The Andy Williams Christmas Album 1963 (for the weeks ending November 30, 1963 through December 28, 1963), "The Andy Williams Christmas Album" was the number one selling Christmas album, while Williams' cover of "White Christmas" was the number one selling Christmas single. "The Andy Williams Christmas Album" spent three weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1964, and one week as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1965. It charted on "Billboard"'s Christmas Albums chart at least one week for each of the years that the chart was published. In 2018, when separate Christmas
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,