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When Can You Start Playing Christmas Songs Revealed

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Christmas songs… they’re a contentious issue in any office setting. With the festive season upon us, flexible workspace platform, Spacepool, has finally settled the squabbles over the playlist.

50 Spotify playlists, containing 3,383 songs, and 1,228 Reddit responses were analysed to reveal exactly what month Christmas songs can be played, which are least likely to get you in trouble, and which artists are essential listening in the festive period.

58% say leave Christmas songs until December, but 1 in 10 listen all year round

The company analysed the responses of 1,228 Redditors asked ‘when should you listen to Christmas music?’ to reveal the month that you can start blaring Last Christmas with impunity.

More than half – 706 respondents – said that Christmas songs should be limited to December (bah humbug).

However, it turns out there are more committed festives than grinches, with 1 in 10 reporting they listen to Christmas songs all year round versus just 7.7% saying they never do.

When you can start listening to Christmas songs

Time of Year	# of People	% of People
July	25	2.0%
August	5	0.4%
September	25	2.0%
October	22	1.8%
November	233	19.0%
December	706	57.5%
All year	117	9.5%
Never	95	7.7%

Bing Crosby’s White Christmas named the most popular song of the season

The company analysed 50 Christmas playlists, containing 3,383 songs, to reveal the music that appeared most in our lists.

You may be forgiven for believing that Mariah Carey’s All I want for Christmas is You is the most-loved Christmas song. But White Christmas, originally by Bing Crosby, appeared 68 times across 50 playlists as the original, covers, and remixes.

Last Christmas, originally by Wham!, was the second most-popular Christmas song across playlists, appearing 66 times. And, another Bing Crosby hit, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas was third favourite. Originally recorded by Perry Como in 1951, it appeared 59 times.

The top 10 most-popular songs in Christmas playlists

Rank	Christmas song	Times it appeared in playlists
1	White Christmas	68
2	Last Christmas	66
3	It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas	59
4	Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas	58
5	Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!	57
6	Santa Baby	52
7	All I Want for Christmas Is You	52
8	Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree	51
9	Winter Wonderland	49
10	Jingle Bell Rock	49

Michael Bublé is the #1 festive favourite across Christmas playlists

Despite being the original singer of the most popular song of the season – White Christmas – Bing Crosby didn’t top the list of artists that appeared the most across Christmas playlists. It was, in fact, Michael Bublé.

Bublé appeared a whopping 109 times across all 50 analysed. In comparison, Bing Crosby appeared 103 times, and Nat King Cole, 80.

Ariana Grande was a surprise addition to the list of artists that were festive favourites. The most-popular Christmas songs can be considered classics. For example, White Christmas was first recorded in 1942. However, Ariana released her debut song in 2011. Regardless, she ranked the 8th most-popular artist in Christmas playlists, appearing 50 times.

The top 10 most-popular artists in Christmas playlists

Rank	Artist	Times they appeared in Christmas playlists
1	Michael Buble	109
2	Bing Crosby	103
3	Nat King Cole	80
4	Frank Sinatra	75
5	Mariah Carey	65
6	Dean Martin	65
7	Andy Williams	62
8	Ariana Grande	50
9	The Ronettes	48
10	Brenda Lee	46

Information supplied by Spacepool