The Roots Music Report's
Top Holiday Song Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name | Sub Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These Holiday Blues | Misty Blues | Christmas |
| 2 | That Child Was Born (Christmas in West Virginia) | Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band | Christmas |
| 3 | Naughty List (feat. Johnny Burgin & Kid Andersen) | Joel Astley | Christmas |
| 4 | Just a Closer Walk with Thee | Leticia Walker | Christmas: Religious |
| 5 | I Want Some Christmas Cheer | Benny Turner | Christmas |
| 6 | Santa's Messin' with the Kid | Eddie C. Campbell | Christmas |
| 7 | Christmas | Clarence Spady | Christmas |
| 8 | Naughty List | Michele D'Amour And The Love Dealers | Christmas |
| 9 | Have You Heard the News? | Alligator | Christmas |
| 10 | Blues Under the Christmas Tree | Geminii Dragon | Christmas |
| 11 | Nick's Takin' the Reindeer Home | Professor Louie & The Crowmatix | Christmas |
| 12 | Christmas at the Fallen Angel Lounge | Charlie Roth | Christmas |
| 13 | A Berlin Christmas Tale | Sofia Talvik | Christmas |
| 14 | Merry Merry Christmas | Marina Rocks | Christmas |
| 15 | Run Rudolph Run | R.X. Bertoldi & Son | Christmas |
| 16 | Cocktail for Christmas | India Ramey | Christmas |
| 17 | Santa Lost a Ho (feat. Paul Rogers, Nicholas Q Dewey & Lance Dickerson) | Christmas Jug Band | Christmas: Modern |
| 18 | Man! It's Christmas | Jimmie Bratcher | Christmas |
| 19 | I'm Your Santa | Alligator | Christmas |
| 20 | Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus | Alligator | Christmas |
| 21 | Merry, Merry Christmas | Keb Mo | Christmas |
| 22 | It's Santa! (feat. Horace Alexander Young) | Greg Yasinitsky's Yazz Band | Christmas: Jazz |
| 23 | Christmas Time at Home | Rhonda Vincent | Christmas |
| 24 | Blue Christmas (feat. Kenny Brown) | The Maple Blues Band | Christmas |
| 25 | Warm in December | Samara Joy | Christmas: Jazz |
| 26 | All I Need | Lis Soderberg | Holiday |
| 27 | The Twelve Days of Christmas | Joey DeFrancesco | Christmas |
| 28 | Santa Claus is Coming to Town | Michael Bublé | Christmas |
| 29 | Meet Me in the Middle (In the Snow) [feat. Slim Man] | Brynn Stanley | Christmas |
| 30 | Moita Festa (Galician Carol) | Coig | Christmas |
| 31 | White Winter Hymnal | Pentatonix | Holiday |
| 32 | Mr. Grinch B Bopsky | Richie Cole | Christmas: Jazz |
| 33 | Angels We Have Heard on High | The Capitol Bones Big Band | Christmas: Jazz |
| 34 | Rudolph's Mindfulness | Angela O'Neill and the Outrageous8 | Christmas: Jazz |
| 35 | Santa Claws | Justin Time | Christmas |
| 36 | Sleigh Ride (Instrumental) | Concord | Christmas |
| 37 | My Favorite Things (feat. Emilie-Claire Barlow) | Laila Biali | Christmas: Jazz |
| 38 | We Wish You the Merriest (feat. Bing Crosby & Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians) | Frank Sinatra | Christmas: Jazz |
| 39 | Jack Frost Snow and Merry Christmas Kisses (A Freddy Cole Christmas) | Freddy Cole | Christmas: Jazz |
| 40 | Santa Plays the Bass | Donna Singer | Christmas: Jazz |
| 41 | It's Santa! (feat. Jecca Vocal Jazz Ensemble) | Greg Yasinitsky's Yazz Band | Christmas: Jazz |
| 42 | The Christmas Swing | Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers | Christmas |
| 43 | All I Got for Christmas is the Blues | Mindi Abair And The Boneshakers | Christmas |
| 44 | Rare Birds | Andrew Bird | Christmas |
| 45 | Merry Christmas Baby | B.B. King | Christmas |
| 46 | An Old Fashioned Christmas | Daryl Mosley | Christmas |
| 47 | Jingle Bell Blues | Billy F Gibbons | Christmas |
| 48 | Ghost from Christmas Past | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram | Holiday |
| 49 | Country Christmas | Loretta Lynn | Christmas |
| 50 | Christmas Time in the City | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Christmas |
| 51 | Soulful Frosty (feat. Stefon Harris) | Dave Stryker | Christmas: Jazz |
| 52 | Kris Kringle Jingle | Ollee Owens | Christmas |
| 53 | December Again | Jason Paul Curtis | Holiday |
| 54 | Auld Lang Syne | Kelley Hunt | Holiday |
| 55 | Skating | Warren Wolf | Christmas: Jazz |
| 56 | Turn on the Lights | Jamie Cullum | Christmas: Jazz |
| 57 | Silent Night | Chad Lawson | Christmas: Jazz |
| 58 | What a Wonderful World | Grace Haggerty | Christmas: Jazz |
