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 | Lump of Coal (feat. Lil Jimmy Reed) | Ben Levin | Christmas |
| 4 | Naughty List (feat. Johnny Burgin & Kid Andersen) | Joel Astley | Christmas |
| 5 | Just a Closer Walk with Thee | Leticia Walker | Christmas: Religious |
| 6 | I Want Some Christmas Cheer | Benny Turner | Christmas |
| 7 | Santa's Messin' with the Kid | Eddie C. Campbell | Christmas |
| 8 | Christmas | Clarence Spady | Christmas |
| 9 | Naughty List | Michele D'Amour And The Love Dealers | Christmas |
| 10 | Have You Heard the News? | Alligator | Christmas |
| 11 | Blues Under the Christmas Tree | Geminii Dragon | Christmas |
| 12 | Nick's Takin' the Reindeer Home | Professor Louie & The Crowmatix | Christmas |
| 13 | Christmas at the Fallen Angel Lounge | Charlie Roth | Christmas |
| 14 | Slim Down Santa | Blind Raccoon | Christmas |
| 15 | A Berlin Christmas Tale | Sofia Talvik | Christmas |
| 16 | Merry Merry Christmas | Marina Rocks | Christmas |
| 17 | Christmas Boogaloo | Tom Mason | Christmas |
| 18 | The Christmas Office Party | Roberto Cassani and the Tickety-two | Christmas |
| 19 | Christmas Time with You | Phil Lee | Christmas |
| 20 | Run Rudolph Run | R.X. Bertoldi & Son | Christmas |
| 21 | Cocktail for Christmas | India Ramey | Christmas |
| 22 | Santa Lost a Ho (feat. Paul Rogers, Nicholas Q Dewey & Lance Dickerson) | Christmas Jug Band | Christmas: Modern |
| 23 | Santa Claus | Little Charlie & the Nightcats | Christmas |
| 24 | Man! It's Christmas | Jimmie Bratcher | Christmas |
| 25 | I'm Your Santa | Alligator | Christmas |
| 26 | Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus | Alligator | Christmas |
| 27 | Merry, Merry Christmas | Keb Mo | Christmas |
| 28 | It's Santa! (feat. Horace Alexander Young) | Greg Yasinitsky's Yazz Band | Christmas: Jazz |
| 29 | Christmas Time at Home | Rhonda Vincent | Christmas |
| 30 | Blue Christmas (feat. Kenny Brown) | The Maple Blues Band | Christmas |
| 31 | Warm in December | Samara Joy | Christmas: Jazz |
| 32 | All I Need | Lis Soderberg | Holiday |
| 33 | The Twelve Days of Christmas | Joey DeFrancesco | Christmas |
| 34 | Santa Claus is Coming to Town | Michael Bublé | Christmas |
| 35 | Meet Me in the Middle (In the Snow) [feat. Slim Man] | Brynn Stanley | Christmas |
| 36 | Moita Festa (Galician Carol) | Coig | Christmas |
| 37 | White Winter Hymnal | Pentatonix | Holiday |
| 38 | Mr. Grinch B Bopsky | Richie Cole | Christmas: Jazz |
| 39 | Angels We Have Heard on High | The Capitol Bones Big Band | Christmas: Jazz |
| 40 | Rudolph's Mindfulness | Angela O'Neill and the Outrageous8 | Christmas: Jazz |
| 41 | Santa Claws | Justin Time | Christmas |
| 42 | Sleigh Ride (Instrumental) | Concord | Christmas |
| 43 | My Favorite Things (feat. Emilie-Claire Barlow) | Laila Biali | Christmas: Jazz |
| 44 | We Wish You the Merriest (feat. Bing Crosby & Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians) | Frank Sinatra | Christmas: Jazz |
| 45 | Jack Frost Snow and Merry Christmas Kisses (A Freddy Cole Christmas) | Freddy Cole | Christmas: Jazz |
| 46 | Santa Plays the Bass | Donna Singer | Christmas: Jazz |
| 47 | It's Santa! (feat. Jecca Vocal Jazz Ensemble) | Greg Yasinitsky's Yazz Band | Christmas: Jazz |
| 48 | The Christmas Swing | Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers | Christmas |
