This Is The Time: The Christmas Album This Is The Time: The Christmas Album This Is the Time: The Christmas Album is an album by Michael Bolton, released on October 1, 1996. Bolton's first Christmas release, it contains two new songs: "This Is the Time" (performed with Wynonna Judd), and "Love Is the Power", while the others were covers of traditional Christmas songs. "Ave Maria" was performed with Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo. "White Christmas" was a single off the album "", but was also included on this album. The CD was an "enhanced" CD containing additional material viewable on a computer, including a video of "White Christmas",
Last Christmas as their B-side. The former entered the top 20 of the Oricon Singles Chart peaking at No. 15, while the latter reached No. 47. The single was reissued in 1993 on CD single in the country and peaked at No. 17, selling nearly 40,000 copies that week. As a result of the success, "Last Christmas" is amongst the ten best-selling singles of all time released by a non-Japanese act, with total sales of 683,000 units. In 2009, the song re-entered the Spanish Lista de Canciones (singles chart) at number 9. In Germany, the song is the most successful Christmas single