# What five Christmas albums are you listening to in 2025?
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**Created:** [December 22, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955 "2025-12-22T17:17:34Z")
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/1 "2025-12-22T17:17:35Z")
My list of Christmas albums often changes from year to year.
Here’s my top five in Dec 2025.
**Ella Fitzgerald’s Christmas** 13 traditional sacred hymns. Angels We Have Heard on High, Hark the Herald Angel, O Holy Night, The First Noel, God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman etc.
**Anne Murray - What a Wonderful Christmas** 2001 28 Christmas Songs. Silver Bells, Winter Wonderland, I’ll be Home for Christmas, Little Drummer Boy, Joy to the World etc.
**Mantovani Christmas** 30 Christmas songs. Many are instrumental arrangements.
There are several reissues under similar titles.
**Alan Jackson - Let It Be Christmas** (2002)
11 popular Christmas songs with country arrangements.
**Dean Martin Christmas Album** nice versions of Blue Christmas, Let it Snow, Jingle Bells, White Christmas, Winter Wonderland
It reminds me of his TV Christmas specials.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/2 "2025-12-22T17:27:41Z")
David Benoit - Remembering Christmas: this jazz album has several Vince Guaraldi pieces on it, which makes it a keeper.
Andy Williams Christmas Album - a sixties album that holds up well.
Wynton Marsalis - Baroque Music for Trumpets: not really Christmas music, per se, but a master class in baroque trumpet that seems to work in a Christmas rotation.
Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/3 "2025-12-22T17:30:45Z")
I just saw El Vez’s Merry MeX-mas show (“Let’s put the X back in X-mas and the God back in Godzilla!”) at the Casbah in San Diego last night so that covers four albums:
[ ](https://www.hipchristmas.com/images/artists/500/el_vez1.jpg)
[ ](https://www.hipchristmas.com/images/artists/500/el_vez2.jpg)
[ ](https://www.hipchristmas.com/images/artists/500/el_vez3.jpg)
[ ](https://www.hipchristmas.com/images/songs/500/el_vez.jpg)
And number 5…
[ ](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3733516997_16.jpg)
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/4 "2025-12-22T18:12:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Andy Williams Christmas Album - a sixties album that holds up well.
I have Andy Williams Classic Christmas. Sixteen songs. It’s an import.
I like Andy’s arrangements. Very pleasant voice. I remember his tv specials.
I miss 1960’s tv Christmas specials. Bing Crosby featured his whole family. Dean Martin and Andy Williams usually had tv specials.
YouTube has a few tv specials. I’ll watch a couple this week.
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### Author:  [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/5 "2025-12-22T18:57:56Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio
one of the first ones I start playing the day after Thanksgiving.
Christmas Rocks - the Brian Setzer Orchestra
An Irish Christmas - Moya Brennan
We Three Kings - The Roches
A Midwinter Night’s Dream - Loreena McKennitt
and a stack that all have the name Robert Shaw in there: Chorale, Orchestra, etc.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/6 "2025-12-24T08:50:05Z")
Tomorrow:
Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio
And then just whack on the Putumayo world music playlist for the rest of the day:
[Putumayo Holiday Classics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yNWYFdoRAE&list=PLloxRkIwt8TMK3yljZymWP9FZW4VjXdNf)
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/7 "2025-12-24T16:59:28Z")
It’s Christmas Eve.
I dusted off my Celtic Woman _A Christmas Celebration_.
The luck of the Irish captured lightning in a bottle. AFAIK none of these women had performed together. They were brought together and their harmonies were magical.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/8 "2025-12-24T17:16:49Z")
Sia’s Everyday is Christmas is really the only album I listen to, otherwise I just put a playlist on.
Great album that doesn’t rely on covering old songs for the 1000th time.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/9 "2025-12-24T17:41:38Z")
The one Christmas “album” I listen to without fail is The [Beatles fan club Christmas record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles'_Christmas_records) collection.
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### Author:  [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/10 "2025-12-24T17:47:22Z")
I pretty much only listen to one Christmas album faithfully each year - the 1955 Elvis Christmas Album recorded at Graceland. I’m not even a huge Elvis fan, but my mom was. That album evokes so many memories of pretty much every Christmas season of my childhood. It also doesn’t hurt that Elvis’s voice was in peak form at that time.
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### Author:  [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/11 "2025-12-24T19:34:12Z")
(Rob) Halford, Celestial, and Winter Songs
Twisted Sister A Twisted Christmas
Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve and Other Stories
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### Author:  [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/12 "2025-12-24T22:41:49Z")
“The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album” is the only one I ever listen to.
Allan Sherman’s “Twelve Days of Christmas” is always good for a larf.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/13 "2025-12-24T23:48:34Z")
I finally played some Christmas music today while making treats for tomorrow.
Alligator Records Christmas (various blues artists)
Christmas Guitars (various artists - this was probably the first Christmas CD I ever bought, back in the late 80s. It was put together as a fundraiser for the Coalition Against Homelessness.)
Harry Connick’s Christmas album.
I know that’s only three but that’s all I listened to.
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### Author:  [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/14 "2025-12-25T00:11:29Z")
I have 2 Christmas albums from Pentatonix that I bought ages ago and still listen to every year. They are an a capella group with amazing voices.
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/15 "2025-12-25T00:40:10Z")
I did much of Nat King Cole’s last weekend.
We heard “Fairytale of New York” on the radio, and my wife said (seriously) “Lovely song”
and last night BBC had a “making of” for it. Apparently, Matt Dillon - of Irish descent and a big fan of the Pogues - not being drunk was able to moderate between the beer-dinking cops (“The NYPD Choir”) and the usually drunk Pogues and get the video shot.
Now it’s Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas”.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/16 "2025-12-25T06:56:02Z")
_A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector_ is the only Xmas album I ever listen to all the way through.
My other must-hears for this day and night are Andy Williams’ “Do You Hear What I Hear”, “Joseph, Better You Than Me” by the Killers, “Christmas Must Be Something More” by Taylor Swift, “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch” by Thurl Ravenscroft, and Patton Oswalt’s standup routine about the song “Christmas Shoes”.
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### Author:  [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-five-christmas-albums-are-you-listening-to-in-2025/1025955/17 "2025-12-25T21:46:43Z")
1. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi
2. Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald
3. A Christmas Gift for You, a.k.a., the Phil Spector Christmas album
4. Crescent City Christmas Card - Wynton Marsalis