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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Most Popular Christmas Song Of All Time

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MOREJESUSMORESANTA= 50 recordings
Winter Wonderland
White Christmas
What Child Is This?
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
We Three Kings
Up On The Housetop
This Christmas
The Twelve Days Of Christmas
The Holly And The Ivy
The First Noel
The Christmas Song
Sweet Little Jesus Boy
Still, Still, Still
Sleigh Ride
Silver Bells
Silent Night
Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
Rudolph
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Please Come Home For Christmas
Little Town Of Bethlehem
O Holy Night
O Come Emmanuel
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Christmas Tree
Merry Christmas Baby
Mary, Did You Know?
Little Drummer Boy
Let It Snow
Joy To The World
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bell Rock
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
Upon A Midnight Clear
In The Bleak Midwinter
I'll Be Home For Xmas
I Wonder As I Wander
I Saw Three Ships
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
Here Comes Santa Claus
Merry Little Christmas
Hark! The Herald Angels
Happy Xmas
Good King Wenceslas
God Rest Ye Merry
Gloria
Frosty
Feliz Navidad
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Ding Dong Merrily On High
Deck The Halls
Coventry Carol
Christmas Time Is Here
Carol Of The Bells
Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Blue Xmas
Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem
Away In A Manger
Ave Maria
Angels We Have Heard
Alleluia
All I Want For Christmas Is You
Adeste Fideles!

Press and hold to see how many times a particular song has been recorded since 1978. TIME has also ranked each of the most recorded songs by secularity, from heavily religious songs(red) about the birth of Christ to highly commercial ones (green) about Santa and snow. (To make the "press and hold" function work, please visit the original webpage: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/18/why-silent-night-will-never-go-quiet/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true)

The names Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber have largely vanished into the annals of Christmas tormentors, but their greatest triumph lives on. “Silent Night,” which Mohr wrote the lyrics for (in German) in 1816 and Gruber put to music two years later, is the most recorded Christmas song in the modern era of the holiday’s substantial oeuvre.
To determine this fact, TIME crawled the records at the U.S. Copyright Office, which offers digitized registrations going back to 1978, and collected data on every Christmas album recorded since that time. “Silent Night,” it turns out, is not merely the most popular carol; with 733 copyrighted recordings since 1978, it is nearly twice as dominant as “Joy to the World,” a distant second with 391 records to its name.
As one might surmise, songs that are no longer under their original copyright are considerably more prominent on modern Christmas albums, given that one needn’t share the holiday windfall. This lends an obvious advantage to the ecclesiastical hymns and tunes, like “O Holy Night” and “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.” As intellectual property lawyer Paul C. Jorgensen explains, this does nothing to prevent artists from copyrighting their own recording of a song and collecting royalties whenever a radio station wants to play it–assuming the other 732 renditions weren’t to taste. 
Nor is it strictly limited to American recording artists. “A lot of international artists will go ahead and register things in the United States,” Jorgensen said.
To determine secularity, TIME measured the likelihood that a song appears on the same album with either “What Child Is This?”, a decidedly devout 1865 tune, or “Jingle Bell Rock,” roughly it’s polar opposite. (The choice of those two songs is rather arbitrary, but proved in trial and error to offer the clearest dichotomy.) In true Christmas spirit, “Silent Night” aptly bridges that great divide: It co-headlines with just about anyone.
Methodology
This project began by downloading every copyrighted recording of “Jingle Bells,” then expanding to every song on the same album as “Jingle Bells,” and so forth until the universe of Christmas music was exhausted. The data only includes “sound recording” records from the Copyright Office, as opposed to sheet music arrangements, videos, and other formats in which one might copyright a song. Variations on the same material, such as “O Christmas Tree” and “O Tannenbaum,” where grouped as one song.
Read more: The Most Popular Christmas Song of All Time: 'Silent Night' | TIME.com http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/18/why-silent-night-will-never-go-quiet/#ixzz2nqk4RtiE

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