The one to get the party started
Elton John – Step Into Christmas
If this doesn’t get you in the party mood, then we’re pretty confused as to what will…
The one for your Christmas road trip home
Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas
Pretty self explanatory. Pretty great.
The one for pre-Christmas festivities
The ENTIRETY of the Michael Buble Christmas album
The one for when elderly relatives pop round
Cliff Richard – Mistletoe and Wine
Ladies of a certain generation can’t get enough of good ol’ Cliff… Her Campus may secretly enjoy this golden olden tune too.
The one for opening presents
Christmas Wrapping
A little obvious perhaps, but if this doesn’t excite you, then there’s not much that will!
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The one for Christmas Eve
I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa, Jackson 5.
Gene Autry – Here Comes Santa Claus
Justin Bieber – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
You get the gist.
The ones for the big day itself
Slade – Merry Christmas Everybody
How else would you start Christmas morning than by greeting your family with a good ol’ shout of EEEEEEEEEETS CHRISTMAS from the top of the stairs!?
The one to end the night on
Unknown – Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Any song that takes you back to Christmases of your much younger days is a winner for the end of the eve.
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The one that will drive you mad
The Pogues – Fairytale of New York
We’d say the ratio of Christmas Songs goes 50 per cent: Fairytale of New York, 50 percent: everything else. Although “you scum bag, you maggot,” may be fun to scream early December, come 25th December the joke may have worn a little thin…
The ridiculous one
Justin Bieber – Mistletoe
Very catchy. Secretly very enjoyable.
The one that will make you shed a tear
Lily Allen – Somewhere Only We Know
John Lewis’s Christmas ad tune of choice for this year is pretty sob worthy. Actually, scrap that. Any song John Lewis have deemed advert worthy normally brings a lump to the throat: here are the others.
Slow Moving Millie – Please, Please, Please
Gabrielle Aplin – The Power of Love
The one to dramatically perform to your family
Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You
To be fair, this song is appropriate for the majority of festive occasions, but it does also make a particularly fab ballad for family members to witness you perform.
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