"do tend to develop an association with Christmas or the holiday season, such an association tends to be much shorter lived than the more traditionally themed Christmas songs such as ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"", ""Mistletoe and Wine"" and ""Merry Christmas Everyone"", and the songs may have nothing to do with Christmas or even winter. Some notable and longer-lasting examples include Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" (No. 1, 1984, the second biggest selling single in UK Chart history; two re-recordings also hit No. 1 in 1989 and 2004), Slade's ""Merry Xmas Everybody"" (No. 1, 1973) and"
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"" is a Christmas song recorded by British glam rock band Wizzard. It was first released in December 1973 and, as with most Wizzard songs, was written and produced by the band's frontman Roy Wood — formerly of The Move and a founding member of ELO. Despite the song's strong, long-lasting popularity, it has reached no higher than number four on the UK Singles Chart, a position it occupied for four consecutive weeks from December 1973 to January 1974. The song was beaten to the 1973 Christmas"
"Merry Xmas Everybody ""Merry Xmas Everybody"" is a song by the British rock band Slade, released as a non-album single in 1973. The song was written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and produced by Chas Chandler. It was the band's sixth and final number-one single in the UK. Earning the UK Christmas number one slot in December 1973, the song beat another Christmas-themed song, Wizzard's ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"", which reached fourth place. It remained in the charts for nine weeks until February 1974. Released at the peak of the band's popularity, ""Merry"
"and the fastest selling single in the UK. Polydor, Slade's record label, were forced to use their French pressing plant to keep up with the demand, and the song eventually went on to sell over one million copies, becoming the Christmas number one of 1973, beating another Christmas-themed song, ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"" by Wizzard. ""Merry Xmas Everybody"" remained number one until mid-January, and stayed in the Top 50 for nine weeks. That it remained in the charts after Christmas caused confusion for Holder, who wondered why people continued to buy it. The single's original B-side was"
"in December 1966. If Every Day Was Like Christmas ""If Every Day Was Like Christmas"" is a 1966 Christmas song by Elvis Presley released as a single and featured on his 1970 Camden ""Elvis' Christmas Album"". The song was released on November 15, 1966 as an RCA Victor 45 single, 47-8950, backed with ""How Would You Like To Be"" from the movie ""It Happened at the World's Fair"". The track was recorded on June 10, 1966 at RCA Studio B in Nashville. Elvis Presley's lead vocals were added on June 12. Background vocals were provided by Millie Kirkham, The Jordanaires,"
"range spanning from G to A. It runs in a fast shuffle rhythm, a rhythm pattern used mainly in jazz-influenced music. In the song, Spears laments her loneliness during the holidays and asks Santa Claus to bring her a lover, in lines such as ""He's all I want, just for me/Underneath my Christmas tree"". Since its release, the song has been included in more than eight Christmas music compilations, including ""Now That's What I Call Christmas!"" (2001), ""Super Christmas Hits"" (2006) and ""Christmas Top 100"" (2009). Michael Roberts of the ""Dallas Observer"" described the song as ""an unobjectionable but generic"
"(1989 reissue) CD single (1993 German reissue) CD single (Slade vs. Flush '98 remix) CD single (2006 reissue) Slade Additional personnel Merry Xmas Everybody ""Merry Xmas Everybody"" is a song by the British rock band Slade, released as a non-album single in 1973. The song was written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and produced by Chas Chandler. It was the band's sixth and final number-one single in the UK. Earning the UK Christmas number one slot in December 1973, the song beat another Christmas-themed song, Wizzard's ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"", which reached fourth"
"repeated, with the final chorus sung four times. On the last rendition, Holder screams out ""It's Christmas!"" after the ""Everybody's having fun"" line and over the rest of the chorus; the final part decreases its tempo and fades out to a D major chord played by the harmonium. Before its release, ""Merry Xmas Everybody"" received about half a million advance orders. 350,000 copies were bought upon its release. It became the third song by Slade to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one in its first eligible week on 15 December 1973, the sixth number one of their career,"
