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Sep 15, 2024 · This list of the top Christmas music bands in the world includes all of your favorite holiday season musicians who have released recordings with distribution, with the order decided by fans internationally. Examples of artists on this list fange from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, to Mariah Carey...
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- Frank Sinatra, A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra (1957) For a lot of people, it's not Christmas until Ol' Blue Eyes is singing, and that is certainly true when one considers the legacy of Frank Sinatra's first Christmas record.
- Elvis Presley, Elvis' Christmas Album (1957) It's difficult to overstate just how groundbreaking Presley was in the 1950s, especially in the United States, where this Christmas classic was considered so salacious at the time of its release that a number of people, including Irving Berlin, who wrote "White Christmas," attempted to get it banned from radio play altogether.
- Nat King Cole, The Magic of Christmas (1960) There is a reason why this holiday album is beloved by so many, and that has everything to do with Nat King Cole's inimitable voice.
- Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1960) Ella Fitzgerald's classic holiday album includes a number of high-energy, spirited takes on the Christmas songs that most of us love and know well, including "Jingle Bells" and "Let It Snow!
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Believe me, it was difficult for our panel to stop at just the top 30 Christmas singers. But, we did and here they are.
#20 – The Beach Boys
Ok, so most people don’t associate California with Christmas songs, but remember Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” was written in Los Angeles, California. The Beach Boys’ harmonies shine in this classic, “Little Saint Nick.” Heavily influenced by Phil Spector over the course of his career, Brian Wilson wrote “Little Saint Nick.”
#19 – Andy Williams
Born in Wall Lake, Iowa, Andy Williams was a singer, record producer, and TV star. Williams recorded 43 albums in his career and 15 were gold-certified and 3 were platinum-certified. Of the 43 albums he recorded, eight of them were Christmas albums earning the nickname, “Mr. Christmas.” His TV show was a showcase for his songs and the Christmas shows frequently featured this hit that is now associated with Andy Williams.
#18 – Elvis Presley
Elvis’s favorite Christmas song: “Blue Christmas.” Need we say more?
#10 – Whitney Houston
The most awarded female artist of all time (per Guinness World Records) can absolutely belt out a song. Having begun singing as a child at her church, she always seemed very comfortable with Christmas songs. “One Wish” is no exception. Tony Bennett once said, “When I first heard her, I called Clive Davis (Houston’s producer) and said, ‘You finally found the greatest singer I’ve ever heard in my life.'”
#9 – Bobby Darin
Darin could play the piano, drums and guitar as a teenager. “The Latin Lover” was as smooth as silk in nightclub concerts and defined “cool” for many fans. He was married to actress Sandra Dee for seven years. Darin had a keen interest in chess. His TV show had a segment where he would explain chess moves. Perhaps his most famous song is “Mac the Knife,” but as you’ll hear in “Christmas Auld Lang Syne,” his talents were many.
#8 – Stevie Wonder
This was a tough pick. Should we go with “Someday at Christmas” or “That’s What Christmas Means To Me”? We went with the latter for our featured song – really couldn’t go wrong.
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- Weezer, ‘A Weezer Christmas’ (2008) If there's one thing the centuries-old tradition of holiday music has always lacked, it's irony. Weezer bring it by the sleigh-load on this six-song EP.
- ‘Christmas Joy in Latvia – Latvian Christmas Cantatas’ (2012) If you're looking for actual, traditional Christmas music, you couldn't do better than this rich, fascinating album of carols done by the New York Latvian Concert Choir, which is conducted by 74-year-old Andrejs Jansons.
- Jacob Miller, ‘Natty Christmas’ (1978) "We bring you an Irie Christmas and a dancehall New Year," Miller sings on this bright, irreverent set, recorded in 1978, just two years before the Inner Circle frontman's untimely death at age 27.
- Sufjan Stevens, ‘Songs for Christmas’ (2006) You gotta a love song called "Come On, Let's Boogie to the Elf Dance." Or perhaps, you want to bury it neck-deep in the snow out behind the house where Santa's reindeer take their traditional Christmas Eve pee break.
- ‘My Christmas,’ Andrea Bocelli. Release date: Nov. 3, 2009. Billboard 200 peak: No. 2 for five consecutive weeks beginning Nov. 28, 2009. Producers: David Foster, Renato Serio.
- ‘Home for Christmas,’ Amy Grant. Release date: Oct. 6, 1992. Billboard 200 peak: No. 2 (Dec. 26, 1992) Producers: Brown Bannister, Ronn Huff. Notes: This was Grant’s second Christmas album, following 1983’s A Christmas Album.
- ‘White Christmas,’ Bing Crosby. Release date: 1986. Billboard 200 peak: No. 34 (Jan. 8, 2022) Guest artist: The Andrews Sisters, Carol Richards. Notes: This is an adaptation of Crosby’s Merry Christmas, which was first released in 1945 and which hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in December 1957 – interrupting Elvis Presley’s reign at No. 1 with Elvis’ Christmas Album.
- ‘A Pentatonix Christmas,’ Pentatonix. Release date: Oct. 21, 2016. Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 for two consecutive weeks beginning Jan. 7, 2017. Producers: Alex Green, Andrew Kesler, Ben Bram, Pentatonix.
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20. 21. 22. T his is Records.Christmas’s take on the top 100 Christmas records of all time. These are our favourites out of all the albums we’ve listened to, pondered, researched and reviewed over the years, listed by review score – where 10 means the very best albums in history, and so on. Within each category, the order is random, and ...