| 49 | All I Got for Christmas is the Blues | Mindi Abair And The Boneshakers | Christmas |
| 50 | Rare Birds | Andrew Bird | Christmas |
| 51 | Merry Christmas Baby | B.B. King | Christmas |
| 52 | An Old Fashioned Christmas | Daryl Mosley | Christmas |
| 53 | Jingle Bell Blues | Billy F Gibbons | Christmas |
| 54 | Ghost from Christmas Past | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram | Holiday |
| 55 | Maybe Your Baby's Got the Blues | The Judds | Christmas |
| 56 | Country Christmas | Loretta Lynn | Christmas |
| 57 | Christmas Time in the City | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Christmas |
| 58 | Soulful Frosty (feat. Stefon Harris) | Dave Stryker | Christmas: Jazz |
| 59 | Kris Kringle Jingle | Ollee Owens | Christmas |
| 60 | December Again | Jason Paul Curtis | Holiday |
| 61 | Auld Lang Syne | Kelley Hunt | Holiday |
| 62 | Skating | Warren Wolf | Christmas: Jazz |
| 63 | Turn on the Lights | Jamie Cullum | Christmas: Jazz |
| 64 | Silent Night | Chad Lawson | Christmas: Jazz |
| 65 | What a Wonderful World | Grace Haggerty | Christmas: Jazz |
| 66 | Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy | Joe McCarthy's New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band | Christmas: Jazz |
| 67 | Skating/The Christmas Waltz | Doc Watson | Christmas: Jazz |
| 68 | Santa Clause is Coming to Town | Christine Hitt | Christmas: Jazz |
| 69 | Bells Are Ringing (feat. Jon Cowherd, Rashawn Ross, Michael Dease, Terell Stafford, Clarence Penn & Alex Acuña) | Andy James | Christmas: Jazz |
| 70 | Swing Jingle Bells | Nnenna Freelon | Christmas: Jazz |
| 71 | Little Jack Frost Get Lost (feat. Norah Jones) | Seth MacFarlane | Christmas: Jazz |
| 72 | Christmas on the Bayou | David Gogo | Christmas |
| 73 | The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) | Jacob Collier | Christmas |
| 74 | Back Door Santa | B.B. King | Christmas |
| 75 | Take Me Home, Country Roads | John Denver | Christmas |
| 76 | I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day | Becky Buller | Christmas |
| 77 | Santa Baby | Sweet Megg | Christmas: Jazz |
| 78 | Away in a Manger | Loretta Lynn | Christmas |
| 79 | Linus & Lucinda | Los Asesinos | Holiday |
| 80 | Bad Kid | JD McPherson | Christmas |
| 81 | Ho Ho Christmas | Tomislav Goluban | Christmas |
| 82 | Forgot Mrs. Claus | Ben Levin | Christmas |
| 83 | Giving You Me for Christmas | Laura Cheadle | Christmas |
| 84 | Tin Roof Blues | Louis Armstrong | Christmas |
| 85 | Rock and Roll, Pt. 2 | Gary Glitter | Christmas |
| 86 | Don't Need to Write It Down | Interstate Cowboy | Christmas |
| 87 | Please Come Home for Christmas | Johnny Adams | Holiday |
| 88 | So I Can Love You | The Emotions | Holiday |
| 89 | Come Darkness, Come Light | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Christmas |
| 90 | The Holly Tree | Eileen Ivers | Christmas |
| 91 | Christmas in the Ashram | Tom Prasada-Rao | Christmas |
| 92 | Do You Hear What I Hear | Maxx Jazz | Christmas |
| 93 | This Christmas Time | Ben Reel | Christmas |
| 94 | Stalker Santa | Bianca De Leon | Christmas |
| 95 | Santa Baby | Hiedi Hyacinth | Christmas |
| 96 | Zat You Santa Claus? | Lyn Stanley | Christmas |
| 97 | Rise Up Shepherd | The Lasses | Christmas |
| 98 | Christmas in Carrick | West of Eden | Christmas |
