The Best Christmas Songs, Ranked by Fans
Rank 32 classic Christmas songs head-to-head: All I Want for Christmas Is You vs Last Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock vs Feliz Navidad. See the crowd's pick. Early results (n = 1): too few finished brackets to call a leader yet. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
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Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)Darlene Love · 1963
Driving Home for ChristmasChris Rea · 1986
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
Rank all 32: the song sorter, about 121 picks for your full order, 1 to 32. All 32: a bracket, 31 picks, with tied places.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 32 start.
How the Christmas Songs bracket works
This Christmas song ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — All I Want for Christmas Is You or Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree? Jingle Bell Rock or Last Christmas? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 32-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 32 songs. Entrants are drawn by a seed that changes daily, and New draw picks a fresh one, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 32 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including All I Want for Christmas Is You, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Jingle Bell Rock and Last Christmas. Updated
- All I Want for Christmas Is YouMariah Carey · 1994Listen on Apple Music
- Rockin' Around the Christmas TreeBrenda Lee · 1958Listen on Apple Music
- Jingle Bell RockBobby Helms · 1957Listen on Apple Music
- Last ChristmasWham! · 1984Listen on Apple Music
- It's the Most Wonderful Time of the YearAndy Williams · 1963Listen on Apple Music
- Feliz NavidadJosé Feliciano · 1970Listen on Apple Music
- A Holly Jolly ChristmasBurl Ives · 1964Listen on Apple Music
- White ChristmasBing Crosby · 1942Listen on Apple Music
- The Christmas SongNat King Cole · 1946Listen on Apple Music
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!Dean Martin · 1959Listen on Apple Music
- It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like ChristmasMichael Bublé · 2011Listen on Apple Music
- Sleigh RideThe Ronettes · 1963Listen on Apple Music
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReindeerGene Autry · 1949Listen on Apple Music
- Frosty the SnowmanGene Autry · 1950Listen on Apple Music
- Underneath the TreeKelly Clarkson · 2013Listen on Apple Music
- Santa Tell MeAriana Grande · 2014Listen on Apple Music
- MistletoeJustin Bieber · 2011Listen on Apple Music
- Christmas Tree FarmTaylor Swift · 2019Listen on Apple Music
- Wonderful ChristmastimePaul McCartney · 1979Listen on Apple Music
- Blue ChristmasElvis Presley · 1957Listen on Apple Music
- Run Rudolph RunChuck Berry · 1958Listen on Apple Music
- Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasJudy Garland · 1944Listen on Apple Music
- Little Saint NickThe Beach Boys · 1963Listen on Apple Music
- Step into ChristmasElton John · 1973Listen on Apple Music
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)Darlene Love · 1963Listen on Apple Music
- Driving Home for ChristmasChris Rea · 1986Listen on Apple Music
- You're a Mean One, Mr. GrinchThurl Ravenscroft · 1966Listen on Apple Music
- Christmas Time Is HereVince Guaraldi Trio · 1965Listen on Apple Music
- SnowmanSia · 2017Listen on Apple Music
- The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)The Chipmunks · 1958Listen on Apple Music
- Santa Claus Is Coming to TownThe Jackson 5 · 1970Listen on Apple Music
- Jingle BellsFrank Sinatra · 1946Listen on Apple Music
Tier list instead?
Load all 32 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own Christmas song bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Go with the one you would rather hear right now — instant reaction beats a considered take.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 32 so more of the 32 songs make the field.
- Watch for the song you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Questions people ask
How many songs are in the Christmas Songs bracket?
The pool holds 32 songs. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which songs are included?
All I Want for Christmas Is You, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Jingle Bell Rock, Last Christmas, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Feliz Navidad, A Holly Jolly Christmas, White Christmas, The Christmas Song, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas and Sleigh Ride, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Christmas Songs bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and a run saves after every pick, so you can stop and jump back in later.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other song grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two songs that never met. If you would rather place the songs into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Christmas Songs community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a song I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own songs, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.