Kristin Chenoweth Hits #1 on Billboard Heat Seekers Chart, Performs TONIGHT on NBC

Sony Masterworks announced that Kristin Chenoweth's recently released holiday recording, A Lovely Way To Spend Christmas, has garnered the highest sales and chart ranking in her recording career. With increased sales of 63% this week, A Lovely Way To Spend Christmas holds the #1 position on Billboard's Heat Seekers Chart and continues to steadily climb the Billboard Seasonal and Top 200 Charts.

On her third album, Chenoweth covers a wide range of Christmas songs from "Christmas Island," popularized by The Andrew's Sisters to her personal favorite "Come On Ring Those Bells." In addition to well-known Christmas classics such as "Silver Bells" and "I'll Be Home For Christmas" (which she recently performed on The Today Show), Chenoweth reinterprets Louis Armstrong's modern standard "What A Wonderful World" and children's favorite "Sing," (originally written for Sesame Street's loveable Big Bird) into Christmas songs with the help of acclaimed producer Robbie Buchanan (Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Barry Manilow) and Executive Producer Jay Landers (Streisand, Midler, Manilow, Celine Dion and Josh Groban).

The album also features new compositions of "Home On Christmas Day," co-written by Grammy Award-winning producer Walter Afanasieff (Mariah Carey, Celine Dion) and Jay Landers and "Born On Christmas Day," with lyrics by Grammy winning pop/soul singing legend Peabo Bryson.

This week she also performed the classic "Do You Hear What I Hear" on The View and will perform it again tonight as part of NBC's Christmas In Rockefeller tree lighting ceremony. She will perform "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "What Child Is This?" on TNT's Christmas In Washington on December 14, 2008.