What is the Most Popular Christmas Song of All Time?

Here at 100.5 The River we are your Christmas Music Station, and the first radio station to play all Christmas music during the holidays in Grand Rapids. This is our 25th year!

There are so many favorites that it sure is hard to pick THE most popular.  We each have our own, but what, here in Grand Rapids and around the country, are the most popular?

There are different surveys for finding the most popular. There are Billboard's top ranked songs, for example.

Interestingly, if you checked Billboard for the highest "charted" song of all time, I think it is a big surprise. Considering their top holiday chart and top 100 chart, their number one Christmas song is Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Eve/Sarajevo. Go figure.

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But, I'll go with what Christmas songs have sold the most copies over the years. Millions and millions of records, downloads, streams, have been counted by the website All Top Everything.com, so here you go.

1. WHITE CHRISTMAS (Bing Crosby) - 56.1 million units sold

2. SILENT NIGHT (Bing Crosby most popular) 34.6 millions units sold

3. ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU (Mariah Carey) 30.7 million units sold

4. LAST CHRISTMAS (Wham) 23.1 millions units sold

5. ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE (Brenda Lee) 20.5 millions units sold

6. JINGLE BELLS (Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters most popular) 16.4 millions units sold

7. LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW (Dean Martin) 16.1 million units sold

8. JINGLE BELL ROCK (Bobby Helms) 15.9 million units sold

9. FELIZ NAVIDAD (Jose Feliciano) 14.4 million units sold

10. SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN (Michael Buble) 14.2 units sold

Hope you're enjoying all the Christmas music. Happy holidays from all of us at Townsquare Media's 100.5 The River!