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”
Have you heard the related ditty:
“All your Christmas are belong to us”
“I’m still keeping Karen Carpenter in the rotation”
She’s the best ever! I love her singing “I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day”. Her voice 👍. The non-traditional tune 👍. Plus the Longfellow lyrics and the story behind it.
40+ year radio veteran here, and I always enjoy hearing people talk about what’s good — and what isn’t. One thing I’ve learned through the years (especially when it comes to Christmas music) is whenever someone says, “I don’t like that song!”, what they’re really saying is, “I want you to play what I want to hear.” It’s been that way forever, and it’ll remain that way. Listeners hear and filter everything through their paradigm. The key is to find the sweet spot for the biggest audience.
Ahh, the Cold Miser.
Pretty good guy. But his brother’s a hothead.
Would that be a “hold my beer” situation?
“Fleece Navidad”? Hooey.
At least around College Station, it’s “Merry Christmas From The Family” - Robert Earl Keen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg&list=RDP37xPiRz1sg&start_radio=1
I have a local radio station that switches format over to Christmas music 24/7 and has been doing this for quite a while now. To me it’s overkill and I avoid it.
“Last Christmas” is about a man who gives his heart to Jesus (someone special).
I have only been here for forty-five years and likewise unaware of “Little Saint Nick”. Not that I have never heard it, if I did it did not make an impression. Now I have spent about a total of five hours in malls during the “Holiday Season” in the last forty years, so that might affect my awareness.
Two American renditions of Christmas songs always stood out to me as iconic classics:
Bing Crosby’s version of “O Holy Night” and the chorale rendition of “O Bambino” from an old Ed Sullivan family Christmas album.
How was this popularity determined?
We really do only listen to the worst Christmas music in this country.
“Grandma got run over by a raindeer”
The purposely limited the list to secular songs. Else Silent Night or Little town of Bethlehem would have made it on here.
Which is why now if I want to listen to serious Christmas music I listen to Polish Carols.
“I HATE “All I Want for Christmas is You.””
Ahem. I LOVE “All I Want for Christmas is You.” By either Mariah Carey or the girl with Vince Valient group.
They were less Unitarian then. The Godless Unitarians were a more recent invention.
“To me it’s overkill and I avoid it.”
Yeah, that other consistent, eleven months of the same old crap is so much better.
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