| 59 | Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy | Joe McCarthy's New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band | Christmas: Jazz |
| 60 | Skating/The Christmas Waltz | Doc Watson | Christmas: Jazz |
| 61 | Bells Are Ringing (feat. Jon Cowherd, Rashawn Ross, Michael Dease, Terell Stafford, Clarence Penn & Alex Acuña) | Andy James | Christmas: Jazz |
| 62 | Swing Jingle Bells | Nnenna Freelon | Christmas: Jazz |
| 63 | Little Jack Frost Get Lost (feat. Norah Jones) | Seth MacFarlane | Christmas: Jazz |
| 64 | Christmas on the Bayou | David Gogo | Christmas |
| 65 | The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) | Jacob Collier | Christmas |
| 66 | Back Door Santa | B.B. King | Christmas |
| 67 | I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day | Becky Buller | Christmas |
| 68 | Santa Baby | Sweet Megg | Christmas: Jazz |
| 69 | Away in a Manger | Loretta Lynn | Christmas |
| 70 | Linus & Lucinda | Los Asesinos | Holiday |
| 71 | Bad Kid | JD McPherson | Christmas |
| 72 | Ho Ho Christmas | Tomislav Goluban | Christmas |
| 73 | Giving You Me for Christmas | Laura Cheadle | Christmas |
| 74 | Please Come Home for Christmas | Johnny Adams | Holiday |
| 75 | Come Darkness, Come Light | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Christmas |
| 76 | The Holly Tree | Eileen Ivers | Christmas |
| 77 | Christmas in the Ashram | Tom Prasada-Rao | Christmas |
| 78 | Do You Hear What I Hear | Maxx Jazz | Christmas |
| 79 | This Christmas Time | Ben Reel | Christmas |
| 80 | Stalker Santa | Bianca De Leon | Christmas |
| 81 | Santa Baby | Hiedi Hyacinth | Christmas |
| 82 | Zat You Santa Claus? | Lyn Stanley | Christmas |
| 83 | Rise Up Shepherd | The Lasses | Christmas |
| 84 | Christmas in Carrick | West of Eden | Christmas |
| 85 | You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (For Xmas) | Lazarus Nichols | Christmas |
| 86 | Silver Bells (feat. Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner & Melissa Stylianou) | Duchess | Holiday |
| 87 | Ancient Bell | Kelley Hunt | Holiday |
| 88 | Little Drummer Boy | BRUNS & Baché | Christmas: Jazz |
| 89 | God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen | Alexis Cole | Christmas: Jazz |
| 90 | Christmas Train | Ellis Paul | Christmas |
| 91 | Snow in Austin | Ellis Paul | Christmas |
| 92 | Fall for Me for Christmas (feat. Amy Speace) | Decembersongs | Christmas |
| 93 | Together All Alone | Robin and Linda Williams | Christmas |
| 94 | Emmanuel | The OK Factor | Christmas |
| 95 | Ring Them Bells | The OK Factor | Christmas |
| 96 | Still Christmas in Nashville | Lori McKenna | Christmas |
| 97 | Apples in Winter / Frost is All over / a Merry Christmas (Jigs) | Eileen Ivers | Christmas |
| 98 | High Road | Storyhill | Christmas |
| 99 | God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen | Los Asesinos | Holiday |
| 100 | Cumbia Navidad | Patricia Vonne | Holiday |
| 101 | Frosty the Snowman | Mick Kolassa | Christmas: R&B |
| 102 | It Ain't Christmas | Gulf Coast | Christmas |
| 103 | Christmas Time in New Orleans | Delta Moon | Christmas |
| 104 | What Would Santa Do | The Monkees | Christmas |
| 105 | Christmas Fais Do Do | Alligator | Christmas |
| 106 | Jingle Bells | Bob Malone | Christmas |
| 107 | I Need Christmas This Year | Benny Turner | Christmas |
| 108 | Have a Boogie Woogie Christmas (feat. Victor Wainwright) | The WildRoots | Christmas |
| 109 | Let's Get It on (For Christmas) | Pam Taylor | Christmas |
| 110 | Red Aint Everything | Laura Cheadle | Christmas |
| 111 | Winter Wonderland | Los Straitjackets | Christmas: Classic |
| 112 | Song for a Winter's Night | Catie Curtis | Christmas |
| 113 | Somebody Stole My Christmas | Gulf Coast | Christmas |
| 114 | All I Got for Christmas is the Blues | Gulf Coast | Christmas |
| 115 | All I'm Gettin' for Christmas is the Blues | Deb Ryder | Christmas |
| 116 | Last Christmas | Becky Buller | Christmas |
| 117 | Coming Home for Christmas | Sabrina Weeks & Mike Hilliard | Christmas |
| 118 | O Little Town of Bethlehem | Rhonda Vincent | Christmas |
| 119 | Christmas Times a Comin' / White Christmas | Williamson Branch | Christmas |
| 120 | Back Door Santa | Judith Owen | Holiday |
| 121 | Father Christmas | The Kinks | Christmas |
