"This Christmas" is a song by American soul musician Donny Hathaway released in 1970 by Atco Records.

[3] The song gained renewed popularity when it was included in 1991 on Atco Records' revised edition of their 1968 Soul Christmas compilation album[4] and has since become a modern Christmas standard, with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers reporting that it was the 30th most-performed holiday song of all time.

[9] But in recent years, the song has made it onto a number of Billboard's weekly music charts.

In addition to making its first appearance on the main Billboard Hot 100 songs chart in late December 2020 (peaking at No.

English singer and songwriter Jess Glynne released a cover version of the song as a single on 12 November 2020.

Talking about the song, Glynne said: I chose 'This Christmas' by Donny Hathaway as I love the tone of this record and I'm thankful that Amazon Music have given me the opportunity to do my own version of it for them.

[3] Prior to this re-release, artists who recorded cover versions included The Whispers, The Temptations, Gladys Knight & the Pips, as well as Patti LaBelle, who titled a Christmas album after the song.

Christina Aguilera recorded a cover of the song for her third studio album My Kind of Christmas (2000).

In December 2012, The Philadelphia Tribune music critic Nekesa Mumbi Moody praised Lady Antebellum's recording and the rest of the album.

[38] However, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney of the Financial Times panned the album and called the trio's cover recording a "slickly insincere 1980s soul.

Also in December 2012, Alan Sculley of Asbury Park Press praised CeeLo Green's recording as "a good Stevie Wonder".

[41] However, Melissa Ruggieri of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution criticised CeeLo's version as skippable and "surprisingly dull".

[43][44] In December 2016, Mark Daniell of the Ottawa Sun praised versions by the following artists as "good": Lady Antebellum, Chris Brown, Macy Gray, and CeeLo Green.