Michael Bublé will release his very first Christmas album next month (Oc11).

Michael Buble's Christmas will feature festive favorites including Bing Crosby's White Christmas, which he'll perform as a duet with fellow Canadian Shania Twain.

The crooner says, "Christmas has always been my favorite time of the year for me and my family, so naturally it's been a dream of mine to make the ultimate Christmas record."

But he admits it was a little odd to record the winter songs in the middle of a California heatwave: "We decorated the studio with Christmas lights in the middle of July (11) and that was a big help."

The singer's family has already given the newlywed's new album a big thumbs up.

He adds, "My mother told me it's the best record I ever made."

This will be Michael Bublé's first Christmas as model Luisana Lopilato's husband - the couple wed in March (11).