| 99 | You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (For Xmas) | Lazarus Nichols | Christmas |
| 100 | Silver Bells (feat. Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner & Melissa Stylianou) | Duchess | Holiday |
| 101 | Ancient Bell | Kelley Hunt | Holiday |
| 102 | Little Drummer Boy | BRUNS & Baché | Christmas: Jazz |
| 103 | God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen | Alexis Cole | Christmas: Jazz |
| 104 | Little Drummer Boy | Tia Fuller | Christmas: Jazz |
| 105 | Jingle Bells | Gerald Wilson Orchestra | Christmas: Jazz |
| 106 | Christmas Train | Ellis Paul | Christmas |
| 107 | Snow in Austin | Ellis Paul | Christmas |
| 108 | Fall for Me for Christmas (feat. Amy Speace) | Decembersongs | Christmas |
| 109 | Together All Alone | Robin and Linda Williams | Christmas |
| 110 | Emmanuel | The OK Factor | Christmas |
| 111 | Ring Them Bells | The OK Factor | Christmas |
| 112 | One the Other Hand | Randy Travis | Christmas |
| 113 | Still Christmas in Nashville | Lori McKenna | Christmas |
| 114 | A Christmas Lullaby | Bill Staines | Christmas |
| 115 | Apples in Winter / Frost is All over / a Merry Christmas (Jigs) | Eileen Ivers | Christmas |
| 116 | Jingle Bells | Harvey Reid | Christmas |
| 117 | High Road | Storyhill | Christmas |
| 118 | God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen | Los Asesinos | Holiday |
| 119 | Cumbia Navidad | Patricia Vonne | Holiday |
| 120 | My Heart is Bethlehem | John Berry | Holiday |
| 121 | Christmas to Christmas | Toby Keith | Holiday |
| 122 | Frosty the Snowman | Mick Kolassa | Christmas: R&B |
| 123 | It Ain't Christmas | Gulf Coast | Christmas |
| 124 | Christmas Time in New Orleans | Delta Moon | Christmas |
| 125 | Merry Christmas Everyone | Shakin' Stevens | Christmas |
| 126 | What Would Santa Do | The Monkees | Christmas |
| 127 | Christmas Fais Do Do | Alligator | Christmas |
| 128 | Jingle Bells | Bob Malone | Christmas |
| 129 | I Need Christmas This Year | Benny Turner | Christmas |
| 130 | Have a Boogie Woogie Christmas (feat. Victor Wainwright) | The WildRoots | Christmas |
| 131 | Let's Get It on (For Christmas) | Pam Taylor | Christmas |
| 132 | Red Aint Everything | Laura Cheadle | Christmas |
| 133 | Winter Wonderland | Los Straitjackets | Christmas: Classic |
| 134 | Song for a Winter's Night | Catie Curtis | Christmas |
| 135 | Somebody Stole My Christmas | Gulf Coast | Christmas |
| 136 | All I Got for Christmas is the Blues | Gulf Coast | Christmas |
| 137 | Right | Khruangbin | Christmas |
| 138 | All I'm Gettin' for Christmas is the Blues | Deb Ryder | Christmas |
| 139 | Fake Palindromes | Andrew Bird | Christmas |
| 140 | Last Christmas | Becky Buller | Christmas |
| 141 | Coming Home for Christmas | Sabrina Weeks & Mike Hilliard | Christmas |
| 142 | O Little Town of Bethlehem | Rhonda Vincent | Christmas |
| 143 | Van Lear Rose | Loretta Lynn | Christmas |
| 144 | Flirt | Mindi Abair And The Boneshakers | Christmas |
| 145 | Rose Room | Louis Armstrong | Christmas |
| 146 | Christmas Times a Comin' / White Christmas | Williamson Branch | Christmas |
| 147 | Back Door Santa | Judith Owen | Holiday |
| 148 | Happy Xmas (War is Over) | John Lennon | Christmas |
| 149 | Father Christmas | The Kinks | Christmas |
| 150 | Red Nosed Reindeer Blues | Asylum Street Spankers | Christmas |
| 151 | Santa Claus, Santa Claus | Keb Mo | Christmas |
