White Christmas (song) The Christmas Album", charted at No. 13 on the Italian Singles Chart based on digital downloads of the track. White Christmas (song) "White Christmas" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Crosby's, have sold over 50 million copies. Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the
Songs for Christmas (Sufjan Stevens album) Songs for Christmas (Sufjan Stevens album) Songs for Christmas is a box set of five separate EPs of Christmas-related songs and carols recorded by independent musician Sufjan Stevens between 2001 and 2006. The EPs had been given as gifts to friends and family of Stevens over the past six years, except for 2004 where he was too busy recording the "Illinois" album. Though the first three EPs have been available on Sufjan Stevens-related fansites for several years, "Songs for Christmas" is the first official release of these EPs. Most of the tracks are versions of traditional Christmas songs, with a