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
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