From Mariah Carey to Rage Against The Machine...
Edward Keeble

10:14 22nd December 2011

So we're nearly there, it's reaching that time of festive saturation, wherever you turn wobbles a bauble or wavers some mistletoe - yes it's three days to Christmas people!

These are the songs that you have voted as the greatest Christmas songs of all time and the results are an exhibition of the playlist that any Christmas fetishist should constantly have blasting out of their stereo.

Surprise surprise The Pogues pulled in at the number one spot with an average overall vote of just under nine out of ten. John Lennon and Yoko came a close second with 'Happy Xmas (The War Is Over)' whilst The Beach Boys' 'Little St. Nick' came third.

There are twenty three other classics in here, rated and collated by the general public, flick through to see where your Christmas classic came.

  • 25. Eurythmics - 'Walking In A Winter Wonderland'

  • 24. Eminem - 'Stan'

  • 23. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?'

  • 22. Wham - 'Last Christmas'

  • 21. Gene Autry - 'Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer'

  • 20. Military Wives With Gareth Malone - 'Wherever You Are'

  • 19. Mariah Carey - 'All I Want For Christmas'

  • 18. Harry Simeone Chorale - 'Little Drummer Boy'

  • 17. Brenda Lee - 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree'

  • 16. The Rat Pack - 'Let It Snow'

  • 15. Eartha Kitt - 'Santa Baby'

  • 14. Dean Martin - 'Baby It's Cold Outside'

  • 13. Bing Crosby - 'White Christmas'

  • 12. Rage Against The Machine - 'Killing In The Name'

  • 11. Nat King Cole - 'Christmas Song'

  • 10. The Jackson 5 - 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause'

  • 9. Bruce Springsteen - 'Santa Is Coming To Town'

  • 8. Bobby Helms - 'Jingle Bell Rock'

  • 7. Bing Crosby - 'It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas'

  • 6. Slade - 'Merry Xmas Everybody'

  • 5. The Royal Guardsmen - 'Snoopy's Christmas'

  • 4. Frank Sinatra - 'I'll Be Home For Christmas'

  • 3. The Beach Boys - 'Little St. Nick'

  • 2. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - 'Happy Xmas (The War Is Over)'

  • 1. The Pogues - 'Fairytale Of New York'


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