The two individual recordings that were favorited the most were by Mannheim Steamroller
and the Mormom Tabernacle Choir.

Now that I’ve done this once, next year we’ll be able to actually work down to which exact version of a song is our listener’s favorite. So if you’re an artist, or just a fan of a specific version of a Christmas song, let me know and I’ll start figuring out a way to mke this work in 2014.

And voting is now closed.

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Voting on this bracket will last through Wednesday night. The final voting will take place Thursday through the weekend, with the winner declared on Monday, the eve of Christmas Eve.

Voting for this round is closed.

See the full bracket at Vote for Christmas Song of the Year.

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Oh Come, All Ye Faithful, also known as Adeste Fideles, is a Christmas carol which for some time has been attributed to John Francis Wade. The English translation was by the English Catholic priest Frederick Oakeley.
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Christmas Time is Here is a popular Christmas song written Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi for the 1965 TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”

It’s Beginning To Look Like a Lot Christmas is a classic Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson.
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Deck the Halls is a traditional Christmas, yuletide, and New Years’ carol. The melody is Welsh dating back to the sixteenth century, while the English lyrics date to the 1880s.

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer is a fictional male reindeer with a glowing red nose, popularly known as “Santa’s 9th Reindeer. Rudolph first appeared in a 1939 booklet written by Robert L. May and published by Montgomery Ward
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Away in a Manger is a Christmas carol first published in the late nineteenth century.

Silent Night (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria
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I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus is a Christmas song with music and lyrics by British songwriter Tommie Connor. The original recording by Jimmy Boyd was created on July 15, 1952.

Joy to the World is a popular Christmas carol. The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible.
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Let it Snow is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in July 1945. The song has no Christmas references and is therefore a seasonal song shared by those who do not join in the celebration of Christmas

Frosty the Snowman is a popular song written by Walter “Jack” Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950
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It Came Upon a Midnight Clear is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears in 1849.

Silver Bells is a classic Christmas song, composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, written in 1950.
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Jingle Bells was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing is a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection “Hymns and Sacred Poems,” having been written by Charles Wesley.
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Mary Did You Know is a Christmas song with lyrics written by Mark Lowry and music written by Buddy Greene in 1984.

Please vote for your preference of songs!

Angels We Have Heard on High The song commemorates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ found in the Gospel of Luke, in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child. It was translated from French in 1862 by James Chadwick.
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We Three Kings is a Christmas carol written by the Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr., who wrote both the lyrics and the music. It is suggested to have been written in 1857.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas is a popular sixteenth-century English carol, and is one of the few English traditional carols that makes mention of the New Year celebration.
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Winter Wonderland is a winter song, popularly treated as a Christmastime pop standard, written in 1934 by Felix Bernard (music) and Richard B. Smith (lyricist).

The Christmas Song (commonly subtitled “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” or, as it was originally subtitled, “Merry Christmas to You”) is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by musician, composer, and vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells.
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Go Tell It On the Mountain is an African-American spiritual song, compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr., dating back to at least 1865. It is considered a Christmas carol because its original lyric celebrates the Nativity of Jesus.

Santa Claus is Coming to Town was written by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie and was first sung on Eddie Cantor’s radio show in November 1934.
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Light of the Stable is a Christmas song, which was first released in 1975. It was written by Steve Rhymer and Elizabeth Rhymer.

The First Noel is a traditional classical English carol, most likely from the 18th century. The melody is unusual among English folk melodies in that it consists of one musical phrase repeated twice, followed by a refrain which is a variation on that phrase.
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O Little Town of Bethlehem was written by Phillips Brooks, an Episcopal priest, who was inspired by visiting the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in 1865.

Do You Hear What I Hear? is a Christmas song written in October 1962 with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne Baker. The pair wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Jingle Bell Rock is a popular Christmas song first released by Bobby Helms in 1957. Its title and some of its lyrics are takeoffs on the old Christmas standard, “Jingle Bells.”

Oh Holy Night! is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847. The text reflects on the birth of Jesus and of humanity’s redemption.
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God Rest You Merry Gentlemen is an English traditional Christmas carol, and was published by William B. Sandys in 1833, although the author is unknown.

White Christmas is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting.
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Twelve Days of Christmas is an English Christmas carol that enumerates a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas in the manner of a cumulative song.

Please vote for your preference of songs!

Voting for the first found will take place on Tuesday the 10th, and will continue daily through the middle of next week. Thanks for participating!