[2] The album is a compilation of seasonal holiday favorites, mainly in English, with a few selections in Italian, German, and French, produced by multiple Grammy Award winner David Foster, containing duets with Mary J. Blige, Natalie Cole, Reba McEntire, Katherine Jenkins, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the Muppets.

[3] It also includes "God Bless Us Everyone", the only original song of the album, which Bocelli recorded for the closing of the 2009 film, A Christmas Carol.

[4][5] A Spanish version of the album, called Mi Navidad, was released November 23, 2009,[6] and a PBS Christmas special of the album, filmed in the Kodak Theatre, was released on DVD December 8, 2010, after airing on PBS stations nationwide.

On November 3, during the World Premiere of Disney's A Christmas Carol, in Leicester Square, London, following the switching on of the annual Oxford Street and Regent Street Christmas lights, Bocelli led the St Paul's Cathedral Choir, and more than 14,000 people across the capital, as they broke the Official Guinness World Record for the biggest ever Christmas carol sing-along, singing "Silent Night".

He completed his performance in Leicester Square with, "God Bless Us Everyone", the closing song of the movie, which he provided the vocals for in English, Italian and Spanish.

On November 21, a segment of Leute Heute, a German tabloid-program on ZDF, was about My Christmas and Bocelli's meeting in Rome with Pope Benedict XVI and 250 other artists, an event which was broadcast live earlier that day in Italy, by Rai Uno.

Bocelli was also joined by the Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano, in his home in Forte dei Marmi, where they sang "Caro Gesù Bambino", a song from My Christmas which was originally recorded by the choir in 1960.

During the program Bocelli talked about his album and performed "The Lord's Prayer", "White Christmas", and "Silent Night".

It was also announced that Bocelli will return to the show, December 20, where he will give a live concert of My Christmas.

His last three arena concerts alone grossed a total of over 5.6 million dollars, placing him third on Billboard's week's Hot Tours ranking, behind the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Il Divo, who both held over 5 times more concerts worldwide, compared to Bocelli's three in the United States, explaining their better showings.

He first performed "White Christmas" at the 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, broadcast live on NBC, November 26.

Bocelli also sang "Adeste Fideles" and was interviewed by Barbara Walters and Joy Behar on The View, which aired December 2, on ABC.

On December 8, he performed "Jingle Bells" with the Muppets on NBC's The Jay Leno Show.

Bocelli's rendition of "Silent Night" was chosen as the Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week, for December 1, 2009.

[13] In Brazil, following the success of the South American leg of the Incanto tour, were over 100,000 people attended his free concert at the São Paulo's "Parque Indipendencia", earlier in the year,[14] it was announced that Bocelli would hold another Open-Air, entrance free, concert in Florianópolis, on December 28, where a crowd of about a million people was expected to attend.

However, for financial and political reasons, the concert was later canceled on short notice, along with all the other events scheduled for Christmas in the city.

Bocelli also toke part in the Christmas in Washington special on December 12, in the presence of president Barack Obama and the first lady.

[20][21] On December 19, Bocelli gave a concert, conducted by Claudio Scimone, in the Italian Senate.

[23] Bocelli gave 5 concerts in the United States in December 2011,[24] in support of both My Christmas and his then new live album, Concerto: One Night in Central Park.

Bocelli also performed White Christmas in an appearance at Good Morning America, airing December 22.

[26] By November 2014, My Christmas had sold 3.01 million copies in the US,[8][27][28][29] making it one of the best-selling holiday album in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan music sales tracking began in 1991.

On December 7, 2009, My Christmas was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of more than two million copies in the US.

[49][50][51][52] The only previous time Bocelli had topped the Catalog Chart was in 2000, over a decade earlier, with his album Romanza.

16, the highest position achieved by a catalog album that season, with 49,000 copies sold, spending a sixth non-consecutive week a top the Catalog Chart,[57] and giving Bocelli a second week with 2 albums in the Top 20,[58] as Concerto also rose to No.

2,[76][77][78][79] marking Bocelli's highest peak positioning in Canada since Sogno topped the Canadian Albums chart, on its debut week a decade earlier, in 1999.

He later performed the song with Blige on the Holiday Music Extravaganza edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which aired November 30, 2009.

My Christmas was also a major component of a PBS Great Performances special, filmed September 15, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, airing in the New York City/tri-state viewing area on THIRTEEN's Great Performances series on Thanksgiving night, November 26, with additional broadcasts, which continued throughout December, on PBS stations nationwide, featuring Bocelli and Foster with additional guests including Natalie Cole, Mary J. Blige, Reba McEntire, Katherine Jenkins and the Muppets.

A Deluxe edition that features the standard CD and a bonus DVD containing highlights from the PBS My Christmas Special was released on November 23, 2009.

Another Deluxe edition, containing the same DVD and, Mi Navidad, the Spanish version of the album, was released December 1, 2009.

Mi Navidad, the Spanish version of the album, was released Internationally, by Universal Latino, also on November 23, 2009.