Science says these are the most annoying Christmas songs

Back in the day of high school and university, I spent five years stocking shelves in a grocery store. Christmas was the worst. Pallets and pallets of goods that needed to be unloaded, trucked through the aisles, and placed on shelves, And because it was prime baking season, we had to haul bales and bales of flour (50 lbs per bale) and sugar (40 lbs). My back never really recovered.

Worst of all those, was the music played in the store. There was an eight-track player in the office running a 35-minute Christmas favourites tape over and over and over again. There were fifteen songs on that tape so if you do the math, a typical nine-hour shift meant that I’d hear Burl Ives’ “Holly Jolly Christmas” at least 14 times. Seasonal music has never been the same for me.

Now there’s this. SeatPick has determined these Christmas songs are the ones most likely to get stuck in your head. And yes, Jose Feliciano and “Feliz Navidad” was on the store tape, too.