I don't know where to start with this post – after all, I will listen to Christmas songs at any time of the year!
I think I like Christmas music because it often includes the things I like the most; sentimental lyrics, choirs, sweeping music that builds throughout, passion, social messages, and most of all each one reminds me of Christmas in every note. I was going to put the songs in order, but GAH, it's impossible! All I do know is that I have a favorite and so I will mention this first so it's very clear! LOL.
I Believe in Father Christmas – Greg Lake
This is my absolute favorite Christmas song. I love the crescendo, the words, his vocals, in fact, everything about it! (You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkweTyrRTKw)
Then, in no particular order…
- A Spaceman Came Travelling – Chris DeBurgh
- Happy Christmas (War is over) – Lennon
- The Power of Love – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Christmas Lights – Coldplay
- Do They Know It's Christmas – Band Aid
- One More Sleep – Leona Lewis
- Hallelujah – Alexandra Burke version
- 2 becomes 1 – Spice Girls
- Stop the Cavalry – Jona Lewie
- All I Want for Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey
- White Christmas – Bing Crosby
- Fairytale of New York – The Pogues
- Mary's Boy Child – Boney M
- A Winters Tale – David Essex
- Stay Another Day – East 17
- Babe – Take That
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The Wishing Tree
It takes an impossible Christmas wish for Bailey to find forever love with his brother’s best friend.
Turning twenty-five and still a virgin, Bailey has barely dated, let alone acted on the private fantasies featuring his brother’s best friend, newly retired hockey star, Kai. All he wants is for Kai to love him, but after a summer when Kai’s anger drove them apart, love doesn’t seem possible at all.
When Kai goes home to Wishing Tree, he knows he owes everyone an apology, not least of all to the man he loves. He’s convinced he can be the man Bailey deserves, and he needs to show Bailey how much he’s changed.
The only problem? Bailey has secrets he’s scared will drive Kai away, and Kai is running out of time to convince Bailey that falling in love starts with a wish, and can end up in forever.
The Wishing Tree is a standalone small-town Christmas MM romance with perfect snow, twinkling lights, a first real kiss, a shy virgin with a silken kink, a retired hockey player, and all the Christmas feels.
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Cupcakes and Christmas
The story of long nights in a wintry mountain hotel, a baking show with secrets, a snowman called Jeremy, and finding the greatest love of all in this "Bake Off" inspired MM Christmas Romance.
After winning season four of ratings hit the World’s Best Baking Show, Brody Thomas had become a sought-after cake maker to the stars. Happily married, he dreamed of a bright future, but his perfect life imploded when he discovered that his husband had done nothing but lie to him. A year later, Brody is mid-divorce, and his life has been turned upside down, so being part of the WBBS charity event is excellent timing. He’s sure it will give him time away from home and space to get his head straight, only he never expected to meet the man of his dreams in a snowy Alberta.
Winning season one of WBBS gave Justin Mallory a chance to outrun the demons of a childhood lost in the foster system. He’s a social media influencer, with millions of followers, and works every hour to make money that equals security for the rest of his life. His marketing team signs him up for the WBBS Christmas charity show, but he’s convinced he’ll fall at the first hurdle. Only, after a few days in the competition, his worry isn’t that he’ll be the first to leave, it’s that he’ll lose his heart to a rival baker, Brody.
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Christmas Prince
The love story of a lonely prince, the man who steals his heart, and the magic of a snowy castle at Christmas.
Labeled as a playboy Prince, Raphael has done many crazy things in his life but commissioning a new museum to employ a stranger as a curator may top them all. For him, the game began in London when he outbid Marc at a Sotheby’s auction, but what started as a misguided attempt at flirting ends when Marc confronts him and tells him home truths that cut deep. No one has ever stood up to Raphael before, and it’s enough to have him questioning his role as the youngest son of an ancient royal family. He wants to be a better man, and if he happens to fall in love on the way there, then that’s just perfect.
The threat of losing his job means this could be the worst Christmas of Marc’s life. Not only has he been outbid on a piece of history to a prince with more money than sense, but his career at the British Museum is now on the line. When the same prince offers him a dream position, his first instinct is to refuse out of principle, but he knows he can never turn down being part of a team that reveals centuries of hidden history. His professionalism turns to horror when he discovers that he’s not part of a team at all and that Raphael—call me Rafe—is determined to shadow his every move. Hours alone in the castle archives start frosty, but when the ice melts, the magic of Christmas could lead to love.
