I’ve created new traditions for my own family and one of them is listening to Christmas music as soon as the weather changes. I say when ‘the weather changes’ only because in Toronto, we could literally have interchanging late summer and early winter weather here on any given day between September and November.
I find Christmas music, everything from classical to popular, to be quite polarizing. Some people love Christmas music, some hate it, and some only want it around during the holidays. I see it from both ends. I used to work retail and the same songs would be blasted over and over, day in and day out. It got to be quite exhausting as I started to associate it with angry, hurried customers during the seasonal rush.
However, since happily ditching that industry, my love for Christmas music has returned (with fury, might I add). I have some favourites I could listen to all year round but have relegated them for just the holidays to prevent depreciation. I find when something is cherished and enjoyed in moderation, the more coveted it becomes.
Thus, I wanted a share my Ultimate Christmas song list c/o Spotify. Not that anybody asked, but you’re welcome. Enjoy! (For everyone else who despises Christmas music, have a good day. Do come back next Wednesday!)
Do you like Christmas music? What’s your favourite Christmas song?
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I LOVE that u geek out on Christmas music and I frankly don’t understand anyone who doesn’t! 🤣 I LOVE Buble’s Christmas album and my favorite of his is “Christmas Baby Please Come Home.” Also have you heard “Oh Santa” by Mariah Carey? I discovered that one in a retail store actually, ha, so that awful music is good for something I guess🤷🏼♀️And oh I’m excited to listen to that Meghan Trainor one! And lastly, I love the Holly Jolly Christmas version by Lady A, it’s so pretty. Do u like? Anyway, great list, thanks for sharing! And Omg sorry for exploding eggnog glitter all over your comment section 😬🌲🦄🎁 PS I had goosebumps (not from the cold but from the magic) reading this whole post I dunno why 🌺🌺🌺
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Hahaha thanks Libby! I love your enthusiasm for Christmas music 🙂 I have not heard any of the songs you listed but that’s only bc I’m a hermit when it comes to music lol I tend to only listen to what I know and I’m stuck in my 90s era LOL
Will look for those songs! If you haven’t listened to Silent Night by Suzie McNeil from my list, please have a listen! It’s my favourite version of Silent Night! 💕😍🎶
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Ohhh ok will do! Listening to Meghan Trainor right now, sooooooo pretty! 🌲❄️ PS nothing wrong with being stuck in the 90s!!!! xoxox 🤣
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I’m glad you rediscovered your joy! I get very Scroogeish about the commercialism and sometimes music is all that saves me.
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Agreed, I certainly can get like that too!
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Love your Christmas music list! Wham is my #1, so I’m happy it’s near the top of yours! 🙂
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Hehe it’s all random but yes it is one of my top 3s for sure! It’s not Christmas without a Wham jam!!
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My husband loves Christmas music. His favourite album Carrie Underwood’s. I’m not a huge fan of Christmas music because I’m usually tired of listening to it year after year. I prefer instrumentals and piano music of these same songs, if anything!
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I understand! It’s not everyone’s cup of tea ☕😜🙂
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I do like tea though, don’t get me wrong 😂🍵💕
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I’m with Hilary. Christmas music overall is just okay, but I do love me some Mannheim Steamroller this time of year!!
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Yea totally fair! ☺️
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Oooohhh, fun!! Who doesn’t love Christmas music?! YAY!
There’s a medley of Sleep Well, Little Children and Toyland that I used to love as a teenager. I still love it!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKM3wQXQIFk
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Thanks, Meg! Will check it out 😊
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I love Christmas music. Honestly, in today’s crappy atmosphere, it brings me joy. It also lets me give the every-day music a break. I love Leona Lewis’ One More Sleep. It’s on my list, too. I also love Serena Ryder’s Calling to Say. I have Mariah’s two CDs in my car that I put on rotate throughout the month.
It’s quite depressing when it’s all over, because we have to sit through three months of grey, cold, snow, etc., before spring rolls around.
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Yes agreed completely, it just brightens up my mood!!
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Thanks for sharing your Christmas playlist. It has a lot of the same songs as mine with a few that I’m not familiar with. I will give it a listen!
I love Christmas music, although I tend to only listen to it starting mid- to late-November. I don’t want to get tired of it by the time Christmas comes around.
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You’re welcome, Michelle! It’s quite a mixed bag so I hope you enjoy 😜🎶
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I am also a fan of Christmas music, so thanks for sharing your list. There are a lot of songs on there I did not recognize, so I hope to check them out…
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You’re welcome, Jim! Hope you enjoy 💕 ‘Tis the season 😄
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All sorts are my choices. Last year I thought it would be an easy break from regular blogs to do an Advent Calendar. It wasn’t, but it was fun looking up YouTube and choosing some very different music. I like rousing carols and The Carol of the Bells by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is BIG and fun to watch, they are enjoying themselves and so do we! Take a trip to the past with Correli’s beautiful Christmas Concerto and then there is the moving melancholy of Bethlehem Down, written for a Carol competition by an impoverished Peter Warlock ( his creepy pseudonym ) a hell raiser who died tragically young. My retail music from a Christmas season in Harrods’ toy department? They played Scott Joplin all the time and his music is forever associated with that Christmas – happy music; also the year an IRA bomb exploded inside the store, but everyone was safely evacuated. Now it is time for me to get out my Xmas CDs!
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Wow lol that was an action packed comment lol can we go back to the bomb part?!? LOL.. what the heck… Glad you are okay! That’s what I love about music.. So many choices!
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I think retail is hard most of the year, but it gets particularly nuts around the holidays. I recently read an article about the ridiculous amount of merchandise stolen during this season. I can imagine how Christmas music would get old if you were around it all day. I like the Wham version, but one of the other bloggers I follow introduced me to this version of Last Christmas that I find quite enjoyable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvAbKoKYTfE&t=13s
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Yes, retail can be a drag at the best of times! I worked at Levi’s and some of the thieves were quite ballsy back then.. It’s only getting worse now!
Thanks for the recommendation, Pete! Will give it a listen 🙂
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What a great list! I love Michael Bublé’s Christmas album 😉🎄
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So good! 🙂
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I love this! When Charlotte is grown, she will remember these song, and you will have great memories.
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Thank you! Yes I hope she remembers how musical our family is and it brings her happiness and comfort later in life 🙂
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I think she will! 🥰
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You’re right that Christmas music is polarizing. I try to never discuss it because somehow someone will get pissy. I like Christmas music at Christmastime and am happy with most of it for a few weeks, then no more. Your playlist looks perfect.
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Hehe thanks! Totally get it! 🙂
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I love Christmas music and love to start off December by listening to anything merry. I’ve never heard some of the songs on this list though! Guess I’ll go have a listen 😊
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Yes, I love them all! 🙂
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Freshly out of lower school, I joined the school choir, and discovered after a Christmas concert that singing is never going to be a professional pursuit for me 🙂 That definitely colored my view of Christmas songs…
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haha, my family thought the same when I took up violin in grade 4 lol…
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