# The 22 Best Christmas Songs of All Time

> Carols older than the light bulb share this list with pop songs that come back to the charts every December.

*By YPB Team · Published September 29, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-22-best-christmas-songs-of-all-time*

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1. **Jingle Bell Rock** — score 1000/1000
   Bobby Helms's 1957 rockabilly spin on sleigh-bell songs.
2. **The Christmas Song** — score 926/1000
   Mel Tormé and Bob Wells's chestnuts-roasting song, made famous by Nat King Cole.
3. **Underneath the Tree** — score 762/1000
   Kelly Clarkson's 2013 song from her first Christmas album, Wrapped in Red.
4. **O Holy Night** — score 708/1000
   Adolphe Adam's 1847 setting of the French poem Minuit, chrétiens.
5. **Last Christmas** — score 656/1000
   Wham!'s 1984 synth-pop song about giving your heart to the wrong person.
6. **Merry Xmas Everybody** — score 656/1000
   Slade's 1973 glam-rock UK number one, still on every British Christmas playlist.
7. **Do They Know It's Christmas?** — score 656/1000
   Band Aid's 1984 charity single, organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.
8. **Sleigh Ride** — score 647/1000
   Leroy Anderson's 1948 orchestral piece, later a hit for the Ronettes with words added.
9. **Blue Christmas** — score 647/1000
   Elvis Presley's 1957 version of a country song about a lonely Christmas.
10. **Santa Baby** — score 579/1000
   Eartha Kitt's 1953 wish list, from a sable to a yacht.
11. **Carol of the Bells** — score 579/1000
   Mykola Leontovych's Ukrainian carol Shchedryk, first sung in Kyiv in 1916 and given English words by Peter Wilhousky in 1936.
12. **Happy Xmas (War Is Over)** — score 579/1000
   John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1971 song, sung with the Harlem Community Choir.
13. **Wonderful Christmastime** — score 579/1000
   Paul McCartney's 1979 synthesizer song, recorded alone at home.
14. **Feliz Navidad** — score 502/1000
   José Feliciano's 1970 bilingual song, with one line in Spanish and one in English.
15. **Driving Home for Christmas** — score 502/1000
   Chris Rea's song about sitting in holiday traffic, written in the late 1970s.
16. **All I Want for Christmas Is You** — score 413/1000
   Mariah Carey's 1994 song that returns to the top of the charts almost every December.
17. **Silent Night** — score 413/1000
   Stille Nacht, first sung in 1818 at Oberndorf in Austria, with music by Franz Xaver Gruber.
18. **White Christmas** — score 413/1000
   Irving Berlin's song, sung by Bing Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.
19. **Fairytale of New York** — score 312/1000
   The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl's 1987 duet about a Christmas Eve in a drunk tank.
20. **Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas** — score 312/1000
   Judy Garland introduced it in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis.
21. **Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree** — score 0/1000
   Brenda Lee recorded it in 1958 when she was 13.
22. **Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)** — score 0/1000
   Darlene Love's 1963 wall-of-sound plea from Phil Spector's Christmas album.

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