10 unnecessary ridiculous facts about Christmas songs
Merry X-Mas, Amayzine you. There's a good chance that you've been singing along to all sorts of Christmas songs all month long. But hey, did you actually know this about your favorite Christmas hits?
1. Jingle Bells is actually not a Christmas song at all. No seriously, it was actually written for Thanksgiving. No way, right?.
2. The one who holds the rights to Last Christmas by Wham! earns almost half a million for it every year. Wow...
3. Mariah Carey is also doing quite well this month. The Christmas hit came out in 1994 and since then it has earned the singer over 54 (!) million (!) euros (!).
4. Do You Heeeeear What I Heeeeear? Actually talks about a... nuclear war. No joke. It's a Christmas classic, but the writers didn't intend it that way at all. The song is a call for peace between the United States and Cuba, which were on the brink of a nuclear war at the time. A cheerful Christmas thought.
5. Well, come on now. Let It Snow is also not a Christmas song. The Christmas song was written in the 1940s in Hollywood during a heatwave. The creators were so hot that they wanted nothing more than cooler weather. To cool off, they imagined it snowing outside, and that's how Let It Snow was born. Pff, what an anticlimax.
6. Jingle Bells is the very first song ever played in space. Curious how that sounded in 1965? There are recordings of it.
7. Singer Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she released the original version of Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree.
8. Walter Afanasieff, one of the writers of Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You, also wrote Céline Dion's My Heart Will Go On. A knack for hits, shall we say.
9. Spotify revealed in 2017 which Christmas songs were the most popular...
- All I Want For Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey
- Last Christmas – Wham!
- It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas – Michael Bublé
- Mistletoe – Justin Bieber
- Santa Tell Me – Ariana Grande
10. And oh yes, not a fun fact but definitely an awesome Christmas song that shouldn't be forgotten: Ho Ho Ho by De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig ft. Katja Schuurman. We know the delightful awkward clip:
