Christmas music or Christmas songs comprise a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly after.
Popular Christmas songs
More recently popular Christmas songs, often introduced through film or other entertainment medium, are specifically about Christmas, but are typically not overtly religious and therefore do not qualify as Christmas carols. The archetypal example is 1942’s “White Christmas”, although many other holiday songs have become perennial favorites, such as Gene Autry’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.
Popular Christmas songs
More recently popular Christmas songs, often introduced through film or other entertainment medium, are specifically about Christmas, but are typically not overtly religious and therefore do not qualify as Christmas carols. The archetypal example is 1942’s “White Christmas”, although many other holiday songs have become perennial favorites, such as Gene Autry’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.
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Christmas MusicMost-performed 'Holiday' songs
According to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the following are the Top 25 most-performed “Holiday” songs for the first five years of the 21st Century:
1. "The Christmas Song" (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - Mel Tormé, Robert Wells
2. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" - Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
3. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin
4. "Winter Wonderland" - Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith
5. "White Christmas" - Irving Berlin
6. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" - Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
7. "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" - Johnny Marks
8. "Jingle Bell Rock" - Joseph Carleton Beal, James Ross Boothe
9. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" - Walter Kent, Kim Gannon, Buck Ram
10. "Little Drummer Boy" - Katherine K. Davis, Henry V. Onorati, Harry Simeone
11. "Sleigh Ride" - Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish
12. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" - Edward Pola, George Wyle
13. "Silver Bells" - Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
14. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" - Johnny Marks
15. "Feliz Navidad" - José Feliciano
16. "Blue Christmas" - Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson
17. "Frosty the Snowman" - Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins
18. "A Holly Jolly Christmas" - Johnny Marks
19. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" - Tommie Connor
20. "Here Comes Santa Claus" (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman
21. "It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas" - Meredith Willson
22. "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays" - Bob Allen, Al Stillman
23. "Carol of the Bells" - Peter J. Wilhousky, Mykola Leontovich
24. "Santa Baby" - Joan Ellen Javits, Philip Springer, Tony Springer
25. "Wonderful Christmastime" – Paul McCartney
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