The top 10 ho-ho-holiday songs of 2011
Do you hear what I hear? If you listened to the radio this holiday season, you probably did.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers released its list of most-played songs of this holiday season.
"It's a beautiful thing to realize that a songwriter's work lives on in such a way, bringing happiness and meaning to millions of people's lives year after year," ASCAP president and chairman Paul Williams said in a statement.
And for the second year in a row, "Sleigh Ride" tops the list. From Oct. 1 to Dec. 14 -- the time in which airplay monitoring service Mediaguide tracked holiday songs on 2,500 stations nationwide -- "Sleigh Ride" was played 154,327 times. That's a lot of "ring ting tingle-ing too's." Here's the full top 10, with songwriters and most popular artist version:
1. SLEIGH RIDE Played 154,327 times (written by Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish; performed by Anderson)
2. WINTER WONDERLAND 128,980 times (written by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith; sung by Eurythmics)
3. THE CHRISTMAS SONG 126,032 times (written by Mel Torme and Robert Wells; sung by Nat King Cole)
4. LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! 115,346 times (written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne; sung by Dean Martin)
5. JINGLE BELL ROCK 114,529 times (written by Joseph Carleton Beal and James Ross Boothe; sung by Bobby Helms)
6. IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR 109,938 times (written by Edward Pola and George Wyle; sung by Andy Williams)
7. DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? 98,575 times (written by Gloria Shayne Baker and Noël Regney; sung by Whitney Houston)
8. IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS 94,885 times (written by Meredith Willson; sung by Bing Crosby)
9. RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER 91,451 times (written by Johnny Marks; sung by Gene Autry)
10. HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS 90,175 times (written by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin; sung by The Carpenters)
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