| 1 | Pene Corrida | "Last Christmas" | single | I don't seek out Christmas music. |
| 2 | Majestica | "Glory of Christmas" | single | I don't want Christmas music. |
| 3 | Sabaton | "Christmas Truce" | single | I would be perfectly content if no bands I like ever recorded Christmas songs. |
| 4 | UMC | "Last Christmas (Metal Version)" | single | If nobody else ever covers "Last Christmas" again, that would be fine with me. |
| 5 | Binary Creed | "O Holy Night" | single | The old songs have been played far too many times, |
| 6 | Then It Ends | "O Come Emmanuel" | single | and attempts to make them tell different stories |
| 7 | Leaves' Eyes | "Silent Night" | single | mostly just demonstrate their accummulated inertiae of purpose. |
| 8 | Todsünde | "Last Christmas" | Rookies & Friends Sampler, Vol. 3 | You can't really make entrenched power speak with the voice of freedom, |
| 9 | The Animal In Me | "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" | We Wish You A Metal Christmas | and when you lead doomed rebellions against opression |
| 10 | First to Eleven | "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" | First To Eleven Christmas EP 2021 5 | you tend to inevitably strengthen it. |
| 11 | The Last Bear Ender | "Djenty Claws" | single | I don't want to validate ubiquity, |
| 12 | Patient Sixty-Seven | "All I Want For Christmas Is You" | single | furiously or coyly. |
| 13 | Nova | "Last Christmas" | single | I don't want every Christmas to be the same, |
| 14 | Surma | "A Yuletide Tale" | single | the promising ghosts of the future |
| 15 | Scandroid | "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing +1 | maturing wearily into the too-familiar roles of the ghosts of the past. |
| 16 | Thought Beings | "Snowy Banks" | single | Yes, sometimes, for a moment, I can imagine a new season, |
| 17 | Jeligo | "Last Christmas" | single | interpolated somewhere between Eurovision and the new year, |
| 18 | SayWeCanFly | "I'll Be Home for Christmas" | Cup of Cheer (Original Movie Soundtrack) | dedicated to resisting the emotional drag |
| 19 | Ian McConnell | "Climate Change Christmas" | single | of cold and dark |
| 20 | Tunde Olaniran | "What's Christmas?" | single | with forces that don't recapitulate superstition |
| 21 | Ashnikko | "Carol Of The Bells - Spotify Singles Holiday" | single | or reek of eggnog. |
| 22 | CARYS | "Last Christmas" | single | This year can be different from last year. |
| 23 | GRACEY | "2000 Miles" | single | I hear people singing; |
| 24 | Logan Lynn | "It's Christmas, Motherfuckers!" | It's Christmas, Motherfuckers! +1 | it must be any day of the year, |
| 25 | Leah Kate | "Christmas Anthem (F U Anthem Holiday Edit)" | single | we're always singing. |
| 26 | TRAMP STAMPS | "Not So Silent Night" | single | And so, although I don't seek it out, |
| 27 | Broken Peach | "Let It Snow" | single | it comes and swirls around me, |
| 28 | Blender | "Kommer hem till jul" | Kommer hem till jul +1 | sparkling with the same undefeatably reverent grace. |
| 29 | Miriam Bryant | "VinterNoll2" | single | I don't want these songs, |
| 30 | Little Jinder | "Last Christmas" | single | but I can't keep them from starting, |
| 31 | Tenille Townes | "Christmas Cards" | Songs for Christmas 4 | and once they exist I can't pretend they aren't tidings of joy, |
| 32 | Karliene | "In the Bleak Midwinter" | single | explaining how we get through hard days the same way we get through easy ones: |
| 33 | Kelly Prescott | "Silver Bell Linings" | single | by making lists of the things that aren't right yet |
| 34 | Emma | "Last Christmas" | Emma chante Noël | and then trying to make them less wrong. |
| 35 | flor | "have yourself a merry little christmas" | single | Sometimes you go looking for the tyrants in their palaces |
| 36 | Liv Ritchie | "Last Christmas" | single | and you find them in their basement playing Minecraft. |
| 37 | Ed Sheeran | "Merry Christmas" | = | "If you want to try the throne, go for it. It's upstairs. It's fun for a while, but it makes everybody hate you." |
| 38 | Delta Goodrem | "Carol of the Bells" | Only Santa Knows (Deluxe Edition) | And one of them holds out a controller. |
| 39 | BANNERS | "2000 Miles" | Happy Xmas (War is Over) / 2000 Miles 2 | Some the worlds we make exist to remind us that it feels different to create than it does to prey. |
| 40 | Riley Clemmons | "Last Christmas" | Upbeat Christmas Music | Sometimes we have to let the dark approach, again, |
| 41 | Hitsujibungaku | "1999 - English ver." | single | and pass again: by day, by year, by heart. |