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",
What Is Life the first ex-Beatle to have two top-ten hits in the United States.<ref name="Mapes/Billboard">Jillian Mapes, "George Harrison's 10 Biggest Billboard Hits", billboard.com, 29 November 2011 (retrieved 4 June 2014).</ref> The single was a success internationally, climbing to number 1 in Switzerland and on Australia's "Go-Set" National Top 60, and reaching the top three elsewhere in Europe and in Canada.<ref name="Tsosrt/GH singles">"George Harrison (Song artist 225)", Tsort pages (retrieved 16 October 2012).</ref> In Britain, where Harrison had resisted issuing a single from "All Things Must Pass" until midway through January, "What Is Life" appeared on the B-side to "My Sweet Lord" –