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May 13, 2019 The holidays are a great time to throw a party and be with friends. In a jiffy, snap evergreen Christmas trees can be decorated, and you can get your house ready for a great time. Make sure you choose fun holiday music. It’s important that you choose just the right music for several reasons.
Christmas Songs | tagged Christmas December 19, 2011 Britain’s shoppers feel they are being bombarded by the same Christmas music again and again on the High Street. This comes as a study reveals the songs people most and least want to hear while out buying Christmas presents.
Immedia Plc, which provides music solutions to retailers, carried out research among UK consumers to find out what they liked listening to the most and the least at Christmas.
The results show that the festive classic ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ by Slade remains the favourite song to put Britain’s shoppers in the holiday spirit. Meanwhile, Mr Blobby’s Christmas in Blobbyland is the one song that people don’t want to hear, with Justin Bieber’s ‘Mistletoe’ and David Hasselhoff’s ‘Stille Nacht’ not far behind.
Crucially however, while shoppers enjoy hearing ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’, they don’t want to hear it over and over again as they go from store to store. Over two-thirds (68%) of shoppers polled by Immedia felt that the music they hear in shops over Christmas is too repetitive.
According to Immedia’s survey, the list of favourite Christmas tunes is dominated by songs from previous decades. The top ten includes:
Information, Music Services | tagged Christmas, holiday music, song May 15, 2011 Every year I walk into the mall on a nice fall day and at some point it happens. I start noticing the red and green decorations and find myself humming “Chestnuts Roasting” (Yes, I know the real title is “Christmas Song”. I choose to not use it as I think that’s a cop out title!) Last year, they literally had Christmas music and decorations up the first week of October! Before Halloween?!?! Seriously guys! What’s up with that!?!?!