Christmas is a time for nostalgia – but plenty of us have apparently been listening to these more modern festive songs, too.

Every December, the same voices return to take over radios, playlists, malls and TikTok. From Mariah Carey’s unstoppable holiday empire to Wham!’s bittersweet nostalgia and Michael Bublé’s modern crooner magic,

Forrest Frank just dropped a new song that will be the anthem of your Christmas season. Alongside secular artist JVKE,

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 song in U.S. chart history. The 1994 modern Christmas classic has spent a cumulative 20 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100,

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by Plastic Ono Band and "Father Christmas" by The Kinks are all among the very best classic rock Christmas songs.

The Australian pop star ’s festive single XMAS is currently 7,000 units ahead of Wham’s Last Christmas. Last Christmas never topped the charts when it was first released in 1984, but finally hit Number 1 in 2023, before retaining the title last year as well.