| 1 | Tarja | "Amazing Grace" | From Spirits and Ghosts (Score for a Dark Christmas) | I keep pointing out that I don't even like Christmas music. |
| 2 | Anúna | "The First Noël (2017 Remix)" | A Christmas Selection | Somehow this hasn't kept it from being the single biggest periodic perturbance in my listening life, |
| 3 | Leah | "Winter Sun" | single | and the world's, or at least the part of the world with Spotify, |
| 4 | Peter Hollens | "Little Drummer Boy" | A Hollens Family Christmas Deluxe | and thus my professional torment as well as my personal one. |
| 5 | Carly Rae Jepsen | "Mittens" | A 604 Records Christmas | But I hate jazz, too, and it doesn't keep me from wanting Spotify jazz recommendations to be good for people who don't hate jazz. |
| 6 | Cappa | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | single | So this year I made a thing to produce personalized Christmas-music playlists for people who demonstrated potential openness to this concept by listening to Christmas music on their own. |
| 7 | Stanaj | "Last Christmas" | single | I had it produce one for me, too, even though I hadn't played any Christmas music because I don't even like Christmas music. |
| 8 | Gardiner Sisters | "Joy to the World" | single | It worked, in the sense that it found me Christmas music in styles I like when they aren't used for Christmas music. |
| 9 | Delta Rae | "Silent Night - Recorded at Blackbird Studios, Nashville" | single | It failed in the sense that it was still cheerfully the kind of Christmas music I mean when I say that I don't even like Christmas music. |
| 10 | Gaia Epicus | "Metal X-mas" | single | The things I don't even like about Christmas music transcend styles, |
| 11 | August Burns Red | "Last Christmas" | single | which is probably itself one of the things I don't even like about Christmas music. |
| 12 | Matty Mullins | "O Holy Night" | single | But my regular globe-scouring robots that find me new songs I might like aren't programmed to care about Christmas music one way or the other, |
| 13 | Mimikry | "Julkort till Bäckvägen 7" | single | so I got a lot of new Christmas music in the month or so before the holidays. |
| 14 | Alex G | "Silent Night (Trilingual Version) [feat. Gustavo Guerrero & Lucas Taffo]" | Won't Be Home 3 | Most of these songs were also the kind of music I mean when I say that I don't even like Christmas music. |
| 15 | Jule Vera | "All I Want For Christmas" | Vera Merry Christmas 3 | But not all of them. |
| 16 | Ember Island | "Merry Little Christmas" | single | It is possible, of course, to make Christmas songs I can stand. |
| 17 | Creeper | "Same Time Next Year?" | Christmas 3 | Mostly, of course, this is done by making songs that are only nominally or tangentially Christmas-related: |
| 18 | Thegiornalisti | "Happy Christmas John" | single | metal with wintery lyric themes, Early-Music-esque a cappella, regular indie-pop songs about regular life at Christmas time, |
| 19 | XY | "Angels We Have Heard On High" | single | manic covers, anything where epic overwhelms cloying, clichés obscured from me by language foreignness, |
| 20 | Ellie Goulding | "O Holy Night" | single | anything that allows the ghosts of Christmas to be more haunting than costumed, |
| 21 | Dan Bull | "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Santa" | Damn It Feels Good To Be A Santa +1 | anything I would have laughed at in any month, although I kind of usually don't even like comic music, either. |
| 22 | Sivert Høyem | "Mary's Boy Child" | single | But I am happy, often joyful, not infrequently overjoyed, to hear songs of or about other people's cultural traditions, |
| 23 | The Spook School | "Someone to Spend Christmas With" | single | other people's heartbreaks, |
| 24 | Evynne Hollens | "Silent Night" | single | revelations. |
| 25 | Marcus Warner | "Wintersong" | single | I think all I really don't want is to be implicated implicitly. |
| 26 | Ester Dean | "Joy to the World" | single | I want to step into other people's oceanic joys of my own volition, |
| 27 | The Animal In Me | "Not Too Old for the Holidays" | Not Too Old for the Holidays +3 | not be vortexed into it by normative yuletide undertows. |
| 28 | Bloodywood | "Angry Santa" | single | I don't want to pretend that the Most Wonderful Time of Year doesn't participate in the rest of it. |
| 29 | Svartby | "Deck the Halls" | Festa Hårt 4 | I don't want to deck the halls, at least partly because I know I won't want to have to undeck them afterwards. |
| 30 | Tarja | "Ô Viens, Ô Viens Emmanuel" | From Spirits and Ghosts 4 | But none of this means I don't love you, or don't need a star of love above long winter nights, or don't see all the same ghosts hiding under those hats. |