Good luck finding the nog in August though. And as a gift for you, we’ve assembled 65 Christmas songs so incredibly catchy, you just might want to listen all year round. Tell Me Why (Taylors Version) Lyrics: I took a chance, I took a shot / And you might think Im bulletproof, but Im not / You took a swing, I took it hard / And down here from the ground, I see. But festive cheer has found its way into pop, hip-hop, R&B, metal, punk, indie… you name it. There is, of course, something of a Christmas canon: ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ and ‘Fairytale of New York’ are great songs… which is good, as inevitably you’re going to hear them about a million times this holidays. But even more cynical later generations of pop have produced plenty of gold.

There are plenty of keepers from the ‘40s-‘70s heyday of the Christmas record as an art form. See if you can tell me the number in each of these songs.

Love them, hate them, or just accept them as a sort of immutable fact of life, Christmas songs are a thing, and as December 25 gets inexorably closer and closer they’re a thing that becomes increasingly inescapable.Īnd although there’s been a fair amount of disposable novelty rubbish written over the years, the reality is that a lot of Christmas songs are bangers. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. Some of the greatest tunes from the early years of rock included numbers.

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