American Jukebox
Dec 19, 2020 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
With Garrett Stack
Christmas Countdown: 30 Most Recorded Pop Xmas Songs
Based on extensive work by Record Research, Inc., the 30 most recorded pop Christmas songs are counted down.
If you're familiar with Joel Whitburn's Record Research, Inc., and their decades of analyzing pop, rock and soul Billboard chart performance, then you know this is the recognized authority. For this Top-30 Christmas Countdown, the team at Record Research took all the albums that have ever charted on the Christmas Charts through 2004, and they painstakingly looked at the titles on all those albums. By tracking the titles and the number of times they appeared, the list was compiled. In this program we do not include Christmas Carols, just secular songs on the list associated with the Christmas season.
You can probably guess many titles on the countdown. The artists that record them, however, are extremely varied. They range from classics like Perry Como to Euro-sound Boney M and all points between. And worth noting, the older the song the more times it is likely to have been recorded. Take a song like Santa Claus Is Coming To Town or Winter Wonderland, both written in the 1934, and you can see they have a better chance of being high on the list simply because they were around for 70 years, and recorded hundreds of times, when this list was made.
For the record, Silent Night is the most recorded Christmas song ever, if not the most recorded song of all in any genre, period. Considered a Christmas carol, however, it is not on this countdown. For that matter, neither is Joy To The World, O Holy Night or any other carols we love.
Get ready to count down the top-30 pop Christmas songs of all time, with three "countdown extras" (indicated by Xtra) included for the fun of it. Merry Christmas.
Garrett Stack
4:02 PM | 30- Perry Como (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays Robert Allen Stars at Christmas: Elvis, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and many others, Vol. 1 Rapier Music
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4:05 PM | 29 - The Drifters Please Come Home For Christmas Christmas With The Drifters PnR
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4:07 PM | 28 - Carole King My Favorite Things Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers A Christmas Carole Universal Music Ireland Ltd.
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4:11 PM | 27 - Diana Krall Christmas Time Is Here Vince Guaraldi Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas GRP
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4:15 PM | 26 - Gene Autry & Rosemary Clooney The Night Before Christmas Song 170 Classic Children Christmas Songs - Canzoni Di Natale - Chansons De Noël - Weihnachtslieder Christmas Golden History
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4:18 PM | 25 - Boney M. Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord Jester Hairston, Frank Farian, Fred Jay Christmas with Boney M. MCI
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4:25 PM | 24 - Pentatonix It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Eddie Pola, George Wyle That's Christmas To Me RCA Records Label
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4:28 PM | 23 - Word Harmonic Jolly Old St. Nicholas A Swingin' Christmas Unison
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4:30 PM | XTRA - Vince Vance & the Valiants feat Lisa All I Want For Christmas Is You - Xtra All I Want For Christmas Is You Waldoxy Records
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4:35 PM | 22 - Bette Midler What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? (Album Version) Frank Loesser Cool Yule Columbia
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4:40 PM | 21 - Dion Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree Johnny Marks Rock n' Roll Christmas (World) Capitol Records
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4:43 PM | 20 - Tiny Tim I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Tiny Tim's Christmas Album Rounder
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4:45 PM | 19 - Chicago This Christmas Chicago Christmas: What's It Gonna Be Santa Rhino
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4:49 PM | 18 - Charles Brown Merry Christmas, Baby A Very Special Christmas 2 UMG - A&M
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4:56 PM | XTRA - City of Prague Phil. Orch. & Chorus Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) - Xtra Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich/Phil Spector Prague: Greatest Christmas Chorale Silva Screen
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4:57 PM | 17 - Chet Atkins Jingle Bell Rock Singles Collection 1946-62 Acrobat
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5:01 PM | 16 - Vanessa Williams Do You Hear What I Hear Noel Regney, Gloria Shayne Baker 20th Century Masters
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5:07 PM | 15 - Straight No Chaser Carol Of The Bells Holiday Spirits (Deluxe) Atco/Atlantic
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5:09 PM | 14 - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Blue Christmas Everything You Want For Christmas Big Bad Records
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5:13 PM | 13 - The Ronettes Frosty the Snowman Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector Legacy Recordings
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5:15 PM | 12 - Jane Olivor Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow / It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year Carter Cathart Songs Of The Season UMG - Varese Sarabande
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5:18 PM | 11 - Johnny Mathis Sleigh Ride Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish Johnny Mathis & Connie Francis Vintage Pleasure
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5:21 PM | 10 - John Denver Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Johnny Marks Some Christmas Music Sony Music CG
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5:23 PM | 9 - Kate Smith Silver Bells Ray Evans, Jay Livingston The Polar Express - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Special Edition Warner Sunset/Reprise
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5:26 PM | 8 - Johnny Cash The Little Drummer Boy Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone, Katherine K. Davis Little Drummer Boy (Country Christmas) The Music Factory
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5:29 PM | 7 - Glen Campbell Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Ralph Blaine That Christmas Feeling Rarity Music
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5:32 PM | 6 - Josh Groban I'll Be Home For Christmas Buck Ram, Walter Kent Noel 143/Reprise
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5:36 PM | 5 - The Crystals Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Coots Rock 'N' Roll Christmas (Happy Holidays for Everyone) Columbia
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5:40 PM | XTRA - Darlene Love All Alone on Christmas - Xtra Steven Van Zandt The Ultimate Christmas Album, Vol. 3 Collectables
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5:44 PM | 4 - Michael Bublé Jingle Bells (feat. The Puppini Sisters) James Lord Pierpont Christmas 143/Reprise
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5:47 PM | 3 - Anne Murray Winter Wonderland Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith Christmas Wishes EMI Music Canada
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5:50 PM | 2- Donna Summer The Christmas Song Christmas Spirit Universal Music Ireland Ltd.
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5:54 PM | 1 - David Foster White Christmas The Christmas Album Interscope
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