1. Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
   Santa Baby
2. The Twelve Days of Christmas
   Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Australians have their own version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" where all of the animals are replaced by wildlife from Down Under!

1. Santa Baby
   Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
2. White Christmas
   Jingle Bells

This song was written by Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots and was first performed in 1934. They had trouble convincing anyone to produce it because it was seen as a kids' song, which would have been very hard to sell.

1. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
   Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
2. Santa's Coming
   Let It Snow!

This song was recorded by Vaughn Monroe in 1945. “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” as it's also known, was written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne while sweating away in Hollywood during a heat wave.

1. O Come, All Ye Faithful
   Jingle Bells
2. A Holly Jolly Christmas
   Silent Night

"O Come, All Ye Faithful" was originally known as "Adeste Fideles" because it was first written and sung in Latin before being translated into English. The Latin version remains popular and is sometimes still recorded today.

1. O Christmas Tree
   We Three Kings
2. Silent Night
   White Christmas

“O Christmas Tree,” aka “O Tannenbaum," is an ode to a Christmas tree. A tannenbaum is a fir tree, and organist and composer Ernst Anschütz set his lyrics to a 16th-century German folk tune.

1. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
   White Christmas
2. Silent Night
   Have Yourself a Merry Christmas

Joseph Mohr, a pastor, wrote "Silent Night" as a poem in 1816. In 1818, when the organ in his church broke just before the Christmas Mass, Mohr turned to that poem and asked a friend to help compose a melody for it. Today, there is no Christmas carol that has been performed and recorded more than "Silent Night."

1. Frosty the Snowman
   White Winter
2. Noel
   Do You Hear What I Hear?

This song, which was written in 1962, was a call for world peace inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1. White Christmas
   Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
2. Jingle Bells
   Jack Frost

"Jingle Bells" was originally going to be called “One-Horse Open Sleigh" and was the first song played in outer space. In December 1965, astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford were aboard Gemini 6 when they played this on a harmonica and bells to Mission Control!

1. Frosty the Snowman
   Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
2. Santa Baby
   Jingle Bell Rock

Just like “Frosty the Snowman,” this song was based on a children's story. Rudolph, the ninth reindeer, was created by Robert L. May, a copywriter at the Montgomery Ward department store in Chicago. The store gave out Christmas books each year to children and May was asked in 1939 to create a story that kids would enjoy.

1. Winter Wonderland
   White Christmas
2. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
   Merry Christmas

Dick Smith wrote the lyrics for "Winter Wonderland" while getting treatment for tuberculosis in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

1. The First Noel
   Here Comes Santa Claus
2. Joy to the World
   We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Gene Autry wrote the song, which he first recorded in 1947.

1. Jack Frost
   Jingle Bell Rock
2. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
   Father Christmas

Thurl Ravenscroft, the singer responsible for the classic song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," also famously voiced Tony the Tiger, the mascot for Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes.

1. Noel
   O Come, All Ye Faithful
2. Silver Bells
   Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Felix Mendelssohn composed the tune to "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" as a tribute to printer/inventor Johann Gutenberg.

1. Santa Baby
   White Christmas
2. Merry Christmas
   Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

"White Christmas" was written by composer Irving Berlin and first performed by Bing Crosby.

1. White Christmas
   Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
2. Santa Baby
   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Written for the 1944 film "Meet Me in St. Louis," the original lyrics to “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” were deemed too sad by both the film’s director Vincente Minnelli and its star Judy Garland. They asked songwriter Hugh Martin to rewrite sections of the song.

1. Silent Night
   Santa Baby
2. Carol of the Bells
   We Three Kings

Bing Crosby had a hit with this song, which was originally called “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht” in German.

1. Santa Goes
   Up on the Housetop
2. Santa Baby
   Baby It's Cold Outside

This song was written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864.

1. Santa Baby
   Jingle Bells
2. Silver Bells
   Holy Night

The original title of "Silver Bells" was "Tinkle Bells," inspired by a tiny bell on the desk of composers Livingston and Evans.

1. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
   Holly Jolly Christmas
2. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
   Carol of the Bells

“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” is one of the oldest secular Christmas songs, originating in 16th-century England.

1. Merry Christmas
   Santa Baby
2. I'll Be Home for Christmas
   White Christmas

Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell asked to have "I'll Be Home for Christmas" played for them while they were in orbit in 1965.

1. We Three Kings
   Frosty the Snowman
2. Starry Night
   It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

The Grand Hotel mentioned in "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is believed to be in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

1. I'll Be Home for Christmas
   Santa Baby
2. White Christmas
   Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

Eartha Kitt was a nightclub performer who signed a record deal with RCA in 1953. In "Santa Baby," Kitt sang about how she's been good all year and expects some very expensive gifts to appear, including a fur coat, a new car and even a yacht.

1. All I Want for Christmas Is You
   Santa Baby
2. Jingle Bell Rock
   Let It Snow

"All I Want for Christmas Is You," written and performed by Mariah Carey and released on her 1994 album "Merry Christmas," is the best-selling modern Christmas song.

1. Jingle Bell Rock
   Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
2. Silent Night
   Let It Snow

You can catch a unique performance of this classic song in the movie "Mean Girls." "Jingle Bell Rock" was first released by Bobby Helms in 1957, and has received frequent airplay in the United States during every Christmas season since then.

1. Santa Baby
   Jingle Bells
2. White Christmas
   A Holly Jolly Christmas

This endearing song can be found in the classic film "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer." There’s Santa, Rudolph, elves square-dancing, and the most classic Christmas icon — the Abominable Snowman.

1. Baby It's Cold Outside
   It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
2. Jingle Bell Rock
   Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" was written for "The Andy Williams Christmas Album" and the crooner performed it on his popular variety show, "The Andy Williams Show." The song also appears in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" (1992) in a scene where the McCallister family starts their Florida vacation in a downpour outside a seedy motel.

1. Jingle Bell Rock
   Feliz Navidad
2. O Holy Night
   Shepherd Kin

This bilingual holiday classic by Jose Feliciano combines a simple English verse with a Spanish chorus, "Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad," which translates to "Merry Christmas, a prosperous year and happiness."

1. Hurry Home
   Silver Bells
2. Jack Frost
   Baby It's Cold Outside

In one of the most endearingly inappropriate scenes in the film "Elf," Buddy the elf joins his co-worker Jovie in the bathroom for an impromptu duet. The movie featured WIll Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel, who actually recorded and released the track.

1. Starry Night
   White Christmas
2. Savoir Is Born
   We Three Kings

From the lyrics, the star was leading the three kings westward.

1. The Christmas Song
   Carol of the Bells
2. Silver Bells
   All I Want for Christmas

Composer Mel Tormé’s “The Christmas Song” (more commonly known as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”) was written during a summer heatwave in 1944.

1. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
   I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
2. Christmas Song
   Baby It's Cold Outside

Kevin McCallister can be seen having an elaborate dance party to this classic song in the movie "Home Alone." Singer Brenda Lee recorded the original version of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” when she was only 13 years old.

1. Merry Christmas
   Santa's Coming
2. Winter Hym
   Carol Of The Bells

This song can be heard in the intro of the movie, The Santa Clause starring Tim Allen. One modern day group that released a cover of this song, which turned out to be a hit, was Destiny's Child! Carol Of The Bells is a very well loved Christmas Carol.