Top 8 Christmas Songs on Spotify, Christmas Edition 2021

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Christmas is coming soon, here are some songs recommendation from me on spotify that you can listen while waiting for Christmas to come.

1. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey

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Now, in a post Love Actually world, hearing ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ for the first time in a year is one of the most reliable signs that the holidays are here. The song came and went when released in 1995, but snowballed in cultural cachet in the aughts, slowly climbing in popularity every year before finally topping US charts in 2019 and the UK charts in 2020.

2. "Last Christmas" by Wham!

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A ballad of doomed romance, ‘Last Christmas’ features sleighbells and synths, plus some truly memorable knitwear in the video. But what really sets ‘Last Christmas’ apart is George Michael’s heart-on-sleeve delivery: his genuine heartbreak horror (‘My God! I thought you were someone to rely on’) and wistful, sexy whispers. The words ‘Merry Christmas’ never sounded so sultry. 

3. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee

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Being Jewish, songwriter Johnny Marks didn’t celebrate Christmas, but in the ’40s and ’50s he wrote some of the greatest Christmas songs of all time. Among them are ‘Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ ‘I Heard The Bells of Christmas Day,’ and this – an easy-on-the-ear rock ’n’ roll tune sung by a 13-year-old Brenda Lee, which really needs no introduction.

4. "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms

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Following its release in 1957, this rockabilly ditty topped the Christmas charts five years in a row, making it a veritable holiday classic even by the early ’60s. Today it retains a towering presence in the Christmas canon, as synonymous with the holiday as tinsel and paper crowns.

5. "It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas" by Michael Buble

6. "Santa Tell Me" by Ariana Grande

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Is it possible for a song to be an instant classic? In 2014, Ariana Grande released this holiday single, explaining that it's "sort of about being fed up with Santa because he doesn't necessarily pull through all the time." In it, she asks St. Nick not to have her fall in love if the guy won't be in her life the next Christmas.

Ari didn’t score a Mariah-level megahit with this peppy, upbeat ode to joy, but she came closer than almost any other pop star in the 30-ish years since ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You.’ Unlike Kelly Clarkson – who scored a memorable hit by channeling Darlene Love – Ari’s song fits right in her catalog of bops… meaning you can comfortably transition between this plea to St. Nick and her recent hit about a late-night tantra session with relative ease. 

7. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" by Andy Williams

8. "Mistletoe" by Justin Bieber

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This song, from Justin Bieber's first Christmas album, Under the Mistletoe (2011), will inspire you to get up and dance. In 2011, Bieber told MTV News,"It's something that I feel like they're going to be singing every Christmas." Turns out, he was totally right.