''A Very Special Christmas 2'' is the second in the '' A Very Special Christmas'' series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the

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. The album was released on October 20, 1992, and production was overseen by

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, Vicki Iovine and Robert Sargent Shriver for

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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

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for shipment of two million copies in the United States since its 1992 release. As of November 2014, it is the 21st best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States during the

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era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,200,000 copies according to SoundScan.

Track listing

References

External links

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