CHRISTMAS SONGS: Considering Christmas music is blasting in some stores before Halloween, it could feel as if each song gets played about a million times.
Alas, there are some holiday tunes that get streamed more than others. And a new study has found which.
Nicki Swift — a Static Media publication — published the study based on Spotify and Billboard data.
Their findings probably won’t shock anyone: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” — a song so popular during the holiday season that publications such as People have taken to calling Carey “the Queen of Christmas” — topped the list with a whopping 1.5 billion streams.
“…Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas is You’ remains supreme, dominating the charts when the holiday season rolls around,” the report reads. “A longtime Christmas fanatic, Carey penned the tune with the ambition of creating a classic piece.
“‘My goal was to do something timeless, so it didn’t feel like the ’90s, which is when I wrote it,’ she told ‘Good Morning America.’”
In second was “Last Christmas” by Wham!, that ’80s song sung sadly by British crooner George Michael. A far peppier tune — Brenda Lee’s “Rocking’ Around the Christmas Tree” — took home the bronze with 950 million streams.
In fact, despite coming out in the late 1950s, Billboard reported last week that Lee’s Christmas hit just recently led the Billboard Hot 100.
Other songs that may be familiar to readers which made it on the list were Michael Buble’s rendition of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” in second with 880 million streams and Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” (ranked 15th with 430 million streams).
