The Top 100 Christmas Songs Of All Time

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1. White Christmas – Bing Crosby
2. All I Want for Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey
3. Jingle Bell Rock – Bobby Helms
4. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee
5. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Judy Garland
6. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting) – Nat King Cole
7. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year – Andy Williams
8. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Gene Autry
9. Frosty the Snowman – Gene Autry
10. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! – Dean Martin
11. Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town – Bruce Springsteen
12. Silver Bells – Bing Crosby & Carol Richards
13. A Holly Jolly Christmas – Burl Ives
14. Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley
15. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
16. Last Christmas – Wham!
17. Feliz Navidad – José Feliciano
18. Do They Know It’s Christmas? – Band Aid
19. Winter Wonderland – Perry Como
20. I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Bing Crosby
21. Run Rudolph Run – Chuck Berry
22. Merry Christmas Everybody – Slade
23. Wonderful Christmastime – Paul McCartney
24. Fairytale of New York – The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl
25. 2000 Miles – The Pretenders
26. Please Come Home for Christmas – Charles Brown
27. Little Saint Nick – The Beach Boys
28. Step Into Christmas – Elton John
29. Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) – Ramones
30. Father Christmas – The Kinks
31. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love
32. Here Comes Santa Claus – Gene Autry
33. Santa Baby – Eartha Kitt
34. Sleigh Ride – Leroy Anderson
35. Deck the Halls – Traditional
36. We Wish You a Merry Christmas – Traditional
37. The Twelve Days of Christmas – Traditional
38. Good King Wenceslas – Traditional
39. Jingle Bells – Traditional
40. O Christmas Tree – Traditional
41. This Christmas – Donny Hathaway
42. Mary, Did You Know? – Mark Lowry
43. O Holy Night – Traditional
44. Ave Maria – Franz Schubert
45. Silent Night – Traditional
46. Go Tell It on the Mountain – Traditional
47. Joy to the World – Traditional
48. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Traditional
49. Little Drummer Boy – Harry Simeone Chorale
50. Mistletoe – Justin Bieber
51. Underneath the Tree – Kelly Clarkson
52. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays – *NSYNC
53. The Most Wonderful Day of the Year – Burl Ives
54. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Jimmy Boyd
55. Hard Candy Christmas – Dolly Parton
56. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer – Elmo & Patsy
57. What Christmas Means to Me – Stevie Wonder
58. Someday at Christmas – Stevie Wonder
59. My Favorite Things – Julie Andrews
60. Sleigh Ride – The Ronettes
61. Pretty Paper – Roy Orbison
62. Christmas in Killarney – Bing Crosby
63. All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth – Spike Jones
64. The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late) – Alvin & the Chipmunks
65. Santa Claus Is Back in Town – Elvis Presley
66. O Come All Ye Faithful – Traditional
67. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Traditional
68. Away in a Manger – Traditional
69. The First Noel – Traditional
70. We Three Kings – Traditional
71. Angels We Have Heard on High – Traditional
72. Silver and Gold – Burl Ives
73. Home for the Holidays – Perry Como
74. Caroling, Caroling – Nat King Cole
75. The Chanukah Song – Adam Sandler
76. Baby It’s Cold Outside – Frank Loesser
77. You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Thurl Ravenscroft
78. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas – Perry Como
79. Do You Hear What I Hear? – Bing Crosby
80. Christmas Lights – Coldplay
81. River – Joni Mitchell
82. Please Come Home for Christmas – Eagles
83. Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses
84. Carol of the Bells – Traditional
85. Same Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg
86. Christmas Time Is Here – Vince Guaraldi Trio
87. Linus and Lucy – Vince Guaraldi Trio
88. I Believe in Father Christmas – Greg Lake
89. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas – Gayla Peevey
90. Hallelujah (Christmas version) – Pentatonix
91. Angels from the Realms of Glory – Traditional
92. Where Are You Christmas? – Faith Hill
93. Happy Holiday – Bing Crosby
94. Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You – Billy Squier
95. Merry Christmas Darling – The Carpenters
96. The Christmas Waltz – Frank Sinatra
97. Silver Bells – Johnny Mathis
98. So This Is Christmas – Cyndi Lauper
99. A Holly Jolly Christmas – Burl Ives
100. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas – Burl Ives
101. Ready for Christmas – Pure Evergreen

Listen to the top 100 Christmas songs of all time

Christmas music is unlike any other genre. It doesn’t follow trends, it doesn’t age out, and it doesn’t care what’s playing on the radio the rest of the year. Every November, the same songs that played in your grandparents’ living room come flooding back through speakers everywhere, and somehow, they still hit just as hard.

That’s the magic of Christmas music. It’s not just sound. It’s memory. It’s the smell of pine needles and the flicker of Christmas lights. It’s being eight years old again, or missing someone who’s no longer at the table. Few art forms carry that kind of weight so reliably, year after year.

This list of the top 100 Christmas songs of all time spans nearly a century of music, from Bing Crosby’s snow-dusted croon in 1942 to Mariah Carey’s powerhouse modern classic, from Chuck Berry’s electric guitar to the heartbreaking quiet of Joni Mitchell’s “River.” It includes rock, R&B, country, gospel, jazz, and carols that have been sung for hundreds of years. What they all share is simple: they belong to Christmas in a way that nothing else does.