Sugarland photo courtesy of UMG Nashville.

Sugarland, the Country Music Association’s Vocal Duo of the Year, is helping Oprah Winfrey do a two-fer Christmas edition of her show, one of several acts performing live for the first time with another artist.

Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush appear Monday on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” with Jennifer Hudson. Mary J. Blige duets with Andrea Bocelli, and Tim McGraw shares the stage with Alicia Keys for a version of John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).”

It’s the second time this year that Sugarland has been featured on the daytime queen’s show.

“The only thing better than having appeared on ‘Oprah’ in February and getting her phone number,” Kristian says, “would be that her phone number pops back up on your phone and she says, ‘Would you come back and be on my show again?’”

The duo is not alone among country stars who’ve graced Oprah’s schedule twice this year. Martina McBride was featured in October and again in November. Wynonna Judd, meanwhile, showed up last Tuesday.

Sugarland will also tape TNT’s annual “Christmas In Washington” Dec. 13 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The performance for President Barack Obama airs Dec. 20.

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