# Will there ever be any new Christmas music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262 "2015-12-02T23:08:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/1 "2015-12-02T23:08:12Z")
Every year we hear the exact same Christmas music. Will there ever be any new Christmas music or is it a complete set? I am not asking about people doing the old songs in different styles , but creating original ones. I think it is the only genre that never seems to change at all. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/2 "2015-12-02T23:10:17Z")
[The Killers have been releasing an original Christmas song every year for a good decade now](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killers#Annual_Christmas_singles), so there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/3 "2015-12-02T23:10:42Z")
_Christmas Shoes_ was new. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/4 "2015-12-02T23:41:47Z")
There are all kinds of Christmas songs created all the time. You never hear them on classic Christmas music playlists because they aren’t classics. Yet. It takes a while for them to become classics. There are plenty of “new” classic Christmas songs, if we define “new” as “didn’t exist when I was a kid”. So anything written after 1990 counts as new. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/5 "2015-12-03T00:10:49Z")
Fleet Foxes released White Winter Hymnal in 2008, and it’s been covered several times already. It’s more in the “seasonal” category than explicitly Christmas, though, but disqualifying for that would get rid of about 1/3 of “Christmas” songs. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/6 "2015-12-03T00:22:33Z")
Is Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” the last/newest heavy rotation Christmas song? ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/7 "2015-12-03T00:27:04Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > _Christmas Shoes_ was new. Hate to say it but this is the first song I thought of too. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/8 "2015-12-03T00:30:25Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > _Christmas Shoes_ was new. :eek: [There’s always new Christmas music. “That’s Christmas to me” by Pentatonix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjdfjrtf1Q) ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/9 "2015-12-03T00:35:38Z")
Looked at another way… People are writing new Christmas songs every year. What is the latest or newest song that you would \*want \*to become a classic? _Christmas Shoes_? _Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer_? _Christmas at Ground Zero_? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/10 "2015-12-03T00:37:57Z")
Look on YouTube for “The Little Bolero Drummer Boy”. It’s not exactly new, but it’s recent and innovative. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/11 "2015-12-03T00:48:37Z")
“Mary, Did you Know” was written in 1991, and is already very nearly a classic. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/12 "2015-12-03T00:49:41Z")
I would have to nominate Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmas Time. It gets regular play on any station that is going to play Christmas Tunes and seems to be well accepted by all ages, plus it is a pretty good tune. Ok, it is about 8 years old, but in the world of Christmas songs it is practically a newborn. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/13 "2015-12-03T01:02:55Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > I would have to nominate Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmas Time. > > It gets regular play on any station that is going to play Christmas Tunes and seems to be well accepted by all ages, plus it is a pretty good tune. > > Ok, it is about 8 years old, but in the world of Christmas songs it is practically a newborn. It was released in 1980. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/14 "2015-12-03T01:15:15Z")
According to Wiki _Wonderful Christmastime_ was released in 1979. I was in a business this afternoon that was playing classic Christmas songs by current artists and several I liked a lot were by Colbie Caillat. I’ve had a soft spot for her voice ever since she became popular but these were especially nice. Might have to buy a few. And oh, yeah, for the two or three smooth jazz fans here, [here’s one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO5tlhj4bwA) from Paul Hardcastle that I posted last year right after it came out. May have to make it a yearly tradition. (Sorry, **WordMan** ;)) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/15 "2015-12-03T01:26:42Z")
[XKCD’s 20 Most-Played Christmas Songs By Decade of Release](https://xkcd.com/988/). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/16 "2015-12-03T01:28:40Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > There are all kinds of Christmas songs created all the time. . . . . Or as Colbert sang in “Another Christmas Song” - “They play for a month, Ad infinitum. One day it struck me someone must write 'em.” That reminds me, I need to watch that Christmas Special again. It won a Grammy in 2008. Some of the newer songs from the John Denver/Muppets special have become classics in our house. That was, what, about 1979? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/17 "2015-12-03T01:32:59Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > [XKCD’s 20 Most-Played Christmas Songs By Decade of Release](https://xkcd.com/988/). Thank You! I love the mouseover - An “American tradition” is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice. Not listed yet: “We Need a Little Christmas.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/18 "2015-12-03T01:42:12Z")
Each year, there are dozens\* of new Christmas albums released, and some of them include at least one or two new songs. As with most genres, how much new stuff you hear personally depends on where you are, whom you hang around with, and whether you’re a passive listener or an active seeker-outer. \*(may be an exaggeration, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s literally true) ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/19 "2015-12-03T02:20:26Z")
Three songs first recorded in 2012 written by someone you love- _ME!!!_ Your good friend **bienville**!!! 🙂 They’re not in “heavy rotation” yet. Let’s see what we can do to change that! YouTube links: [ul] [li][Family Thanksgiving, Family Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfxsNfGAw4)[/li][li][That Early Winter Sundown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUZmtEt1Tfk)[/li][li][Spending The Holidays With People I Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIE9W7zSbqs)[/li][/ul] Enjoy!!! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262/20 "2015-12-03T02:25:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Not listed yet: “We Need a Little Christmas.” You mean the one from [1966](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FB3h8IFCro)? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-ever-be-any-new-christmas-music/739262.md?page=2)