[1] Her first album since JHUD (2014), it features four original songs and ten covers of Christmas standards and carols, two are collaborations with The Joy and Common.

[4] It was announced a new record project for the singer, under Clive Davis executive production, publishing the single.

In 2021 she recorded Respect: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack through Epic Records and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Music, as the soundtrack album to the 2021 biographical film Respect in which Hudson acted as Aretha Franklin.

[11][12] In an interview Hudson explained the decision to recorded a Christmas song album:[11]"I feel like it hasn’t been [a decade] because I sing through everything I do.

[13][14] Andy Kellman of AllMusic wrote that the album "has all the trimmings that are to be expected from a holiday recording by a prominent powerhouse" with "tastefully ornate framework with lavish strings and brass, plus robust gospel choirs".