Just for us, they’ve compiled this definitive Top 40 featuring the songs that the nation has heard wherever we’ve worked, rested and played every Christmas since 2000. The mammoth countdown ...

Fairytale of New York has held every position in the Top 20, except ... place on their Christmas playlists,. That meant everyone who muttered, "Alexa, play Christmas songs" got a dose of Sam ...

Looking at the most played Christmas songs of the past five years ... makes it in to the top 20, according to data from PRS for Music, which licenses music and pays out royalties.

1 to start listening to Christmas music. BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Chris Hawkins told BBC that he waits until after Dec. 1 because he’s noticed a trend of stores starting to play songs earlier.