This Is The Time: The Christmas Album | ||||
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Released | October 1, 1996 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 43:34 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Michael Bolton, Walter Afanasieff, David Foster, Keith Thomas | |||
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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. In United States the album was certified platinum.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | link |
Chicago Tribune | link |
Entertainment Weekly | D link |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [1] |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia ( ARIA) [2] | Gold | 35,000^ |
Canada ( Music Canada) [3] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
United States ( RIAA) [4] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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