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ASCAP lists this year's top-played holiday tunes
Published: 12/13/2011 11:12 AM
Last Modified: 12/13/2011 11:12 AM

This week, ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) released its list of most-played songs of this holiday season. For the second year in a row, "Sleigh Ride" tops the list of songs, which were all written or co-written by ASCAP members.

The top 10 most-played holiday songs so far this holiday season. The list represents "an aggregation of all different artist versions of each cited holiday song played on radio from 10/1/11 through 11/28/11," according to ASCAP. The holiday song data was tracked by radio airplay monitoring service, Mediaguide, from over 2,500 radio stations nationwide:

1. "Sleigh Ride" - played 64,317 times
Written by Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish
Most popular artist version performed by Leroy Anderson

2. "Winter Wonderland" - played 54,741 times
Written by Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith
Most popular artist version performed by Eurythmics

3. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" - played 50,796 times
Written by Mel Tormé, Robert Wells
Most popular artist version performed by Nat King Cole

4. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" - played 49,509 times
Written by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
Most popular artist version performed by Dean Martin

5. "Jingle Bell Rock" - played 47,100 times
Written by Joseph Carleton Beal, James Ross Boothe
Most popular artist version performed by Bobby Helms

6. "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" - played 46,492 times
Written by Edward Pola, George Wyle
Most popular artist version performed by Andy Williams

7. "Do You Hear What I Hear?" - played 41,633 times
Written by Gloria Shayne Baker, Noël Regney
Most popular artist version performed by Whitney Houston

8. "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" - played 39,885 times
Written by Meredith Willson
Most popular artist version performed by Bing Crosby

9. "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" - played 38,395 times
Written by Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin
Most popular artist version performed by The Carpenters

10. "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" - played 37,266 times
Written by Johnny Marks
Most popular artist version performed by Gene Autry

Established in 1914, ASCAP is a U.S. Performing Rights Organization (PRO) representing over 8.5 million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more than 420,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members.

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Chainsaw (last year)

A couple of factoids about Gene Autry . . .

Before he sang standards, before he sang Western songs, even before he sang country, Gene Autry started out as a white blues singer patterning himself after Jimmie Rogers.

And during his blues period, in a song called Rheumatism Blues, he used a discordant guitar lick that was copied 37 years later by Bob Dylan as the "everybody must get stoned" lick in Rainy Day Women 12 & 35. You can check it out on YouTube.

Loophole (last year)

Isn't it amazing in the age of "obsolescence" that many of the most popular Christmas songs are performed by the deceased?

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