What US Defense Department agency is responsible for tracking Santa each Christmas eve?
NORAD Tracks Santa that for Christmas 2013, it logged 19.58 million unique visitors to its website on Christmas Eve, and 1,200 volunteers answered 117,371 calls. Through social media, it had 146,307 Twitter followers and 1.45 million "likes" on Facebook. That year, NORAD contracted with Bing Maps to provide 2D map tracking, ending a five-year contract with Google. In 2014, NORAD logged almost 20 million visits to its Santa Tracker. NORAD Tracks Santa relies on corporate sponsorship, and is financed by neither American nor Canadian taxpayers. U.S. military units have provided publicity for the program, including the Northeast Air Defense Sector of the New
Christmas Eve and Other Stories in the U.S. and has been certified 3× platinum by the RIAA for selling 3 million copies in the US. As of November 2016, the album track "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" has sold 1.3 million downloads, becoming one of the best-selling Christmas songs of all-time in the US as well. , "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" was the ninth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States during the Nielsen SoundScan era of music sales tracking (1991 – present), with sales of 3,430,000 copies according to SoundScan. On November 28, 2011, "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" was certified 3× platinum by the