When My Heart Finds Christmas is
American artist
Harry Connick, Jr.'s first Christmas album. Released in 1993, it is among the most popular
holiday collections of the past two decades in the
United States. Connick Jr composed four songs for the album: "When My Heart Finds Christmas", "(It Must've Been Ol') Santa Claus", "The Blessed Dawn Of Christmas Day" and "I Pray On Christmas". The other songs are traditional
Christmas songs and carols.
The album proved to be the
best-selling holiday album in the U.S. for all of 1993, selling 748,000 copies that year according to
Nielsen/SoundScan.
As of December 17, 2012,
When My Heart Finds Christmas was the eleventh best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the SoundScan era of music sales (March 1991 – present), having sold a total of 3,119,000 copies according to SoundScan.
On December 6, 2005, the album was certified
Triple Platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of three million copies in the U.S.