12/15(Thursday): Chipwrecked (Music From The Motion Picture) by Alvin And The Chipmunks - $3.99

12/16 (Friday): White Christmas by Martina McBride - $3.99

Free Christmas MP3: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by RTV Moscow Large Symphony Orchestra

The She & Him Christmas album is currently priced at $3.99.

There is quite a bit currently priced at $3.99 or less, obviously competing with 7digital's Advent Calendar specials at the same price. Real Estate, Cut Copy, The Joy Formidable, Lupe Fiasco, Young The Giant, Death Cab For Cutie, Girls...the list goes on.

Several Coldplay albums are $2.99 at Amazon as well.

12/17 (Saturday): The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams by Various Artists - $3.99

Free MP3: The First Noel by Neil Sedaka

12/18 (Sunday): Oh, What a Night by Harry Connick, Jr.

Free Christmas MP3: Xmas Lights by Radar Brothers

Welcome back, Dave

Thanks to Michael and others who have kept the thread going

12/19 (Monday): Mary Poppins: the Supercalifragilistic Musical by Mary Poppins' Australian Cast - $3.99

Free Christmas MP3: Santa Stole My Lady by Fitz & the Tantrums

12/20 (Tuesday): Soul Time by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - $3.99

Free Christmas MP3: We Wish You a Merry Christmas by Shonen Knife

Google Music's running a "blowout sale" where they're putting half-a-million albums on sale for $4.99 and ten million tracks on sale for $.49. They're only got a few albums listed on the landing page, but it looks like they're including almost everything besides Sony-signed artists and deluxe/multi-disc sets.

^Yes, Amazon is matching many of the prices. Google seems to have more though at a discount.

I can't figure out the Google thing(only seeing a handful of albums) but sure enough I checked my Amazon wishlist and there are a half dozen albums I've been wanting down to $4.99.

*edit - Dayum son! Just searched for what I wanted on Google and between both sites there are probably a dozen albums I've been wanting. Thanks for the heads up guys.

Amazon seems to have more newer releases at $5, whereas Google has a lot of discounted catalog titles. Between the two, there's a lot of great deals to be had. I'm gonna have to do some serious searching when I get home.

Thanks for the heads up. I picked up Joanna Newsom's Milk-Eyed Mender from amazon.com

12/22 (Thursday): 5th Gear by Brad Paisley - $3.99

Free Christmas MP3: Hark the Herald Angels Sing by the Irish Tenors

Thanks for the heads up. A few catalog titles I was waiting to go down at Amazon have now hit my price point.

I typed "Ray Lamontagne" into Google Music and it had none of his albums. I then proceeded back to Amazon and bought like 6 albums.

12/23 (Friday): Music is Better Than Words by Seth McFarlane - $3.99

Free Christmas MP3: Hallelujah Chorus (from Handel's Messiah) by Alexander Vilumanis

Yes, it's THAT Seth McFarlane.

12/24 (Saturday): A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra - $3.99

Bonus: 10 2011 Top Albums $3.99 or Less

Includes:

A Very She & Him Christmas
Amy Winehouse - Lioness
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
Drake - Take Care
The Muppets (Movie Soundtrack)
The Decemberists - The King is Dead
Mac Miller - Blue Slide Park
Florence & the Machine - Ceremonials
Rihanna - Talk That Talk
Daughtry - Break The Spell

Free Christmas MP3: Silent Night by Shelby Lynne

^ Reminder that the Blu-ray set of The Muppets will include a code to download the soundtrack for free.

And the Muppets a top 10 album of the year?

Well, it doesn't say "top 10" but "10 top"

12/25 (Sunday): My Life II...The Journey Continues (Act 1) by Mary J. Blige - $3.99

Free Christmas MP3: What I Want for Christmas by Macy Gray

(in case you missed any of the free Christmas songs, the whole list is located here.)

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Thanks, Dave!

I was interested in the Florence and Decembrist deals yesterday but I tried to listen to some samples and the service kept hanging so I gave up. I'm sure they'll be on sale again if I really want them.

They still are. And that new Flo & The Machine album is excellent!

Also the new Wilco album The Whole Love is $2.99. It's made a lot of year's best lists. I haven't listened to it yet, but picked it up regardless.

12/26 (Monday): Piano Man by Billy Joel - $3.99