"If Every Day Was Like Christmas ""If Every Day Was Like Christmas"" is a 1966 Christmas song by Elvis Presley released as a single and featured on his 1970 Camden ""Elvis' Christmas Album"". The song was released on November 15, 1966 as an RCA Victor 45 single, 47-8950, backed with ""How Would You Like To Be"" from the movie ""It Happened at the World's Fair"". The track was recorded on June 10, 1966 at RCA Studio B in Nashville. Elvis Presley's lead vocals were added on June 12. Background vocals were provided by Millie Kirkham, The Jordanaires, and The Imperials"
"holiday album ""Merry Christmas"" has sold over 15 million copies worldwide, and is the best-selling Christmas album of all time. It also produced the successful single ""All I Want for Christmas Is You"", which became the only holiday song and ringtone to reach multi-platinum status in the US. In Japan, ""Number 1's"" has sold over 3,250,000 copies and is the best-selling album of all time in Japan by a non-Asian artist. Her hit single ""One Sweet Day"", which featured Boyz II Men, spent sixteen consecutive weeks at the top of ""Billboard""s Hot 100 chart in 1996, setting the record for"
"hit singles with Christmas songs in the 1970s; ""Merry Xmas Everybody"" by Slade, ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"" by Wizzard and ""Lonely This Christmas"" by Mud, all of which have remained hugely popular. The top ten most played Christmas songs in the UK based on a 2012 survey conducted by PRS for Music, who collect and pay royalties to its 75,000 song-writing and composing members, are as follows: Included in the 2009 and 2008 lists are such other titles as Jona Lewie's ""Stop the Cavalry"", Bruce Springsteen's ""Santa Claus is Coming to Town"", Elton John's ""Step into Christmas"","
"songs'. In 2000, the song was used as part of a medley with Wizzard's 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday', creating 'I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Every Day'. This song was described by Batt as a 'very silly record', however it proceeded to reach #22 in the UK Singles Chart, staying in the chart for 3 weeks. The song was prevented from reaching #1 by Mud's 'Lonely This Christmas' which (combined with a poor marketing campaign on behalf of The Wombles) 'more than halved' sales. The song is also widely believed to have prevented Ralph"
"a single was partly inspired by the success of ""All I Want for Christmas Is You"" by Mariah Carey. The following track is a rendition of the holiday standard ""Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"", which Clarkson had selected for its saccharine content. Clarkson favored ""Run Run Rudolph"" as her favorite classic, saying: ""Just because it got to be a little more rock and roll."" She also remarked that ""Please Come Home for Christmas (Bells Will Be Ringing)"" was the first song selected for inclusion after her mother's recommendation and the song's melancholic lyrics. Written by Clarkson and Eubanks, ""Every"
"his family for Christmas. In the song, at around 3 minutes and 44 seconds, the solo trumpet quotes the 2nd theme from the second movement of Dvořák's ""New World Symphony"". This quote bears significance to the song, as Dvořák wrote this symphony when he was missing his home. We Should Be Together (song) ""We Should Be Together"" is a Christmas-themed song by Cliff Richard. Released as a single in November 1991 in the UK, the song bidded for the Christmas No.1 spot. However the song peaked at the No. 10 position - ultimately being beaten to the festive top spot"
"earlier singles ""Swing the Mood"" and ""That's What I Like"" to number one on the charts. This time the records melodic hook is provided by Joe Loss's ""March of the Mods"". Unlike Jive Bunny's previous two hits, it was not a major international hit, although it reached No. 2 in Ireland, and charted in several other European nations. The difference was it sampled classic Christmas songs instead. These included the 1973 Christmas No. 1 Slade's ""Merry Xmas Everybody"" and Gary Glitter's ""Another Rock and Roll Christmas"". It also included Wizzard's ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"" but, as they"
"due to the song's popularity in Europe, it was included in the album's international edition. ""All I Want for Christmas Is You"", the lead single from Carey's holiday album ""Merry Christmas"" also made the international track listing. The song became one of the best-selling singles by a non–Asian female, and the best-selling Japanese single of 1994, selling 1.1 million copies. Additionally, ""All I Want for Christmas Is You"" was called ""one of the essential musical hallmarks of the holiday season"", and is the only holiday song and ringtone to reach multi-platinum status in the US. Occupying three of the thirteen"
"Ross's ""Endless Love"". Carey's album ""Merry Christmas"" was released on November 1, 1994, on the same day that the album's first single, ""All I Want for Christmas Is You"", was released. The album eventually became the best-selling Christmas album of all time, with global sales reaching over 15 million copies. Upon its release, ""All I Want for Christmas Is You"" was critically praised, and is considered ""one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon."" ""Rolling Stone"" described it as a ""holiday standard and ranked it fourth on its Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs list. Commercially, it"
