00:00Whenever we pull these numbers together, actually, whether it's in 2024 or, you know, five years
00:07ago or ten years ago, what tends to come out is that the classics are the most popular.
00:14We've seen a lot more new Christmas songs emerging in the last kind of five or ten years.
00:20I think for quite a long period of time, lots of artists avoid making Christmas songs because
00:25they thought they were a bit naff, frankly.
00:28So for quite a long time, you know, it was all the old favourites.
00:30There's lots of, you know, Slade and Wizard and, you know, Mariah, obviously, and Wham!
00:36and Fairytale of New York and what have you.
00:39And we are seeing more new Christmas songs emerge, like the Michael Bublé one, but even
00:46so that kind of hardcore of Christmas classics continue to be the nation's favourites.
00:54Furthermore, Official Charts conducted research last December to find out the biggest Christmas
00:59songs of the 21st century.
01:01It was Michael Bublé's It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, which topped that
01:05list, followed closely by Ariana Grande's Santa Tell Me.
01:09I remember what we were doing, you know, Christmases, you know, when we were younger, when we were
01:14teenagers, you know, anyway, I do, when I was a teenager and, you know, when I was a
01:19kid and when my children were growing up and the first Christmas songs they kind of remember.
01:24And, you know, I remember when I was younger, not only did you have the most recent Christmas
01:29songs, you also, there were lots of Christmas carols and the Christmas carols were the music
01:35that really kind of carried you through Christmas.
01:38We will have really strong, really powerful and very emotional memories about those times
01:43as we were growing up and as we were beginning to enjoy our first Christmases.
01:47And I think that's the reason why.
01:49Christmas is a time for nostalgia.
01:51We all get together as families and it kind of feeds into all of that, really.
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