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Although we usually associate The Beach Boys with beach and surf more than with snow and knitted sweaters, you will discover that they were also geniuses when it came to singing Christmas carols. 

The album mixes upbeat tunes like Little Saint Nick with fun jazz-based experiments like Frosty the Snowman. And the orchestral version of White Christmas sung by Brian Wilson foreshadows the majesty of the wonderful Pet Sounds they would release the following year.

If you’ve been paying attention you’ll recall that the Irish singer’s 1941 version of the ballad White Christmas composed by Irving Berlin has sold 50 million copies, inspiring versions even by New Kids on the Block. 

Eight decades later, this album still sounds like nougat and marzipan thanks to anthems like Faith of Our Fathers or the Hawaiian-tinged Mele Kalikimaka.

Although there are many celebrities who have recorded an album and you haven’t heard about it, this shouldn’t be the case with the wonderful actress Zooey Deschanel, who together with M. Ward already has a good handful of albums on the market based on elegant folk & indie rock with guitars, piano and ukulele. 

If, like us, you are a big fan of the series New Girl, you may remember that one of the episodes featured the version of I’ll Be Home for Christmas that appears on this album.

The great Johnny Cash recorded several Christmas albums throughout his career, but in 2003, the year of his death, this excellent collection of songs recorded between 1962 and 1980 was released. 

The best cuts are poems made into songs that offer lessons about love, community and charity typical of the season. A must-listen is Christmas as We Knew It, a song about the singer’s poor family in rural Arkansas who are thankful for what they can give, not what they can receive.

You may not have known it, but for ten years The Killers have been releasing Christmas singles during the holidays. In 2016 they gathered all of them in an album full of excellent tunes like Christmas in LA or I’ll Be Home for Christmas. 

The proceeds went to Product Red, U2 frontman Bono’s initiative to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Any Christmas music playlist isn’t complete without Michael Bublé’s enchanting performance of this classic holiday song.

If you want your house to sound this holiday season as if you were inside one of those crystal balls that you shake and snow comes out, this album is your best option. 

Michael Bublé’s compilation of Christmas classics contains exuberant versions of lifelong classics like Holly Jolly Christmas or the always touching Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.

Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town is one of the most fun and joyful Christmas songs ever written and The Jackson 5’s version is our favorite. 

Young Michael Jackson transforms this classic into a funky pop shimmy while the family of singers also gives us a touching track in The Drummer Boy and surprises us with the Latin feel of the song dedicated to Rudolph the Reindeer. A must for fans of Jacko and Christmas in general that even comes gift-wrapped.