Radio stations all across the country have pre-emptively flipped to the all-holiday-music format—despite Thanksgiving not even being until Thursday—so ASCAP figured the time was right to unleash a list of the 25 most popular holiday songs of the past five years, (Christmas music and lists? Somebody's got their finger on the pulse!) Topping the chart is "Winter Wonderland," which since being written in 1934 has been covered by the likes of the Andrews Sisters, the Eurythmics, the Cocteau Twins, and Air Supply (how have I not heard that cover?), while the most recent entry on the list is 1984's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" The top 25—with the recording artist whose version has received the most radio airplay over the past five holiday seasons—after the jump.
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Those of you who are keeping track of regular radio stations flipping to all-holiday formats before the traditional "day after Thanksgiving" start date, take note: two Boston stations have gone all-Christmas as of today, and I'm sure there are other stations around the country that have followed suit as well. (If you know of any in your neck of the woods, feel free to take to our comments section!) Meanwhile, the New York oldies station WCBS started sprinkling a few holiday surprises into its playlists all the way back in October, when it was trying to boost its listeners' spirits with a Santa Song Of The Day. The lite-FM powerhouse WLTW decided that imitation was the best Christmas gift it could give to WCBS, so it too started playing its own Santa Songs, and that resulted in WCBS throwing a big fat lump of litigation down the waiting-room staple's chimney:
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You guys: There is a radio station in St. Louis that is already playing Christmas music. Even worse: The format has been in place on Movin 101 since at least Oct. 10. Even more worse: This so means that some genius programmer is going to "get a jump on next year's competition" by never, ever abandoning the holiday-music format, even after the return windows for unwanted gifts have long expired. [A To Z via Twelve Months Of Christmas]
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