| 1 | The Unlikely Candidates | "Father Christmas" | single | If you can't find some Christmas music you can tolerate, you aren't trying. |
| 2 | Fork | "O, Helga Natt" | So... This Is Christmas? | You don't have to try, of course. It's a commercially-corrupted holiday nominally attached to a religion you don't have to belong to or indulge. |
| 3 | for KING & COUNTRY | "Little Drummer Boy (Rewrapped)" | single | But as with most human things, when the people who really care about a thing do it wholeheartedly, that wholeheartedness is itself an audible quality. |
| 4 | Titanix | "Snöfall" | single | I have professional reasons to track Christmas listening around the world and in every form, |
| 5 | Pale Waves | "Last Christmas - Recorded At Metropolis Studios, London" | single | and I've given up pretending I don't kind of look forward to the storm of it every year. |
| 6 | Fenne Lily | "In the Bleak Midwinter - Recorded at Metropolis Studios, London" | single | In a normal, i.e. non-Christmas, week, I spend much of my time finding new music, but so do a lot of other people, with various degrees of obsessiveness. |
| 7 | Young Oceans | "O Little Town of Bethlehem" | Songs of Christmas | But for a week or two in December, |
| 8 | TeamMate | "Best Chanukah Ever" | single | it's different. |
| 9 | American Avenue | "Ho Ho Hopefully" | single | The lists have been made, checked twice (maybe) and impatiently published before the year is actually over, |
| 10 | The Sam Willows | "Little Drummer Boy" | Christmas EP 4 | and the relentless new-release deluge relents just fractionally, |
| 11 | Sunny Day Service | "Christmas of Love" | single | and the willing revert eagerly to the familiar. |
| 12 | SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] | "Christmas Scene (feat. mizuki & Tielle)" | narrative / NOISEofRAIN 4 | And I bet myself, again, that I can find a week of amazing semi-Christmas music just made, |
| 13 | David Arkenstone | "The Coventry Carol" | single | or just half-made, |
| 14 | Cajsa Stina Åkerström | "Jul i gemenskap" | single | or at least I didn't know about it before now. |
| 15 | Nomy | "Merry Fucking Christmas" | single | This is a winnable bet. You can win it with anti-Christmas songs, |
| 16 | Blender | "Låt julen komma" | single | or songs whose Christmas mass is canted obliquely enough to your own that you can pretend you don't see it. |
| 17 | Cir.Cuz | "Jul Igjen" | single | You can win it with ironic detachment |
| 18 | Friðrik Ómar | "Desember" | single | or giddy spins, |
| 19 | MxPx | "Another Christmas" | Punk Rawk Christmas 6 | with mulled disdain |
| 20 | Lisa Ajax | "Terribly Good Xmas" | single | or impish swoon, |
| 21 | The Animal In Me | "See You on Christmas Night" | single | in your own color of clothes |
| 22 | First to Eleven | "Feliz Navidad" | single | or the appropriated regalia of arbitrarily borrowed othermasses. |
| 23 | Pig | "Last Christmas" | Black Mass 3 | You can leave behind pine soot |
| 24 | Phil Rey | "Song for December" | single | or the tracks of imaginary fauna, |
| 25 | Elane | "Silent Night" | single | or just your breath in winter air. |
| 26 | Whyte Horses | "Next Year Will Be Mine" | Next Year Will Be Mine / Coldest Night Of The Year 2 | The other Christmases stretch out before and after, |
| 27 | The Voices | "Magia świąt" | single | sideways into other tactics for evasion or embrace, |
| 28 | Taken By Trees | "Holiday" | single | upwards into transcendances muted |
| 29 | The Eagle and Child | "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" | Over the Hills and Everywhere | or anthemic. |
| 30 | Citizens | "The First Noel" | Over the Hills and Everywhere | If you usually avoid anthem worship rock, which is a not-unreasonable avoidance even if you worship, this is a week to consider tolerating it, because this is literally the week of the year for which anthem worship rock is most gloriously and unselfconsciously prepared. |
| 31 | Cara Dillon | "2000 Miles" | Upon a Winter's Night (Deluxe) | But it is also a week when you can filter out all of these overtones and calibrate your own restored nostalgia |
| 32 | Helena Paparizou | "Hristougenna Xana" | single | or vicarious tourism |
| 33 | Miley Cyrus | "Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. Sean Ono Lennon)" | single | or willing reinvention. |
| 34 | Millington | "Jingle Bells (Millingbells)" | single | "Jingle Bells", my daughter delights in insisting, is originally a Thanksgiving song. |
| 35 | Mark Isham | "Angels We Have Heard on High" | single | All of these cookie-cutter shapes were originally ways of feeling gracious, |
| 36 | Goldfinger | "12 Days Of Christmas" | The Goldfinger Christmas EP 4 | or grateful, |
| 37 | Eclipse 6 | "The Greatest Snowman" | single | or temporarily freed from whatever you allow to normally constrain you. |
| 38 | LadBaby | "We Built This City" | single | You don't have to love a holiday for all its cloying stipulations to realize it reminds other people to make particular foods, |
| 39 | Michael Neil | "Silent Night, Unholy Night" | Six Pieces of Orchestra | and your ears don't have to be any more concerned than your tongue with why. |