Fairytale of New York by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl has been crowned the UK’s favoruite Christmas song of 2024, according to research conducted by PPL PRS. The survey looked to find the which festive hits get Brits’ spirits high at Christmas time. It was found that one in 6 Brits were partial to The Pogues’ iconic tune. This was closely followed by Last Christmas by Wham! and All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.
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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.