Wow, so many good terrible Christmas songs were named yesterday and today! It just goes to show that you need more than a good voice or a good tune or words to make people appreciate a song. There truly are some bad songs out there. I’ve been listening to Pandora at work. There was a song on today by Colbie Caillat “Christmas In The Sand” and it was bad. I gave it a thumbs down. No new standard there.

I think it’s hard to make a new Christmas song popular. Hard to break in when people love certain traditional or familiar songs or certain versions of the song. But once you do, your music becomes perpetual. Especially when radio stations start earlier each year playing holiday music. You need songs to play 24/7 from Thanksgiving on!

I think Mariah Carey has done a good job breaking into Christmas music royalty with “All I Want for Christmas is You.” I like it. Catchy and not too terribly annoying, a bit of an ear worm, but not too bad.  I looked it up and she released it 22 years ago. Hard to believe it has been that long. I feel like I’ve heard it more the last few years than 20 years ago.  According to Wikipedia, it’s also her biggest international success, the 11th best-selling single of all time and as of 2013, the song was reported to have earned $50 million in royalties. There’s some serious money in Christmas music.  Who’s up for working on a song with me?  I’ll get working on some lyrics. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY