Are these the most popular holiday songs of all time?
It must be the pandemic. People started getting into Christmas music back in September with the first radio station flip to an all-holiday music format. Data from Pandora, the streaming service we don’t get in Canada, says that things started to really pick up in mid-October. Jeebus.
Pandora has released data about the 20 most popular holiday songs of all time–at least according to their subscribers. And the results are not what you might expect.
- “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree“/She & Him (I KNOW! Surprise!)
- “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 (Instrumental)”/Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- “All I Want for Christmas is You”/ Mariah Carey
- “Like It’s Christmas”/Jonas Brothers
- “We Three Gentlemen (Medley)”/Lindsey Stirling
- “Underneath the Tree”Kelly Clarkson
- “It’s Beginning to Look at Lot Like Christmas”/Perry Como and the Fontaine Sisters
- “When You Believe”/Pentatonix and Maren Morris
- “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”/Thurl Ravenscroft
- “Please Come Home for Christmas”/The Eagles
- “Winter Wonderland”/Michael Bublé
- “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”/Darlene Love
- “Where Are You Christmas”/Faith Hill
- “Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season”/Andy Williams
- “Baby It’s Cold Outside”/India Menzel and Michael Bublé
- “Sleigh Ride, For Orchestra (or String Orchestra)”/Arthur Fiedler
- “Carol Of The Bells/Sing We Now Of Christmas”/Barlowgirl
- “Santa Tell Me”/Ariana Grande
- “Oh Holy Night”/Katharine McPhee
- “Believe”/Josh Groban
