Here are Billboard's picks for the 100 best Christmas songs of all time.
There’s a reason that listeners seem to get more anxious every year for the Christmas music season to start: Nothing else feels quite like it. The things that make Christmas songs great — whether carols, old pop standards or newer enduring hits — are most of the same things that make pop great in general: emotional connection, universal relatability, unshakeable catchiness.
But Christmas music has a wavelength entirely its own, shared by an overwhelming majority of its most recognizable classics: a sort of sublime yearning that’s at once profoundly saddening and deeply comforting. It evokes a visceral, nearly oppressive sentimentality, one fortified and strengthened by a lifetime’s worth of associated holiday memories — personal, familial, romantic, nostalgic. It’s music for the most wonderful time of the year, even if it always makes you cry.
And it never goes away. Well, maybe for ten months of the year, it goes into hibernation — but you know it’ll be back next November at the latest, and it’ll include the same songs it has for your entire life. Unlike the oldies and classic rock canons, which are forced to update their timeline parameters every so often , being a Christmas standard is a lifetime appointment.
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