Vote for your favourites in The Globe's Christmas song bracket.The Globe and Mail/The Globe and Mail
When we think of the holidays, few things have the ability to make people as nostalgic as Christmas music. With Mariah Carey, Brenda Lee and Michael Bublé always on the radio and shopping mall speakers, carols become the playlist to our lives during the last month of the year.
From holly jolly tunes that put a pep in your step to traditional advent hymns, we wanted to know which song gets our readers dreaming of a white Christmas.
So in a semi-competitive Christmas spirit, we pit 16 holiday songs against each other, asking readers to vote for their favourites each day in a single-elimination bracket.
We asked, and Globe readers delivered. More than twenty thousand votes were cast across four rounds of the week-long Christmas song bracket.
In the final round, The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) by legendary jazz musician Nat King Cole emerged victorious, beating out Vince Guaraldi’s Christmastime is Here from A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Final round: Readers voted for their favourite song in the final head-to-head battle
Here are all the songs from our bracket, curated in a Christmas playlist.
Did we miss any of your favourite Yuletide tunes that should have been a part of this Christmas bracket? Tell us which ones in the comments below, or send us an e-mail at audience@globeandmail.com to make your case for why that song is the best.