"Everyday"". In 1995 he released a new live version as the 'Roy Wood Big Band', which charted at No. 59, and in 2000 he joined forces with Mike Batt and the Wombles, for a re-working of ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"" and the Wombles' hit ""Wombling Merry Christmas"", together in one song which reached No. 22. Over Christmas 2007, Wood appeared in a catalogue advertisement for Argos, where he played the part of a rowdy neighbour playing guitar along to Wizzard's ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"", and the song once again entered the UK Singles Chart,"
"Christmas Everyday"" – two glam rock singles that were major UK hits over the winter of 1973–74. Leng cites the inclusion on the finished version of ""Ding Dong"" of harmonium and distorted electric guitars, similar to the Slade hit, while Harrison's use of baritone saxophones, two drummers and tubular bells, together with a female choir, matched the arrangement on ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"", which was heavily influenced by Spector's sound. Having incorporated aspects of Spector's technique on ""Material World"",<ref name=""Holden/RS"">Stephen Holden, ""George Harrison, ""Living in the Material World"""", ""Rolling Stone"", 19 July 1973, p. 54 (retrieved 18"
"Why Couldn't It Be Christmas Every Day? ""Why Couldn't It Be Christmas Every Day?"" is a song by Bianca Ryan from her self-titled debut album. Though not officially released as a single by Columbia Records, radio stations in several countries played the song in 2006 as part of their Christmas-themed programming. During the week of December 12, ""Why Couldn't It Be Christmas Every Day?"" reached No. 1 on Radio & Records' Netherlands Top 20 Chart. It has also reached No. 15 on the official Dutch Top 40. A longer remix was included on the promotional EP ""Christmas Everyday!"" (2006) and"
"Channel Holiday"" and ""All Wrapped Up"". The version in ""Disney Channel Holiday"" is the album version, while the version in ""All Wrapped Up"" is a new edit, which has no bridge, and ended with a live-audience sound. In 2011, this song was included in the Soundtrack album of the second Barbie Christmas movie, , as the bonus track. Ordered to be the 6th song in the list CD single and digital download Greatest Time of Year ""Greatest Time of Year"" is the only single from Aly & AJ's Christmas album ""Acoustic Hearts of Winter"". The single was used for """","
"Merry Christmas Everyone ""Merry Christmas Everyone"" is a festive song recorded by Welsh singer-songwriter Shakin' Stevens. Written by Bob Heatlie and produced by Dave Edmunds, it was the fourth number one single for Shakin' Stevens on the UK Singles Chart. It was released on 25 November 1985 and was the Christmas number one for that year. Ever since it has been included on many top-selling Christmas collections and received frequent airplay every Christmas. In 2007, the song re-entered the UK top 30 and reached number 22 on the Christmas chart. This was because downloads now make up the UK Singles"
"Every Year, Every Christmas ""Every Year, Every Christmas"" is a 1995 Christmas song by American recording artist Luther Vandross. The single was released to promote Vandross' first holiday album ""This Is Christmas"". The song was co-written by Vandross and singer-songwriter Richard Marx. Marx also contributed in arrangement of the single along with Vandross, Skip Anderson and Nat Adderley, Jr. ""Every Year, Every Christmas"" received moderate rotation on radio and peaked to No. 32 on Billboard's R&B Airplay chart. Patti LaBelle also covered the song, which appeared on her 2007 Christmas album ""Miss Patti's Christmas"". The LaBelle version was spoken at"
"as an edited version in 1970. ""Rolling Stone"" magazine ranked Darlene Love's version of ""Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"" (1963) first on its list of The Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs in December 2010. Carey's ""All I Want for Christmas Is You"", co-written by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, was No. 1 on Billboard's Holiday Digital Songs chart in December 2013. ""Fairytale of New York"" by The Pogues is cited as the best Christmas song of all time in various television, radio and magazine related polls in the U.K. and Ireland. Approximately half of the 30 best-selling Christmas songs by"
"All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day ""All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day"" is a song by British synthpop duo Hurts. In the first week of its release, the song was made as a free download on iTunes in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and was ""Single of the Week"". The single charted at number 67 in Austria. Regarding the release of the song, Hurts declared in an interview that, ""[i]t's about the worst Christmas of our lives, which we're releasing on the best Christmas of our lives. Also, we used previous cast members for"
