One Million Christmas Songs

Do you think there is an overkill of Christmas music in shops and streets? Wait until you've read Paul Lamere's blog post about Christmas songs in the Spotify catalog:

• To start with, it contains 914.047 Christmas songs
• Of which 22.382 are sung by Bing Crosby
• Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby" has been released 1286 times
• Silent Night has been released 19.041 times

This and more fun (and nerdy) Christmas stats in the original blog post.

I find the following listing the most interesting of the blog post:

Most recorded Christmas songs (Unique Artists)

1 Silent Night 7406

2 Jingle Bells 4485

3 Joy to the World 3593

4 White Christmas 3592

5 O Holy Night 3536

6 The First Noel 3181

7 What Child Is This? 3150

8 Away in a Manger 3140

9 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 2871

10 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 2823

11 O Come All Ye Faithful 2675

12 Hark The Herald Angels Sing 2638

13 Angels We Have Heard on High 2494

14 Winter Wonderland 2489

15 The Christmas Song 2398

16 We Wish You A Merry Christmas 2281

17 Deck The Halls 2274

18 O Little Town of Bethlehem 2197

19 We Three Kings 2048

20 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 1837

21 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear 1768

22 Ave Maria 1705

23 Auld Lang Syne 1603

24 Silver Bells 1599

25 I’ll Be Home for Christmas 1577

At first sight I'd say we currently list between 10% and 20% of these versions based on our statistics. That's quite impressive!