In the midst of the hot and sticky summer heat in Nashville, Grammy-winning Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman wrapped up his new Christmas recording, All I Really Want For Christmas.

The album marks Chapman’s 3rd holiday CD and his 15th studio project.

“I've thought about a Christmas tour for almost ten years now since my first Christmas album released. I love Christmas music and there's nothing like getting together with friends at Christmas time to celebrate with music the incredible reality of the Savior's birth,” said Chapman.

Chapman’s 1995 Christmas album, The Music of Christmas, has sold over 500,000 copies. Then in 2003, Christmas Is All In The Heart, offered exclusively at Hallmark Stores nationwide as their well-known national chain’s yearly Christmas album, sold 400,000 copies in 10 weeks.

Available September 27, All I Really Want For Christmas tracks include 3 newly written and recorded tracks from Chapman, new covers of the Christmas classics “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” and “Angels from the Realms of Glory,” and a new ‘05 re-recorded version of the Steven’s well-known “Christmas Is All in the Heart” with a very special guest.

The album also features the first recorded appearance by Steven and Mary Beth’s adopted daughter Shaohannah Hope Chapman, who also graces the album’s cover with her Dad. Shaoey appears on the cover to try to capture the emotion behind the moving song “All I Really Want,” written by Steven about a boy with just one Christmas wish, a family.

In addition to the new album, Chapman will be going on a holiday tour with MercyMe, appearing in 20 markets beginning the day after Thanksgiving in Greenville, SC and ending December 20th in Indianapolis, IN.