"Mud's ""Lonely This Christmas"", ""Walking in the Air"" by Aled Jones, Shakin' Stevens' ""Merry Christmas Everyone"", Chris Rea's ""Driving Home for Christmas"" and ""Mistletoe and Wine"" and ""Saviour's Day"" by Cliff Richard. The best Christmas song ""to get adults and children in the festive spirit for the party season in 2016"" was judged by the ""Daily Mirror"" to be ""Fairytale of New York"". Mariah Carey's ""All I Want For Christmas is You"" was declared ""the UK’s favourite Christmas song,"" narrowly beating out ""Fairytale of New York"" according to a ""points system"" created by The Independent in 2017. Both score well"
"My Only Wish (This Year) ""My Only Wish (This Year)"" is a pop Christmas song performed by American recording artist Britney Spears. It was written by Brian Kierulf, Josh Schwartz and Spears. It was released originally in the Christmas compilation album ""Platinum Christmas"". In it Spears asks Santa Claus to find her a lover during the holidays. The track received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. However, close to a decade after its release, reviewers felt the song could be considered a holiday classic. ""My Only Wish (This Year)"" has charted in various countries, mainly on Billboard's Holiday Songs"
"with the song ""I Wish Every Day Could Be Like Christmas"" also performed by Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi later released the track along with two other Christmas themed songs on the single for ""Please Come Home for Christmas"". In 1987, Brad Delp covered this song on his holiday themed album ""Christmas Jammin' with Brad Delp"". The Australian band Jet has also covered this song. It is available on their Japanese-only ""Rare Tracks"" compilation album. In late December 2005, The Black Crowes released a free download version of this song, complete with a horn section. This track can be heard in"
"the very end the song dedicated to Vandross. The single was a minor hit in the United Kingdom and peaked at No. 43 on the UK Singles Chart. Every Year, Every Christmas ""Every Year, Every Christmas"" is a 1995 Christmas song by American recording artist Luther Vandross. The single was released to promote Vandross' first holiday album ""This Is Christmas"". The song was co-written by Vandross and singer-songwriter Richard Marx. Marx also contributed in arrangement of the single along with Vandross, Skip Anderson and Nat Adderley, Jr. ""Every Year, Every Christmas"" received moderate rotation on radio and peaked to No."
"in ensuing decades include: In their ""admittedly subjective"" list of the top Christmas songs of all time, ThoughtCo. ranked their top five favorites as: In 2007 surveys of United States radio listeners by two different research groups, the most liked songs were standards such as Bing Crosby's ""White Christmas"" (1942), Nat King Cole's ""The Christmas Song"" (1946), and Burl Ives' ""A Holly Jolly Christmas"" (1965). Other favorites like ""Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"" (Brenda Lee, 1958), ""Jingle Bell Rock"" (Bobby Helms, 1957) and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's ""Happy Xmas"" (1971), scored well in one study. Also ""loved"" were Johnny"
"until 1991. Many songs this year competed for the Christmas number one single, and the entire top 3 from 1984 re-entered the chart this year; Paul McCartney's ""We All Stand Together"" at number 32, Wham!'s ""Last Christmas"" at number 6, and Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" at number 3. There were also attempts from Bruce Springsteen with a cover of ""Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"", and ventriloquist Keith Harris released a cover of ""White Christmas"" with his green puppet Orville the Duck. However, the Christmas number one went to Shakin' Stevens with the song ""Merry Christmas Everyone""."
"is closely associated with the season having had number ones over the period in 1999 with the aforementioned ""The Millennium Prayer"", in 1988 with ""Mistletoe and Wine"" and in 1990 with ""Saviour's Day"". It was with this album and the single ""Santa's List"" that he was aiming to achieve another Christmas number one record. However bookmakers Ladbrokes placed his chance this happening for the third time at fifty to one. ""Santa's List"" was written by Chris Eaton (the same songwriter who wrote ""Saviour's Day"") and Nick Trevisick. To coincide with a number of other 2004 Christmas releases, including a number"
"I got Christmas number one it would be the best feeling in the world,"" she said. ""I'd be ecstatic. I don't know if I'd be able to look Simon Cowell in the eye! No, I don't think he'd talk to me!"" She subsequently said that she was not disappointed that the single did not make it into the UK top 20. Other artists who have covered the song include: Driving Home for Christmas ""Driving Home for Christmas"" is a popular Christmas single written and composed by Chris Rea and released in 1988. It was originally released as one of two"