Depending on your tolerance towards festive tunes, your favourite pop star announcing that their next musical project is a Christmas album will either fill you with festive cheer — or dread.
There are more than a handful of classic modern Christmas songs released by pop singers over the years (with one ubiquitous anthem standing tall above the rest) — but there are also dated, lazy, cheesy and downright inappropriate festive tunes released by artists who really should know better.
Here are five of the very best Christmas pop songs — and five best avoided:
The best:
Mariah Carey — All I Want For Christmas Is You
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There's a reason this song rockets back into the top 10 worldwide each and every festive season, 23 years after it was originally released. MARIAH CAREY WROTE A STONE-COLD CHRISTMAS CLASSIC.
Kylie Minogue — Every Day's Like Christmas
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A Chris Martin-penned festive gem from Our Kylie's 2015 Christmas album. Even better? The Stock Aitken Waterman remix, bringing the tune right back to the glory years of I Should Be So Lucky and The Locomotion.
Wham — Last Christmas
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A pop classic that's especially poignant now, given George Michael passed away on Christmas Day last year.
Darlene Love — Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
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A 60s stormer that still holds up today. If you're separated from a loved one at Christmas, put this on and weep into your mince pies.
Kelly Clarkson — Underneath The Tree
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You can always depend on Clarko to come up with the goods.
The dodgiest:
Justin Bieber — Mistletoe
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If you're after quality Christmas music, you can do a lot better than teenage Bieber singing an anaemic rip-off of I'm Yours. As the Biebs himself sang, Love Yourself.
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton — You Make It Feel Like Christmas
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10 years ago, Gwen Stefani had transitioned from No Doubt into being arguably the most exciting pop star in the world. Now she's releasing gooey loved-up duets about "sweet ginger bread" with her country crooner boyfriend. Bummer.
Lady Gaga — Christmas tree
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"Hos, hos, hos, under the mistletoe, yes everybody knows, we will take off our clothes" — Look, we love us some Stefani Germanotta, but peak Gaga this is not. Entirely too sexed up to play at Christmas lunch.
Destiny's Child — 8 Days of Christmas
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We'll admit it's a bit of a banger, but those lyrics! "On the 8th day of Christmas my baby gave to me, a pair of Chloe shades and a diamond belly ring," indeed.
New Kids On The Block — Funky, Funky, Christmas
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May all your Christmases be funky. This 80s white boy band rap mess is best avoided, though.
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