia

A Christmas Cornucopia is the fifth solo studio album, and the first Christmas album, by Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Lennox, released in November 2010. It was Lennox's first album after signing to the Universal Music Group (Island Records in the UK, Decca in the US and Canada) following her departure from Sony BMG, which had been her label for almost 30 years.

A Christmas Cornucopia

12 November 2010^[1]

October 2009 – Summer 2010 in London, England

Sheen Lane, London
Milestone Studio, Cape Town

Christmas, soul

Island, Decca

Annie Lennox
Mike Stevens

The album is a collection of Lennox's favourite Christmas songs, though includes one original track written by Lennox, "Universal Child", which was released digitally as a single on 12 October 2010. A music video for Lennox's version of the classic Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" premiered on 4 November 2010, which was released as the second digital single from the album.

A tenth anniversary special edition of the album was released on 20 November 2020 including a new recording, "Dido's Lament".^[3]

Commercial performance[edit]

As of January 2011, Christmas Cornucopia has sold 179,000 copies in United States.^[15]

Annie Lennox – accordion, African drums, African percussion, arranger, , Fender Rhodes, flute, harmonium, keyboards, marimba, orchestral arrangements, pan pipes, percussion, piano, pipe organ, producer, reed organ, santur, string arrangements, triangle, vibraphone, vocal percussion, vocals, whisper, whistle, Wurlitzer

dulcimer

Dave Robbins – conductor

– arranger, bass, drones, engineer, glockenspiel, acoustic guitar, nylon string guitar, keyboards, mixing, music box, orchestral arrangements, organ, Hammond organ, oud, African drums, producer, programming, string arrangements, strings

Mike Stevens

Barry Van Zyl – African drums, percussion

The – vocals

A Christmas Cornucopia