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"This Christmas" is a song by American soul musician Donny Hathaway released in 1970 by Atco Records. [3] The song gained renewed popularity when it was included in 1991 on Atco Records' revised edition of their 1968 Soul Christmas compilation album [4] and has since become a modern Christmas standard, with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers reporting that it was the ...
Rolling Stone ranked it fourth on its Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs list, calling it a "holiday standard." [152] In a UK-wide poll in December 2012, it was voted fifth on the ITV television special The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song. [153] In 2018 The Washington Post ranked the song sixth on its ranking of 100 best Christmas songs ...
Featured on her album Home For Christmas, the song peaked at #6 on Billboard's Holiday Songs chart in 2002. [265] Christina Aguilera: 2000 Featured on her album My Kind of Christmas, the song peaked at #31 on Billboard's Holiday 100 in 2015. [266] Toni Braxton: 2001 Peaked at #14 in 2001 on Billboard's Holiday Songs chart. [267] James Taylor: 2001
Here's the best modern and new Christmas music to refresh your holiday playlist in 2024, featuring hits from Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and more.
The song is a favorite of radio stations that broadcast Christmas music as a "first song" marking the flip to its original format; in 2024, among a sample of 20 stations that changed early (before Veterans Day), five of those stations chose the song (four used the original, while a fifth chose the Johnny Mathis cover version), tied for the most ...
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a Christmas song released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. It was the seventh single released by John Lennon outside his work with the Beatles.
The vi chord before the IV chord in this progression (creating I–vi–IV–V–I) is used as a means to prolong the tonic chord, as the vi or submediant chord is commonly used as a substitute for the tonic chord, and to ease the voice leading of the bass line: in a I–vi–IV–V–I progression (without any chordal inversions) the bass ...
According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the song is set in the time signature of common time. It is composed in the key of G Major with Roger Daltrey's vocal range spanning from G 3 to A 4. [4] The song makes repeated use of suspended fourth chords that resolve to triads.