"White Christmas" is actually the best-selling physical single of all time, according to the Guinness Book of World Records? Just counting Crosby's version, the song has sold over 50 million copies worldwide. Including other artists' covers, there are over 100 million copies.

While Andy Williams is known for his holiday hit "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," his record company insisted on his cover of "White Christmas" being the album's single.

The song "Feliz Navidad" actually came out in 1970. "Feliz Navidad" is one of the most-downloaded and most-aired Christmas songs of all time, but it only came to prominence in 1998. For its first 20+ years, it remained a fairly niche track.

Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" has been contested as being either a Christmas song (based on the lyrics) or a New Year's song (based on the title). However, it actually peaked in popularity in late February 1981.

The top Christmas song every year since 1958

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Some Christmas songs are classics, which listeners only groan about when they start playing too early in the year. Others, like Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and Wham!'s "Last Christmas," have turned into memes instead, with thousands of people trying to avoid them every year (despite their continued popularity).

Beginning in 1958, Billboard has released information about the top Christmas songs and albums nearly every year. However, they changed the name and style of their Christmas lists so often that it can be difficult to understand which songs were at the top of the charts for the longest.

By pulling together the data from Billboard's many holiday hit lists, it's possible to know which song(s) dominated each year. Check out important years in your life, and be sure to get to the bottom to see fast facts about which songs, artists, and albums have set records.

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