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- In early December 2014, crack music + data nerd Aaron Daubman dove into the Spotify + Echo Nest music catalog and found 914,047 Christmas tracks – that’s just under a million Christmas tracks. Let’s unwrap this dataset to see what we can find.
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Approximately half of the 30 best-selling Christmas songs by ASCAP members in 2015 were written by Jewish composers. Johnny Marks has three top Christmas songs, the most for any writer—"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", and "A Holly Jolly Christmas".
The following is an incomplete list of Christmas songs which have appeared in the official singles chart in the United Kingdom. A year indicates the first year of release for that artist's recorded version of the single or track, which may not necessarily be the first year the artist's version charted on The Official UK Charts.To be regarded as ...
TitleArtistYearAdditional Information2006Peaked at No. 2 on the 2006 December ...2019Peaked at No. 73 on the Official Singles ..."All I Want for Christmas Is a Beatle"1963Peaked at No. 20 in the 1963 Christmas ...1994Written by Walter Afanasieff and Mariah ...- ‘Jingle Bells’ (1885) Written by James Lord Pierpont in 1857 and originally titled “One Horse Open Sleigh,” “Jingle Bells” is one of the most beloved and ubiquitous Christmas carols in existence.
- ‘Here We Come A-wassailing’ (c. 1850) This traditional English Christmas carol refers to the practice of wassailing, the definition of which has evolved over the years.
- ‘Good King Wenceslas’ (1853) Published by hymn writer John Mason Neale in 1853, this carol was based on the life of the virtuous ruler Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia.
- ‘O Tannenbaum’ (1824) The version of “O Tannenbaum” most of us are familiar with today was written in 1824 by Ernst Anschütz, a well-known organist and composer from Leipzig, Germany.
Dec 17, 2014 · In early December 2014, crack music + data nerd Aaron Daubman dove into the Spotify + Echo Nest music catalog and found 914,047 Christmas tracks – that’s just under a million Christmas tracks. Let’s unwrap this dataset to see what we can find.
Dec 19, 2023 · Many of the songs played throughout December to spark holiday cheer actually have some depressing origin stories
The following is a list of popular Christmas songs recorded by various artists, many of which have hit on various charts, mostly in the United States (some only released in the artist's home country).
Apr 18, 2019 · While many Christmas songs are rooted in Christian traditions, the holiday season is celebrated in various ways around the world. Songs like “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel” come from the Jewish Hanukkah tradition, and there are secular winter songs that celebrate the season without a religious context.
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