The most beautiful Christmas songs

It’s the most magical time of the year. The lights are turned on, the decorations are prepared, the gifts are chosen. The atmosphere is colored by desires and the soundtrack becomes necessary. Christmas songs accompany the frenzy of December and manage to conquer even the most terrible of the Grinch. Each of us has a memory linked to one of these songs that have always accompanied the holiday season and that enter our heads, even if we don’t decide to listen to them. In shops, on television, at dinner parties, the songs of Christmas they are part of the tradition. They evoke memories and emotions, they resonate everywhere throughout the month of December. From Queen Mariah Carey who has been the most listened to since 1994 to Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, the great Christmas classics, we have selected for you the most beautiful songs ever. Happy listening, Merry Christmas! \

All I Want for Christmas Is You Mariah Carey

If you say Christmas you think Mariah. It’s the first song in every playlist. It is the soundtrack of every panettone from 1 November 1994 to today. It’s the song that makes the holiday queen rich. It seems that every year you make her 2.5 million dollars. Do the math too.

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Last Christmas – Wham

With a video shot in a chalet and on the snow of Saas-Fee in the Canton of Valais, it has accompanied Christmas since 1984. Written one afternoon at George Micheal’s house, it made its debut in second place in the standings. We apologize to those who are playing Whamaggeddon, the Christmas challenge that is won by those who manage to get to Christmas without listening to it. Impossible for us, we declare ourselves defeated.

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Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – John Lennon

It’s not just a Christmas song, but a hymn to peace, an anti-war gesture. For fifty-one years, John Lennon’s masterpiece has been on Christmas playlists, with the voice of the singer and Yoko Ono whispering best wishes to their children. Curious to know that this indispensable Christmas carol was not immediately successful.

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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas – Michael Buble

If Mariah is queen, Michael is king. Originally sung by Meredith Wilson in 1951, it is on our soundtracks thanks to the voice of the Canadian singer who year after year has become the voice of Christmas.

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White Christmas -Bing Crosby

Fifty million copies sold worldwide. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the most listened to song ever, thanks also to the voice of Bing Crosby, American singer and comedian, and has been accompanying the holidays since 1942.

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Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! – Frank Sinatra

But if we have to talk about crooners, Frank Sinatra, The Voice, can’t be missing, who perhaps sang all the Christmas songs. This is a Christmas song, written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Juke Styne in 1945 and originally performed by Vaughn Monroe. Sinatra’s first cover.

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Jingle Bell Rock – The Vamps

The Bobby Helms song first released in 1957 and covered countless times, here plays with the voice of the US band composed by Bradley Simpson (vocals and guitar), James McVey (guitar), Connor Ball (bass) and Tristan Evan ( battery). Since then it has been the rockiest song of Christmas.

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Santa Tell Me – Ariana Grande

Proof that the great classics don’t just come from the past. Song released in 2014, is the Christmas song by Ariana Grande, the American pop star who initially didn’t want to release a Christmas song, but then changed her mind. We don’t think she repented.

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Do the Know it’s Christmas? – Band Aid

Song written by Bob Edge and Midge Ure in 1984 to raise funds for Ethiopia and published for the first time that same year it was then redone in 1989, 2004 and 2014, calling on stage each time different protagonists. Every generation has its favorite edition, expect the next one.

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Christmas Tree Farm – Taylor Swift

Taylor’s childhood becomes a Christmas song in 2019. The words tell it, the images of the video show it, in which his brother Austin and his parents also appear. Warm and welcoming, it accompanies the Christmas of those who run away from the great classics. Although perhaps this is already a classic too.

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Driving Home for Christmas – Chris Rea

Written by Chris Rea long before its publication, inspired by a car trip, when the British singer-songwriter could not afford a train journey, it was published in 1988 and was only sung live for the first time in 2014.

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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer —Dean Martin

Can’t miss Dean Martin and can’t miss the red-nosed reindeer. Sung for the first time by crooner Harry Brannon in 1949, it is one of the most loved songs by the American singer of Italian origin who was born Dino Paolo Martino Crocetti.

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Merry Christmas – Ed Sheeran and Elton John

It’s the most recent Christmas song, but it’s rightfully entered the universe of great classics. Sung by Ed Sheeran and Elton John and released on December 3, 2021, it is full of Christmas sounds and good feelings and in just one year it has made it into every Christmas playlist. Enter here too.

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Santa Claus is Coming to Town – Jackson Five

The traditional Christmas carol composed in 1932 and first sung by Eddie Cantor, became famous thanks to versions by Bing Crosby and Perry Corno. Here in the Jackson 5 version from 1970.

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Christmas Lights Coldplay

Even the British band throughout its history has succumbed to the charm of Christmas songs. And he did well. Published in 2010, produced by Brian Eno, amidst lights and snow, it is about a lonely man who no longer feels the magic of Christmas. It happens to many. Music helps.

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Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley

The song written in 1948 and brought to success by the king of rock in 1957, becoming a great Christmas classic, seems not to have been particularly loved by the king of rock. Republished several times by many artists, the Beach Boys version is also very famous.

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Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee

He was 13 when he first sang this song. It was 1958. Since then the song has been re-sung countless times by many artists, rightfully entering the most loved songs of Christmas. Written by Johnny Mark, also author of Rudolph the red nose reindeerhe was the one to impose the name of Brenda for this song.

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mistletoe – Justin Bieber

First single from her second studio album Under the Mistletoe, takes inspiration from the songs of Mariah Carey, as stated by Justin himself. Written to let the Christmas atmosphere live, away from everyday problems, it is certainly one of the most loved songs by the youngest.

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Winter Wonderland – Tony Bennett e Lady Gaga

Song written by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith in 1934 and reinterpreted over the years by more than two hundred artists, here it is in the version of the extraordinary artistic couple who, nominated four times at the last Emmy Awards, give light to a timeless song.

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Christmas Time is Here – John Legend

First published in December 1965 and written for the television special A Charlie Brown Christmas, is one of the most melancholic Christmas songs. Splendida is the version of the American singer-songwriter, released in 2018 on the album A legendary Christmas in which he reinterprets the most famous songs.

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Happy Christmas – Jose Feliciano

Written and sung by José Feliciano in 1970, it is among the fifteen most popular Christmas songs in the world. With a merry and Spanish melody, it wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in both Spanish and English. Covered by many artists, we also note the versions by Laura Pausini and Raffaella Carrà.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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