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
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" –