DECEMBER POLL

Top 3 Classic Holiday Songs

Proportional RCV Election

Did you know that multiple winners can be chosen in one contest using ranked choice voting (RCV)? This type of voting is often referred to as proportional RCV or single transferable vote (STV).

This year, we are choosing the Top-3 Classic Christmas songs using this method. To learn more about proportional RCV, check out the Types of RCV page.

Classic holiday songs can bring back memories and help us make new ones! Many songs are considered classics. This month’s poll includes just 8 of the 100s we considered. Help us choose the 2021 top three favorite classic holiday songs for our RCVRC community this season.

Powered by RankedVote

MEET THE CANDIDATES

All I Want for Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

Hailed by The New Yorker as "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon," this Mariah Carey classic is playing all over town these days!

WATCH VIDEO

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby first performed this classic song about a snowy holiday on December 25, 1941, just weeks after Pearl Harbor was attacked.

WATCH VIDEO

Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano

Feliciano penned this song while he was missing family at Christmas. The song brings back memories of celebrating Christmas Eve with his brothers, eating traditional Puerto Rican foods, drinking rum, and going caroling.

WATCH VIDEO

The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole

This song is the smoothest of jazz sung by the iconic Black jazz artist Nat King Cole. The song appeared on Cole’s only full-length Christmas album that he ever recorded.

WATCH VIDEO

Blue Christmas - Elvis

Performed by Elvis Presley, who was once deemed “unfit for family viewing” by TV personality Ed Sullivan, this song evokes a sad time of unrequited love during the holidays.

WATCH VIDEO

Rocking around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee

Brenda Lee recorded this song when she was just 13 years old! The instrumental version of the song also appears in the 1964 television special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

WATCH VIDEO

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry

Gene Autry’s version of this beloved song about a reindeer trying to find his place in the world held the #1 spot on the Billboard pop singles chart the week of Christmas 1949 and sold over 2.5 million copies in the first year.

WATCH VIDEO

Last Christmas - Wham!

George Michael, one half of the dynamic duo known as Wham!, wrote this song in his childhood bedroom. Wham! released the song in 1984, and it became wildly popular and a hallmark of 80s British pop.

WATCH VIDEO

DECEMBER POLL

Top 3 Classic Holiday Songs

Proportional RCV Election

Did you know that multiple winners can be chosen in one contest using ranked choice voting (RCV)? This type of voting is often referred to as proportional RCV or single transferable vote (STV).

This year, we are choosing the Top-3 Classic Christmas songs using this method. To learn more about proportional RCV, check out the Types of RCV page.

Classic holiday songs can bring back memories and help us make new ones! Many songs are considered classics. This month’s poll includes just 8 of the 100s we considered. Help us choose the 2021 top three favorite classic holiday songs for our RCVRC community this season.

MEET THE CANDIDATES

All I Want for Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey

Hailed by The New Yorker as "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon," this Mariah Carey classic is playing all over town these days!

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby first performed this classic song about a snowy holiday on December 25, 1941, just weeks after Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano

Feliciano penned this song while he was missing family at Christmas. The song brings back memories of celebrating Christmas Eve with his brothers, eating traditional Puerto Rican foods, drinking rum, and going caroling.

The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole

This song is the smoothest of jazz sung by the iconic Black jazz artist Nat King Cole. The song appeared on Cole’s only full-length Christmas album that he ever recorded.

Blue Christmas - Elvis

Performed by Elvis Presley, who was once deemed “unfit for family viewing” by TV personality Ed Sullivan, this song evokes a sad time of unrequited love during the holidays.

Rocking around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee

Brenda Lee recorded this song when she was just 13 years old! The instrumental version of the song also appears in the 1964 television special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry

Gene Autry’s version of this beloved song about a reindeer trying to find his place in the world held the #1 spot on the Billboard pop singles chart the week of Christmas 1949 and sold over 2.5 million copies in the first year.

Last Christmas - Wham!

George Michael, one half of the dynamic duo known as Wham!, wrote this song in his childhood bedroom. Wham! released the song in 1984, and it became wildly popular and a hallmark of 80s British pop.

NAVIGATE

LEARN MORE

CONTACT US

TERMS