LeAnn Rimes’ new album shines with recent songs and all-star collaborations, that includes Luke Evans, Aloe Blacc, and Gavin DeGraw.
Simply weeks after unveiling plans for her Best Hits Christmas Tour, two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter, and multi-platinum-selling artist LeAnn Rimes is ready to ignite the vacation season with the announcement of her first-ever ‘Best Hits Christmas’ album. The dazzling assortment arrives November seventh by way of Curb Information on double vinyl, CD, and all digital platforms, completely timed to usher in essentially the most magical time of the yr.
Spanning three a long time of celebrated vacation recordings, ‘Best Hits Christmas’ serves because the definitive tribute to Rimes’ enduring connection to the season. The double vinyl and digital launch brings collectively fan-favorite classics, standout tracks from her beloved Christmas catalogue, and three brand-new originals destined to turn out to be fashionable vacation staples.
From her 1997 breakout vacation single, ‘Put a Little Vacation in Your Coronary heart’, to a joyful rendition of ‘Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree’, and heartfelt highlights from her ‘It’s Christmas, Eve’ soundtrack, the album traces Rimes’ creative and private evolution via a festive lens – one which shines as brightly as ornaments on a tree and lights up the season with heat and nostalgia.
Rimes captures a variety of emotion all through the gathering – from a uncooked, stirring interpretation of Joni Mitchell’s winter basic, ‘The River’, to a robust re-imagining of ‘Comfortable Xmas (Struggle Is Over)’, providing a refreshed 2025 digital mixture of the Lennon/Ono anthem beforehand accessible solely in restricted bodily kind. Including a splash of playfulness and cinematic aptitude, Rimes welcomes international actor and singer, Luke Evans, (‘Magnificence and the Beast’, ‘The Hobbit’, ‘Quick & Livid’) for ‘There’s No Such Factor’, a cheeky, theatrical ode to vacation skeptics that gives a joyful glimpse into her forthcoming musical Christmas challenge, ’32 Hooves’.
Moreover, ‘Best Hits Christmas’ options standout collaborations with Aloe Blacc – the soulful singer-songwriter behind hits similar to ‘I Want a Greenback’, on ‘That Spirit of Christmas’, and Gavin DeGraw on a shifting duet of ‘Rejoice Me Dwelling’.
Reflecting on the album, Rimes shared: “Christmas has at all times been a sacred season for me. Not only a time of yr, however an area I return to in my coronary heart. This assortment is a mirrored image of the recollections, the prayers, the playfulness, and the spirit I’ve poured into this season time and again”.
“A few of these songs I’ve sung since I used to be slightly woman. A few of these songs deliver out the large child in me. Others got here later, from a deeper place, after I began asking myself what the season looks like now as a lady, a spouse, a stepmom, and somebody who’s lived much more life”.
“So, this album is a gathering of huge and small moments, glittering and grounded, which have formed how I see Christmas and what it’s meant to me all through my life. I hope once you pay attention, you’re feeling the enjoyment, the ache, the marvel, and the heat that I’ve at all times felt singing these songs. And greater than something, I hope it brings you nearer to your self and the folks you like”.
Co-executive produced by Rimes and longtime collaborator Darrell Brown, Best Hits Christmas is a joyful invitation to have a good time the season with one of the vital beloved voices in up to date music – a voice that has turn out to be synonymous with vacation heat and marvel.
The discharge arrives simply forward of Rimes’ Best Hits Christmas Tour, which kicks off December 4 in Morristown, NJ, with extra stops in Nashville, Phoenix, Tucson, and extra. Full tour dates and ticket data can be found at www.leannrimes.com.
LeAnn Rimes is an internationally celebrated, multi-platinum-selling artist whose genre-spanning profession has flourished for greater than three a long time. With over 48 million albums bought worldwide, eight GRAMMY® nominations, and two wins, she made historical past because the youngest solo artist ever to obtain a GRAMMY Award. Her timeless hit, ‘How Do I Reside’ stays certainly one of Billboard’s biggest songs of all time, and her chart-topping success consists of 15 top-10 hits throughout a number of genres, amongst them the worldwide anthem. ‘Can’t Struggle the Moonlight’.
In 2025, Rimes earned one other GRAMMY® Award for her stirring efficiency on President Jimmy Carter’s closing spoken phrase album, becoming a member of Jon Batiste and Ben Harper. Her a cappella rendition of ‘Superb Grace’ was hailed by critics as “a surprising and reverent interpretation”, incomes recognition as one of many challenge’s standout moments.
All through her profession, Rimes has collaborated with a unprecedented vary of artists, together with Elton John, Stevie Nicks, Ziggy Marley, Jon Bon Jovi, Aloe Blacc, Ledisi, Jeff Beck, and Alison Krauss, underscoring her far-reaching musical versatility and affect. In 2024, she made tv historical past as a coach on The Voice in each the UK and Australia, guiding her Australian contestant Reuben De Melo to victory earlier than headlining London’s O2 Enviornment to shut her acclaimed The Story…thus far tour. The next spring, she returned to U.S. tv as a Mega Mentor on NBC’s The Voice Season 27, working alongside John Legend and Adam Levine to organize contestants for the reside reveals.
That very same yr, Rimes joined the celebrated bluegrass group Trampled by Turtles on their album At all times Right here | At all times Now, contributing vocals to 2 tracks, together with the lead single, ‘We All Run Out of Time’, which grew to become the most-added tune on Americana radio.
Past her artistry, Rimes is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, psychological well being consciousness, and the destigmatization of power circumstances similar to psoriasis. She has been a number one voice in anti-bullying initiatives, overtly sharing her private experiences and selling empathy, therapeutic, and self-acceptance. Her iHeartRadio podcast, ‘Wholly Human’, which reached #2 on Apple’s Well being & Health chart, extends this mission, providing area for significant, susceptible conversations round emotional well-being.
Timeless, fearless, and ever-evolving, LeAnn Rimes stays a defining voice and transformative drive in music.