| 152 | Santa Baby | Eartha Kitt | Christmas |
| 153 | Very Merry Christmas | Williamson Branch | Christmas |
| 154 | Maybe This Christmas | Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem | Christmas |
| 155 | The Christmas Boogie | The Sweetback Sisters | Christmas |
| 156 | Reluciente Sol | Los Lobos | Christmas |
| 157 | Poinsettia Pearl | Norine Braun | Christmas |
| 158 | Bad Santa | Big Harp George | Christmas |
| 159 | The Box | Becky Buller | Christmas |
| 160 | Christmas is Near | Chosen Road | Christmas |
| 161 | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Jarred Albright | Christmas |
| 162 | Christmas Lights Come Down | Kirsten Manville | Christmas |
| 163 | Namaste/That's What Love Can Do | Tom Prasada-Rao | Christmas |
| 164 | The Angels | Tianna Hall | Holiday |
| 165 | The Morning Star / the Caoilte Mountains | Martin Hayes | Holiday |
| 166 | Christmas Time Part One | Billy Boy Arnold | Holiday |
| 167 | Grown Up Christmas List | Marsha Bartenetti | Holiday |
| 168 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Kelley Hunt | Holiday |
| 169 | Still Still Still | Kelley Hunt | Holiday |
| 170 | O Christmas Tree | 3D Jazz Trio | Christmas: Jazz |
| 171 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | Alexis Cole | Christmas: Jazz |
| 172 | Presente De Natal (feat. Gabe Schnider) | Martina DaSilva & Dan Chmielinski | Christmas: Jazz |
| 173 | Zuzu's Petals | Lunch at Allen’s | Christmas: Pop |
| 174 | Goin' Down Slow | Canned Heat | Christmas |
| 175 | Valleri | The Monkees | Christmas |
| 176 | Water of Love | The Judds | Christmas |
| 177 | On the Street Where You Live | Dean Martin | Christmas |
| 178 | Toes | Norah Jones | Christmas |
| 179 | All I Want for Christmas is You | Jonathan Karrant | Christmas: Jazz |
| 180 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | BRUNS & Baché | Christmas: Jazz |
| 181 | Christmas Memories | Alabama | Christmas |
| 182 | Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) | Samantha Fish | Christmas |
| 183 | Run Rudolph Run | Gulf Coast | Christmas |
| 184 | Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus | William Clarke | Christmas |
| 185 | Jingle Bells | Loretta Lynn | Christmas |
| 186 | Christmas 9-1-1 | Various Artists | Christmas |
| 187 | The Night Before Christmas | Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers | Christmas |
| 188 | At the Christmas Ball | The Mary Stokes Band | Christmas |
| 189 | I Want My Baby for Christmas | JIMMY LIGGINS & HIS DROPS OF JOY | Christmas |
| 190 | O Holy Night (feat. the McLendon Family) | Samara Joy | Holiday |
| 191 | Christmas Morning Blues | Mick Kolassa | Christmas: R&B |
| 192 | Christmas Blues | David Gogo | Christmas |
| 193 | Run Rudolph Run | Keith Richards | Christmas |
| 194 | Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree | Mindi Abair And The Boneshakers | Christmas |
| 195 | All I Want for Christmas is to Be with You | Lonnie Brooks | Christmas |
| 196 | On This Merry Christmas Day (guitar) | Eliza Neals | Christmas |
| 197 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Gene Autry | Christmas |
| 198 | Christmas in Washington | Joan Baez | Christmas |
| 199 | Peace in the World | The Subdudes | Christmas |
| 200 | Takin' Care of Christmas | Randy Bachman | Christmas |
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