There are two golden eras of Christmas pop songs. The most recent one was in the mid-to-late 1980s when Band Aid, Wham! and The Pogues dominated the chart. But the first golden period was between 1972 ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

Drinking Christmas songs, romantic Christmas songs, rowdy Christmas songs and spiritual Christmas songs all make this list.