"Greatest Time of Year" is a song from Aly & AJ's Christmas album ''

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''. The single was used for '' The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'', similar to the way Hilary Duff's song "

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" was used for '' The Santa Clause 2'', and the music video also had scenes from the film. The video first aired on October 16, 2006 on the Disney Channel. The single debuted at number 96 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart.

Song information

The song was released to iTunes as the single version. The song is also featured in Disney's holiday albums, ''

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'' and ''

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''. The version in ''

'' is the album version, while the version in ''

'' is a new edit, which has no bridge, and ended with a live-audience sound. The song was used as the finale for the 2009

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show, "Let's Celebrate". In 2011, this song was included in the soundtrack of the Barbie Christmas-themed movie, '' Barbie: A Perfect Christmas'', as the bonus track.

Music video

*The music video was directed by Declan Whitebloom. The video does not include the intro but instead skips to the first verse of the song, and it also leaves out a small 8 second snippet just before the bridge. There are no other differences. The music video first aired on

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after '' Twitches'' in October 2006. Disney has begun airing it more frequently once ''The Santa Clause 3'' came out in theaters and its Billboard debut. A version without any ''Santa Clause 3'' scenes is featured on MTV.com.

Release history

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Greatest Time Of Year 2006 singles Aly & AJ songs American Christmas songs Songs written by Antonina Armato Songs written by Tim James (musician) Hollywood Records singles Song recordings produced by Rock Mafia 2006 songs Songs written by Aly Michalka Songs written by AJ Michalka