Christmas Prince is a standalone, opposites attract, Christmas M/M romance with a lonely prince, a stunning castle in the snow, a touch of magic, and a beautiful happily ever after.
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Dallas Christmas
Logan Maxwell, a winger for the Burlington Dragons, is stuck in Dallas and missing Christmas with his family. There's no snow in this damn city, he's lonely, and he can't even remember the last time he hooked up with a guy.
Spending his precious Christmas break with the other single players on the team could be great, he guessed, but for one thing; Archie Simard.
Lusting after the brother of your team captain is the worst idea in the history of bad ideas, Logan knows that. But when fate throws him and the temptation that is Archie together, it’s hard not to fall in love.
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The Road to Frosty Hollow
Nick and Cameron face old demons, and find new love, on a Winter road trip.
Former Marine Nick Sheridan is at a crossroads. With his entire life ahead of him he struggles to find direction and his place in the world. Car sharing to get home for his sister’s Christmas wedding seems like a good idea at first. Spending the time with the man he kissed and left years before, maybe not so much.
Cameron Bennett lost most of his teenage years to cancer and he now lives every day to the fullest. He decides to drive from Seattle to Vermont for his best friend’s wedding and capture moments of it on film. He hadn’t planned on car sharing with the man who kissed him ten years ago, but somehow he ends up with a brooding Nick by his side.
Along the way, the men learn that sometimes life plans mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Love can be found in the most unexpected of ways, and facing your demons head-on is sometimes the only way to live.
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Jesse's Christmas
Can Gabriel show Jesse that a real Christmas is more than parties and plastic trees and that taking a chance on love can wash away even the worst of memories?
For world-renowned photojournalist Jesse Connor, Christmas is a stark reminder of last year’s misery when his banker boyfriend embezzled and mishandled millions of dollars of client money, and left Jesse with unmanageable debt. The ring he’d bought to propose was the first item he had to sell, and it wouldn’t be the last thing.
With this December fast approaching, he tells his agent he’ll take an assignment to get out of the city, but he pictured Tahiti, not wintery Eden Vale, Vermont. He’d signed the contract, there was no way out, and he was trapped in a town cut off by snow. Not only that, but the entire town population of only a thousand souls was determined on dragging him kicking and screaming into Christmas, led by the sexy teacher-handyman-hotel owner, Gabriel.
Gabriel has lived his entire life in the mountains, in a place awarded Best Christmas Town, 2011. A teacher at the elementary school, he shows others that the season of goodwill unites community, family, and that love resides in everyone’s heart.
When Jesse arrives in town, lacking even an ounce of Christmas spirit, Gabriel immediately sees through his defenses and bonds with him. Despite the barriers that Jesse throws up, Gabriel is determined to show the deeply sad man what a real Christmas can be. And, who knows, after that, maybe get him to stay in Eden Vale for longer than just a few snowy weeks.
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The Christmas Collection 1
Angel in a Bookshop
What happens when a broken man has to trust in the impossible?
Jesse’s Christmas
Can Gabriel show Jesse that a real Christmas is more than parties and plastic trees and that taking a chance on love can wipe out even the worst of memories?
Deefur and the Great Mistletoe Incident
The story of how Deefur, after the great mistletoe incident, ends up with the best bed in the house.
Please note: Angel in a Bookshop and Jesse’s Christmas are previously released titles available separately. Deefur and the Great Mistletoe Incident is available as a free read direct from my site.
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The Christmas Collection 2
Celebrate the magic of Christmas with RJ Scott’s festive trio of heartfelt romances. In three captivating tales of love, laughter, and holiday spirit, discover how the season’s wonder has a way of bringing people together in the most unexpected ways.
Love Happens Anyway
Derek needs a fake boyfriend, and Luke needs money—what could go wrong? Their holiday arrangement quickly turns complicated as Christmas works its magic, sparking unexpected feelings. When Derek’s fears clash with Luke’s desire for space, love seems impossible…until it happens anyway.
Christmas Prince
When a charming prince and a frustrated historian clash, sparks fly against the backdrop of a snow-covered castle. From playful rivalry to real romance, Prince Raphael and Marc’s chemistry ignites amid royal Christmas splendor, unearthing not only history but also love.