| 122 | Santa Claus, Santa Claus | Keb Mo | Christmas |
| 123 | Very Merry Christmas | Williamson Branch | Christmas |
| 124 | Maybe This Christmas | Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem | Christmas |
| 125 | The Christmas Boogie | The Sweetback Sisters | Christmas |
| 126 | Reluciente Sol | Los Lobos | Christmas |
| 127 | Poinsettia Pearl | Norine Braun | Christmas |
| 128 | Bad Santa | Big Harp George | Christmas |
| 129 | The Box | Becky Buller | Christmas |
| 130 | Christmas is Near | Chosen Road | Christmas |
| 131 | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Jarred Albright | Christmas |
| 132 | Christmas Lights Come Down | Kirsten Manville | Christmas |
| 133 | The Angels | Tianna Hall | Holiday |
| 134 | Grown Up Christmas List | Marsha Bartenetti | Holiday |
| 135 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Kelley Hunt | Holiday |
| 136 | Still Still Still | Kelley Hunt | Holiday |
| 137 | O Christmas Tree | 3D Jazz Trio | Christmas: Jazz |
| 138 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | Alexis Cole | Christmas: Jazz |
| 139 | Presente De Natal (feat. Gabe Schnider) | Martina DaSilva & Dan Chmielinski | Christmas: Jazz |
| 140 | Zuzu's Petals | Lunch at Allen’s | Christmas: Pop |
| 141 | All I Want for Christmas is You | Jonathan Karrant | Christmas: Jazz |
| 142 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | BRUNS & Baché | Christmas: Jazz |
| 143 | Christmas Memories | Alabama | Christmas |
| 144 | Run Rudolph Run | Gulf Coast | Christmas |
| 145 | Jingle Bells | Loretta Lynn | Christmas |
| 146 | Christmas 9-1-1 | Various Artists | Christmas |
| 147 | The Night Before Christmas | Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers | Christmas |
| 148 | O Holy Night (feat. the McLendon Family) | Samara Joy | Holiday |
| 149 | Christmas Morning Blues | Mick Kolassa | Christmas: R&B |
| 150 | Christmas Blues | David Gogo | Christmas |
| 151 | Run Rudolph Run | Keith Richards | Christmas |
| 152 | Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree | Mindi Abair And The Boneshakers | Christmas |
| 153 | All I Want for Christmas is to Be with You | Lonnie Brooks | Christmas |
| 154 | I Hear Jingle Bells (Original Federal Recording) | Freddie King | Christmas |
| 155 | Bluegrass, White Snow | Patty Loveless | Holiday |
| 156 | Silver Bells | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Christmas |
| 157 | B-A-B-Y | Carla Thomas | Christmas |
| 158 | Let It Snow | Rhonda Vincent | Christmas |
| 159 | The Reindeer Boogie | Hank Snow | Christmas |
| 160 | Christmas in the Mountains | Larry Sparks | Christmas |
| 161 | The Longest Night | Peter Mayer | Christmas |
| 162 | One More Christmas | The Mavericks | Christmas |
| 163 | I'm Going Home, It's Christmas | Balsam Range | Christmas |
| 164 | Mary's Little Lamb | Various Artists: A Mountain Home Christmas | Christmas |
| 165 | Auld Lang Syne | Idina Menzel | Christmas |
| 166 | (Have I Been) Naughty or Nice | Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene | Christmas |
| 167 | Santa's Movin' | Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene | Christmas |
| 168 | Even the Winter | Ryanhood | Christmas |
| 169 | Andalucia | Andrew Bird | Christmas |
| 170 | Linus and Lucy | Vince Guaraldi Trio | Christmas |
| 171 | Can't Stop Christmas from Comin' | The Purple Hulls | Christmas |
| 172 | Christmas Calling (Jolly Jones) | Norah Jones | Christmas |
| 173 | Blame It on the Mistletoe | Amanda Shires | Christmas |
| 174 | Christmas Time Back Home | Darin & Brooke Aldridge | Christmas |
| 175 | Silent Night | Storyhill | Christmas |
| 176 | Christmas is Coming (2022 Mix) | Vince Guaraldi Trio | Christmas |
| 177 | Jingle Bells | Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra | Holiday |
| 178 | Your Holiday Song | Indigo Girls | Holiday |
| 179 | Jingle Bells | Los Asesinos | Holiday |
| 180 | Snowfall | Ana Velinova | Christmas: Jazz |
| 181 | December Wishing | Ana Velinova | Christmas: Jazz |
| 182 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | Warren Wolf | Christmas: Jazz |
| 183 | It's Christmas | Jamie Cullum | Christmas: Jazz |
| 184 | Hang Them on the Tree (feat. the Jon Burr Sextet) | June Bisantz | Christmas: Jazz |
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