My Top 20: Christmas Chart Hits
Submitted by Wezzo on Wed, 08/25/2004 - 09:13
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- A Fairytale Of New York (The Pogues feat. Kirsty Maccoll)
- Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid)
- Driving Home For Christmas (Chris Rea)
- Another Rock & Roll Christmas (Gary Glitter)
- Merry Christmas Everybody (Slade)
- When A Child Is Born (Johnny Mathis)
- Stop The Cavalry (Jona Lewie)
- Happy Christmas - War Is Over (John & Yoko)
- Merry Christmas Everyone (Shakin' Stevens)
- Wonderful Christmastime (Paul McCartney)
- In Dulce Jubilo (Mike Oldfield)
- Step Into Christmas (Elton John)
- Little Saint Nick (the Beach Boys)
- Last Christmas (Wham!)
- 2000 Miles (The Pretenders)
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Jackson 5)
- Gaudete (Steeleye Span)
- White Christmas (Bing Crosby)
- I Believe In Father Christmas (Greg Lake)
- The Power Of Love (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
Author Comments:
A mainstream bias, yes, but oh well.. that's the point. Comments welcome.
Are these in order of preference? If so, you couldn't have picked a better #1.
They sure are. Cheers!
Neato! Just off the top of my head (because I refuse to research Elmo & Patsy) it occurs to me that these might've charted:
Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano
Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer- Elmo & Patsy
every damn year the first Christmas song I hear is Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer . It's starting to ruin Kwanzaa for me.
Yeah, I'm sick of the Grandma song too. Awful, the only thing worse is the lame 45-minute cartoon video release based around it.
totally agree with the #1. great song.
Yup, cheers!
Steeleye Span   are playing live   near my home   on 21st December 2004.   I will probably go along.
Cool, hope they play Gaudete. :) Let me know how you get on.