Greatest Christmas Songs of All Time to Get
Christmas songs are a thing, and as December 25 draws inexorably closer, they become a thing that is more and more impossible to avoid, whether you love them or detest them or just accept them as an unavoidable part of life.
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And while a lot of ephemeral novelty garbage has been produced over the years, most Christmas songs are actually rather good. There are several Christmas records that have survived from the 1940s through the 1970s when they were at their artistic peak. However, later, even more, cynical eras of pop generated a lot of gold.
'All I Want for Christmas is You' and 'Fairytale of New York are fantastic songs, which is good because you'll undoubtedly hear them a million times this holiday season. Of course, there is a sort of Christmas canon. But holiday cheer has made its way into everything from pop to hip-hop to R&B to metal to punk to indie music. And as a gift to you, we've put together 65 Christmas tunes that are so infectious you might want to listen to them all year long. However, good luck trying to find the nog in August.
Greatest Christmas Songs of All Time to Get
It's hard to imagine, but Mimi's perpetual earworm was once just a forgotten novelty tune from another generic pop-singer holiday album. One of the best indicators that the holidays have arrived in the post-Love Actually world is hearing "All I Want For Christmas Is You" for the first time in a year. When it was first released in 1995, the song fizzled out quickly but gained cultural cachet in the 2000s. Its popularity gradually increased each year until it ultimately topped the US charts in 2019 and the UK charts in 2020.
2. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ by Darlene Love
Is this the most heartfelt Christmas song ever? Most likely, the perfect pleading vocal of Darlene Love, Phil Spector's fabulously glitzy production, and Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry's enchanting music could melt even the biggest Scrooge. It's the ideal holiday tune, hands down.
3. White Christmas’ by Bing Crosby
Even more potent than actual memories is the force of holiday nostalgia. Therefore, even though our genuine past is full of heartbreaking disappointments, all of us may remember a white Christmas like the ones we used to know with Bing on this Irving Berlin song from the 1940s.
4. Christmas Wrapping’ by The Waitresses
This is undoubtedly the Christmas song for you if you enjoy new wave bands like Blondie and Talking Heads. I believe I'll miss this one this year, the singer Patty Donahue says cynically before an unexpected romance blooms in the show's closing moments and soothes her jaded cockles. This song is as dry and mouthwatering as the champagne your boss bought you when it comes to holiday music.
5. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee
Despite not celebrating Christmas because he was Jewish, Johnny Marks composed some of the finest Christmas songs ever during the 1940s and 1950s. Among them are "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "I Heard The Bells of Christmas Day," and this, an unassuming easy-listening rock 'n' roll song performed by 13-year-old Brenda Lee.
6. Step Into Christmas’ by Elton John
Welcome to my Christmas song, Sir Elton announces at the beginning of this piano-driven banger, making it clear to us all that this is a Christmas song with no ulterior objectives other than to become a holiday classic. The goal was achieved.
7. Christmas in Hollis by Run-DMC
Run DMC's clever "Crimmbo" storyline tells the account of Run discovering Santa's wallet filled with bills in the park on Christmas Eve. It is undoubtedly one of the best and most well-known Christmas hip-hop songs ever. However, I would never steal from Santa since that is wrong, claims Run with a beautiful display of holiday cheer. The end result is a catchy song that gives you a little bounce if you're feeling down after listening to too much Slade and Macca or just eating too many mince pies.
8. Blue Christmas’ by Elvis Presley
This rendition of the 1948 country classic by The King has a touch of his signature swagger. Presley put the finishing touches on "Blue Christmas," which has since become a holiday favorite and spawned a number of tributes of its own.
9. Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto’ by James Brown
Father Christmas is given the go-ahead by the father of funk, who directs him to go directly to the ghetto and say, "Tell 'em James Brown sent ya." Although the song's horns are blazing, there is a serious message at its core: JB wants the youngsters on the wrong side of the tracks to experience the kind of Christmas he never did.
10. Glittery’ by Kacey Musgraves
With this abridged rendition of her holiday special's "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," the alt-country legend not only performed a little miracle by making the terrible spoiled-brat hymn "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" bearable. It's a charming holiday love tune with a masterfully composed slow dance set to the sound of sleigh bells.
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