White Christmas (song) John's and Crosby's songs to be "winners" by stating that John's recording is the "best-selling single since UK and US singles charts began in the 1950s," while maintaining that "the best-selling single of all time was released before the first pop charts," and that this distinction belongs to "White Christmas," which it says "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever "Guinness Book of Records" (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later." In 1999, National Public Radio included it in the "NPR 100", which sought to compile the one hundred most important American
The Man with All the Toys "What I Really Want for Christmas". The Man with All the Toys "The Man with All the Toys" is a Christmas song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1964 album "The Beach Boys' Christmas Album". As a single that year it had limited success (No. 6 on the "Billboard" Christmas chart), but built sales over successive Christmases and is listed by "Billboard" in the Top 100 selling Christmas songs in history, though well below the Beach Boys' 1963 Christmas single "Little Saint Nick". Wilson re-recorded this