What’s notable is how strong the Pentatonix version of “Mary, Did You Know” did overall at No. No surprise: Mariah Carey remains at the top. 50.īillboard also offered up a Top 100 holiday songs of all time, compiling all the data from the past 10 years. The top Christmas tune that is overtly religious is Nat King Cole’s “O Come Ye Faithful” at No. People are generally resistant to original Christmas songs, but a couple released since 2011 have become current top 20 favorites: the 2013 Kelly Clarkson’s “Underneath the Tree” (14) and Ariana Grande’s 2014 hit “Santa Tell Me” (17).Īnd despite criticism of the lyrics of the 1940s song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” two versions are in the Holiday 100 this week: the Dean Martin take at 45 and the Idina Menzel/Bublé duet at 90.Īlmost all the Holiday 100 songs are secular. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra has also lost steam the past decade with its two biggest hits “Christmas Canon” (12 to 59) and “Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)” (13 to 43) slipping down the chart.Ī few older songs have gained strength since 2011 including Dean Martin’s 1959 “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow” (31 to 12), Eartha Kitt’s 1953 “Santa Baby” (44 to 26), the Beach Boys’ 1963 “Little Saint Nick” (45 to 24), Jackson 5′s 1970 “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (49 to 22) and Chuck Berry’s 1959 “Run Rudolph Run” (now at 18).
It appears tunes from the 1950s and 1960s are generally holding up better than those released in the 1970s and 1980s. Several songs have lost significant power over the years, including Faith Hill’s “Where Are You Christmas?” (16 to 44), Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (22 to 67), Hall & Oates’ version of “Jingle Bell Rock” (24 to off the chart), “O Holy Night” by Josh Groban (26 to off the chart), “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” by the Carpenters (34 to off the chart), “Do You Hear What I Hear?” by Whitney Houston (35 to off the chart), “Merry Christmas Darling” by the Carpenters (38 to 77), Amy Grant’s ‘Winter Wonderland” (39 to off the chart), David Foster’s “Carol of the Bells” (40 to 93) and Eurythmics’ “Winter Wonderland” (44 to off the chart). 25 (after not appearing at all in 2011) while the Mathis version has fallen to No. Weirdly, the Perry Como 1984 version is now at No. 27.) But Bublé’s version has become the favorite, having gone as high as No. 36 on that first chart, behind older versions by Bing Crosby from 1951 (No. Take “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” Michael Bublé in 2011 came out with his version and it hit No. There are certain standards that are sung by literally hundreds of artists over the years.
But the top 10 this week features zero songs from the past quarter century and now averages a whopping 53.5 years old or the same age as an older Gen Xer. The average age of a song in the top 10 in 2011 was already 37.7 years, even counting the new Bieber song. Despite these minor changes, the other eight songs in the top 10 remain dominant: Mariah Carey’s ubiquitous 1994 hit “All I Want for Christmas is You,” Georgia native Brenda Lee’s 1958 classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” (1957), Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (1964), Wham!’s “Last Christmas” (1984), Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” (1961), Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (1963), and Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” (1970).
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