Christmas is now less than a week away, If youāre out and about over the next few days, chances are that youāll hear your fair share of Christmas songs playing on the radio or over the speakers at the stores where youāre doing your last-minute holiday shopping.
To get us into the holiday spirit, we wanted to know what Christmas songs people in the commonwealth preferred. So BetVirginia.com, your source for the best Virginia sportsbook promo codes, used Google Trends to find the top five most popular Christmas songs. This list is based on search interest scores from a timeframe of Dec. 18, 2004, to Dec. 18, 2024.
Rank | Song | Search Interest Score |
1 | āAll I Want For Christmas Is Youā | 16 |
2 | āRockinā Around The Christmas Treeā | 14 |
3 | āJingle Bell Rockā | 13 |
4 | āSilent Nightā | 11 |
5 | āSanta Babyā | 9 |
If youāre curious about Virginiaās favorite Christmas movies and which ones made that list, BetVirginia has you covered.
First off, weāll assume Virginians were searching for Mariah Careyās āAll I Want For Christmas Is Youā ā but there is a different song with the same title released a few years earlier by Vince Vance and the Valiants, which happens to be heavy in my rotation of Christmas songs. Itās worth a listen if you havenāt heard of it, but I digress.
Getting back to Mariah Carey, her song has dominated the holidays since it first came out 30 years ago. Itās still No. 1 on the Billboard Holiday 100 this week and has maintained that position for 63 of the 71 weeks the chart has been published over the years.
Right behind Mariah on the Holiday 100 is the song thatās also No. 2 for Virginians. Brenda Lee first sang āRockinā Around The Christmas Treeā back in 1958, and it has remained popular ever since. In fact, last year the song reached the top of the charts for the Billboard Hot 100, which includes all pop songs for its rankings. Lee, who turned 80 earlier this month, became the oldest artist in Billboardās history to have the No. 1 pop hit.
Another song from the 1950s is also No. 3 for Virginians and the Billboard Holiday 100. āJingle Bell Rock,ā first performed by Bobby Helms, can be considered a rock nā roll or a country song, depending on the artist. Helmsā version is the one that ranks third on the chart, but thereās also cover version by Daryl Hall and John Oates from 1983 that comes in at No. 76 this week.
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