A 2024 Time Out poll listed the Top 50 Christmas songs of all time.
Can you match the songs in the top ten with the singer?
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All I Want For Christmas Is You Baby, It’s Cold Outside Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Fairytale of New York Feliz Navidad Last Christmas Must Be Santa Player’s Ball Santa Tell Me |
Darlene Love Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong José Feliciano Kurt Vile Mariah Carey Outkast The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl Sabrina Carpenter Wham! |
Answers and lyric videos for all 50 songs below!
Time Out’s 50 Greatest Christmas songs
1. Fairytale of New York – The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl (1988)
2. All I Want For Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey (1994)
3. Santa Tell Me – Ariana Grande (2014)
4. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love (1963)
5. Player’s Ball – Outkast (1993)
6. A Nonsense Christmas – Sabrina Carpenter (2023)
7. Feliz Navidad – José Feliciano (1970)
8. Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (1949)
9. Must Be Santa – Kurt Vile (2023)
10. Last Christmas – Wham! (1984)
11. White Christmas – Bing Crosby (1942)
12. Christmas Will Break Your Heart – LCD Soundsystem (2015)
13. Wonderful Christmas Time – Paul McCartney (1979)
14. Christmas Tree Farm – Taylor Swift (2019)
15. Dominick The Donkey – Lou Monte (1960)
16. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday – Wizzard (1973)
17. Child’s Christmas in Wales – John Cale (1973)
18. Santa Claus is Coming to Town – The Jackson 5 (1970)
19. Underneath the Tree – Kelly Clarkson (2013)
20. River – Joni Mitchell (1971)
21. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee (1958)
22. 8 Days of Christmas – Destiny’s Child (2001)
23. Stay Another Day – East 17 (1994)
24. Christmas Was Better in the 80s – The Future Heads (2010)
25. Jingle Bell Rock – Bobby Helms (1957)
26. Driving Home for Christmas – Chris Rea (1988)
27. Christmas Rappin’ – Kurtis Blow (1979)
28. Frosty the Snowman – Cocteau Twins (1993)
29. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – John Lennon & Yoko Ono (1971)
30. Do They Know Its Christmas? – Band Aid (1984)
31. Step Into Christmas – Elton John (1973)
32. Merry Christmas Baby – Ike and Tina Turner (1965)
33. Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses (1981)
34. Christmas in Hollis – Run DMC (1987)
35. Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley (1964)
36. Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto – James Brown (1968)
37. Run Rudolph Run – Chuck Berry (1958)
38. O Tannenbaum – Vince Guaraldi Trio (1966)
39. Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer Boy – Bing Crosby and David Bowie (1977)
40. Zat You, Santa Claus? – Louis Armstrong (1953)
41. Sleigh Ride – The Ronettes (1963)
42. Father Christmas – The Kinks (1977)
43. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – Sufjan Stevens (2006)
44. Dear Santa (Bring Me a Man This Christmas) – The Weather Girls (1983)
45. Winter Wonderland – Bryson Tiller (2021)
46. 2000 Miles – The Pretenders (1983)
47. In Dulci Jubilo – Mike Oldfield (1975)
48. Glittery – Kacey Musgraves (2019)
49. Christmas in Harlem – Kanye West featuring Camron, Jim Jones, Vado, Cyhi Da Prynce & Pusha T (2010)
50. Just Like Christmas – Low (1999)