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White Christmas (song) " White Christmas " is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The song was written by Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn. The composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Bing Crosby's record topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks in ...
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby is not only the best-selling Christmas/holiday single in the United States, but also the best-selling single of all time since the advent of recorded music, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.
With 50 million copies sold, not only is Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" the best-selling Christmas song of all time, it's also the best-selling single ever, according to Guinness World Records.
1942 10-inch 78 rpm release of the single "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby 1997 7-inch 45 rpm release of "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight", double A-side single by Elton John. This is a compendium of the best-selling music singles. The criterion for inclusion is to sell at least ten million copies worldwide.
The heirs of Irving Berlin probably have very nice houses: His song "White Christmas," performed by Bing Crosby, is the best-selling single worldwide, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
The best-selling Christmas album of 1953 was Christmas with Arthur Godfrey and All the Little Godfreys, by Arthur Godfrey. The best-selling Christmas album of 1954 was Selections from Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", by Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Peggy Lee. The best-selling Christmas album of 1955 was Happy Holiday, by Jo Stafford.
But that win won't be a shock for anyone who knows that Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" holds the title of best selling single record of all-time, according to Guinness World Records.
Bing Crosby's all-time best-selling single "White Christmas" returned to the Top 40 again in 1957 at No. 34. It has charted Billboard's surveys almost annually since it first spent 11 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on their Best Selling Retail Records chart beginning Oct. 31, 1942 [5] It reached the top spot again in 1945 for two more weeks and ...