White Christmas (song) are the formats and track listings of single releases of "White Christmas". Crosby's "White Christmas" single has been credited with selling 50 million copies, the most by any release and therefore it is the biggest-selling single worldwide of all time. The "Guinness Book of World Records" 2009 Edition lists the song as a 100-million seller, encompassing all versions of the song, including albums. Crosby's holiday collection "Merry Christmas" was first released as an LP in 1949, and has never been out of print since. There has been confusion and debate on whether Crosby's record is or is not the best-selling
Do They Know It's Christmas? Best Music Video, Short Form award, eventually losing out to its US counterpart song "We Are the World". The reception in December 1984 to the original single from the UK music press was mixed. Under a caption of "TURKEY" (a double meaning referring both to the traditional British Christmas meal and an artistic failure), the biggest selling music paper "NME" dismissed the song with the single line, "Millions of Dead Stars write and perform rotten record for the right reasons". The other two major music papers looked upon the record more favourably, recognising that while musically the song was flawed,