Most Streamed Christmas Songs UK

Christmas songs are an essential component of the festive season, bounding into your home like a distant relatives each Christmas but with the advent of streaming,  many Christmas songs are far more accessible and looking at the UK’s most-streamed Christmas songs last year, it's the classics we reach for.
The Top 5 is the holy quintet of classics: Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You (1994) followed by Wham’s Last Christmas (1984) and Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl (1987),  Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone in fourth (1985), and Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (1958).
The Charts define a 'Modern' Christmas song as anything released since 2010 and the highest-placed modern Christmas song goes to Michael Buble's 'It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas' from 2011 but is a song originally recorded in 1951 so the first original 'Modern' Christmas song is at number 8 where we hear  Ariana Grande's 2014 song 'Santa Tell Me'.
I'm all for the Classics but there has been some great Christmas songs since 2010 which will become classics in a few decades time when the term Modern is shifted forward a few years  
Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath The Tree (2010), Leona Lewis’ One More Sleep (2013),  Snowman (2021) and Santa's Coming For Us (2017) by Sia,  Merry Christmas by Ed Sheeran and Elton John (2021),  I’ll Be Home by Meghan Trainor (2014) Cozy Little christmas Katy Perry (2018), You're Christmas To Me Sam Ryder (2023) and It Can't Be Christmas by Tom Grennan (2024).
Interestingly, of the top 40 streamed Christmas Songs in the UK, only one has a religious element to it and that's Boney M with 'Marys Boy Child' at 37 with the rest mostly about Santa, Christmas Trees and Snowmen with even more songs about the weather than about the baby Jesus which shows that us Brits agree that Christmas is much better when we keep religion well out of it.