This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Mizzou chapter.
🎶It’s the most wonderful time of the year!🎶 While you are traveling home in the next few weeks, decorating cookies and spending time with friends and family, it is absolutely necessary that you have the perfect holiday playlist to help set the exciting mood. I have split the playlist up into three sections to help you pick out your favorites. Here is the essential holiday playlist you need to have the best winter break.Â
The Classics
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Frank Sinatra)
- All I Want for Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey)
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee)
- Run Rudolph Run (Chuck Berry)
- Blue Christmas (Elvis Presley)
- Jingle Bells (Frank Sinatra)
- Carol of the Bells (Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
- Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (Elmo & Patsy)
- The First Noel We (Andy Williams)
- The Twelve Days of Christmas (Perry Como)
- Jingle Bell Rock (Bobby Helms)
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Andy Williams)
- Sleigh Ride (The Ronettes)
- Santa Baby (Eartha Kitt)
- Feliz Navidad (José Feliciano)
- What Christmas Means to Me (Stevie Wonder)
From the Movies
- When Christmas Comes to Town (The Polar Express)
- Walking Home (Home Alone)
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Meet Me in St. Louis)
- Where Are You Christmas (Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
- All Alone On Christmas (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York)
- Christmas Time is Here (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
- Christmas Is All Around (Love Actually)
- Believe (The Polar Express)
- Christmas Wrapping (Fred Claus)
- Christmas Vacation (National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation)
- What’s This? (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Modern Jams
- Santa Tell Me (Ariana Grande)
- Like It’s Christmas (Jonas Brothers)
- Santa’s Coming For Us (Sia)
- Mistletoe (Justin Bieber)
- Glow (Kelly Clarkson and Chris Stapleton)Â
- 8 Days of Christmas (Destiny’s Child)
- I Am the Grinch (Tyler, The Creator [feat. Fletcher Jones])
- Candy Cane Lane (Sia)
- Winter Wonderland (Meghan Trianor)
- It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas (Michael Bublé)
- Underneath the Tree (Kelly Clarkson)
- Christmases When You Were Mine (Taylor Swift)