Dallas Christmas
Logan, a hockey player stranded in Dallas, dreads a lonely holiday until he finds himself falling for Archie, the captain’s brother. As they’re thrown together, their connection grows impossible to ignore. Will love melt the ice around Logan’s heart this Christmas?
Curl up with this heartwarming collection and let the romance of the season enchant you.
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New York Christmas
Can a New York cop and a teacher find love in the city at Christmas?
It's been far too long since Christian Matthews has seen Daniel Bailey. In fact, the last time they met was in college.
Seven years down the road, Chris is licking his wounds after being 'asked to leave' the private school where he was teaching. He has no job, no money, and has to rely on his friend Amelia for a job and a room to live in. He needs a freaking Christmas miracle to make this Season anything other than a total loss.
Then Daniel comes back into his life and suddenly everything seems possible. Not only is Daniel still the man Christian wants more than anything, but this time Chris may well actually tell Daniel how he feels.
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Love Happens Anyway
Hiring a boyfriend for Christmas; what can go wrong?
Derek is facing yet another Christmas where his life feels out of control. He has a new career that doesn’t feel like his, and parents who would just love to see him settled down. All he needs is a temporary buffer for the parties he has to attend, and for his parents to leave him alone. Enter, Luke.
Luke is twenty-thousand dollars short for the renovations on Halligans; his family’s bar in New York’s Financial District. A favor for a buddy has him agreeing to play the part of boyfriend to a guy with more money than sense.
But when the spirit of Christmas works its magic on the two men, and they begin to fall for each other, Derek runs scared, and Luke needs space.
It doesn’t matter what obstacles you throw in the way of love, or how much you run in the other direction, because, when you’re least expecting it, whether you want it or not, love happens anyway.
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Angel in a Book Shop
Can a broken man trust in the impossible?
'Chapter One' is an antique book shop and is the last tangible thing Josh and his mom have left of his dad. Nestled in a quiet square a few steps from London’s St Pauls Cathedral, it is boarded up with whitewashed windows and no new stock. The place is a sad reminder of loss and it has to go, but destroying a business that has been in his family for generations is not a role Josh is looking forward to.
Michael is the owner of Arts Desire, the shop next door. With his rainbow pride mugs and his sunny positive outlook, he is the complete opposite to what Joshua thinks he needs in his life.
But, when Josh and Michael become friends, Josh learns that finding true love starts with making big decisions; and that everyone deserves their own Christmas miracle sometimes.
The Christmas Throwaway
For Zachary Weston Christmas means sleeping on a churchyard bench in the freezing snow with nothing better in his future. Thrown out of his home for being gay, he is left without money or, it seems, anywhere to go. Until a stranger shows him that some people do give a lot more than a damn.
Ben Hamilton is a rookie cop in his small home town. He finds a young throwaway, fresh from the city, sleeping on a bench in the churchyard on a snowy Christmas Eve. Can he be the one to give Zachary his own Christmas miracle?
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I love the Bowie version of Drummer Boy
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
It’s sad, melancholy, hopeful, bittersweet, filled with lovely memories……..kinda like life
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Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie. I love how they weave the two songs together.
You’ve got mine listed: The Power of Love – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
I’m also a huge fan of most of the others you’ve picked, and I also love the traditional carols, of which my favourite is I Saw Three Ships or possibly It Came Upon The Midnight Clear!
If every day was like Christmas by Elvis Presley. The words just resonate how we should all behave and act other times of the year.
Christmas in Killarney by Bing Crosby
It’s upbeat and fun 🙂
I love ‘Fairytale of New York’ by The Pogues. They give so much punch to that song… And then, it has to be Bowie and Crosby singing together ‘The Little Drummer Boy’. I somehow find really endearing the mix of such different styles ♥
Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth by David Bowie and Bing Crosby
What Child is This has always been a favorite though I’m all for anything by Trans Siberian Orchestra or Mannheim Steamroller.
I just love both Mary Did You Know and Grown-up Christmas List (it pretty much doesn’t matter the artist). I don’t know I can have them play over and over on a playlist while other songs I skip all the time.
I love the upbeatness of Walking in a winter wonderland, but nothing stops me in my tracks everytime like I’ll be Home for Christmas. All I have to do is picture our soldiers overseas and my heart breaks.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas…. the original by Judy Garland in the film Meet Me in St Louis is my favorite….
I love Feliz Navidad! The music is uplifting and just makes me feel the magic of Christmas.
