ASCAP Unwraps the Top 30 Holiday Songs of the Century
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" Tops List of All-Time Most-Performed ASCAP Holiday Classics
(firmenpresse) - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 12/04/14 -- It's become an annual tradition: at the beginning of every holiday season, the announces its list of the most-performed holiday songs of the year - the evergreen hits that accompany more family get-togethers and wintertime shopping trips than any others.
This year, ASCAP brings its 100th birthday celebration into the holiday season by unwrapping the top 30 ASCAP holiday songs of all time. Topping the list is written by Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie.
ASCAP President and Chairman commented: "Music reminds us that the holidays are supposed to be about togetherness and good cheer. These 30 ASCAP classics perfectly capture those themes and for many are a bridge to wonderful memories of days gone by. The list is a testament to the enduring importance of great songs and songwriters. It's also a reminder of the essential role that ASCAP and our members play in our lives, year after year. It simply wouldn't be the holidays without ASCAP music."
became an unexpected hit for songwriters Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie when radio star Eddie Cantor was looking for a holiday song to sing on a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade radio broadcast. It became a smash, selling 30,000 copies of Cantor's rendition and another 100,000 copies of the sheet music within a day of the broadcast. , , and have recorded beloved versions of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" over the decades; recent covers by ASCAP members (2011), (2012) and (2012) have kept it relevant to today's listeners, 80 years after it was written.
While this list is stocked with songs that have warmed our hearts and homes for generations, deserves attention as the youngest song to crack the list. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of and 's modern Christmas classic. Carey's version holds records for the best-selling holiday ringtone of all time, and is Carey's biggest hit internationally. "People just like this positive love song. Anybody can sing it to anybody. From father to child, mother to child, wife to husband...it's universal," Afanasieff told ASCAP . "It's a very simple arrangement...I guess that made it so easy for the whole world to go 'Oh! I can't get that out of my head.'" Afanasieff has produced many covers of "All I Want for Christmas Is You" over the years, most recently a version for Idina Menzel's 2014 holiday album, Holiday Wishes. Watch the entire interview here:
Below is the list of the 30 most-performed ASCAP holiday songs of all time. Each song includes songwriter credits, plus the year that the song was first released, performed or published.
(1934)
Written by Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie
(1944)
Written by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells
(1941)
Written by Irving Berlin
(1934)
Written by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith
(1944)
Written by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin
(1948)
Written by Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish
(1958)
Written by Joseph Carleton Beal and James Ross Boothe
(1949)
Written by Johnny Marks
(1945)
Written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne
(1943)
Written by Kim Gannon and Walter Kent
(1941)
Written by Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone
(1950)
Written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston
1958)
Written by Johnny Marks
1950)
Written by Steve Nelson and Walter E. Rollins
1964)
Written by Billy Hayes and Jay Johnson
(1963)
Written by Edward Pola and George Wyle
1951)
Written by Meredith Willson
1947)
Written by Gene Autry and Oakley Haldeman
(1962)
Written by Gloria Shayne Baker (SACEM) and Noël Regney (SACEM)
1904)
Written by Mykola Leontovych and Peter Wilhousky
(1970)
Written by Jose Feliciano
(1965)
Written by Johnny Marks
(1952)
Written by Tommy Connor (PRS)
1984)
Written by George Michael
(1954)
Written by Robert Allen and Al Stillman
1979)
Written by Paul McCartney (PRS)
1942)
Written by Irving Berlin
1994)
Written by Walter Afanasieff and Mariah Carey (BMI)
(1953)
Joan Javits, Philip Springer and Tony Springer (SOCAN)
(1970)
Written by Donny Hathaway and Nadine McKinnor
Note: The above list represents an aggregation of all recorded versions of each holiday song ranked based upon ASCAP's historical data from radio, television and internet performances.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP's mission is to license and promote the music of its members and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the world's best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who use it to add value to their business -- from bars, restaurants and retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With 500,000 members representing more than 9 million copyrighted works, ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its writer and publisher members.
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