{"id":315,"date":"2013-11-19T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/duck-dynasty-rocks-the-charts\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T21:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:21:40","slug":"duck-dynasty-rocks-the-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/duck-dynasty-rocks-the-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck Dynasty Rocks the Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is more than <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> behind those beards. There is money. <\/p>\n<p>The Robertsons of Duck Dynasty fame have risen to the top of the country charts with their <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merrychristmasradio.com\/?p=729\">Duck the Halls<\/a>. They sold 70,000 in their first week. <\/p>\n<p>Now, three weeks in, it is the biggest debut country holiday album in the last decade according to Nielsen Soundscan.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Robertson, who heads the family\u2019s business that sells products to duck hunters, said they anticipated the album would sell because of the show\u2019s loyal fan base. \u201cBut it\u2019s the momentum that\u2019s really something,\u201d he said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t even hit the time when we thought it would do well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Robertsons decided to record an album this summer when one of their agents suggested it would be a seamless addition to the \u201cDuck Dynasty\u201d brand: funny, festive, family-oriented. None of them had vocal experience except for Missy Robertson (who sang on last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> special), but Willie said they weren\u2019t concerned. \u201cWe\u2019ve all sung in church our whole lives,\u201d he said, \u201cand we do lots of karaoke.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Enlisting some of country music\u2019s biggest stars for cameos, including Josh Turner, Allison Krauss and George Strait, they recorded the album in a studio in their hometown and devised a 14-song tracklist that reflected the show\u2019s personality.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are funny parts, serious parts, a little prayer, some of our antics,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s got us all over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike Jesus and <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus, we got <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> behind these beards,\u201d Willie sings with country music heartthrob Luke Bryan on \u201cHairy <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>.\u201d \u201cWishin\u2019 you a hairy <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>, and a happy, happy, happy New Year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is more than love behind those beards. There is money. The Robertsons of Duck Dynasty fame have risen to the top of the country charts with their Christmas album Duck the Halls. They sold 70,000 in their first week. Now, three weeks in, it is the biggest debut country holiday album in the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","tag-christmas-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}