Best Christmas Songs Of All Time, Ranked

Parton released her Christmas album, A Holly Dolly Christmas, back in October and it featured some incredible festive classics and duets with the likes of Jimmy Fallon, Miley Cyrus, Michael Bublé and Billy Ray Cyrus. Our favourite? Her collaboration with Bublé - you just can't not want to bop along to it.

We love a bit of Aloe Blacc any time of year, but we're quite into this festive beat from Blacc's album Christmas Funk. We love the lyrics and the Stevie Wonder-like vocals.

Katy Perry at Christmas - need we say more? We love this jazzy song, the singer's red lip, silver eyeshadow, red and white striped attire. We could play this on repeat... and we shall.

Sia is another modern artist who released a Christmas song in the 2010s, offering up 'Santa's Coming For Us' in 2017 with a video featuring A-List couple Kristen Bell and Dax Shepherd.

No Doubt's Gwen Stefani teamed up with her fiancé, country singer Blake Shelton for this festive hit. We weren't sure at first, but with more listens, we're kind of diggin it?

Mariah Carey enlisted the help of Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson for a 2020 reworking of her 2010 hit, 'Oh Santa'. Just listen to the harmonies.

The Caribbean group recorded their version of Harry Belafonte's Christmas carol hit in 1978.

The Jonas Brothers have a Christmas song, you ask? Why yes, they do! Released in 2019, 'Like It's Christmas' is very catchy and clearly many agree as the song reached number one on the US Billboard charts in 2019.

Penned by Puerto Rican singer Feliciano in 1970, the Spanish good wishes remain a classic five decades later.

Last year, Legend and Clarkson reworked the questionable (read: creepy) lyrics to 'Baby It's Cold Outside' bringing a feminist-friendly version into the 21st Century. With lyrics like, 'It's your body your choice' replacing the likes of 'Say, what's in this drink?', we prefer this version.

The Canadian singer released a whole Christmas album Under The Mistletoe in 2011, but it was lead single Mistletoe that remains a 21st Century Christmas favourite.

Released in 1957 by Bobby Helms, made famous for Millennials in 2004 thanks to Mean Girls.

Perhaps this year more than ever the title of this song applies. But Freddie Mercury's soothing vocals are always welcome.

Yep, for those who didn't know, there is a Christmas Hip-Hop track, and it's blimmin' great. RUN DMC released their track in 1987, you might recognise it as featuring on the soundtracks for both Die Hard and The Grinch.

Bleeding Love, aside, we think this 2013 Christmas number is Leona Lewis's best hit (and better than her actual Christmas number one as X Factor winner which was a cover of 'A Moment Like This').

Arguably the most star-studded artist on this list, Band Aid comprised of David Bowie, Boy George, Bono, George Michael the list goes on... Written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in response to the 1984 Ethiopian famine, the song raised a lot of money but has been criticised - particularly as time has gone on - for its very Western-centric stereotypical and condescending lyrics about Africa.

A duet that dreams are made of: Bing Crosby and David Bowie's unique blend of two Christmas songs was released in 1983.

A Christmas film classic, Stevie Wonder's 1967 cover - complete with a harmonica - of the Motown festive hit is a feel-good anthem for the ages.

Evoking instant visions of a 1950s couple jiving, 'Run Rudolph Run' was recorded by Chuck Berry in 1958 and also co-written by Johnny Marks.

First performed rousingly by Judy Garland in 1944's festive film Meet Me In St Louis, the song has been covered from Frank Sinatra to Sam Smith in recent years.