I love Feliz Navidad since it was the main song we would sing every year at school
i always loved Dominick the donkey..makes me smile all the time
I have 2 favorite Christmas songs. The first is Davie Bowie and Bing Crosby singing The Little Drummer Boy because I love the way they sing it and the video for it is entertaining. The other one is Winter Wonderland by Stryper because it’s upbeat and funny.
I love The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire). The first time I remember hearing it was Greg Evigan performing it on BJ and the Bear. I had such a crush on him as a kid. I even wanted to be a truck driver at one point, lol.
It’s difficult to pick a favorite – my Christmas playlist is hours and hours long! I love this time of year and I love the music that comes with it. Two favorites are Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Winter Wonderland.
Love Joy the World , it’s epic and uplifting.
It makes me feel like you can get a fresh start always.
I love Mary Did You Know. It’s become my favorite holiday song
Mary Did You Know, it gives me goosebumps any time I hear it.
My favorite is “Christmas” by Blues Traveler. I listen to it repeatedly this time of year. I love how the idea is just a wish for everyone to be happy, no matter what their religion is. “If it’s Hanukkah, or Kwanza, Solstice or December 25th, peace on Earth to everyone and everyone you’re with.”
Christmas music as a genre is my favorite. For a ‘favorite song’, I can only narrow it down as far as three. One seems to be extremely common; Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth as a duet with Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Everything about that is just perfection; the combination of the traditional and the contemporary in multiple ways, the combination of vocal stylings… just everything. The second is Oh Holy Night, which has been covered by just about everyone in the world. If I have to pick a favorite version, it has to be Celine Dion’s brilliantly done take on this song that just stirs every part of what I adore about this beautiful song that is both tender carol and seasonal anthem. I’m not religious, but this version can make me believe in true gifts from a higher power. And finally, if you love to have a little fun with your Christmas music, check out Straight No Chaser’s The 12 Days of Christmas. If you’ve never heard of or seen SNC, do yourself a favor and YouTube that one… it’s just the best!
My husband and I saw SNC in concert for the first time last month. They did The 12 Days of Christmas and it was wonderful – as was the whole concert.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas- because to me it has such spirit of Christmas feels, makes me just feel good!! I also love the fun Christmas Vacation soundtrack song lol. Now that is fun!!
I don’t listen to music much anymore, but growing up, it was probably Little Drummer Boy. Probably the version on the record we had, and the drums.
I’m not really a fan of Christmas music. In spanish, most carols are religious, and if not they’re translations of selected english songs. And even then, be it translated or the original, it’s an endless loop of the same 10 selected songs by different people from September to near january, and incredibly exhausting.
Still like grandma getting run over by a reindeer. Still waiting for someone to record a version with daddy kissing Santa Claus.
All I Want for Christmas is You.
All I Want for Christmas is You.
I LOVE shake up christmas by train! I’ve listened to it every december since 2010 🙂
Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton’s live version of Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
I love White Christmas by Bing Crosby. Both the movie and the song. I watch the movie every year in December, when I bring out the Christmas decorations.
I love anything by Burl Ives. Lately though, I’ve been listening to Enya. O Come, O Come Emmanuel is one of my favorites by her.
I enjoy the older songs, like White Christmas by Bing Crosby.
I love many Christmas songs but if I had to choose one it would be little Drummer Boy. It is partly the sentiment, partly hte pace of the song.
Give me Tennessee Ernie Ford singing so many different Christmas songs.
The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Firstly, because … Frankie Goes to Hollywood! Secondly, because it’s so exquisitely unlike any other Christmas song that I don’t think I realized it was one!
It’s hard to narrow down to just one. I love all the sad ones. But I guess the one I would stop and listen to in the mall would be ‘Grown-Up Christmas List’ by Any Grant. The lyrics make me cry sometimes. I love her whole Christmas album. I can and do listen to it on repeat (even in the summer).
I also love all the old carol/hymns from many years singing them in church when I was a girl. My favorite is ‘Angels We Have heard On High’. A close second is ‘What Child Is This’.
Carol of the Bells by Pentatonix. I love that group and this is my favorite Christmas song. When it’s sung a capella, it’s amazing!
I love Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth with Crosby and Bowie. The voices are great together and the words of each just mesh into something very feeling. I also love Happy Christmas/War is over by John Lennon because the message is and always will be so relevant.
Jingle Bell Rock.
