Most Played Christmas Song

Apparently the most played Christmas song (I presume in the UK) was Wham's Last Christmas. The top ten looks like this:

1. Last Christmas - Wham!
2. Do They Know It's Christmas? (original 1984 recording) - Band Aid
3. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
4. All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
5. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen
6. Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie
7. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard
8. Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
9. Lonely This Christmas - Mud
10. White Christmas - Bing Crosby

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7754712.stm

I was a big Wham fan when I was a kid but Last Christmas is crap IMO. Fairytale of New York clearly doesn't get enough airtime as it's at number three and should be number one. Stop the Cavalry should also be higher, although I only think that because it's the one song I remember being played at home over Christmas. A nostalgia thing I think.

So my personal top five would be:

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie
The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea

I only went for five as although I like to hear others maybe once, I can't stand to hear them again and again.

What do you think of the ten most played and what are your own favourites?

 

While I'm a sucker for Xmas songs, I hate 'Last Christmas' with the fire of a thousand suns

 

I LOOOVE Last Christmas!!!

It's such an emotional song. I did not think that a gay man could write a song eliciting such romance for a woman. Maybe he was singing it and thinking of a man.

 

Smiley changed for my amusement.

 

Here in Augusta the most popular urban Christmas songs are:

Deck The Ho's

I'm Dreaming of a White Woman

I'll be Ho for Christmas

All I want for Christmas is The Charges Dropped

Silent White

Jingle Bell Glock

I saw Mommy Dissing Santa Claus

We Three Blings

Boyeee To The World

I'm ge-in' nu-in' for Christmas

 

At least it isn't Christmas Shoes. The single most depressing song ever.

 

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Last Christmas is possibly the worst Christmas song ever. The first intimation that George Michael is a humourless, pretentious twat.

I'm surprised Merry Xmas Everybody isn't higher, simply because it's been around so long!

I absolutely love Eartha's version of Santa Baby, but then I worship everything that woman does, she's brilliant. And yes, Fairytale of New York is great.

Stop the Cavalry is good - and, sadly, timely - but when it comes to Jona Lewie, I always preferred You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties.

Mariah Carey should be permanently gagged. Or have her vocal cords removed, for the good of humanity.

 

In my ongoing quest to inject some fun & Christmas spirit into this thread...

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I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the UK. Wham has the top Christmas song? That's just frightening.

My preferences:

Carol of the Bells
Jingle Bell Rock
Silent Night
Little Drummer Boy
and pretty much anything by Trans-Siberian Orchestra!

 

My favorite version of the Mariah Carey song, All I Want for Christmas..complete with visuals from Smallvile...

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I like Dido's Christmas Day, but it's kind of depressing.

 

I'm not a big fan of "secularly themed" Christmas music. I'm a big fan of the more traditional songs.

 

Carol of the Bells or go home.

 

^^^ That's a good one.

 

It's not Christmas till you hear this.

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My favorite is Little Drummer Boy

The Original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJKZJm7-F0

and the duet with David Bowie and Bing Crosby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KpNznVLlY&feature=related