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- First, some basic stats: Those 914,047 tracks represent 180,660 unique songs and were created by 63,711 unique artists – from Aaron Neville to Zuma the King.
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The importance of Advent and the feast of Christmastide within the church year means there is a large repertoire of music specially composed for performance in church services celebrating the Christmas story. Various composers from the Baroque era to the 21st century have written Christmas cantatas and motets.
- ‘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.
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 ...Dec 19, 2023 · Many of the songs played throughout December to spark holiday cheer actually have some depressing origin stories
Dec 17, 2014 · In our catalog of nearly a million Christmas tracks, 2,196 of them are Bing Crosby’s classic. I’ll say that again, just because it is a rather phenomenal fact – there are 2,196 different albums on Spotify that contain Bing’s White Christmas.
Dec 23, 2021 · If we take the dictionary definition, Christmas carols are “traditional songs that are sung just before Christmas that celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ”. But look deeper, and you’ll find a long and fascinating history...
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.
