The Best Christmas Songs Ever

A playlist of the best Christmas songs ever, ones that need to be on every single Christmas party playlist! This also makes a perfect playlist for any Christmas music games you might want to play!

The Best Christmas Songs

There are so many Christmas songs out there these days that it’s hard to keep track. This list is the ultimate list of Christmas songs – only the best of the best! I only included songs that I personally recognize and ones that you’d find on the “best Christmas songs” lists.

I do know quite a bit of Christmas music though so feel free to just use the ones that work best for your group if you think some of them are a bit obscure or not going to be guessed.

Christmas Music Games

Three of my favorite party games are musical ones. In How Do You Doo, players have to sing “Doos” to get other players to guess a song.

In Name that Tune, players have to guess the song title and artist to win points for their team.

And in Christmas music bingo, you play bingo with a shuffled playlist instead of numbers – it’s so fun!

I posted about How Do You Doo here and Name that Tune here, so I won’t go into the full instructions now.

Or if you’d rather skip the playlist and see how well people know their Christmas music, this Christmas carol chaos printable game is awesome!

For now, here’s a list of the best Christmas songs that would be perfect for any of these games.

Most Popular Christmas Songs

Since so many people sing the same Christmas songs, I didn’t put artists with these ones for Name That Tune. You can either just use whatever version of the song you already have (and add the artist yourself) or you can play without artists.

I linked to either my favorite or a popular version of the song below, helpful especially if you don’t know all of these songs yourself!

1. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
2. Jingle Bell Rock
3. You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
4. Feliz Navidad
5. A Holly Jolly Christmas
6. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
7. The Chipmunk Song
8. The Christmas Song
9. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
10. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
11. Santa Baby
12. Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
13. Where Are You Christmas?
14. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
15. All I Want For Christmas is You
16. 12 Days of Christmas
17. The Chanukah Song
18. The Dreidel Song
19. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
20. Frosty the Snowman
21. Angels We Have Heard on High
22. Mary, Did You Know?
23. Last Christmas
24. Wonderful Christmas Time
25. Happy Xmas
26. Blue Christmas
27. The Christmas Shoes
28. Linus and Lucy
29. Little Saint Nick
30. Silent Night
31. We Three Kings
32. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
33. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
34. Jingle Bells
35. Away in a Manger
36. Sleigh Ride
37. Carol of the Bells
38. Little Drummer Boy
39. O Come, All Ye Faithful
40. O Holy Night
41. Let It Snow
42. Silver Bells
43. Deck the Halls
44. Ave Maria
45. Joy to the World
46. White Christmas
47. The First Noel
48. What Child is This
49. Here Comes Santa Claus
50. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
51. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
52. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
53. Do You Hear What I Hear?
54. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
55. Winter Wonderland
56. Baby, It’s Cold Outside
57. Up On the Housetop
58. O, Little Town of Bethlehem
59. Go Tell It On the Mountain

Downloadable Playlist

I’ve created three different downloadable song lists that you can use for any of the Christmas music games I mentioned above!

If you want to download the actual songs, I recommend downloading on Apple Music, Spotify, etc. to make your own playlist!

1. One for music lovers, meaning it’s the harder version without any hints/artists
2. One that should be used for How Do You Doo that has hints (to help people who may not know which song Sleigh Ride for instance is)
3. One that’s just in a list (not for cutting out) for Name That Tune. 

<< Download the Music Lover “hard” version for How Do You Doo >>

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