This Is the Time: The Christmas Album

About 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 Timeless: The Classics, 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", a discography, and a preview of a Bolton CD-ROM which was never released. The album was released during Christmas time, narrowly missing the top 10 hitting #11. Total sales of the album have reached one million copies in the US, making it his last album to reach platinum status. The album also proved to be a worldwide hit, selling almost 2.5 million units. more »