Holiday Music Archives

Two thirds of German holiday charts are Christmas songs

02/01/2021

Two thirds of German holiday charts are Christmas songs with “All I Want For Christmas Is You” (Mariah Carey) and “Last Christmas” (Wham!) occupying the joint top spot for the fifth time. This year two thirds of the Top 100 currently consists of Christmas songs compared to 51 holiday songs in the official German singles charts in 2019 as determined by GfK Entertainment.The only German-language Christmas titles are “In der Weihnachtenäckerei” (Rolf Zuckowski and his friends, […]

Holiday music listening started earlier on Amazon Music

23/12/2020

Holiday music listening started earlier on Amazon Music in 2020 with 3.5Bn streams and 230 million voice requests so far. The Amazon Music holiday programming team has curated hundreds of new playlists and stations such as Christmas Past, Holiday Pop and Feel-Good Christmas. In 2020 holiday listening earlier than ever before with listeners playing seasonal music around the clock and asking Alexa to play holiday music every minute of every day since 1st October. Amazon Music has also surpassed 3.5 Bn […]