The following are the top 25 most-performed holiday sogns, based
on ASCAP's most recent performance data for the first three years
of the 21st century, and the songwriters who wrote them.
|
Rank
|
Song |
Songwriters |
|
1
|
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town |
J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie |
|
2
|
The Christmas Song |
Mel Torme, Robert Wells |
|
3
|
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin |
|
4
|
Winter Wonderland |
Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith |
|
5
|
White Christmas |
Irving Berlin |
|
6
|
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow |
Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne |
|
7
|
I'll Be Home for Christmas |
Walter Kent, Kim Gannon, Buck Ram |
|
8
|
Jingle Bell Rock |
Joseph Carleton Beal, James Ross Boothe |
|
9
|
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
Johnny Marks |
|
10
|
Little Drummer Boy |
Katherine K. Davis, Henry V. Onorati, Harry Simeone |
|
11
|
Sleigh Ride |
Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish |
|
12
|
Silver Bells |
Jay Livingston, Ray Evans |
|
13
|
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year |
Edward Pola, George Wyle |
|
14
|
Feliz Navidad |
Jose Feliciano |
|
15
|
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree |
Johnny Marks |
|
16
|
Blue Christmas |
Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson |
|
17
|
Frosty the Snow Man |
Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins |
|
18
|
A Holly Jolly Christmas |
Johnny Marks |
|
19
|
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus |
Tommie Connor |
|
20
|
Here Comes Santa Claus |
Gene Autry, Oakley Halderman |
|
21
|
Home for the Holidays |
Bob Allen, Al Stillman |
|
22
|
Santa Baby |
Joan Ellen Javits, Phillip Springer, Tony Springer |
|
23
|
It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas |
Meredith WIlson |
|
24
|
Carol of the Bells |
Peter J. WIlhousky, Mykola Leontovich |
|
25
|
Wonderful Christmastime |
Paul McCartney |
