So as a gift, we've rounded up the very best Christmas songs going. Festive cheer has found its way into pop, hip-hop, R&B, metal, punk, indie… you name it. There are plenty of keepers from the ‘40s-‘70s heyday of the Christmas record as an art form, for example, but even more cynical later generations of pop have produced plenty of gold. And although there’s been a fair amount of disposable novelty rubbish written over the years, the reality is that a lot of Christmas songs are bangers.
Love them, hate them, or just accept them as a sort of immutable fact of life, it's officially Christmas song season in 2023.