I love the words to Trisha Yearwood’s It Wasn’t His Child
Silent Night by the Temptations, it always brings back memories of my mom.
For me, it’s the classic Christmas songs of Burl Ives… They’re catchy and fun, and as a kid, I loved the shows he narrated and sang in as well. So, good memories! I listen to (and enjoy) many songs by other artists as well.
O Holy Night – Mariah Carey’s version is my favorite. I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – BNL/Sarah McLachlan version. Grownup Christmas List. And Bing Crosby/David Bowie version of Little Drummer Boy
I love Kelly Clarkson. It’s an upbeat christmas song. Kelly Clarkson – Underneath the Tree https://youtu.be/YfF10ow4YEo
Josh Groban gives me goosebumps everytime he sings and his song Believe from the movie Polar Express is one of my fav ever Christmas songs. So heartfelt and his voice… [sighs]
There are several of the Olde English carols which I like, but current fave. has to be Carol of the Bells, particularly the Pentatonix recording. Mind you I recently tripped over a Christmas Album by Welsh male choirs which I plan to download.
Carol of the Bells as sung by a choir.
I have two favourites, the first is Do You Hear What I Hear? I have always loved this song. I remember singing at our elementary school Christmas concert.
And a more recent, but actually pretty traditional song is Come and I Will Sing You, which is very similar to the Twelve Days of Christmas. Only i find it so much prettier, and this is sung by my favourite band, Great Big Sea.
Mary, Did You Know is a favorite of mine. It is a song that not only celebrates Christmas but a mother’s love
I don’t know that I can choose a favorite song. My favorite Christmas albums are A Festival of Carols by The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble and The John Rutter Christmas Album with the Cambridge Singers and the London Sinfonia.
I love the Bing Crosby, David Blair Little Drummer Boy medley.
I have a quirky taste in music, and my holiday favorites are usually melancholy, medieval, sacred or instrumental. I can’t choose a favorite:
1) Snowbound!, Seattle Men’s Chorus
Carol From an Irish Cabin
Hard Candy Christmas
2) A Little Christmas Music, The King’s Singers
I Wonder as I Wander
Gaudete
Three Spanish carols: Riu, Riu, Chiu; El Nino Querido; Villancico Catalan
The Gift (Simple Gifts)
Patapan and Farandole
3) Christmas in the Northwest 6
Waiting for Saint Nick – Larry Murante
Christmas in the Northwest – Brenda Kutz White
4) Christmas Goes Baroque – CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Breiner (1989)
One of my favorite albums
I have a hard time this time of year, because I don’t like Christmas music at all. When I listen to music, I listen to country.
I really love Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by HomeFree and Jewel and All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. They put so much feeling behind their singing.
hands down, no question about it, CAROL OF THE BELLS as performed by Pentatonix is my all-time favorite Christmas song.
A VERY close second would be their powerful rendition of MARY, DID YOU KNOW?
Silent night just love it
I like Holly Jolly Christmas.
I LOVE the Little Drummer boy duet with Bing Crosby & David Bowie. No idea why I have loved it from the first time
I heard it! I always know it’s christmas when I listen to it..
What Child Is This?
It’s always resonated with me from the first time I ever heard it
I loved singing Hallelujah or The.re Is a Rose any choir songs they were a way to send prayers and joy.
Mary, Did you Know? And Favoroite Things are mine!
I always loved the Little Drummer Boy , most recently by Pentatonix – or the Elf’s Lament by Bare Naked Ladies and the incomparable Michael Buble
Difficult choice. Me as an adult loves Last Christmas.
The kid in me still loves Happy Christmas to you by Peter Coombe- totally brings me back to my childhood. (https://youtu.be/ttrPJx9K0GY)
I love all the old Burl Ives Christmas songs from the old movies and although not “strictly” a Christmas song, Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas”is one i love – its a little bit country so when you look into it, the words are sad, but there’s a touch of hope in there as well.
I have a whole playlist of my favorite Christmas songs. This Christmas by Yutaka (from a GRP Christmas), Hold out for Christmas by Rockapella, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Ella Fitzgerald come to mind. It’s a pretty long list.
O HOLLY NIGHT is my favorite .every time I hear it, I think back to my childhood and remember all the times we sang around the piano at my grandparents. It’s especially important
now because it reminds of my mom who has passed away.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, O Holy Night, Santa Baby, Baby It’s Cold Outside are my top favorites.