Top 100 Best Christmas Songs To Make Your Days Merry and Bright
Whether you’re trimming the tree or heading out to a Christmas party, here are our some of our favorite Christmas songs that focus on secular Christmas themes, such as winter scenes, family gatherings, and Santa Claus, rather than spiritual Christmas songs to play around the holiday season. We even have some unique songs, some of which might become new holiday favorites! NOTE: links go to Apple Music, and you'll also find a link at the bottom of the song or the album the song is on to purchase it from iTunes.
Example:
- White Christmas - Bing Crosby
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Burl Ives
- Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin
- It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Andy Williams
- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
- (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays - Perry Como
- Christmas Tree Farm - Taylor Swift
- Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - Dean Martin
- Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters
- It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas - Bing Crosby
- I'll Be Home for Christmas - Josh Groban
- Up On the House Top - The Jackson 5
- Winter Wonderland - Tony Bennett
- O Christmas Tree - Aretha Franklin
- Sleigh Ride - Harry Connick, Jr.
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland
- Frosty the Snowman - Jimmy Durante
- Deck the Halls - Ottmar Liebert
- Santa's Coming For Us - Sia
- Silver Bells - Johnny Mathis
- Carol of the Bells - Mannheim Steamroller
- Sleigh Ride - Boston Pops Orchestra
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Weezer
- Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
- Home for the Holidays - Robert Goulet
- We Need a Little Christmas - Percy Faith & His Orchestra & Chorus
- Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby & David Bowie
- Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt with Henri René and His Orchestra
- Blue Christmas - Elvis
- Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney
- All I Want for Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love
- Christmas Time Is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio
- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Bing Crosby
- Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano
- Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys
- A Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon & Yoko Ono With the Harlem Community Choir
- Last Christmas - Wham!
- Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
- Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
- Another Lonely Christmas - Prince
- Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
- One More Sleep - Leona Lewis
- I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake
- This Christmas - Donny Hathaway
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town - Bruce Springsteen
- Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison
- Underneath the Tree - Kelly Clarkson
- One More Sleep 'til Christmas - The Muppets
- It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas - Johnny Mathis
- My Only Wish (This Year) - Britney Spears
- Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - Gene Autry
- Hawaiian Christmas Song (Mele Kalikmaka) - Bing Crosby
- Tennessee Christmas - Amy Grant
- The Christmas Song - The Raveonettes
- Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy - London Symphony Orchestra
- Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens
- Cold As Christmas (In the Middle of the Year) - Elton John
- Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Sufjan Stevens
- My Favorite Things - John Legend
- Christmas in Harlem - Kanye West (feat. CyHi da Prynce & Teyana Taylor)
- Jingle Bells - Diana Krall & The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra
- Twelve Days of Christmas - John Denver & The Muppets
- Santa Tell Me - Ariana Grande
- Fairytale of New York - The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl
- Marshmallow World - Darlene Love
- Mistletoe - Justin Bieber
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - The Carpenters
- Happy Holiday - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
- What Christmas Means to Me - Stevie Wonder
- December Will Be Magic Again - The Pink Singers
- Old City Bar - Trans-Siberian Railroad
- Christmas Lights - Coldplay
- Driving Home for Christmas - Chris Rea
- Christmas in Hollis - Run-D.M.C.
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - The Jackson 5
- River - Joni Mitchell
- Space Christmas - 'Allo Darling
- Mistletoe And Holly - Frank Sinatra With The Orchestra & Chorus Of Gordon Jenkins
- Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays - *NSYNC
- Step Into Christmas - Elton John
- Thank God It's Christmas - Queen
- Zat You, Santa Claus - Louis Armstrong and the Commanders
- You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Thurl Ravenscroft, Boris Karloff
- Merry Christmas Baby - Otis Redding
- Christmases When You Were Mine - Taylor Swift
- O Tannenbaum - Vince Guaraldi Trio
- Cold December Night - Michael Bublé
- Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy (Daddy Looked a Like Him) - Buck Owens & His Buckaroos
- Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) - Ramones
- Father Christmas - The Kinks
- Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
- Hard Candy Christmas - Dolly Parton
- Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk this Christmas) - The Decemberists
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Mariah Carey
- Like It's Christmas - Jonas Brothers
- Winter Wonderland / Dpn't Worry Be Happy - Pentatonix (feat. Tori Kelly)
- Welcome Christmas - Boris Karloff with the MGM Studio Orchestra and MGM Studio Chorus
Also check out our 100 Best Song lists. These lists have no particular ranking, they're just the songs we feel are the 100 best in each of the categories.