Posted on 12/09/2025 5:05:49 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
You may want to consider which state you’re in when you put together your Christmas playlist this season.
A study by FinanceBuzz used Google Trends to figure out which Christmas song is the trendiest in each state, with a variety of familiar tracks making it on the list. You might be surprised by the results.
“All I Want for Christmas Is You”
“Jingle Bells”
“Santa Baby”
“Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!”
“Run Rudolph Run”
“Blue Christmas”
“Feliz Navidad”
“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
“A Holly Jolly Christmas”
“Last Christmas”
“White Christmas”
That is a GREAT playlist! My boys were NUTS for ‘Grandma Got Run Over...’
They must’ve played that 10,000 times every Christmas for YEARS! I didn’t complain too much because when *I* was a kid, it was ‘The Chipmunks Christmas’ that drove my own Mom up the wall we played it so much, LOL!
Here’s a really cute version of ‘Grandma.’ I’m sure you know of ‘Postmodern Jukebox.’ I love their stuff. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqZQve0KWc&list=RDyHqZQve0KWc&start_radio=1
Thanks. I forgot how much I hate both of those songs.
I knew the origins, but it certainly works for anyone who is far away from home at Christmastime. Been there, done that! (Army Vet)
But, never fear! This will cheer you up:
There’s no song, at least not when I clicked on it.
HAHAHAHA (of ho ho ho) I was going to make a JOKE about Last Christmas.... but there it is. Ah, RIP George Michael.
No, never did hear of them. But it was fun. Their lyrics are a little hard to follow. For the most part, I choose based on clear lyrics when I can. Only recently have I been adding subtitles to music videos.
I spent hours listening to versions of this to find SOMETHING I could understand and then let husband make it.
Nativities - Angels We Have Heard - Bruce Mitchell Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEJhVsTpgBE
Smallville - I’ll Be Home For Xmas - Pat Boone
Lex Luther’s dream of a happy marriage with Lana Lang.
https://youtu.be/8W6KrTh4DfU
Not really Christmas, but I love listening to this.
Tennessee Ernie Ford amazing Grace album
40 hymns
https://youtu.be/lDBNGuODNlg?si=r3ft83rTLR3OwSt1
And of course they’re *orange.* I have two of those myself. Ginger brothers.
😂😂🤣🤣
I like “Last Christmas”; it is a happy little song.
My favorite is Hark the Herald Angels Sing by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
The AI didn’t want to add in any religious carols like silent night??
In 2002, a Radio Television Luxembourg press kit for “The Christmas Shoes” movie based on Newsong’s best known hit, featured the group’s Christmas album which featured the song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”. Then-lead vocalist Michael O’Brien noted in the press kit from RTL (which like Newsong’s record label at the time were both owned by Bertelsmann) that the latter song was recorded “the way the song’s writer Hugh Martin originally wrote it before Judy Garland popularized it.”
Mr. O’Brien noted when he met Hugh Martin in 1990, the lyric “… through the years, we all will be together if the Lord allows…” was part of the actual lyric, but it was purged.
O’Brien notes. “Hugh told me, ‘That’s the original way I wrote it, so I want you to sing it this way,’” O’Brien recalls. “So one Christmas in that little church, Hugh Martin played piano, and I sang ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,’ and it was the thrill of my life. It’s pretty incredible for me to get to record it this way on an album.”
The correct in Hugh’s line version was also recorded by another artist whom I met a few times, most notably at the local March for Life in 1998 in a 1999 Christmas album where she did a duet with a late, great artist whose name once was on the Farmers Insurance Open. That artist was also a BMG artist at the time, so both artists recorded the song with Hugh’s correct lyric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FttsMeAQOmQ
Never. A member of the Smallbone family (For King and Country) recorded that song, sans the hated “War is Over” chant. Yes, the sister of the two brothers of that group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUKOi5BoGfE
On a more serious note, it’s Mariah that made the Christmas season change towards being extremely femme. Every Christmas show out there it seems features girls dancing to numerous tunes from Russian masters to whatever floats the boat. Boys are being told there’s nothing for them now. And that is one sad part of the season that makes boys cringe at everything’s for girls. They’ve eliminated Singing Christmas Trees in favour of bands performing hits at many churches.
In 2009, I had the chance to sing a one-off choral appearance at the church my Sunday School teacher Bernard Hydrick Snr’s son Bernard Jnr was a member. This one-off appearance was to send a statement about the poor quality of the choral music at church. Bernard Jnr’s church, which Helen McDowell (a fellow voice student from 2004 in the same studio) and Linda Caldwell (dance troupe leader at that church, known from another friend) also are members, wanted extra tenors, so I took the offer for six weeks to practice and sing with them for this one week.
I’d rather sing Handel than what goes for music today. But this is actually an Easter piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z808Mhgwle0
Uggghhhhhhhh!!! I have lived in the WRONG states. Feliz Navidad and Last Christmas are on NONE of my playlists and never will be.
I've never heard that song, and it's probably just as well.
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